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 February 6, 2012 at 4:45:58 PM
@wyattdanger her presentation was the best one I saw at #aea in DC in October, too.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 27, 2011 at 6:22:08 PM
@autumnd funny, that's what I have for breakfast every morning when I'm not having my every whim catered to by the fine folks at #aea :-)
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 27, 2011 at 5:58:53 PM
made it home safe and sound from #aea. Thanks to friends old and new. It was a blast.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 26, 2011 at 3:24:42 PM
Zed-index FTW!!!! #speakingcanadian #aea
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 26, 2011 at 2:48:46 PM
"What's going on in iOS is one of the two most interesting things happening in a11y today." —@feather #aea
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 26, 2011 at 2:44:05 PM
can see using Voiceover to test accessibility. I don't have to learn the 7 million keystrokes of JAWS #aea
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 26, 2011 at 2:40:44 PM
Really impressed with the thought Apple put into VoiceOver on iOS devices. #aea
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 26, 2011 at 1:33:56 PM
wants to know if White Castle uses role="slider" on its site #aea #a11y
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 26, 2011 at 1:31:12 PM
"You know that site Damn you Autocorrect? We need Damn you VoiceOver." — @feather #aea #a11y
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 26, 2011 at 11:42:11 AM
"If you think you need to add a role of button to something, maybe you need to use a button instead." — @feather #aea
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 26, 2011 at 11:36:15 AM
"When you're changing the role of something in the interface, you have to deal with all the expected behaviors as well." — @feather #aea
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 26, 2011 at 11:32:20 AM
"We will get to a point where we have really good ARIA support everywhere, but we're not there yet." — @feather #aea
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 26, 2011 at 11:09:53 AM
Need to combine good semantic markup with ARIA attributes that express meaning more fully. — @feather #aea
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 26, 2011 at 11:08:22 AM
"We often express meaning with CSS" — @feather #notcool #aea
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 26, 2011 at 11:02:52 AM
ARIA lets you express relationships that aren't programmatically expressed by default programmatically — @feather #aea
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 26, 2011 at 10:57:33 AM
Rather than using # as a link, use #<id>; link to item itself. Retains focus. - @feather #aea
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 26, 2011 at 10:43:22 AM
Why does every accessibility session I ever go to use a tree as the ARIA example? I haven't coded a single tree in my entire career. #aea
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 26, 2011 at 10:38:56 AM
"The importance of certain content changes with time and place." — @feather #aea
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 26, 2011 at 9:49:43 AM
"We start with web standards, but we have to keep building from here." — @feather #aea
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 26, 2011 at 9:33:13 AM
"Most of us got into the web because we were doing something else, saw the web, and said 'Holy crap, that's it! I'm in!'" — @feather #aea
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 26, 2011 at 9:30:53 AM
"If it's on the screen it needs to be under the screen as well." — @feather #aea
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 26, 2011 at 9:26:29 AM
Everything inaccessible on the web is @mezzoblue's fault — @feather #aea
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 26, 2011 at 9:15:45 AM
"If you're not familiar with ARIA, you'll get familiar with it today, believe me." — @feather #aea
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 26, 2011 at 9:11:34 AM
"Nobody comments on blogs anymore. Feel free to comment on my blog. I get lonely up in Canada." #aea
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 26, 2011 at 9:09:57 AM
been trying to get into one of @feather's all day workshops for at least four years. Finally! #aea
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 25, 2011 at 5:36:25 PM
Yay! @jmspool is working on a book! #aea
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 25, 2011 at 5:15:39 PM
Worst possible link is "Click here to learn more" — @jmspool #aea
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 25, 2011 at 5:08:24 PM
"We found people who needed women's apparel. Most of them were women." — @jmspool #aea
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 25, 2011 at 4:51:10 PM
"Kittens die when marketing people win." @jmspool #aea
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 25, 2011 at 4:49:21 PM
"For those of you who weren't around when Fitts' Law was put through the legislature...." - @jmspool #aea
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 25, 2011 at 4:43:22 PM
I think the first time I saw @jmspool talk about the Scent of Information was at CHI in LA back in 1998. Yes, 13 years ago. #aea
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 25, 2011 at 4:14:44 PM
Another #razorfish reference at #aea, this time by @halvorson, and again to @rlovinger's Nimble report
