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lashkari | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is accessibility worth it?

We made drag-and-drop interfaces accessible by allowing users to TAB through the original list, press ENTER on the item they want to move, then use the arrow keys to move the item and press ENTER again when done (or ESC to cancel). After each move, the item's current position, and any necessary local context, was announced via `aria-live` region.

There are other ways that this can be accomplished with even fewer keystrokes, so I can't imagine a scenario where drag-and-drop interfaces would have to be avoided because they couldn't be made meaningfully accessible.

lashkari | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is accessibility worth it?

It helps to reframe your thoughts on accessibility as a subset of user experience (UX). Putting aside any potential moral argument, how important is UX to your business/project?

When accessibility is thought about and incorporated ahead of time, your overall user experience tends to be better. This is sometimes referred to as Universal Design.

I managed a project where we implemented a UI redesign for our existing enterprise SaaS software and we "went the extra mile" to not just make the experience accessible but to make that experience pleasant for our users with disabilities. In the end, some of the features -- especially around keyboard navigation -- that came out of that accessibility work were considered the best part of the redesign to our users.

lashkari | 4 years ago | on: Monkey Island PC-speaker music player

Heads up: I opened this link in a new tab and it immediately started playing a very loud, constant tone.

If you're wearing headphones or have your speakers turned up, be careful!

lashkari | 5 years ago | on: First Apple Silicon Benchmarks Destroy Surface Pro X

It's worth noting that this is comparing the Apple Developer Transition Kit (with the A12Z SoC from the March 2020 iPad Pro) to the Surface Pro X (with the MS/Qualcomm SQ1 from October 2019).

It'll be interesting to see what Apple actually ships in production hardware.

lashkari | 6 years ago | on: NSO hacked WhatsApp to spy on top government officials at U.S. allies

I get your point that a highly-motivated attacker has other, less sophisticated, ways of getting to your data.

However, if we're playing poker and I learn your tell, it's in my best interest that you are naive to that fact. While not the best analogy, I would think that the same concept would apply to state actors.

lashkari | 7 years ago | on: MacOS 10.14 Wishlist

I get your point, and somewhat agree, but I think it's important to remember that the two (feature updates to Terminal and Notes vs. stability/performance/etc.) aren't typically mutually exclusive; the developer that would implement Markdown support in Notes isn't likely the same developer that would be implementing performance/stability enhancements to the core of the OS.

lashkari | 8 years ago | on: CSS Grid for UI Layouts

It's not as simple as using auto-prefixer, since IE10 and IE11 use the older syntax. However, it's surprisingly not that bad for simple layouts.

Here's a great resource covering the hows and whys: https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2016/11/26/should-i-try-...

And here's a simplified example I threw together recently to demonstrate it in action: https://codepen.io/shahab/pen/ypWmZG

Basically, you lose auto-placement, named grid areas, and simple grid gaps, so you have to manually place items in the specific row/column for IE. But, I've found that it's still easier than the alternative in many cases.

lashkari | 10 years ago | on: Signal Desktop beta now publicly available

The Android app also supports standard SMS with non-Signal users. Those messages are not encrypted, so they show the lock to indicate whether the message was sent via Signal or SMS.

Think Apple Messages blue versus green.

lashkari | 10 years ago | on: Another Dell root certificate discovered

I just went through this with a new Dell XPS for my dad.

I performed a wipe/reinstall (with media created directly from a Microsoft download) and Windows 10 never asked me for a key after reinstalling it, and it reports as being activated.

Seems like they've moved away from requiring an OEM key in addition to the SLIC BIOS signature.

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