Accessibility First DevRel. I focus on ensuring content created, events held and company assets are as accessible as possible, for as many people as possible.
Twitter does not give you a way to protect people who have photosensitivity conditions (such as epilepsy).
I made a video with a load of flashing images, added the "sensitive" flag (which sadly destroyed my engagement) as per the great advice from @savvasstephnds and found out the video still plays and you can still see the flashes through the overlay, so that was pointless! 🤦♂️
I then found our that if your captions file (SRT file) has a start time that is before the previous captions end time you get a super helpful "your media could not be uploaded" message instead of something meaningful.
I think, in essence, I learned that I am rubbish at Video on social media, Twitter's accessibility is pretty meh for video, and I should leave video to the pros! 🤣
Accessibility First DevRel. I focus on ensuring content created, events held and company assets are as accessible as possible, for as many people as possible.
I'm a fan of Open Source and have a growing interest in serverless and edge computing. I'm not a big fan of spiders, but they're doing good work eating bugs. I also stream on Twitch.
Accessibility First DevRel. I focus on ensuring content created, events held and company assets are as accessible as possible, for as many people as possible.
As an epileptic I want to thank you for this comment. Around one in 3000 people have uncontrolled epilepsy, many unknown. Only ten percent of epileptics are photosensitive but I got involved in development after my diagnosis - pretty severe but non photosensitive, certain frequencies just don't agree with me.
There is a huge problem with sloppy accessibility on the web, people are slowly catching on 👍, the more "a11y" is discussed the more people consider the tradeoff between acessability and performance.
Accessibility First DevRel. I focus on ensuring content created, events held and company assets are as accessible as possible, for as many people as possible.
Yep even the term A11y isn't all that accessable (kinda the point but I can't help but feel the project is trying to be too clever. Different screen readers will read it differently).
Thing is semantic readability is important for teamwork if nothing else and I have met people who get half way through projects not knowing the meaning of an acronym because of imposter syndrome. "What is a SERP [search engine result page]"
Accessibility First DevRel. I focus on ensuring content created, events held and company assets are as accessible as possible, for as many people as possible.
Not to self promote (but I am lol), the "a11y" numeronym thing I wrote about that one, as it is one of the things that I totally agree needs rethinking / some thought in its use. I use it when others use the term if that is what they prefer but I will always start at "accessibility" and then move towards a11y if appropriate!
I also have a very "inappropriate" website "ultimatemotherf**kingwebsite.com" where I cover abbreviations and acronyms in my normal heavy-handed way 🤣 (if you don't mind gratuitous swearing you might enjoy that site! If you dislike swearing...yeah, don't go to that site!)
Basically, it is a very long winded and self-promotional way of saying "I agree with you 100%!" 😋
I noticed you just started becoming active here, I hope to see you pop up in the comments more often so we can discuss accessibility more, there are not enough of us fighting the good fight on this! ❤
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Twitter does not give you a way to protect people who have photosensitivity conditions (such as epilepsy).
I made a video with a load of flashing images, added the "sensitive" flag (which sadly destroyed my engagement) as per the great advice from @savvasstephnds and found out the video still plays and you can still see the flashes through the overlay, so that was pointless! 🤦♂️
I then found our that if your captions file (SRT file) has a start time that is before the previous captions end time you get a super helpful "your media could not be uploaded" message instead of something meaningful.
I think, in essence, I learned that I am rubbish at Video on social media, Twitter's accessibility is pretty meh for video, and I should leave video to the pros! 🤣
You would've avoided this whole story if you just didn't put flashes in your video to begin with 😅
Haha, very true! 🤣
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As an epileptic I want to thank you for this comment. Around one in 3000 people have uncontrolled epilepsy, many unknown. Only ten percent of epileptics are photosensitive but I got involved in development after my diagnosis - pretty severe but non photosensitive, certain frequencies just don't agree with me.
There is a huge problem with sloppy accessibility on the web, people are slowly catching on 👍, the more "a11y" is discussed the more people consider the tradeoff between acessability and performance.
I try…today as you can tell I was not very successful but I do try at least lol! A11y is a Massive and overlooked issue, I just try and do my part! ❤️
Yep even the term A11y isn't all that accessable (kinda the point but I can't help but feel the project is trying to be too clever. Different screen readers will read it differently).
Thing is semantic readability is important for teamwork if nothing else and I have met people who get half way through projects not knowing the meaning of an acronym because of imposter syndrome. "What is a SERP [search engine result page]"
Not to self promote (but I am lol), the "a11y" numeronym thing I wrote about that one, as it is one of the things that I totally agree needs rethinking / some thought in its use. I use it when others use the term if that is what they prefer but I will always start at "accessibility" and then move towards a11y if appropriate!
🤷♂️ W1y d2s a11y h2e to be so b4y c9d a1d i10e? 👿
InHuOfficial ・ May 1 '21 ・ 3 min read
I also have a very "inappropriate" website "ultimatemotherf**kingwebsite.com" where I cover abbreviations and acronyms in my normal heavy-handed way 🤣 (if you don't mind gratuitous swearing you might enjoy that site! If you dislike swearing...yeah, don't go to that site!)
Basically, it is a very long winded and self-promotional way of saying "I agree with you 100%!" 😋
I noticed you just started becoming active here, I hope to see you pop up in the comments more often so we can discuss accessibility more, there are not enough of us fighting the good fight on this! ❤