{"id":3558,"date":"2025-04-30T01:21:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T01:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/?p=3558"},"modified":"2025-04-30T01:23:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T01:23:35","slug":"weekly-web-harvest-for-2025-04-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/weekly-web-harvest-for-2025-04-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Web Harvest for 2025-04-20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ran into this on Bionic Teaching and thought it was worth making note of. There are lots of resources out there for web accessibility, and it&#8217;s something I talk to people about from time to time. I&#8217;m grateful for the course W3C put together and the course I took at UAlberta. I make use of that work everyday and it&#8217;s better than the vague platitudes I see in some language\/places.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Heydon\/principles-of-web-accessibility\">Heydon\/principles-of-web-accessibility: How to approach accessible web interface design<\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"pinboard-description\">A set of high-level guiding principles for approaching web accessibility.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read the whole thing, but some pull quotes of interest include:<\/p>\n<div class=\"su-quote su-quote-style-default\"><div class=\"su-quote-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">Anyone who claims their offering is completely accessible is a liar, or they don\u2019t understand accessibility, or both.<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-quote su-quote-style-default\"><div class=\"su-quote-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">You may not feel confident you are always the best person available to work on accessibility. But you are available.<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-quote su-quote-style-default\"><div class=\"su-quote-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">Interfaces should not be challenging to some and not to others, but some interfaces are necessarily complex and some content is inherently esoteric&#8230;If an image serves as a joke, the alternative text should not give the joke away or explain why it is funny. It should tell the same joke by alternative means.<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-quote su-quote-style-default\"><div class=\"su-quote-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">&#8230;form must follow function and the function must be accessible.<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-quote su-quote-style-default\"><div class=\"su-quote-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">A poorly structured interface can technically pass WCAG. A well-structured and intuitive interface can have multiple discrete WCAG errors.<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-quote su-quote-style-default\"><div class=\"su-quote-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">Good writing cannot be automated.<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-quote su-quote-style-default\"><div class=\"su-quote-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">People cannot\u2014and should not\u2014be quantified, but inputs and outputs can and are.<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-quote su-quote-style-default\"><div class=\"su-quote-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">The mantra less is more is incorrect. Less is just less and that\u2019s a good thing&#8230;Turning headings, paragraphs, and lists into an accessible tab interface is not an enhancement. It\u2019s a degradation with bragging rights.<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-quote su-quote-style-default\"><div class=\"su-quote-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">You will have opportunities to work on products that &#8230; just make the world worse. &#8230; Don\u2019t martyr yourself trying to redeem the irredeemable.<\/div><\/div>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/H6n9P1W\">Bionic Teaching<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I&#8217;m aware of the colour contrast issues on the blogwall and am working to retheme the WP theme I&#8217;m using.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran into this on Bionic Teaching and thought it was worth making note of. There are lots of resources out there for web accessibility, and it&#8217;s something I talk to people about from time to time. I&#8217;m grateful for the course W3C put together and the course I took at UAlberta. 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