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

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

I didn't know Medium did "white label" blogs on non-medium.com domains, but that's what this is.

The irony is that people go to medium because it's kind of .. expected somehow? And looks more authoritative?

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

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post #16

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?

Not the OP, but I see what they mean - it's just a bit too heavy, so all the round letters tend to blur together or something.

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

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post #21

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

I didn't know Medium did "white label" blogs on non-medium.com domains, but that's what this is. The irony is that people go to medium because it's kind of .. expected somehow? And looks more authoritative?

People use Medium because it's the easiest way to write some plain text and have what you wrote look decent in the browser. That's all it comes down to.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Alt+V+R goes into Reader mode on my FF (without any extensions for that).

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

F9? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts-perf...

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

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post #21

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

I didn't know Medium did "white label" blogs on non-medium.com domains, but that's what this is. The irony is that people go to medium because it's kind of .. expected somehow? And looks more authoritative?

You could use a custom domain with Medium to get the UI with your blog

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

#30

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"?

I wish I could set reader mode as the default experience. Then, I’d click on something to load the full experience when I know/think it’s needed (and perhaps have my browser remember that choice).

Currently, I can only enable reader mode after my browser has loaded all the shit I don’t want loaded.

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