Notices by Rimu (rimu@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 8

@phil_stevens Thanks, I just used it to make this! https://join.piefed.social/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/PieFed-entity-relationships.png #PieFed

@KeithDJohnson Oof, the cognitive test results. Up to 30% slower.

@storm I've just put aria-hidden="true" on a few things, hopefully that removes some clutter.

@storm Awesome, thanks!

I've been reading https://www.a11y-101.com/development/tables and can already see some changes I need to do...

@AxelTerizaki @spokeek That's very helpful, thank you so much!

@neauoire I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell!

@LorenAmelang Good point, thank you very much.

I will add a high contrast toggle next to the light and dark mode buttons, providing either pure white text on pure black or the other way around.

@storm Those are the numbers of votes that post has received. They have an aria-label="UpVote" attribute but perhaps a title="whatever" is needed...

I'm also not satisfied with the ordering of the content for each post. The title with link should come first.

Thanks!

@david Yes. It uses ActivityPub to federate with Lemmy, Kbin and Mbin instances. Also Mastodon, badly.

@Linux_Is_Best On the home page, it's a long list of posts, each with a thumbnail pulled from the source article. They add visual interest but are often misleading or irrelevant. The thumbnails' alt text could simply be a repeat of the post title, which would be repetitive and not add new information. For this reason I set every thumbnail's alt text to double quotes, hoping that screen readers would ignore the thumbnail entirely.

I'm not sure how to handle this, clearly. 😅

@nickcolley Hmm yes I didn't check the dark mode contrast. The icon is also too small. Thanks!

@shaknais Exactly the kind of feedback I need, thanks.

Some things I've done recently:

- Ensure clickable elements are large, aiming for 44px by 44px
- aria-label everywhere
- image alt text
- aria roles on things
- skip to content link at the top
- keyboard shortcuts - same keys as reddit
- high contrast colors

Hi #accessibility mastodon,

I’ve been building a #fediverse web app, “PieFed”, for the last few months and recently put a bit of effort into making it more accessible. It is almost WCAG 2.1 AA compliant now.

However I have no lived experience of using the web with disability so any feedback in this area is most welcome. Please give it a try at https://piefed.social and let me know what you think, from an accessibility perspective.

@benjohn @timnitGebru I asked ChatGPT:

"it's important to note that maintaining current levels of inequality and infinite economic growth for the 1%, may not be compatible with effective climate change mitigation. Many scientists and economists argue that significant societal and economic changes are necessary to address climate change effectively. This could include rethinking our current economic growth model and addressing wealth and income inequality."

not the answer they want, obviously.

@benjohn @timnitGebru It's more like

AGI Boosters to AGI, "Oh great and glorious mind, tell us, tell us how can we fix climate change while maintaining existing power relations, living standards, inequality levels, population levels and continuing infinite economic growth for the 1%?"

That's what Google means by "complex and multifaceted". It's only complex because the actual solutions are politically impossible.

ADDENDUM 1/2: Kagi is apparently now flailing around trying to find a quick and dirty fix for the uproar: “maybe you can disable Brave in your search results or we’ll try to make their services free other something” etc etc.

My deal-killing objection was not actually them using Brave’s services, but rather their •unwillingness to think• about the underlying issues in doing so. I can’t say that this “we’ll let you cover your eyes too” sort of response addresses my concerns at all.

@thisismissem This looks awesome, thank you so much!

@JulianOliver Some discussion of this over on the threadverse https://piefed.social/post/8661

@devnull @leroy @nodebb @luceos @multiverseofbadness There is also #PieFed. Demo at https://piefed.social and more info at https://join.piefed.social/