Notices by Mayank (hi_mayank@hachyderm.io)

@aral this talk is excellent! you really have a way of telling an engaging story

@aral i wrote a blog post you might find handy if you're looking into bun https://www.mayank.co/blog/bun

@aral@mastodon.ar.al one small suggestion: you might want to create a ToastWrapper that's always in the page, because live regions should generally be present *before* sending updates

see https://www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/accessible-notifications-with-aria-live-regions-part-2/#make-sure-the-live-region-container-is-in-the-dom-as-early-as-possible and https://www.scottohara.me/blog/2022/02/05/are-we-live.html

@aral how does a screen-reader user get notified of the toast message?

The easiest way to introduce #CSS cascade layers into your existing codebase today:

1. Move your CSS resets into a layer named "reset".
Because the selectors in your reset should already be pretty weak, there should be almost no net effect.

2. Move (some of) your third party styles into a layer named "thirdparty".
Third-party styles should already have lower priority than your own styles, so this again has very little impact.

All the rest of your styles can continue to stay unlayered.

@tixie i have some more 😄

@aral i'm curious about the choice to use JS interpolation syntax (`${SLOT}`) inside the fragment markup, vs just using HTML (`<my-slot>` or `<Slot>`) 🤔

@aral browsers should be publicly funded/owned. they're too important to be controlled by corporations

for those in the back: alt text stands for "alternative" text, which means it should be sufficient on its own in absence of the image.

if your alt text misses or fails to emphasize the most important parts of the image, it's not "alternative" text, it's just text.

maybe the fundamental disconnect here is that instead of seeing disabled people as human, techbros see them as a problem that can be "solved" by using more computers

if you're gonna use AI to generate alt text, at least verify it before posting

i've found two instances in the last 24 hours, where someone used AI-generated alt text that *completely* misses the point of the image

worse even, both of these individuals bragged about it, as if they deserve some kind of award for generating shitty alt text

it shouldn't surprise me though. in-person conferences have always been bad at this. the very premise of charging large amounts of money for *physically* bringing people together in a closed room to *look* at slides and *hear* the speaker, is rooted in exclusivity, inequity and ableism.

(this is a fixable problem. https://webdirections.org/blog/lessons-on-more-inclusive-conferences/)

i am seeing so many conferences returning, being all like "finally, covid is over! we can all have drinks in person", with absolutely no requirements on vaccination/masking/distancing…

it's not like thousands of people are still testing positive every day or anything 🙄

when these conferences also market themselves being inclusive and accessibility-focused, their hypocrisy really shows.

> Added support for outline following the curve of border-radius.

safari 16.4 👀

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safari-release-notes/safari-16_4-release-notes