For the love of all that is holy, can you all please start using `` for navigation and `` for actions, not the other way around?
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Marijke Luttekesreplied to Carlton Gibson 🇪🇺 last edited by
@carlton Fine.
Marijke Luttekes (@[email protected])
@[email protected] Sad code makes me sad. We need to educate people better. I guess Carlton was right; we need a blog post. Fine, I'll write one. 🤦🏻♀️
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Marijke Luttekesreplied to Marijke Luttekes last edited by
Well, this gained traction. Guess I am writing that blog post.
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@mahryekuh
This so much!
Also I honestly thought you were going to say
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Veronica Olsen 🏳️🌈🇳🇴🌻replied to Marijke Luttekes last edited by
@mahryekuh The internet has gotten so annoying the last decade that I've stopped using most of it.
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Marijke Luttekesreplied to Veronica Olsen 🏳️🌈🇳🇴🌻 last edited by
@veronica Can't blame you.
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@welshtroll Haha, now I wonder how one would turn the internet around.
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@carlton This is one of those accessibility 101 things that's been written about tens of thousands of times. As much as I enjoy Marijke's writing, the accessibility community has a problem if it needs individual developers to keep regurgitating the basics again and again. I see some discoverability parallels with the content in your latest newsletter here... @mahryekuh
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@jscholes @carlton Yeah, hard agree, James.
I also don't have as much reach or expert knowledge as the "big names" out there, but I'll do what I can.
Not gonna lie; I don't like writing this article, though. It's not my best work and it's actual effort. But if you want to slap someone with some rules, you better have them written down somewhere. 🥲
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Marijke Luttekesreplied to Marijke Luttekes last edited by
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Marijke Luttekesreplied to Marijke Luttekes last edited by
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@mahryekuh @welshtroll with revolution
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@mahryekuh I guess I don't agree that your name absolutely must be on something just because you're the one "slapping down" some rules or suggestions. You didn't want to write it, and someone else already did. But I'm not a blogger... shrug.
Links, Buttons, Submits, and Divs, Oh Hell
Screen shot of the Zurb Foundation advice for accessible buttons, where it shows anchors and a div each with role=”button”. In short, a perfect example of everything you could do wrong. NOTE: This was version 5.5.3. Most of this is fixed in the current version as of this writing (6.1.2).…
Adrian Roselli (adrianroselli.com)
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Carlton Gibson 🇪🇺replied to Marijke Luttekes last edited by
@mahryekuh @jscholes there are many Django tutorials. Always room for one more. Likewise here I’d imagine.
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Dan Fixes Coin-Opsreplied to Marijke Luttekes last edited by
@mahryekuh I for one would honestly appreciate a blog post because this is the first time I've ever heard of <button>
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@mahryekuh Also, just to be explicit:
Having worked with you, it's a joy to meet a developer with such a positive accessibility focus, who brings so much willingness to learn to the table. I don't want to discourage knowledge sharing, but people who take too much responsibility on their shoulders provide a constant story of burnout in the accessibility space. @carlton
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Alkaris :verified_trans: :verified:replied to Marijke Luttekes last edited by
@mahryekuh just having `target="_blank"` in `<a>` so they open in new tabs when clicked is so much nicer.
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Marijke Luttekesreplied to Alkaris :verified_trans: :verified: last edited by [email protected]
@Alkaris Thank you for this segway!
Using `target="_blank"` is discouraged for accessibility reasons, as it removes a user's choice to open a page in the current or new tab.
That being said, you can probably make this behavior toggle-able with JavaScript and allow a user to set this is a setting.
