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A11y Slackers Gitter Channel Archive 12th of June 2017

What fresh hell is THIS now? - Patrick Lauke
  1. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jun 12 13:45
    [pluma] Is there a reference implementation for a selectbox replacement? I'm trying to implement a selectbox-like widget in React and all I can find is this combobox: http://oaa-accessibility.org/example/12/
  2. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jun 12 14:47
    [pluma] @car Thanks. I think I'll use https://github.com/JedWatson/react-select for the time being. I can't vouch for its a11y claims but it's possible to disable search and clearing, so it's a good stopgap for now.
  3. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jun 12 16:16
    [jstern] we’re working on one as well: http://instructure.github.io/instructure-ui/#Autocomplete
  4. [jstern] multi-select is coming soon (this week)
  5. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jun 12 16:34
    [seankeegan] @pluma our devs just started playing with http://react-autosuggest.js.org/ Initial pass looked good; only tested with NVDA+FF. Might need touch more work on a11y, but seems like good starting point.
  6. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jun 12 16:45
    [jstern] Ours has issues with VO+Safari so if anyone has one that works there, I’d love to see it!
  7. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jun 12 19:59
    [callumacrae] does anyone have any examples of a website that is impossible to search when using a screen reader? I used to use laravel.com but they fixed it!
  8. [callumacrae] It was impossible to search because you can't press enter to search, it uses AJAX, and when you moved the focus to the next element to get the screen reader to read it out, it would close the search results
  9. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jun 12 20:20
    [marcysutton] What a good problem to have! That's why I record demo videos of inaccessible sites to continue using them as examples.
  10. [marcysutton] (with the hope the sites get fixed)
  11. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jun 12 20:29
    [callumacrae] Probably should have done that!
  12. [ryan] @callumacrae- Could Wayback Machine help?
  13. [ryan] The internet never forgets.
  14. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jun 12 20:37
    [callumacrae] working in the wayback machine, too - maybe voiceover got smarter in the last OS X update
  15. zakim-robot
    @zakim-robot
    Jun 12 20:43
    [ghanek] Can anyone share accessible techniques/recommendations for detecting phishing emails that do NOT rely on using a mouse?
  16. [ghanek] We were thinking of both those folks with visual impairment and those with physical impairments who can’t hover a mouse over links in emails to see the link’s URL.