[marcysutton] Random question from someone who emailed me: does anyone do accessible maps well? Especially if a map has lots of points? I would think an alternative representation like a list might help...
[marcysutton] That could also extend to interactive graphics like the ones at major newspapers but I am particularly curious about maps with geolocation data.
[jv] there is a startup which aim to make google map accessible
[marcysutton] That also reminds me of the AccessMap - http://www.accessmapseattle.com/
But I am still curious in the context of building maps into websites, to be able to answer this person's question
Also Christopher Toth got a suggestion when he asked "what should I fix next with a11y?" to do maps. Maybe he will :P Victor Zuydweg made something... maybe it was keyboard only? for the government in NL
I'm not even sure... with a map, how the keyboard should even go
discrete tabs because users should find certain things? Or a free-for-all grid where possibly they'll miss the whatever but can explore anywhere using arrows
I think starting with the kinds of maps they have of buildings (elevators, toilets, stairs, exits, rooms with names) would be a good kind of map to play around with stuff
people want to find most of those things, but maybe you'd choose to either explore, or choose an item from the legend and get moved there
So my co-worker just asked me to playtest a game he made in Unity for a client (he didn't do anything special for it and just used the defaults). Totally inaccessible. Even the fullscreen button is just an image with an onclick handler. :(
[marcysutton] That reminds me of this depressing thread about disabling accessibility features in a video game...developers feel that they should be free to opt out if the majority of the technology is inaccessible. But then people who just don't want to tackle it chime in too (like building a desktop Electron app) angular/material#3507
[marcysutton] They did end up adding a way to disable the warnings.
well they wouldn't have to use aria if they had just used vanilla HTML, JS and CSS
aria is to cover all the crap we insist on building in
By the way someone I know is looking at that programming challenge
I forget what it was, under 40k or something of JS
Anyway, he's thinking of building a graphing calculator for the blind and in canvas... I have no idea how he's going to make canvas work though he also wants to use the Web Audio API. This guy is the author of the upcoiming LibAudioverse library
but he needs someone to be his eyes for the styling of the canvas thing since he figures the judges will skip anything that's not pretty
I don't have any experience with canvas, i can't draw with math at all, but anyone who does, contact @camlorn38 on the twitters pls
Gitter Channel Archive 16th of August 2016
