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A11y Slackers Gitter Channel Archive 15th of January 2017

What fresh hell is THIS now? - Patrick Lauke
  1. Mallory
    @StommePoes
    Jan 15 13:17
    I set my default text size IN my browser settings... so far, all my browsers (Chromium, Firefox, IE)
  2. I'm forced to browser zoom every page where devs used things like px, because those override my settings. So no wonder browsers move to zoom-- it's, so far as I know, the only way for those of us who can't read mouse-turd-sized text actually be able to read it despite what some designer thought looked professional.
    And, possibly, there are sites where the text is too big and people need to zoom out to read more comfortably... I've heard people say that about Zeldman's site.
  3. I haven't used any text-size plugins... I was weaned off plugins for what should be browser built-ins when Firefox kept crashing/burning/dying because of the 5 plugins I needed to replace functionality they took out. In the end, I don't adjust browsers anymore, except in settings.
  4. Mallory
    @StommePoes
    Jan 15 13:23
    @robdodson its good, I was curious if you did things differently from me and mostly, no. Which makes me feel better I guess.
  5. I tend to use automated tools or, sigh, plugins last if at all. I tend instead to dive into code as soon as something doesn't work as expected.
  6. So I try to make myself only look at the page and wave my mouse around. Usually that way I see whatever the developers/designers intended, because their intent is what everything else gets measured against. Then I check if keyboard can do what the mouse did, if the text sized larger are headings, if menus and widgets use the right, or a right, set of code, and maybe I'd use an automated tool to check for alt text if there are a lot of images. I eyeball what looks like poor contrast, look at the colours in devtools and plug them into Lea's analyser.
  7. Last I tried the a11y tools in chrome, I had the contrast thingie but not the square with two colours. Might be because I'm on a debian packaging cycle though.
  8. Instead, if I'm asked to provide contrasty colours that are close, I end up opening the GImp and picking from there. Not efficient but it's what I tend to do. Probably miss a lot of stuff in the process.
  9. Mallory
    @StommePoes
    Jan 15 13:29
    Once I missed a bunch of icons that Did Stuff because visually they looked like little coloured circle decorations and I had no idea they were meant to be mouse-clicky tooltips. If a Stupid like me can't see something is interactive, I'll flag it as "not obvious to Mallorys". That's definitely a fail because if I can figure it out, anyone can.