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Re: Show HN: Ray.so – Create images of your code

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Post by riedel »

alpaca128 wrote: post #44

I may be rather opinionated on this, but there are literally community efforts to transcribe memes and other pictures containing text so visually impaired people get access to content, and meanwhile about every 3-4 weeks HN features yet another web app that basically takes human readable text and stores it in one of the most inefficient and inaccessible ways possible. It becomes invisible to screenreaders, impossible…

Good point. Totally agree. SVG would be nice way out but it is also hard to make accessible in comparison to pure html. Another example are badges. Even shields.io SVG badges are hard to make screen reader compatible (personally gave up on this some time ago). In the end inclusive design will make the web better for everyone beyond the short wow effects.

Re: Show HN: Ray.so – Create images of your code

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Post by neilpanchal »

jaegerpicker wrote: post #49
alpaca128 wrote: post #44

I may be rather opinionated on this, but there are literally community efforts to transcribe memes and other pictures containing text so visually impaired people get access to content, and meanwhile about every 3-4 weeks HN features yet another web app that basically takes human readable text and stores it in one of the most inefficient and inaccessible ways possible. It becomes invisible to screenreaders, impossible…

Some people love the text from an aesthetic view. I don't think we should be against that but rather to advocate the improvement of accessible technology.

Engineering documentation shouldn't be about making pretty pictures, it should be about functionalism and putting that at the top of the list just below accessibility.

What do you know, people love fancy and decorative things. Just human nature.

Re: Show HN: Ray.so – Create images of your code

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Post by Lorkki »

alpaca128 wrote: post #44

I may be rather opinionated on this, but there are literally community efforts to transcribe memes and other pictures containing text so visually impaired people get access to content, and meanwhile about every 3-4 weeks HN features yet another web app that basically takes human readable text and stores it in one of the most inefficient and inaccessible ways possible. It becomes invisible to screenreaders, impossible…

> a developer version of those Instagram pictures of meals at restaurants

I guess those pictures are popular because food is easy to relate to, and people build lots of social interactions around eating. Developers also relate to things about code, and like to share those relations among each other.

I feel some puzzlement about the format too, though. These days it's so easy to make text on the web look nice, and it's easily accessible, copyable and searchable.

Re: Show HN: Ray.so – Create images of your code

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Post by jaegerpicker »

neilpanchal wrote: post #52
jaegerpicker wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some people love the text from an aesthetic view. I don't think we should be against that but rather to advocate the improvement of accessible technology.

Engineering documentation shouldn't be about making pretty pictures, it should be about functionalism and putting that at the top of the list just below accessibility. What do you know, people love fancy and decorative things. Just human nature.

I'm not sure this is about Engineering documentation. I mean is that the purpose of the site? I agree Documentation should put function first but this is more about Aesthetics then documentation. A form of art if you will.

Re: Show HN: Ray.so – Create images of your code

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Post by thomaspaulmann »

da_big_ghey wrote: post #29

I like it, thanks for making this. Any chance you could add an option to remove the three dots in the top-left?

We wanted to achieve some native looking windows therefore the three dots. Though, it's very macOS specific. We want to keep the configurations to a minimum to get quickly good looking results. Maybe some minimal theme could work where we strip away most of the stuff. Just thinking out loud...

Re: Show HN: Ray.so – Create images of your code

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Post by airstrike »

bikeshaving wrote: post #25
zardinality wrote: post #13

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Blink the cursor at the end or highlight the text area sound reasonable to me

Trying to get an input to autofocus with any reliability in browsers is the third hardest problem in computer science.

Fake the cursor if needed

Re: Show HN: Ray.so – Create images of your code

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Post by swrj »

jimmy2020 wrote: post #43
112 wrote: post #23

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Carbon is awesome, works offline, and can be integrated with any decent editor, so you can just select code and press a keybind to get the image on your clipboard.

I didn't know there's an editor integration to Carbon. Is there a specific extension for VScode?

yes - https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ericadam...

Re: Show HN: Ray.so – Create images of your code

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Post by lights0123 »

bikeshaving wrote: post #25
zardinality wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Blink the cursor at the end or highlight the text area sound reasonable to me

Trying to get an input to autofocus with any reliability in browsers is the third hardest problem in computer science.

You can make an (obviously) fake blinking cursor at the end possibly with a label showing that it's editable.

Re: Show HN: Ray.so – Create images of your code

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Post by f-word »

alpaca128 wrote: post #44

I may be rather opinionated on this, but there are literally community efforts to transcribe memes and other pictures containing text so visually impaired people get access to content, and meanwhile about every 3-4 weeks HN features yet another web app that basically takes human readable text and stores it in one of the most inefficient and inaccessible ways possible. It becomes invisible to screenreaders, impossible…

It's not like the alt attribute stopped existing or anything. This simply lets you make what amounts to pretty screencaps of your code
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