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A11y Slackers Gitter Channel Archive 5th of June 2017

What fresh hell is THIS now? - Patrick Lauke
  1. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jun 05 11:01
    [rynpsc] Anyone have any advice on implementing a check all checkbox group i.e. x checkboxes where the first will select all of the others? Any potentiall pitfalls to be aware of?
  2. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jun 05 12:40
    [sophieschoice_slack] I created a github repository for developing a robots.txt and a .htaccess for blocking bad bots. If you are interested, you can help out: https://github.com/sophieschoice/robots.txt-htaccess-for-blocking-bad-bots/tree/master
  3. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jun 05 12:45
    [kivi] @innovati what about a physical solution? What if you applied a tinted film to your smartphone screen, would it make a difference?
  4. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jun 05 13:45
    [geekf] @rynpsc What you are asking seems like a tri-state checkbox. Check this out - https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices-1.1/#checkbox
  5. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jun 05 14:17
    [allenski] Screen Shot 2017-06-05 at 10.07.17 AM.png
  6. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jun 05 14:25
    [sophieschoice_slack] giggles I am building a usabiity test lab in Lego at the moment.
  7. [sophieschoice_slack] :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:
  8. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jun 05 15:18
    [jhetrick] @innovati neat idea, thanks for sharing this
  9. [jhetrick] @allenski @innovati I’m also seeing that on some other sites; I think it’s HTTPS sites with particular configurations (doesn’t occur on all HTTPS sites)
  10. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jun 05 15:24
    [kivi] @jhetrick it's a setting on the HTTP server; check out https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/X-Frame-Options
  11. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jun 05 16:20

    [hampelusken] Great thread on Twitter yesterday where people with disabilities wrote about what bothers them on the web. It was so great that I grouped and summarized the tweets in an article:

    https://axesslab.com/accessibility-according-to-pwd/

  12. [clairebones] Awesome @hampelusken - I was following that thread but an article will definitely be an easier resource for sharing with others :) thanks!
  13. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jun 05 21:37
    [pstonier] Does anyone have thoughts on using Natural Language Generation tools like Narrative Science’s Quill or Automated Insights as longdescriptions for charts? Better or worse than tabular information?
  14. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jun 05 21:47

    [karlgroves] @pstonier The biggest challenge with dataviz is for a user to gain the same immediate understanding of the chart that a non-disabled user gets by seeing the chart. While a data table affords the user with the ability to explore the data on their own, it doesn’t give that “at a glance” understanding. That said, the tabular data is still important to have.

    I’ve never seen/ used Quill or Automated Insights, but it does seem as though the missing link is some mechanism of providing an interpretation of the data.

  15. [pstonier] Here’s a video that shows an example of Quill being used in a similar context. https://www.microstrategy.com/us/platform/whats-new#nlg
  16. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jun 05 21:53
    [pstonier] Yseop Savvy is another one that’s been integrating with many business intelligence systems
  17. [karlgroves] This is interesting stuff. There’s a tool called Weave that lets you manually set up automated captioning for charts and stuff, but there’s no concept within that tool that provides “Insights”. From an a11y perspective, I’d consider that the killer feature
  18. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jun 05 22:02
    [pstonier] Yeah, it’s pretty exciting to see a realistic approach to captioning dynamically generating dataviz.