Disabled, queer web developer.
Mentor @ The Collab Lab.
Maintainer @ The A11Y Project
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A lot of people claim to want to understand white supremacy, but they really don't. They tend to turn it into this abstract concept. And they have such a hard time mapping it back to real words and actions that real humans take in the real world.
I've come to understand this is a defense mechanism. Whether conscious or unconscious. People don't actually want to grapple with how white supremacy exists in the actual humans that they can see and talk to. It's safer as an invisible Boogeyman.
Change dot org petition to create a special circle of hell for web developers who build critical service websites using client-side-JS-heavy frameworks.
I shouldn’t need to download megabytes of JavaScript to report a power outage or check outages in my area. Nobody should need to download megabytes of JavaScript to do anything on the web, actually.
A few years ago, I worked with Mozilla to develop the “Introduction to client-side frameworks” module on MDN – specifically the introductory sections and the React tutorial – and we've recently published some updates to the React content! Apart from React, there are tutorials for other client-side JavaScript frameworks written by some other excellent contributors as well.
Thanks to @chrisdavidmills for being a lovely editor the whole way through.
And that brings us to the end of our introduction to frameworks — we've not taught you any code yet, but hopefully we've given you a useful background on why you'd use frameworks in the first place and how to go about choosing one, and made you excited to learn more and get stuck in!
Build your own disclosure widgets. Custom-made disclosure widgets seem to work just fine, but always remember to test! The ARIA authoring practices guide has a good pattern for this.
Use the platform, they said. HTML is accessible by default, they said. 2/2
PSA: Accessibility mappings for <summary> are broken in Safari as of at least version 17 (can't test earlier at the moment).
- MacOS: VoiceOver doesn't report changes in state of <summary> when you toggle it
- iOS: VoiceOver doesn't report *any* semantics or state changes.
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ableism affects who you see as worthy and human. it is just one facet of the violent, oppressive system we live in. you don’t get to sit on your computer at your high-paying tech job and pretend ableism hasn’t gotten to you. it has.
until you begin to understand ableism, until you seek justice for Disabled people, you and your organization will continue to do harm. no code changes will save you, and they certainly won’t save Disabled people. go learn. go do something about it.
Marco Rogers