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A11y Slackers Gitter Channel Archive 21st of February 2016

What fresh hell is THIS now? - Patrick Lauke
  1. MichielBijl
    Feb 21 02:46
    I should really not be making commits to ARIA at this time…
  2. MichielBijl
    Feb 21 03:19
    10 commits later…
  3. MichielBijl
    Feb 21 03:19
    Good night slackers!
  4. garcialo
    Feb 21 03:21
    night
  5. jnurthen
    Feb 21 03:33
    If you are committing at this time on a Sunday (or Monday morning) you are no slacker.
  6. garcialo
    Feb 21 03:35
    We should probably find out how to kick him from the chat.
  7. jnurthen
    Feb 21 03:38
    Yeah. I'm multiple beers in on a Sunday night up in Tahoe. Editing documents is the last thing on my mind.
  8. MichielBijl
    Feb 21 08:59
    Must've been good beer if it made you think Saturday night was a Sunday night :P
  9. MichielBijl
    Feb 21 20:42
    @garcialo: you can talk to Steve about getting me kicked I guess.
  10. garcialo
    Feb 21 20:43
    No fair reading what was not intended for you. That's cheating.
  11. MichielBijl
    Feb 21 20:44
    I didn't read anything, Google told me about it.
  12. garcialo
    Feb 21 20:45
    Bah! Of course they did.
  13. yohoho
    Feb 21 21:10
    I have a series of dropdown panels with a persons name with a 'change details' link, which when selected expands with a email input field and the 'change details' link is removed from the DOM.. this causes the screen reader to loose focus and revert to the document body as opposed to the input field within the selected person's panel.. anyone have any ideas how I can get around this behaviour?
  14. jnurthen
    Feb 21 21:12
    @MichielBijl I blame it on the altitude.
  15. zakim-robot
    Feb 21 21:13
    [karlgroves] @yohoho Don’t cause the page to refresh. Shift focus to the next place that makes the most logical sense
  16. jkva
    Feb 21 21:15
    Whew, managed to argue the dev team out of using Captchas \o/
  17. zakim-robot
    Feb 21 21:16
    [karlgroves] @jkva party!
  18. yohoho
    Feb 21 21:16
    the action is handled by jQuery so the page isn't refreshing as such
  19. zakim-robot
    Feb 21 21:22
    [karlgroves] That’s good news. Then just shift focus where it needs to go next
  20. yohoho
    Feb 21 21:25
    Ah great, so the screen reader will default to what ever has been forced to have focus. a11y is all pretty new to me :)
  21. sophieschoice
    Feb 21 21:30
    Accessibility is new to me as well, though I knew some things that were mentioned on the side in my usability-books. But when I see the things they discuss here there is a lot to be learned :D Especially with javascript and jQuery.
  22. zakim-robot
    Feb 21 21:30
    [karlgroves] yohoho yeah, its actually super important to manage focus that way because otherwise you end up with exactly as you said and the interaction becomes super frustrating.
  23. yohoho
    Feb 21 21:32
    gotcha, thanks for the help karl :)
  24. MichielBijl
    Feb 21 22:48
    @jkva I'd drink a whisky to that, but drank half a bottle of Dalwhinnie last night…