Hi there. I'm Charlie.
I build websites and try to make the web a better place.
I've got principles oozing out of my eyeballs.
A headline Guardian article by @philipoltermann says that the German law granting UK citizens permanent residence after no-deal has been passed. Does anyone have more info on it? I'd heard it was proposed, but have not seen anything else.
Due to debts and a bad employer the first 18 months in Berlin I had a net income of zero. I was living off bread and cheese while watching colleagues buy new Apple Watches and expensive lunches.
https://twitter.com/TatianaTMac/status/1163481543500685312?s=20
I want to remind everyone that not everyone who works in tech is rich.
— Tatiana Mac (@TatianaTMac) August 19, 2019
Many of us struggle to pay rent/bills, donβt know where our next check comes from, and are in massive debt.
We donβt post about it because capitalism shames the poor and poverty, even though it creates it.
https://twitter.com/zachleat/status/1163488842743263233?s=20
seems like itβs less work to make an accessible web site than it is to find out and implement the legal bare minimum of accessibility that you can get away with
— Zach Leatherman (@zachleat) August 19, 2019
https://twitter.com/LittleKope/status/1163479233349353472?s=20
The golden rule of ARIA tends to be "don't use ARIA."
— Lindsey Kopacz π @ ReactRally βοΈ (@LittleKope) August 19, 2019
Semantic HTML does so much for you, and it's improving every day!
For me, the best time to use ARIA is when I've already tested something on a screen reader and I've decided it needs more context.
https://twitter.com/GalaxyKate/status/1163477640474271744
90% of consulting is asking people to list the constraints of the project on a whiteboard, and write their current approach next to it, and the consultant's job is to drink coffee quietly while they look at what they just wrote.
— Actual Doctor Galaxykate (@GalaxyKate) August 19, 2019
we must start to see inaccessible and slow websites for what they are: a form of cruelty.
This article by https://twitter.com/robinrendle is absolutely beautiful and well worth 3 minutes of your time to read.
any sufficiently advanced negligence is indistinguishable from malice.
One to remember, akin to "intent is not magic". The only thing that matters is how the end user is impacted.
Accessibility and web performance are not features, theyβre the baseline.
But this is the key takeaway, I feel. I've long argued that accessibility, performance, and robustness are akin to the Basic Expectations in the UX and Product world's Kano Model. If the basic expectations of a product are not met then anything you try to build on top of that is doomed to failure.
We need a Kano Model for how we develop websites. This article makes that argument beautifully.
Do people have recommendations for English-speaking and Berlin-based companies that offer web accessibility training from a trainer with disabilities? Similarly, any recommendations for companies that handle the liaising with disabled users for testing? #a11y #berlin
https://twitter.com/MavenOfMayhem/status/1163415448702132224?s=20
When people point out your privilege to you, it's not to say "Shut up. You don't have problems." It's saying "Here are the problems you don't have, the things you don't have to think about."
— Amanda Jette Knox (@MavenOfMayhem) August 19, 2019
https://twitter.com/MavenOfMayhem/status/1163416136496635904?s=20
Talking about privilege isn't meant as an attack or to belittle someone who has a lot of it. I know plenty of straight, cis, white men who struggle. They just don't struggle with racism or sexism or homophobia or transphobia on top of the other stuff.
— Amanda Jette Knox (@MavenOfMayhem) August 19, 2019
https://twitter.com/jensimmons/status/1162106783642595328?s=20
About those forms..... I got curious about modern techniques for styling checkboxes. There are so many SUPER COMPLICATED demos out there... quite old.
— Jen Simmons (@jensimmons) August 15, 2019
How about a new, simple one? In only a few lines of CSS, I styled a custom checkbox. No JS. No hacks. https://t.co/y3QR2wdWct
https://twitter.com/Chican3ry/status/1163046554808311809?s=20
The guy with the hammer according to reports/photos had a bunch of spare magazines strapped to him.
— Mallory Moore (@Chican3ry) August 18, 2019
Now ppl are arguing whether the ppl who removed his hammer and threw it back at him was a bit too hard.
Massive respect to ppl facing down fascists with the stakes that high.
https://twitter.com/Chican3ry/status/1163045834797277186?s=20
Noone owes it to fascists to give them a fair crack to get the hammers out first.
— Mallory Moore (@Chican3ry) August 18, 2019
The first job of anti-fascists is to get rid of fascists. Public relations can wait. The media has been very clear they'll broadcast outright lies about concrete and bullshit.
https://twitter.com/LRonMexico/status/1163069659073130497?s=20
thereβs this sweet little girl sailing across the ocean to raise awareness for climate change, and conservative British guys named Nigel Beanmeat who look like dried birdshit are absolutely losing their minds
— L Ron Mexico (@LRonMexico) August 18, 2019
https://twitter.com/LRonMexico/status/1163087671264206848?s=20
your mentions where youβre a kid who wants to decarbonize the economy and save the world pic.twitter.com/EjxAuZtk7v
— L Ron Mexico (@LRonMexico) August 18, 2019
https://twitter.com/NickColley/status/1163320170502402048?s=20
Coming to realise that many parts of the Web Component specification are hostile to users.
— nick (@NickColley) August 19, 2019
This is a real example from this guidance:
<my-control>
<div>Not supported!</div>
</my-control>
Avoid this if you care about people using older browsers and assistive technologies. https://t.co/NtD672cQwM
I always speculate about who in any given group will go Nazi when it tries to emerge fully once more. So this piece from 1941 is a fascinating read.
Via @chineloonwualu.
https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/
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You drink a Coca-Cola, throw the bottle into the recycling, put the bins out on collection day and forget about it. But it doesnβt disappear. Everything you own will one day become the property of this, the waste industry, a Β£250bn global enterprise determined to extract every last penny of value from what remains.
Sorry to all if I'm not myself of late and prone to melodrama. Mental health giving me a kicking right now.
https://twitter.com/MavenOfMayhem/status/1162483938163613696?s=19
Just a reminder from one underdog to another not to give up on yourself. You are stronger, smarter, wiser, more talented and more resilient than you think.β€οΈ
— Amanda Jette Knox (@MavenOfMayhem) August 16, 2019
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