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Re: Monodraw

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Post by Veuxdo »

Retr0id wrote: post #94
Veuxdo wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doesn't look like screen readers can read the text on these.

I believe you can treat it as if it were an image by putting it an element with attributes role="img" aria-label="description of the diagram goes here" https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/A...

The problem is, having to describe a diagram using text defeats the purpose of the diagram. Must better is to use diagrams that render as SVG, so screen readers can read them. [0]

[0] https://accessibility.princeton.edu/how/design/images-text

Re: Monodraw

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Post by josephcsible »

milen wrote: post #46
techn00 wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The code will be packaged up and sold by unscrupulous people who will not contribute back Choose a good license then

A license wouldn't stop the unscrupulous people, they'll keep making clones of it and ignoring the license. This means I have to start chasing any clones, engage legally and try to take them down. It's just not worth the time - I would rather spend the time on improving Monodraw instead.

If unscrupulous people are willing to ignore the license anyway, wouldn't they just hex edit to change the branding to sell clones even while it's closed source?

Re: Monodraw

#104

Post by ksherlock »

adamzerner wrote: post #89

Hm. I'm interested in hearing more about the specific scenarios where this sort of tool is useful. I skimmed through the HN comments and see that it can be used for adding diagrams to code comments. But what else? Slack, Jira, READMEs, SMS, Signal etc all allow you to include pngs.

You can use it for mocking up a text user interface.

Re: Monodraw

#105

Post by eichin »

adamzerner wrote: post #89

Hm. I'm interested in hearing more about the specific scenarios where this sort of tool is useful. I skimmed through the HN comments and see that it can be used for adding diagrams to code comments. But what else? Slack, Jira, READMEs, SMS, Signal etc all allow you to include pngs.

What do you mean by READMEs here? Markdown readmes support embedding images from external files, which isn't really useful if you're looking at the readme directly (or do you use data: uris there? Last I looked they had too-severe length limits.)

(I'm also curious what you mean by SMS, or are you conflating it with RCS?)

Re: Monodraw

#109

Post by coffeemug »

Amazing tool, thank you for building this. One piece of feedback: let me pay you without having to fill out a 20 field form. I would have happily bought a license through PayPal, but having to enter all the info really makes me want to press the back button.
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