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Friday was my last day working at 18F. It was a wonderful place to work, filled with extraordinary people, but a few things happened that made me realize I had to leave.

Everything happens so much these days, so I thought I’d write down for myself what happened, and how I made my decision:

ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/leavin

(FYI, this post gets into recent #uspol events. If that’s a stressor, or not interesting to you, I’d suggest skipping.)

ethanmarcotte.comMoving on from 18F. — ethanmarcotte.com
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Phew, after my recent survey about code editors for screen reader users on the Mac, I just now installed VS Code on my current Macs and started with a fresh install. And wow, in the over two years I hadn't used it, because I wasn't doing any coding, a lot has changed! Announcement sounds, signal sounds, accessibility help, hover support, viewing everything in an accessibility view, which is essentially a plain text view, and some other new features are really making this a joy to use. And the accessibility documentation alone is quite massive now. Of course, with new editor features there will also be new accessibility challenges, but the overall consistent system of mechanisms is quite nice to use. Here's the documentation for your enjoyment: code.visualstudio.com/docs/edi

code.visualstudio.comAccessibilityVisual Studio Code user accessibility features. Learn here about the various ways VS Code aids user accessibility.

@delan @abandonedwig @igalia you just hit on one of my favorite buzz words - accessible - so I figure this is as good a time as any to ask: is there a roadmap for #screenReader / #accessibility API support?

The one thing I love about Electron is that apps can take full advantage of, for example, macOS VoiceOver’s robust web navigation features.

Servo is completely - pun absolutely intended - invisible to #VoiceOver.

The Braille Institute created a font designed to make reading easier for people with low vision called Atkinson Hyperlegible in 2019.

It just released an update (Atkinson Hyperlegible Next) and monospace version with enhanced characters, 7 weights, and variable weight.

They’re free for personal and commercial use.

brailleinstitute.org/freefont/

Braille InstituteAtkinson Hyperlegible Font - Braille InstituteRead easier with Atkinson Hyperlegible Font, crafted for low-vision readers. Download for free and enjoy clear letters and numbers on your computer!

With the latest update to #Mastodon's web app, we show you a little reminder when you're about to post a picture without adding alt text. Alt text is crucial for accessibility, but has other perks too, such as making it much easier to search for your post—or filter it. Of course, the reminder can be simply toggled off in preferences.

@SteveFaulkner I started a project of re-implementing HTML as custom elements as a sort of way to find gaps in the platform (so we can make custom elements better). I didn’t really get past the anchor element which is also what I started with. It’s a monster of affordances (e.g. it’s draggable). Where I left off was implementing my own context menus because sure you can implement the link behaviour, but without a context menu there’s no way for users to get the link’s URL to do something else with without following it. It’s 100% not worth re-implementing links!

Happy to announce I'll be 1 of the 3 speakers of the next Smashing Meets Accessibility, Thursday, February 20, 5PM CET.
- Sarah L. Fossheim will talk about accessibility and dataviz issues and how to avoid them
- I'll talk about how to design for accessibility, from the start, no more "waiting for the devs to fix it"
- Kardo Ayoub will share his personal story of becoming a visually impaired designer
- Geoff Graham will host our

Free tickets: smashingconf.com/meets-accessi
smashingconf.com/meets-accessi

SmashingConfSmashing Meets — Friendly, inclusive, practical event for web designers and developers. — Meets Accessibility — February 20, 2025Thursday, February 20, 2025, 8–11am PDT / 5–8pm CET, we are hosting a new edition of our online community event Smashing Meets. In this Meets we're hosting 3 amazing speakers who will talk about various aspects of accessibility in web. Are you a designer or developer, there is something for all of you. Register your ticket and tell your friends!