Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸
@thereisnocat
Advocating Semantic Markup since 1987. Not posting here any more. Married to @JerseyGrrrl. On Mastodon: @thereisnocat@toot.cafe
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat April 26, 2016 at 3:17:26 PM
@Suw that actually sounds more like something Steve Reich would write than Philip Glass. ;-)
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat April 23, 2016 at 3:49:46 PM
@feather Conga-ratulations! #sorryforthereallybadpun #notreallysorry
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat April 15, 2016 at 12:12:49 PM
@stevefaulkner it’s hard to make those “cool” sites with complex interactions accessible, and there’s little info available about how to
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat April 15, 2016 at 12:11:56 PM
@stevefaulkner this is the biggest thing that’s missing. As an agency dev, we often get hired to make “cool” sites.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat April 15, 2016 at 12:05:01 PM
@karlgroves the good news is that when I explain a11y basics to young devs, they get excited about it and want to use it everywhere
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat April 15, 2016 at 11:12:24 AM
@karlgroves I'm sure they will. Good luck to them. I did my best.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat April 15, 2016 at 11:08:50 AM
@Nethermind thank you. I won't. But it's frustrating to try to do the right thing and find out too late that it was the wrong thing.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat April 15, 2016 at 10:16:24 AM
@feather @jeffsmith I appreciate it. I could have used it 3 months ago when I was doing the tech design for tabs on a site we just shipped
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat April 15, 2016 at 9:38:16 AM
@jeffsmith I just wish it didn’t negate every other article I’ve read about making tabs accessible over the past six years. It’s frustrating
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat April 15, 2016 at 9:37:38 AM
@jeffsmith I totally agree. I actually appreciate your article. Thank you for writing it.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat April 15, 2016 at 9:31:11 AM
@jeffsmith so saying that it’s everyone’s responsibility will get heads nodding in the a11y community, and it’s completely unhelpful
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat April 15, 2016 at 9:29:48 AM
@jeffsmith And even with that, I do my best to provide accessible sites. I don’t control whether we test. I suggest, but it never happens
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat April 15, 2016 at 9:25:49 AM
@jeffsmith Even on projects where WCAG 2.0 Level A compliance is in the SOW, a11y support is the first thing cut when deadlines loom.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat April 15, 2016 at 9:25:01 AM
@jeffsmith this is an admirable sentiment, a fine intention, and completely divorced from the reality most developers live in.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat April 14, 2016 at 10:06:47 PM
@jeffsmith you’re not hearing me. I have limited resources. The world doesn’t care. If the a11y comm won’t explain, there’s no hope.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat April 14, 2016 at 10:04:47 PM
@jeffsmith I repeat. I give up. Get your shit together. I can’t test every site I build. I need reliable directions.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat April 14, 2016 at 10:03:15 PM
@jeffsmith great. I relied on a previous blog post that told me what the right thing to do was. Now I read that it was wrong.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat April 14, 2016 at 10:01:50 PM
@jeffsmith and in a perfect world, I would. Or someone would. Guess what. I don’t live in a perfect world. A11y is for the consultants.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat April 14, 2016 at 9:58:38 PM
@jeffsmith if the a11y community can’t clearly tell a working developer like me what I need to do, then you’re useless.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat April 14, 2016 at 9:57:29 PM
@jeffsmith but the right thing doesn’t exist. Accessibility is a chimera, an unattainable mirage. “It depends”.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat April 14, 2016 at 9:56:19 PM
@jeffsmith my first boss when I started making web sites 23 years ago was blind. Intske this seriously. I want to do the right thing.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat April 14, 2016 at 9:54:15 PM
@jeffsmith if you don’t hire Deque, Simoly Accessible, or Paciello, you’re fucked. Nobody else understands this stuff.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat April 14, 2016 at 9:52:23 PM
@jeffsmith see, this is the problem. Accessibility for most sites is an unaffordable luxury. If we can’t hire consultants, we’re fucked.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat April 14, 2016 at 9:35:07 PM
@jeffsmith @vavroom if I had a client who was willing to pay for that, I would. Clearly you’ve never worked for an agency.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat April 14, 2016 at 8:44:15 PM
@karlgroves @vavroom @jeffsmith great. I don’t think my client, who has been threatened with an a11y lawsuit, will accept “It depends”.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat April 14, 2016 at 8:25:10 PM
@vavroom @jeffsmith @karlgroves seriously, I just shipped a site where I tried to do my best. And now you tell me I was wrong?
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat April 14, 2016 at 8:22:55 PM
@vavroom @jeffsmith @karlgroves if ARIA doesn’t work, then I fucking give up.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat April 14, 2016 at 8:22:16 PM
@vavroom @jeffsmith @karlgroves seriously, web a11y community, get your shit together. I can’t keep up with every fucking technique.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat April 14, 2016 at 8:20:12 PM
@vavroom @jeffsmith @karlgroves then how are well-meaning web devs supposed to make things accessible if supposed best practices don’t work?
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat April 14, 2016 at 4:05:00 PM
@markjfine Asbury Lanes looks like it hasn’t been updated since 1964. Seriously. It’s exactly what a bowling alley should be.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat April 14, 2016 at 3:09:24 PM
@markjfine clearly you haven’t been to Asbury Lanes. Much cooler than Red Bank Lanes
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat April 8, 2016 at 2:04:16 PM
@Suw the upper Midwest, like the Canadian Shield, has four seasons. Early Winter, Winter, Late Winter, and July 17th.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat April 4, 2016 at 10:11:56 AM
@redcrew very common for brewery sites. They don’t want to be seen promoting alcohol consumption to under aged drinkers
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat April 1, 2016 at 1:15:28 PM
@dylanw lucky you. I’m 2-1/2 weeks in. It’s an upper respiratory infection now, not just a cold.
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