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Bret Victor★ Dynamicland's new website documents ten years of progress toward a humane dynamic medium. https://dynamicland.org
Lu wilson@bret he is risen
James Hawley@bret I watched your video about Hypercard and how it led to Dynamicland, and I'm just blown away.
I love seeing people come up with nontraditional human-computer interfaces. There's so much creativity and possibility beyond a "rectangle in your hand or on your desk". Keep up the great work
Robb B. 🇺🇸@bret Thanks for helping provide a vision for my late-stage interaction design career.
Jan Willem Tulp@bret Wow, that's an impressive set of documentation!
Graham Pullan@bret Great new Dynamicland Intro video (under the Start Here arrow). Inspirational!
Julian Gonggrijp@bret Thank you for blowing my mind again.
"The entire website is made in Realtalk, which means that everything on it physically exists. (Even this sentence.) It’s not a rendering of a virtual space — it’s a real place." https://dynamicland.org/archive/2024/Dynamicland_website
🇺🇦 Oleksandr Kryvonos@bret thank you and your team, a lot of information to process
Game Making Toolts@bret It looks like there's a pretty big accessibility issue with the site because it's using pseudo image maps instead of the regular map and area elements, is there someone I can talk to about it in more detail?
(fixing would also allow you to use non-rectangular link areas, which might be fun...)
@gamemakingtools Can you explain what the accessibility issue is? All text is in the alt attribute, and all links have a title attribute. From what I could tell, map and area elements wouldn't work because they use absolute coordinates, and I needed percentages so the images could scale.
@bret It's because all of the alt text is attached to the single image, so is read out in one go and has no relationship to the links.
If you use map and area the alt text is associated with each link, so each part will be read as the person navigates the page.
You're right, you can't use percentages for the coordinates. I believe the areas will scale correctly with the image, but I'll do a test tonight or tomorrow to check.
@bret Ugh, you're right, image maps aren't very responsive at all. What a pain.
It'd still be good be break up the big blob of alt text. You could use aria attributes to attach the descriptions to the links.