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

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Post by redisman »

shuntress wrote: post #67

Not trying to be argumentative but this is completely over my head and I do not understand the purpose. Is there some way to get a CSS snippet out for publishing in a blog/article/presentation or is it only images? edit: is this purely to add a rounded border/pad that you wouldn't get with WND+SHIFT+S / CMD+SHIFT+4 for sharing on sites where you don't control the style?

I'd love this if it was a CSS thing like when people embed Twits. I'm just not sure when you would want an image of code. Most likely use case seems like a README on github or your product page but then you'd want it to be plain text right?

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

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Post by jstanley »

chrisseaton wrote: post #9
umvi wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's par for the course with Apple-esque UIs. Like the classic "invisible scrollbar"[0] that prevents you from knowing you can scroll something down and see more. Form > Function [0] https://svenkadak.com/blog/scrollbar-blindness

How can you make text look editable?

Put it inside a textarea, and don't break the textarea styling.

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

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Post by jeswin »

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…

If you're seeing many people building the same thing, it's probably because there's a need that you might have overlooked.

Here's one: people want to share formatted snippets on Twitter. They often post a link to the code below the pic, but being able to see it within the tweet is quite useful.

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

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Post by thomaspaulmann »

FunnyLookinHat wrote: post #70

Neat! This solves a problem for me with generating slides that include code snippets. I'm sure it helps with social media images and whatnot as well. It'd be great if you could also get a HTML snippet to embed into a site that would be a11y friendly!

a11y was mentioned a bunch of times and we’ll take a look into how do better support it.

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

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Post by whimsicalism »

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.

Just not a valid concern in 2021

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

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Post by xwdv »

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…

Just throw it in the alt text

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

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Post by alpaca128 »

f-word wrote: post #60
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

Name one social media/image hosting site that lets you set an alt attribute.

And when you actually have control over the content you can use some nice CSS to get the same look with a fraction of the size and 100% accessible.

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