Raindrop.io Bookmarks 03/06/2021

2021年3月6日 著

• A 70's legendary Japanese HPA "STORK-B" will be came back again as a permanent exhibition in a new museum! | Japanese HPA

  "The today's world of human-powered flight have been discouraged by COVID-19 pandemic condition. The news of STORK-B returning to display is a valuable topic for us and can encourage us until future days to come."

• World Wide Waste - Gerry McGovern

  "Up to 90% of digital data is not used. We collect. We store. We create and then don't use. Data is the atomic structure of digital. Words, music, images, films, videos, software. It all ends up as data. Most data is like single use, throwaway plastic. What sort of society accepts 90% waste?"

• Should I Use An Accessibility Overlay?

  "The answer is simple: People who are disabled want to be treated equally, so they expect you to design and build your website with inclusion and accessibility in mind and not to throw a band-aid on it."

• Inaccessibility Warnings in the Browser anyone? - Accessabilly

  "At least I'm pretty sure that accessibility issues on websites must be public to all. And the browser would be a great place to do so."

• How to Use & Integrate APIs: Beginners Guide [w/ Tutorial] - Snipcart

  "When you learn how to use an API, you're able to use services that would otherwise take you a long time to code yourself. You can add a robust search to your site with Algolia's API or a complete shopping experience with Snipcart."

• Chrome is Testing a Follow Button for Websites - WordPress Tavern

  "Chrome Story speculates that it may be integrated with Google's Discover feature, allowing sites to be easily added to that feed. Others speculated more broadly that Google may be building a replacement for Google Reader."

• CSS { In Real Life } | Debugging Media Queries: A Dev Tools Wish List

  "Rather than having to test our sites by repeatedly switching our settings at a system level, it would be great if browser dev tools had the ability to toggle various user preferences on and off. Firefox recently added a dark mode toggle to their dev tools."

Re: Industry wake up call: the future of web accessibility

2021年3月6日 著

I recognize that @accessibe account is actively spreading Accessibe's marketing message to web accessibility community on Twitter recently. They sent their blog post titled "Industry wake up call: the future of web accessibility" even to me ... I've just shared very nice article "Free Feedback for #accessiBe" by @aardrian, though.

Let me be clear about my position: I think no one should use an accessibility overlay. Please don't get me wrong, I think AI technologies are useful. If such technologies are usable for improving accessibility, that's simply great. But ... every information is inseparable from its context, and the technologies are not great enough yet to provide proper acceesibility based on the context (in my observation, at least).

Anyhow, I would like to comment on Accessibe's blog post for the record, briefly.

Yes, in an ideal world every business could and should prioritize accessibility, afford accessibility, think about accessibility, and have the privilege to care about accessibility as much as they do about sales and marketing. This is a beautiful idea, and we hope someday to get there, but in practice, it just doesn't happen.

Even if Accessibe thinks so, I never agree and would like to keep on working hard to make it happen, since I love the beautiful idea. I believe there are many accessibility specialists like me in the world, and I would like to work with them to change the web, to change the world, till the day comes.

Raindrop.io Bookmarks 03/05/2021

2021年3月5日 著

• Five Positive Design Trends Informed by Crisis and Change | UX Magazine

  "While the gravity of the global pandemic continues to weigh on us all, it has brought with it a certain amount of clarity. This crisis, along with the Black Lives Matter movement and the ongoing fight against climate change, has given rise to some markers for positive changes."

• The Future of CSS: Scroll-Linked Animations with @scroll-timeline (Part 2) - Bram.us

  "In the first part of this series we covered how to create Scroll-Linked Animations between two absolute scroll-offsets using the @scroll-timeline at-rule and animation-timeline CSS property."

• Chromium Blog: Speeding up Chrome's release cycle

  "we are excited to announce that Chrome is planning to move to releasing a new milestone every 4 weeks, starting with Chrome 94 in Q3 of 2021."

• Why I blocked #AccessiBe - Robert Kingett

  "Sure, websites may not be accessible now, but education is better than dealing with JavaScript that just slaps accessibility on everything as an expensive afterthought."

• NASA Awards Mars Ascent Propulsion System Contract for Sample Return | NASA

  "NASA has awarded the Mars Ascent Propulsion System (MAPS) contract to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation of Elkton, Maryland, to provide propulsion support and products for spaceflight missions at the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama."

• Stop Using Icon Fonts by Michael Irigoyen

  "icon fonts on the web were fundamentally flawed from the beginning. And now, with full SVG support at our disposal, it's time to put a stop to their use, once and for all."

Starship SN10の着陸に感動

2021年3月5日 著

タイムリーに昨日のうちに覚え書きできなかった......日本時間的には3月4日の朝のことですが、SpaceXのStarship SN10が打ち上げられ、高度10kmから垂直着陸に成功......の後に、爆発四散しました。どこぞのメディアは失敗したと印象づけたくて仕方ないような見出しの記事を公開してたりするけど、とんでもない！！確かにオチは予想外でしたが、その素晴らしい着陸には感動しました。

当初、新宿駅のホーム上か、そこから会社に向かって歩きながら打上げの模様を見ることになるかなぁと思っていたのですけど、なかなか上がらず。途中、立ち寄ったマクドナルドでコーヒー飲みながら中継に見入るも、やっぱり上がらない。今日はもう無理かな〜なんて思って、会社に着いて自分の机で仕事始めの準備をしてるうち、気がついたら上がっていたという。

3度目の正直で成功して良かったねぇ、と思ったのも束の間。爆発した絵がTwitterのTLに流れてきて、最初はコラ？っていうか誰かの悪戯、冗談かと思いましたわ。でまぁ実際に爆発したと知って唖然とするという流れ。マジ最高すぎるでしょ......さっさと次、SN11を飛ばしましょうよ、よろしくお願いいたします。