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@jimgar @adamsaidsomething @endrift @alatiera DHH has always been a fragile-mind type, masquerading as a laser brain. He’s been a mini-Musk for the ~20 years I’ve known of him.
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Phil Sherry
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mastodon 4.7.2👨🏼💻 Accessibility Engineer.
👊 Scouse, not English.
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🏳️🌈 He/Him. ✊🏾
🧬 I am autistic with ADHD and a bunch of chronic illnesses to cope with, so if I seem “rude” I can’t always help it. (Although, I can be a bit of a Cunt about some stuff.)
I’m UK-based and occasionally go on about UK-specific things without clarifying to the wider audience. Remind me.
Mostly talking about accessibility, cats, chronic illness, guitars, music, web development.
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@kevin Most modern “web developers” really aren’t. They're just React hobbyists who managed to get jobs, skipping all experience and fundamentals along the way. They were brought up on bad Facebook code and have no idea what accessibility is. When they die, they will have perfect Lighthouse scores on their headstones.
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@fossheim@front-end.social Oh yeah, I got it but I like to get that stuff out there, crystal clear, for anyone who’s on the fence about the meaning.
Many years of auditing have left me an empty shell. People wonder why accessibility specialists are often very angry. In between having to keep telling people the same basic shit over and over, and being constantly forced down the backlog while React devs create even more inaccessible tech debt. It’s fucking exhausting.
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@patrick_h_lauke@mastodon.social @craigabbott@a11y.info Stinks of “ehh, too much work, either pass it or let it sink to the bottom of the backlog”
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@fossheim@front-end.social Let’s not confuse “they didn’t have the resources…” with “they don’t give a fuck about disabled people”
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@fossheim@front-end.social Sigh. Very yes.
As I say to people I work with: “If I’ve ended up on your team, it probably means you’ve done a lot of things badly and we’re at the wrong end of a deadline. But the good news for you is all the pressure’s on me now—not you—because I’ll be getting the blame—by management—for anything I label as an accessibility issue.“
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@patrick_h_lauke@mastodon.social “Fuck that accessible shit, the German guy will fix it again, just ship it.”
@mercury - “tide forecasts for U.S. & Canada”
Given that tides are a global phenomenon, what’s the roll-out plan for the rest of the planet?
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@ada@beige.party When is this happening? Is it when they’re trying to make an entire Thing clickable, so they overlay a pseudo-element as the hit area? That’s far too common, unfortunately, but people do that to spare screen reader users from having link text that takes half an hour to read and doesn’t quite make sense. It all comes down to lack of testing with actual humans with real needs.
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@kevlin@mastodon.social They cannot guarantee code generated in 5 minutes is the same as code generated now! These things are the equivalent of junior devs with ADHD and somewhere better to be.