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Re: The easiest way to keep your web apps accessible: Just use text

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Post by lucideer » Wed, Aug 15, 2018, 2:47 PM UTC

Bluecobra wrote: post #7

Also please don't use bad fonts. Someone posted the following article the other day and the font drove me so nuts that I had to resort editing the CSS code to make it readable. https://blog.bugsnag.com/bug-day-race-condition-therac-25/ I really wish "reading mode" was a prominent feature in desktop browsers.

> I really wish "reading mode" was a prominent feature in desktop browsers.

What do you mean here by "prominent"?

Re: The easiest way to keep your web apps accessible: Just use text

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Post by 3pt14159 » Wed, Aug 15, 2018, 2:51 PM UTC

Bluecobra wrote: post #7

Also please don't use bad fonts. Someone posted the following article the other day and the font drove me so nuts that I had to resort editing the CSS code to make it readable. https://blog.bugsnag.com/bug-day-race-condition-therac-25/ I really wish "reading mode" was a prominent feature in desktop browsers.

Uhh, it's part of Safari?

Re: The easiest way to keep your web apps accessible: Just use text

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Post by ken » Wed, Aug 15, 2018, 2:57 PM UTC

Bluecobra wrote: post #7

Also please don't use bad fonts. Someone posted the following article the other day and the font drove me so nuts that I had to resort editing the CSS code to make it readable. https://blog.bugsnag.com/bug-day-race-condition-therac-25/ I really wish "reading mode" was a prominent feature in desktop browsers.

It's a button in the title bar in Firefox and Safari. I haven't used it but Edge seems to also have a reader mode.

By "desktop browsers", do you just mean Chrome?

Re: The easiest way to keep your web apps accessible: Just use text

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Post by pc86 » Wed, Aug 15, 2018, 2:58 PM UTC

romanovcode wrote: post #10

another-cuppa wrote: post #3

Posted on Medium with a massive pointless image at the top and page loaded asynchronously using JS.

The whole post is a preface to an ad. What did you expect.

s/"The whole"/"Every Medium"/g

Re: The easiest way to keep your web apps accessible: Just use text

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Post by camnora » Wed, Aug 15, 2018, 3:00 PM UTC

The founder of the Tachyons css framework has some very similar ideas on his blog. Well worth the dive - http://mrmrs.cc/writing/

Re: The easiest way to keep your web apps accessible: Just use text

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Post by m_t » Wed, Aug 15, 2018, 3:02 PM UTC

Bluecobra wrote: post #7

Also please don't use bad fonts. Someone posted the following article the other day and the font drove me so nuts that I had to resort editing the CSS code to make it readable. https://blog.bugsnag.com/bug-day-race-condition-therac-25/ I really wish "reading mode" was a prominent feature in desktop browsers.

It's a simple sans serif font, what's so bad about it?

Re: The easiest way to keep your web apps accessible: Just use text

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Post by enedil » Wed, Aug 15, 2018, 3:03 PM UTC

Bluecobra wrote: post #7

Also please don't use bad fonts. Someone posted the following article the other day and the font drove me so nuts that I had to resort editing the CSS code to make it readable. https://blog.bugsnag.com/bug-day-race-condition-therac-25/ I really wish "reading mode" was a prominent feature in desktop browsers.

Don't you have Firefox?

Re: The easiest way to keep your web apps accessible: Just use text

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Post by interactivecode » Wed, Aug 15, 2018, 3:05 PM UTC

Bluecobra wrote: post #7

Also please don't use bad fonts. Someone posted the following article the other day and the font drove me so nuts that I had to resort editing the CSS code to make it readable. https://blog.bugsnag.com/bug-day-race-condition-therac-25/ I really wish "reading mode" was a prominent feature in desktop browsers.

it's pretty prominent in a lot of browsers, like firefox and safari (from the top of my head)

Re: The easiest way to keep your web apps accessible: Just use text

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Post by digi_owl » Wed, Aug 15, 2018, 3:08 PM UTC

interactivecode wrote: post #18

Bluecobra wrote: post #7

Also please don't use bad fonts. Someone posted the following article the other day and the font drove me so nuts that I had to resort editing the CSS code to make it readable. https://blog.bugsnag.com/bug-day-race-condition-therac-25/ I really wish "reading mode" was a prominent feature in desktop browsers.

it's pretty prominent in a lot of browsers, like firefox and safari (from the top of my head)

Dunno about Safari, but at least for me the Firefox one lacked two features:

An official keyboard shortcut for going to reader mode.

The option of having the browser send all articles to reader mode when detected as possible.

Re: The easiest way to keep your web apps accessible: Just use text

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Post by deadalus » Wed, Aug 15, 2018, 3:14 PM UTC

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