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Erik Kroes 👀

@erikkroes.bsky.social

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Disabled, and doing it anyway. 🎉 Art, Web Accessibility & Design Systems 🎉 Now: Freelancer 🌐 Previously: Nomensa 🇬🇧 IKEA 🇸🇪 ING 🇳🇱🦁 👤 he/him www.erikkroes.nl

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Erik Kroes 👀 @erikkroes.bsky.social · 3h

Don't scare the developers please! 😄

Erik Kroes 👀 @erikkroes.bsky.social · 3h

You're allowed to use it, but it doesn't do much on its own: w3c.github.io/aria/#aria-l...

Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.3

Accessibility of web content requires semantic information about widgets, structures, and behaviors, in order to allow assistive technologies to convey appropriate information to persons with ...

w3c.github.io

Erik Kroes 👀 @erikkroes.bsky.social · 7h

Making an element interactive with a tabindex? Name it!

Don't name an element nested in it. This does not work. The name needs to be on the element that you can -focus-.

Hiding a house number in the back of my garden does not help identify my house from the front.

www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/U...

<div role="button" tabindex="0">
<div aria-label="submit"></div>
</div>

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Erik Kroes 👀 @erikkroes.bsky.social · 8h

I think "chips" are a design mistake.

They're catch-all interactive component that can do anything while all looking alike. They make it very unclear for users what to expect. Lack of affordance is bad UX.
Chips are what you end up with when you don't decide.

m3.material.io/components/c...

Chips – Material Design 3

Chips help people enter information, make selections, filter content, or trigger actions. Four types of chips are: assist, filter, input, and suggestion.

m3.material.io

Erik Kroes 👀 @erikkroes.bsky.social · 3d

This used to be the time when everybody on Twitter changed their name to something spooky.

Erik Kroes 👀 @erikkroes.bsky.social · 10d

Developers can answer 9 out of 10 questions with "it depends".

Accessibility-people have their own version: "but people are creative"
For example: Does this WCAG SC apply?
- Probably not, but people are creative.

Because my goodness, people can be so creative.

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Erik Kroes 👀 @erikkroes.bsky.social · 10d

"I'm going to read books again"-book #1 done.

I read the first book of Percy Jackson. It was nice to read again, but it was a bit -too- light. Like a middle school version of "American Gods".

What should I read next?

Erik Kroes 👀 @erikkroes.bsky.social · 13d

Somebody actually said that? Wow...

Erik Kroes 👀 @erikkroes.bsky.social · 13d

I just opened the website of m-enabling and wish I hand't.

<div aria-label="next" tabindex="0" role="button">

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Erik Kroes 👀 @erikkroes.bsky.social · 14d

"is it really an error or is it just AWS failing"
- game of the day

Erik Kroes 👀 @erikkroes.bsky.social · 14d

"you broke reddit" feels like such a passive-aggressive victim blaming type of error message

Erik Kroes 👀 @erikkroes.bsky.social · 17d

Man of many talents!

Erik Kroes 👀 @erikkroes.bsky.social · 18d

Do you want something for the switch or the ally?
You could see if makerworld.com has something you like.

makerworld.co

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Erik Kroes 👀 @erikkroes.bsky.social · 18d

I'm drafting HTML for an accessible carousel/slider and I feel a bit dirty 😬

Erik Kroes 👀 @erikkroes.bsky.social · 18d

I'm enjoying 3d-print and modeling currently. Let me know if there's anything you'd like to try/make/test!

Erik Kroes 👀 @erikkroes.bsky.social · 18d

My second desk holds my A3 printer, and both a flatbed and film scanner. Like most of my photography stuff, they're mostly catching dust.

I think I'll move them today. Give my 3D printer and pen plotter (also catching dust) more space. Any reason I shouldn't?

"Speak now or forever hold your peace"

Erik Kroes 👀 @erikkroes.bsky.social · 19d

Please help me read (again).

www.erikkroes.nl/blog/i-cant-...

I can't read (but I'd like to)

I have issues with reading books. I find it very hard to read a book. But I used to read quite a lot, and I'd like to get into it again. This is me reaching out, and asking your best tips!

www.erikkroes.nl

Erik Kroes 👀 @erikkroes.bsky.social · 19d

I think that's very reasonable.

Erik Kroes 👀 @erikkroes.bsky.social · 19d

Let's keep it unusual: rechargeable dessicants.

Erik Kroes 👀 @erikkroes.bsky.social · 19d

every software product available: you have succesfully backed up your phone pictures

and yet 😬😬😬

Erik Kroes 👀 @erikkroes.bsky.social · 20d

"I'm here with Ariel Vardica."

Something tells me the transcripts are automatically generated 😂

Thanks for sharing!

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Erik Kroes 👀 @erikkroes.bsky.social · 20d

Link to the discussion/musings? 👀

Would love to hear/read them!

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Erik Kroes 👀 @erikkroes.bsky.social · 20d

How useful AI is for generating alt-text?

"May be an image of toy" on every image... on a LEGO-related website.

Erik Kroes 👀 @erikkroes.bsky.social · 20d

To all the people cleaning up:

It might be the most underappreciated task. People only see the things you miss, not the things you do.

Thanks for cleaning up. Thanks for leaving things in a better state. Your efforts make things possible.

Erik Kroes 👀 @erikkroes.bsky.social · 21d

What are you talking abou... oh.. ouch.