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do i really have to say it? don't bring your "profic" "anti-anti" whatever drama in my vicinity. gross.

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PSA to anyone using cbox on their sites: keyboard users can get stuck in the chat message box! consider using something like https://ishoutbox.com/ instead

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solaria 1 year ago

ill check this out - i currently use a link to let users skip the cbox bc i noticed this as well

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lime360 accessiblenet

1 year ago

a11y part 2

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pinkvampyr andou

1 year ago

fellow pink/black enjoyer 🤝

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pinkvampyr accessiblenet

1 year ago

would people like if I made updates when new sites are added to the directory? note: this is directed towards people who will be using the directory to find indie websites

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jasm1nii 1 year ago

yeah! :3

pixelglade 1 year ago

Sure.

justfluffingaround 1 year ago

Yes please!

munsun 1 year ago

YES PLS

pinkvampyr accessiblenet

1 year ago

Set up an RSS feed! https://accessiblenet.neocities.org/feed.xml I'll try to post updates here too but you'll see them more reliably in the feed most likely, so I'd recommend subscribing!

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pinkvampyr

1 year ago

oh I should really make an RSS feed for accessible net too

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pinkvampyr

1 year ago

does anyone have resources for dark/light mode toggles? I have a theme switcher in my resources but I'm looking specifically just to toggle between light and dark mode

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justfluffingaround 1 year ago

Lost letters on neocities just put this in a comment on their profile: https://derekkedziora.com/blog/dark-mode-revisited

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pinkvampyr 1 year ago

thank you!!

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dabric accessiblenet

1 year ago

btw for the alt text section, i dont think `alt="null"` works for purely decorative images. trying it in firefox with narrator, and it announces it literally as "null" instead of ignoring it.

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jasm1nii 1 year ago

yeah, for purely decorative images, alt="" (without any content between the quotation marks) is sufficient

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pinkvampyr 1 year ago

I read something by someone with low vision saying that an empty alt tag made them think the person had just forgotten to leave an alt tag, while a null tag let them know it was something unimportant :0

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pinkvampyr 1 year ago

https://veroniiiica.com/how-to-write-alt-text-image-descriptions-visually-impaired/

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jasm1nii 1 year ago

alt="" *is* the null attribute? leaving it blank would mean not tacking on the alt attribute in the first place.

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jasm1nii 1 year ago

i think this post was written for people posting on social media platforms that provide an alt text field (in other words, sites that aren't handcoded) - that's where writing "null" would make sense.

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pinkvampyr 1 year ago

fixed!

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pinkvampyr 1 year ago

for the record that source was recommended to me, so I apologize if it turned out not to be what most people use!

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pinkvampyr accessiblenet

1 year ago

hiii I'm the admin for accessible net! if you have any questions or comments I'll try to get to them here!

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justfluffingaround 1 year ago

Here are 2 accessibility things I've learned over the years: Max line length for reading should be 55 to 66 characters including spaces. 2) Large blocks of text are hard to read for many disabilities and general readers, good rule of thumb is 4-6 lines or 4-5 sentences long to give eyes reading breaks.

justfluffingaround 1 year ago

Hyperlinks should always describe what they are clicking since screen readers often jump to links to navigate the page. Instead the link saying something like "click here" it should describe where the link is going like the title of the article or webpage or the purpose of the link like "how to code my accessible layout here".

justfluffingaround 1 year ago

Using bolds and italics sparingly is indeed good to avoid eyestrain or migraines for readers, but using headings or bolds before different sections of your articles/posts can be helpful for navigation of screen readers (they can jump to html eadings just like they can links), scan reading, and breaking up the paragraphs in described chunks.

pinkvampyr 1 year ago

Thank you! Most of these are things I knew but totally forgot to add 😅 typical me

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pinkvampyr

1 year ago

hearing people actually putting effort into accessibility bc of accessnet has me tearing up like!! that's so lovely!!

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justfluffingaround 1 year ago

Next task on my to do list after I finish my links/resources page is coding a button to pause gifs/animations!

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owlroost sorbier

1 year ago

I really love the subtle text-shadow effect on your headings. Your whole site's design is pleasing to me (I can actually read it!), but that little shadow is the cherry on top.

sorbier 1 year ago

omg thank you~!!

pinkvampyr

1 year ago

btw I'm working on reuploading all the yesterlinks stuff to my own bookmarks page. right now you can only find it on archive dot org so I figure if anyone still wanted those resources handy I'd nab em.

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pinkvampyr 1 year ago

I'm also adding my own bookmarks of course

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punkwasp 1 year ago

the source code for yesterlinks is also still available on github! https://github.com/sadgrlonline/yesterlinks so if anyone wants to they could potentially download it and fiddle around with it themselves, it looks like all the data is still there

pinkvampyr 1 year ago

@punkwasp yeah I thought about doing that but it involves JavaScript and bleh. I'm just using owls script. but if anyone else wants to do that it'd be awesome!

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pinkvampyr

1 year ago

ok i made a profile on neocities for accessnet, so if you have any questions you can drop them there! https://neocities.org/site/accessiblenet

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pinkvampyr updated Pinkvampyr

1 year ago

Pinkvampyr

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scopefilter sanguineroyal

1 year ago

Thanks for the follow!

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pinkvampyr malakleo

1 year ago

hey I wanted to check out your site but the scanlines effect kinda makes it hard to look at 😅 maybe if there was an option to turn it off?

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malakleo 1 year ago

sry about that! I'm planning on adding a button to turn off animations on the index page but I haven't gotten to that yet,,,

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dingosden updated Dingo’s Den

1 year ago

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pinkvampyr

1 year ago

hello, this is your PSA, let people decide if they want to open something in a new tab, that's why the option is there 👍

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debtdeath 1 year ago

ooh i always believed that new tab was the more "polite" option but i guess not? will have to update my links

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owlroost 1 year ago

It's also an accessibility issue. Screen readers don't always announce new tabs.

solaria 1 year ago

yea i need to work onmy site for this ^^; i love opening things in new tabs and didnt realize other people dont nor did i know the accessability issue it creates. not to mention some of my links open in a new tab and some dont. will slowly fix that (among many other issues)

pixelglade 1 year ago

I thought it was common practice to code "target="_blank" for any link going off-site, then stay on the same page for your own site. Is this specific to a particular screen reader?

owlroost 1 year ago

@pixelglade I read it ages ago and went to check sources, and I stand corrected- it is still an accessibility issue, but for a different reason: it can be disorienting for screen reader and low vision users. https://it.wisc.edu/learn/make-it-accessible/develop-accessible-websites/when-to-open-links-in-a-new-tab/#why

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pixelglade 1 year ago

Oh interesting, thank you for the link! Actually now you mention it, I remember reading it's good practice to tell a user if a link will open in a new tab or not, this was a good reminder.

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1 year ago

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