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A11y Slackers Gitter Channel Archive 6th of June 2016

What fresh hell is THIS now? - Patrick Lauke
  1. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jun 06 13:22
    [ellyjones] what's that?
  2. powrsurg
    @powrsurg
    Jun 06 13:35
    it's a movie that just came out in America (based on a book). [edited to avoid spoilers]
  3. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jun 06 13:35
    [kate] dude spoiler warning?
  4. powrsurg
    @powrsurg
    Jun 06 13:35
    ... sorry ...
  5. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jun 06 13:36
    [kate] I can't watch that movie without expecting her to start talking about her dragons
  6. powrsurg
    @powrsurg
    Jun 06 13:36
    funny, I was more focused on the sister and expecting the Doctor to come in to save the day
  7. There was a #MeBeforeEuthanasia response on Twitter to the movie
  8. Jonathan Neal
    @jonathantneal
    Jun 06 14:20
    I wanted to learn how to best markup a Q&A section on a page. I tried googling “accessible q&a”. It didn’t return the results I expected. I decided to inspect the markup anyway. http://i.imgur.com/FkFsBUK.png
  9. ^ the photo is of HTML code that goes <p><b>Q. What is accessibility</b><br><b>A.</b> Accessibility is...
  10. Maybe that is the most accessible markup? It seems lacking.
  11. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jun 06 14:26
    [danjordan] I usually used definition lists (dl, dt, dd) for faq/q&a stuff
  12. powrsurg
    @powrsurg
    Jun 06 14:47
    as do I
  13. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jun 06 14:55
    [karlgroves] +1 on the DLs. Sadly ATs don’t actually do anything meaningful with them.
  14. Thierry Koblentz
    @thierryk
    Jun 06 14:57
    10 years ago... http://cssmojo.com/toggle_elements/index.html
    I think offering a "open all" button is a nice option as it exposes all answers and allows people to search the content of the whole document.
  15. Thierry Koblentz
    @thierryk
    Jun 06 15:04
    As a side note, I believe if ATs don't do much with DL today it is because back in the day nobody wanted to use DLs . Many said they were only good for dialogs. I think the best way to see AT support is to actually have authors use DLs.
  16. Jonathan Neal
    @jonathantneal
    Jun 06 15:12
    @danjordan, I went with dl, dt, dd as well
  17. Jonathan Neal
    @jonathantneal
    Jun 06 15:20
    Thanks for the help, everyone :)
  18. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jun 06 15:27
    [cehfisher] for accessibility reasons, i’m not a big fan of slideshows/carousels on websites. i recently wrote a blog post about some alternative options, if you want to check it out - http://www.mediacurrent.com/blog/alternatives-slideshows
  19. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jun 06 15:34
    [jv] there is an example of accessible carousel on w3c website
  20. [cehfisher] cool! i’ll check that one out @jv
  21. [jv] https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/carousels/
  22. [cehfisher] i’ve started a personal list of carousels that are accessible (or at least more accessible than the average)
  23. [cehfisher] thanks for the link and if you have any other examples, that would be great!
  24. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jun 06 15:40
    [cehfisher] ooh, maybe i should add that link to the blog post too. that could be helpful
  25. powrsurg
    @powrsurg
    Jun 06 16:07
    Why is @MichielBiji's talk from ID24 titled something differently on the ID24 site then it is on YouTube?
  26. Job van Achterberg
    @jkva
    Jun 06 16:25
    My a11y talk at the European Perl conf this year got accepted :) http://act.yapc.eu/ye2016/talk/6709
  27. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jun 06 16:26
    [marcysutton] woo! congrats!
  28. [marcysutton] @power
  29. [marcysutton] @powrsurg: I think he changed it since it was originally the same as an old talk of Karl Groves
  30. powrsurg
    @powrsurg
    Jun 06 16:41
    ahh
  31. Jonathan Neal
    @jonathantneal
    Jun 06 18:00
    My curiosity related to marking up Q&A isn’t quite finished. When asked how they’d like a Q&A section announced, what have aural web users answered with? Was a survey ever taken? Did research ever lean any way?
  32. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jun 06 21:34
    [jiatyan] https://medium.com/shopify-ux/in-plain-sight-5639c9afb4c6#.tmlnlhujc The section on gray areas is quite interesting. Agreed with the author that empirically, the failed contrast white-on-red is more visible than passed black-on-red.
  33. fstorr
    @fstorr
    Jun 06 23:33
    @jiatyan That's an interesting article, although the placeholder information isn't right. It is mentioned in WCAG and it should meet the minimum contrast requirements: https://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/visual-audio-contrast-contrast.html