Do you know what's not accessible?
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Do you know what's not accessible? Writing "a11y" in any article or documentation
I will accept it as a convenience in APIs since developers are lazy and can't spell, but fuck off with using it in text
A8y! I c8y a3e!
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@lpbkdotnet @jtruk Wikipedia believes that i18n was coined in the 70s and is DEC's fault. Since humans read word-at-a-time by shape, I consider them all to be instances of "I am too lazy to type and therefore you will have to work harder to read"
@jonathanhogg @lpbkdotnet @jtruk But it helps sometimes: try to go a interoperability meeting and you'll see why saying "i14y" is much more pratical.
Whatever the case, in my texts I always put an abbreviation with the expanded term right in the beginning. If it's seldom used, I only write the expanded form.
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@CatherineFlick @jonathanhogg me too! I’m glad I’m not the only one
@themediumkahuna Oh, does it not? Even knowing it references accessibility, I still assumed it was to be read as "ally."
I hereby declare its use even dumber than I thought.
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Do you know what's not accessible? Writing "a11y" in any article or documentation
I will accept it as a convenience in APIs since developers are lazy and can't spell, but fuck off with using it in text
"But it looks like ally, it's great"
Fuck you Jean-Eude. People should not do gatekeeping for something that important.
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@themediumkahuna Oh, does it not? Even knowing it references accessibility, I still assumed it was to be read as "ally."
I hereby declare its use even dumber than I thought.
@CatherineFlick @jonathanhogg@themediumkahuna
'xsablt' would even make more sense...
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Do you know what's not accessible? Writing "a11y" in any article or documentation
I will accept it as a convenience in APIs since developers are lazy and can't spell, but fuck off with using it in text
@jonathanhogg someone wrote a brilliant post about that:
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Do you know what's not accessible? Writing "a11y" in any article or documentation
I will accept it as a convenience in APIs since developers are lazy and can't spell, but fuck off with using it in text
@jonathanhogg never once have I heard "a11y," and I've been doing this nonsense for a long time. I venture that anyone who uses it in a serious way and expects others to understand is a pretentious wanker trying to convince themselves that they're intelligent.
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Do you know what's not accessible? Writing "a11y" in any article or documentation
I will accept it as a convenience in APIs since developers are lazy and can't spell, but fuck off with using it in text
@jonathanhogg at the very minimum, you'd want to do this before publishing:
sed -e 's/a11y/accessibility/g' mydocument
Yes, i will explain this if anyone doesn't speak
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Do you know what's not accessible? Writing "a11y" in any article or documentation
I will accept it as a convenience in APIs since developers are lazy and can't spell, but fuck off with using it in text
Final note on this: I’m not gonna name and shame the thing I was reading, but maybe if you want to convince me how great an idea is for accessibility on the web, you could try using proper words that I can actually read
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Final note on this: I’m not gonna name and shame the thing I was reading, but maybe if you want to convince me how great an idea is for accessibility on the web, you could try using proper words that I can actually read
@jonathanhogg love to be able to read stuff and understand it on the first go without needing to look up information.
No wonder agentic coding is so popular...
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@matt I didn't say it was often. It's just more often than finding real serious bugs. It's mostly things like, "it assumed I wanted to keep backward compatibility with an old API endpoint, even though there are no consumers of the old API and killing old code is actually a benefit".
I'm not convinced it's writing more bugs than I would have written in the same amount of code or that my bugs are more likely to be caught in review. I don't write 100% test coverage for any of my projects...
