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DecayWTF
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I get cranky about accessibility stuff because I care about it a lot. I'm usually the one at work reminding people to test their stuff in JAWS (when we have an opportunity to book time in the UX lab anyway because JAWS licenses are fucking expensive, but now that I know that orca works well you can fucking bet it's going on my dev box), rejecting code reviews where people accidentally nuked ARIA attributes unless they verified they're not needed. I spent weeks designing a system for live captioning events. I have my own problems that I try not to talk about online, and I have people I care about who have all sorts of disabilities of their own. This shit is important, and people deciding to elevate the importance of their nice-to-have feature requests to P0 Requirements How Dare You by claiming it's "accessibility concerns", or demanding shit that may not even be technically feasible at the current time, or attacking people doing creative things in their own spaces, or demanding behavioral changes that lead to worse problems (viz unusable mucho texto alt tags) makes it harder for people to actually do accessibility right, whether it's online or IRL, and yeah it makes it harder to distinguish real needs from bullshit.


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yep, I'm that person at work too, and can't get a jaws license period -- down to regularly having to remind people that "I don't care if this isn't 'certified to AAA' that doesn't give you the right to break a perfectly working accessibility feature that's going to be critical to anyone trying to use this" and shit about contrast and ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

god, contrast. I'm so lucky we have good designers at work these days so we don't get people trying to do stupid things like grey-on-grey anymore. But also yeah orca works like a hot damn if you use a Unix dev environment, discovering that today is going to make my life so much easier. Fuck JAWS.

I don't have a unix dev environment but I do have hyperv available and I can just spin one up or something, I'm full remote and if anyone's got a problem they can suck my asshole

i had someone recently tell me it was fine that we lowered the contrast on something because "oh but it's still technically fine" (on bold text, which this wasn't) and fucking scream!!! or not considering certain elements can end up on light OR dark backgrounds in which case they're not always passing!