↪ Replying to @kolombiken
@kolombiken I thought of you actually. I think I have to go 3rd party app as well.
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↪ Replying to @GabiGitli
@GabiGitli I’m glad you asked 😊
To understand this one needs to understand two main problems:
1) A person using a screen reader may be exposed to multiple instances of “Read more” without context.
2) A person controlling a browser through voice needs a unique phrase to activate a link.
@GabiGitli The best links are
a) understandable outside their visual context on a page, and
b) unique in the sense that the same phrase is not used to link to different pages.
@GabiGitli A common workaround is to repeat the title of the linked page in the read more link. But as the title of a “teaser” is usually already linked, this often creates duplicate links to the same article.
@GabiGitli The other option is to hide the “read more” link altogether, and only link the title. This is valid but risks leaving the reader hanging, not knowing where to go from there.
@GabiGitli Another option is to include the full title in the read more link and NOT link the title in the teaser. There would be one understandable link providing the right context in the right position.
@GabiGitli But there is still a valid expectation of a linked title, which could be resolved by Javascript, pulling the link from the other link, and not exposing that link to the screen reader.
@GabiGitli One could also link the whole teaser block. When the reader reaches an ellipsis which breaks the content where the read more link would have been placed, they can still click anywhere to. Again this would require Javascript to ensure that the entire text is not exposed as a link.
@GabiGitli There are more options – and a new attribute known as aria-labelled-by which can come in handy. The chosen option will depend on context. And in the end it’s most important to bring in representatives who experience the issues we are trying to resolve, and listen to their input.
@GabiGitli To sum up: even seemingly small decisions will require effort to be inclusive. Many of them involve vulnerable people who are systematically ignored. And this is when change takes more time than at first feels reasonable…
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I have given talks for 20 years saying that links to the full text of articles should not only read “Read more”. This has given me the experience to understand that I will be giving the same talk for 20 more.
That fleeting feeling of yet another in-your-face nonessential feature that can not be turned off because respecting human autonomy is too massive of an ask.
Enjoy this episode of CSI Stockholm, where James decides to examine the evidence in his lab, going deep into the code, in an effort to ascertain the meaning and purpose of the inexplicable icon. x.com/beantin/status…
↪ Replying to @beantin
@beantin @LinkedIn I love that inspecting the code is how you figured it out 😅
Everyone of course needs to listen to episode 244. Weirdly I was just recommending this episode in my morning meeting, for the same reasons - icons are not universally understood.
uxpodcast.com/244-icons-pict…
Can you handle the truth?
Out today is our 250th (!) episode of @uxpodcast, in which @beantin and I interview @gapminder's Anna Rosling Rönnlund about being factful, and how we can help ourselves and others make sense of the world.
uxpodcast.com/250-factfulnes…
↪ Replying to @imdoinfine
@imdoinfine Will add this to my everyday Task List: "Throw trash in bin, it's to your left." And then add a speaker to the bin that regularly announces: "I'm feeling all empty inside!"
Now to figure out how I'll remember to empty the bin.
SONDER.
noun.
The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own.
As defined in The Dictionary of @ObscureSorrows
dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/post/235369226…
I have to wonder if respondents are given a definition of AI before answering this survey. I'm guessing any automated computer software will likely make it into these responses... the term "AI-based" makes it even more ambiguous.
The state of AI in 2020.
mckinsey.com/business-funct…
↪ Replying to @blogisch
@blogisch @Sproudofficial Didn't know what to expect, but that was funny. 😅
↪ Replying to @unknown
@opassande Imorse hade jag denna bakgrund i ett möte med fyra andra personer och ingen sa ett ljud om den. Så det är uppenbart dags för nästa steg. Eller bara ett tecken på att man är mätt på mina upptåg...
↪ Replying to @unknown
@opassande Man har inte roligare än man gör sig. Men jag väljer ofta noga bakgrund efter vilka som deltar, även om jag gärna pressar gränserna och just söker reaktioner ;)
Shoutout to @sproudofficial. Really liking their new plant-based milk alternative. I'm #sproud 😊
(Realized this looks and sounds like an ad. It's not. I just really love it.) x.com/Sproudofficial…
And yes, this is one of the backgrounds I sometimes use in online meetings.
My desk is littered with trash (don't ask) so I have the novel idea of putting a trash can closer to my desk. I look down to discover the empty trash can I put there for this purpose THREE weeks ago.
This is my life now: having new ideas that I’ve already implemented.
After many, many years of trying and testing (and putting down money) to find a task management app that works for me I'm happy to announce Smart Tasks is doing the job.
smarttasksapp.com
The US president has fired the US's leading authority on election security, appointed in 2018. The director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Chris Krebs, was one of the few people well-respected on both sides of the aisle. 62 days left 'til January 20. x.com/HomelandDems/s…
The story, with background info on CISA, The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency:
wired.com/story/trump-fi…
↪ Replying to @unknown
@A_Silvers @inkblurt I figured it out! If you can read a sentence about a company that ends with the word "successful", replace that word with "harmful", and the sentence still is legit: then the company is not successful.