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David Bisset (dimensionmedia)

Client: "Well, sometimes we have to break accessibility on our site when it gets in the way of other users."

Me: 🤔

#webdev #memes #a11y

A ramp in a hallway that has a gap in the middle because on the wall next to it is an open door, otherwise the ramp would be blocking the door.
12 September at 13:28 | Open on phpc.social
18 comments
Charles Villard
jack will miss this server

@davidbisset that ramp surely was installed for semi-frequent carts of heavy stuff, surely, not for wheelchair users - with some movable section that temporarily blocks the door? can't believe anyone would make a wheelchair ramp like that

(the metaphor is spot-on though)

12 September at 13:33 | Open on strangeobject.space
Jonathan T

@JackEric @davidbisset Do a search for images of accessibility fails. It is very believable that this could indeed be a wheelchair ramp. It might not be, as you say, but it definitely could be.

12 September at 13:40 | Open on mastodon.me.uk
Trash Panda [shapeshifter era]

@davidbisset@phpc.social
AKA screw disabled people, we can't ask abled ones to walk up a step and then down again.

12 September at 13:39 | Open on hollow.raccoon.quest
iamdtms

@davidbisset Tony Hawk accessibly issues for dummies (2nd edition)

12 September at 13:43 | Open on mas.to
Elena Brescacin

@davidbisset People reasoning this way would need a lesson... Do you want to break accessibility? Perfect, I give you a site that's accessible to blind only. Screen completely black.

12 September at 13:59 | Open on mastodon.uno
Talon

@talksina @davidbisset love the idea, the only problem is that sighted people could totally use a screen reader to still use the page. :(

12 September at 14:02 | Open on dragonscave.space
Svenja

@talon @talksina @davidbisset lol, you don't know how many of theese don't know how to handle a ScreenReader at all. Many of them even get totally confused because they have to use it without the Mouse or because they don't understand its Speech.

12 September at 14:22 | Open on fedisabled.social
Talon

@svenja @talksina @davidbisset I know they won't. I know they'd get confused. But the reality is they could do it. Whereas if a page is completely inaccessible, we just straight up can't, even if we did struggle.

12 September at 14:23 | Open on dragonscave.space
Svenja
Elena Brescacin

@svenja @talon @davidbisset But sighted could get a disturbing sound. If they use the mouse they get a continuous whistle like when the microphone is somehow disturbed

12 September at 14:33 | Open on mastodon.uno
EndlessMason

@talon
"If you serve unstyled text without js the page load times will be blistering fast and the bandwidth use very low. This technical experiment will pay off on bandwidth costs alone"

@talksina @davidbisset

12 September at 14:39 | Open on hachyderm.io
TofuTheSquirrel

@talksina @davidbisset

- here ! your new laptop.
- it has no screen !
- yeah, the screen was reducing the battery life for blind users, so we removed it.

12 September at 14:23 | Open on piaille.fr
InsertUser

@davidbisset

If this has an infill platform when the door's closed then it mightn't actually be that bad.

12 September at 14:03 | Open on en.osm.town
F. Maury ⏚

@davidbisset It is a performance issue; just roll faster and you will make it. /s

12 September at 14:07 | Open on infosec.exchange
Sergio VDS

@davidbisset
Engineering by "nas coxas"(pt.br slang to "done aanyway")

12 September at 14:16 | Open on ursal.zone
Malachai

@davidbisset does anyone else get flashbacks of the first level of quake? The little "ramp" with the split at the door that you have to jump over to get to the second little secret area?

No? Probably just me. Lol

12 September at 14:32 | Open on furry.engineer
OddOpinions5

@davidbisset

what we need is a law:

NO building gets a CofA until some disabled people have signed off on it

12 September at 14:36 | Open on mas.to
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