I still think it’s pretty messed up that, for the purpose of getting the topic of equal access for all on the web some play, we have to refer to the benefits for search engine optimization, (most of which are myths), because that’s the only way most people are going to pay attention. It’s either that, or try scaring people by reminding that eventually, they won’t be fully abled. I get it, I’m not going to stop doing it, but it’s still one of the less-desirable, less-lovable parts of accessibility for me.
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Reduce the trashfire created by plugins and themes in your WordPress with Menu Humility. It still works
I’m helping a screen reader who has been recently introduced to WordPress configure their new site, and noticed that they were becoming frustrated with the clutter of their WordPress administration menu thanks to plugins arbitrarily adding things to their top-level menus and inserting their own top-level menus in between the out-of-the-box ones. I had them install Menu Humility by Mark Jaquith. Despite the plugin not being updated in over a year, it still works exactly as it is intended, and I install it on every new site I build and every site I rebuild. I’ve mentioned this plugin before on this site, but wanted to mention it again because I find it so useful in my quest to minimize the trashfire that can result when plugin and theme authors clutter the dashboard in order to fulfill their own hopes or desires for more downloads or upgrades with no regard for the users actually using WordPress. If you’re running the latest version of WordPress, (and you really should be), upon viewing the plugin in the plugins/add-new screen, you’ll get a notice that says “untested with your version of WordPress.” In this case, ignore that notice, because this still works, thanks to WordPress’s commitment to backwards compatibility. This isn’t so much an accessibility issue as it is a “get off my lawn, stop cluttering my dashboard with your crap, my dashboard isn’t your playground” kind of scenario. Menu Humility isn’t the only plugin that can help with dashboard clutter, but it’s the first step to making it a saner place which induces less rage. Go get it if you haven’t already.
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Read: “HTML Source Order vs CSS Display Order” by @aardrian
Worth a read and reread by anyone doing anything with CSS. For some reason, Adrian’s feed was not in my RSS reader. This is now fixed.
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I want to put an Apple Watch on a drummer from a speed metal band. Then, I want that drummer to perform a concert, and I want to see the results. Specifically, the step count and the exercise/move numbers. That would be really interesting. Come on speed metal drummers, cough up your data! Think of the children!
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Wow. Apparently I have not had enough coffee yet, because I just tried to log into a WordPress install on a domain I haven’t owned for a while now. I have no idea why I even typed that domain as I haven’t thought about it in months. Maybe even a year or more. I’m not sure why it popped into my head just now. I wasn’t planning to be up this early today, but my brain woke me up around 4AM, so up it is I guess. Welcome to Sunday.
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Wrong one last time. We think the microwave blew up, so we are getting an impromptu dinner. — with John
State College63 °F Partially cloudy
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We think the microwave blew up, so we are getting an impromptu dinner.
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, United States62 °F Partially cloudy
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Designing Against Domestic Violence by Eva PenzeyMoog @epenzeymoog and yes, it is captioned! #a11y
This copy of the talk is from Tech Omaha 2019, and is captioned so that everyone can benefit from it.
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Sooooooooo……. Firefox updated, and after the updates were finished, all my tabs are gone. How’s your Friday going? I’m going to be so glad when this day is finally over. The universe has been telling me all day I should not be working and it’s apparently hell-bent on forcing the issue. I may take Monday off as well since I didn’t get this past Monday off. Only two more hours left.
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If you add the multisite constant to wp-config, only to then go add out-of-the-box things to the local .htaccess file to prevent multisite from running and to run single-site instead, I am totally on board with the floors of your workk and play spaces being repaved with legos and you being forced to walk barefoot over all of it just long enough for your feet to start developing blisters, and then we do it all over again. “Error thrown
[] operator not supported for strings” is absolutely not something I should see on a Friday morning after working for more than ten days straight and before I’ve had enough coffee. That is not the kind of adrenaline rush I need, at any time of the day.