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 25, 2011 at 3:58:30 PM
"Developers, don't make the metadata up. Push back." - @halvorson #aea
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 25, 2011 at 3:57:41 PM
"Metadata ultimately is an editorial undertaking. You need to make decisions about what to tag content with." - @halvorson #aea
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 25, 2011 at 3:29:52 PM
"You want a blog? You'll have to write. Regularly. Want a Twitter feed? Now you'll have to tweet." - @halvorson #aea
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 25, 2011 at 2:41:15 PM
not learning anything I didn't know about CSS animations/transforms, etc., but the slides are engaging #aea
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 25, 2011 at 2:38:28 PM
"Really simple subtle movement can be used to great effect." - @malarkey #aea
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 25, 2011 at 2:11:19 PM
"The more limiting the technology, the more opportunity for creativity." - @malarkey #aea
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 25, 2011 at 2:10:24 PM
"People think I model myself on Don Draper. Really, I'm more influenced by Yogi Bear." - @malarkey #aea
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 25, 2011 at 11:51:10 AM
"You don't have to be the best ____. You just have to be a person with ideas." - @aarron #aea
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 25, 2011 at 11:44:51 AM
"Hardest thing is to get started. Get it down on paper, build a prototype, and show it to someone." - @jack on video #aea
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 25, 2011 at 11:41:16 AM
Twitter coming out of the crushing of Odeo as an example of why businesses can profit from embracing independent projects. #aea
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 25, 2011 at 11:35:15 AM
"When you get stuck in the circle of execution, you can lose your creative thinking." - @aarron #aea
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 25, 2011 at 10:00:02 AM
eCSStender, @aarongustfson's library: http://blog.easy-designs.net/archives/2011/08/04/experimenting-with-grids-using-ecsstender/ #aea
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 24, 2011 at 4:49:38 PM
The point @beep just made about the canvas limiting our view of the medium ties in nicely with the talk @danrubin gave at #brooklynbeta #aea
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 24, 2011 at 4:35:53 PM
RT @halvorson: I vote that @karenmcgrane should write a book. Who's with me?! #aea #everyoneelse
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 24, 2011 at 4:06:35 PM
It's encouraging that NPR has largely succeeded at the kind of stuff @karenmcgrane is talking about. It *is* possible. #aea
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 24, 2011 at 4:02:19 PM
"The CMS interface looked like a database got drunk and vomited all over the screen." -@karenmcgrane #aea
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 24, 2011 at 3:51:23 PM
"Blobs vs. Chunks; We have to support the chunks. We cannot let the blobs win." -@karenmcgrane #aea
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 24, 2011 at 3:34:18 PM
Funny to hear @karenmcgrane talking about value of structured content; we were doing that at Lucent 20 years ago #aea
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 24, 2011 at 2:57:18 PM
You don't get the opportunity to reinvent the web every day - @lukew #aea
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 24, 2011 at 2:55:46 PM
if we don't experiment with the seemingly silly and nonsensical, we'll be stuck with links and pages forever -@lukew #aea
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 24, 2011 at 2:40:19 PM
New HTML5 input types make mobile web more usable #aea
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 24, 2011 at 11:49:54 AM
"Is it just me, or is this stuff kind of creepy?" -@andybudd #aea
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 24, 2011 at 11:43:39 AM
"We see up to 5,000 branding messages per day" - @andybudd (illustrated by Times Square; I must get more than that working there....) #aea
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 24, 2011 at 11:25:32 AM
Skipped the chocolate croissant at the break, went straight for the fruit. @JerseyGrrrl would be proud of me. #aea
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 24, 2011 at 10:47:51 AM
"Anyone here from the patent office? It's around the corner. We should go there with pitchforks." OH from @adactio #aea
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 24, 2011 at 10:31:16 AM
Browsers are the perfect implementation of Postel's Law. So sez @adactio #aea
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 24, 2011 at 9:58:53 AM
"Try to like your clients" @zeldman #aea
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 24, 2011 at 9:46:20 AM
XKCD Venn Diagram at http://xkcd.com/773/ because @zeldman forgot to include it on a slide #aea
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 24, 2011 at 9:40:20 AM
Progressive enhancement is a universal smart default; call out of @AaronGustafson's book http://easy-readers.net #aea
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 24, 2011 at 9:29:15 AM
NYT: We're all going to be unemployed, eating out of garbage cans, killing each other, but first, an ad from Tiffany's. #aea