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Lloydi

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Creator of #a11y tools/curator of a11y-tools.com • Author of some dusty old tech books • Principal Accessibility Specialist at TetraLogical • Also makes music • Once patted a quokka. 🎶 I made some music! 🔊 New KZ1 album: https://album.link/npxs4g3qvg902

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Lloydi @lloydi.com · 27d

Tired of faffing around cleaning up shoddy markup when carrying out accessibility assessments?

Not enough hours in the day to tinker with the many options in the HTML De-crapulator?

Then what you need is the '1-Click De-crapulator'!

a11y-tools.com/bookmarklets...

1-Click decrapulator dialog showing simplified markup, selected and ready for copy/paste

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Lloydi @lloydi.com · 5d

He always does this, and he never actually pays attention despite being asked on numerous occasions. I think you are speaking to a brick wall there, Stephanie.

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Lloydi @lloydi.com · 6d

It's also in The Big a11y-tools Bookmarklet Collection extension (chromewebstore.google.com/detail/a11y-...)

a11y-tools bookmarklets - Chrome Web Store

All the bookmarklets from a11y-tools.com wrapped up and organised in one place for your convenience

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Lloydi @lloydi.com · 6d

Also handy for adding extra cruft to pages for testing reflow/overflow issues etc

#a11y #accessibility #tooling #tools #webdev #testing

Lloydi @lloydi.com · 6d

Another little bookmarklet I put together for one specific aim: I wanted to duplicate an element on a page so that I could apply a focus style to it while having the default style next to it (for screenshot purposes):

👉 Node duplicator
a11y-tools.com/bookmarklets...

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Lloydi @lloydi.com · 6d

Shocking scenes from the CAN meetup last night ...

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Shocking scenes from the CAN meetup last night. Joe James, you should know better 🫢cc Amy Low CPACC FRSA Karl Goldstraw. Any suggestion that this may have been PhotoShopped by me is just scurrilous… |...

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Lloydi @lloydi.com · 7d

One other advantage is that whenever I update existing scripts or add new ones, if you have the extension you'll get the updates automatically.

So, please go give it a spin, let me know what you think.

#a11y #accessibility #tooling #tools #webdev #testing

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Lloydi @lloydi.com · 7d

But then, have you seen the 'design' of a11y-tools? Hardley stopped me there ...

So, I made an extension that has all of my bookmarklets in. It looks just exactly how I expected it would look, but it does the job!

chromewebstore.google.com/detail/a11y-...

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Lloydi @lloydi.com · 7d

I've been asked a number of times whether I would ever consider bundling all of my bookmarklets up into an extension. My response has largely been along the lines of "Well, I might, but my design 'skills' have been a blocker because I can't make it look anything other than slightly shit".

Lloydi @lloydi.com · 7d

I'll be heading off to a CAN (Champions of Accessibility Network) meet-up in London later today and while I usually post such things on a Friday, I'll break the rule here in case anyone who's attending wants to ask me about any of this later.

Screenshot of the a11y-tools extension in action

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Lloydi @lloydi.com · 7d

That's an odd name. I'd have called them "chazzwazzers"

Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 7d

what's the stupidest/randomest Simpsons quote that lives in your head rent free? Mine is the urge to say "you said go to bread" every time I am about to head to bed.

Lloydi @lloydi.com · 8d

See, I'm not making this up:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeCb...

Twiki-Speak

YouTube video by Chief Scheider

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Lloydi @lloydi.com · 8d

Reporting an accessibility issue and noted the hex value of a colour #bdbdbd. Unexpected flashback moment.

Twiki from Buck Rogers who used to say bee-dee-bee-dee-bee-dee

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Lloydi @lloydi.com · 8d

It confuses me no end. Give me an X. I know it means ‘close this thing’ and not ‘OK’, ‘approve’,’carry on’ or whatever

Lloydi @lloydi.com · 9d

Damn. I should have guessed! I definitely took it to mean the latter, but then again this is The Sun.

Lloydi @lloydi.com · 9d

Agree on all points. “JK Rowling and the Gobful of Ire” is a superb headline.

David Hughes @davidhughes.org · 9d

Like any right thinking human person I loathe The Sun, but they do have a way with their headlines on occasion.

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/976/cpsprodpb/90e7/live/676c1380-9d86-11f0-b741-177e3e2c2fc7.jpg.webp

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Lloydi @lloydi.com · 9d

David Very Cross. And deservedly so.

Lloydi @lloydi.com · 9d

I believe this is called a hyphenated compound modifier. I used to get into arguments with our marketing team at a company I used to work for because they always got this wrong. Their defence was that they weren’t chopping and changing, so at least they were consistently wrong.