#readability

#Web #usability and #accessibility ...

This is from crimethinc.com, but I'm not trying to pick particularly on them. There are many, many, many sites just as bad or worse.

This is a screenshot from an article on their site today, rendered in Firefox (Linux).

See the hair-thin font? See the fact that it's light grey on a white background? There's virtually no contrast between the text and the background.

This is an accessibility nightmare for those with any sort of vision problem. Picking the colour out of the screenshot (I didn't look at the CSS), it appears the text is basically 45% grey. This is ludicrous.

If the font face had some heft, it might be still be half-assed readable with contrast this low.

But as is... If I were to take my contacts out, I wouldn't even be able to tell that this screenshot *had* any of the normal-sized text in it, much less be able to read any of it.

Web designers, I beg you: please consider more than the appearance of what you're creating when you're making design choices.

Remember that not everyone is a 20- or 30-something with near-perfect vision.

Remember that people have cataracts or other types of eye cloudiness which necessitate high-contrast text to be able to read, even if they scale the fonts up by a huge amount.

Remember that vision degrades naturally in people in many ways other than "just wear glasses" can fix.

#WebDesign #WebDesigner #web #design #font #contrast #vision #eye #readability #legibility #unreadable

#readability
https://susam.net/elliptical-python-programming.html

AI -

Stop copy pasting #AI answers. Use tools like #Grammarly or #Hemingway to fine tune tone, flow, and #readability post generation.

Two years ago at #CSUN I learned about what became my favorite browser extension, BeeLine Reader. I've been a subscriber ever since.

It's easy to set up on desktop, but has been some struggle to get working on Android. But this week I discovered it works with Microsoft's Edge Canary mobile browser, which has experimental support for extensions. Instructions are here: https://u.osu.edu/keck.60/2023/03/26/beeline-reader-android

#AndroidAccessibility #Accessibility #Readability #Legibility

Master Python variable naming for cleaner, more readable code. Learn strategies for choosing informative yet concise names. Improve code maintainability & reduce the need for comments. #Python #VariableNaming #CleanCode #Programming #Readability #CodingConventions
https://tech-champion.com/programming/effective-python-variable-naming-conventions-for-readable-code

SOLID: Low Coupling против читабельности

Я могу назвать себя адептом чистого кода, чистой архитектуры, SOLID и всего, что с этим связано. И когда я начал работать - я приносил эти знания в команды. Но чем дольше я работал, тем чаще я стал замечать, что SOLID начинает мешать читабельности. И тогда я пришёл к осознанию того, о чем написал в этой статье. В ней вы увидите пример небольшого куска программы, который полностью соответствует SOLID. Узнаете, какую цель преследует SOLID и в чем он хорош. А так же его связь с производительностью и читабельностью

https://habr.com/ru/articles/871412/

#solid #readability #читабельность_кода #архитектура #структура_программы

@ai6yr nodds in agreement whereas the "akshual coding" is "relatively simple" if one doesn't mind #readability, #maintainability or using understandable variablr names...

#Testing and having #ReproduceableBuilds as well as #Documentation (even just #comments in #code!) Is way more important, cuz that'll make it maintainable!

Testing can be automated if one builds and documebts the tests that is...

So yeah, one does not remove or automate away these things easily, cuz even the best #autogenerated documentation needs #proofreading and testing for correctness and completeness!!!

"#AI" can't do this because those #LLM|s don't learn organically but merely act as "#StochasticParrot" and not as intelligent beings that is able or even willing to transfer * exchange information freely...

#font "Atkinson Hyperlegible" https://www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont/
"Our font, Atkinson Hyperlegible was carefully developed by the Braille Institute to help low-vision readers. It improves #legibility and #readability through clear, and distinctive letters and numbers." #typography
[via "Neue Narrative"-Heft 18 zum Thema "Sprache", https://shop.neuenarrative.de/einzelhefte/sprache-digital/]

What #reading #level do you consider suitable for #questions on a #DWP #form?
I checked #readability with Gunning-Fog, Flesch-Kincaid, SMOG, and Coleman-Liau.
#Benefits #Work #ESA #Capability #disability #language #comprehension #jobs #jobcentre #Government #intelligence #educaton #doctorate #graduate #degree #university #technical #taxable #citizensadvice #disabilityrights #health #mentalhealth #costofliving #poverty

Another thing I'm wondering about is the manual creation of hashtags. If we had an automatic classification of posts based on its text, wouldn't it make the life of the person creating a post and the readability easier?

#hashtags #SocialMedia #Automation #readability #creativity

P. S. I think it took me almost the same time to share the main thought of this post as the time I needed to think about what hashtags to use.

There have been a lot of #fonts designed for #accessibility purposes but this one is by the braille institute and looks interesting: https://www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont/

#a11y #readability

@SecureOwl

The easy fix was to turn the monitor upside down.

#Orientation #Readability

#readability #symbols #learning Today I learned that goats are really good at learning and remembering symbols. Professor Jan Langbein trained goats to use symbols to get water, an found that they can remember sets, and which symbols in these sets lead to water, for as long as seven weeks. Screenshots from Dutch doc series NTR Focus (mostly English and German spoken): https://ntr.nl/Focus/287/detail/Animal-Farm/VPWON_1353493

Always type #HashTags in #PascalCase for maximum #Readability

You know the Alot monster. I’ve been seeing a lot (heh) of its cousin, the Apart monster, who I think is even scarier.

For example “I want to be apart of the group” sounds like it means the opposite i’.e. separate from.

#grammar #literacy #readability

When I #AmEditing #Physician-#Researchers' #manuscripts before they #submit them to #MedicalJournals, I'm watching for 1,000,001 issues—#science, #grammar, #readability, & others. One: whether authors have provided full terms for all #abbreviations they use. Boosts #readability.

TIL "#Inclusive Sans is a text font designed for #accessibility and #readability."
https://www.oliviaking.com/inclusive-sans #a11y #fonts

When I #AmEditing #Physician-#Researchers' #manuscripts before they #submit them to #MedicalJournals, I'm watching for 1,000,001 #scientific, #grammatical, #readability, & other issues. One is whether authors spell #surgical equipment #brand #names & #manufacturer names right. Boosts #credibility.

Thanks for reading about my first foray into making #tactile labels for better product/device/appliance accessibility!

#UI
#UIX
#design
#productDesign
#UIdesign
#readability
#visibility
#tactility
#usability
#accessibility
#Braille

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Remember, the point here (there is a point to all this, yes!) is to improve my accessibility with a washer and dryer interface, not throw me into an endless loop of quirkly language-oriented obsessions!

#washer
#dryer
#laundry
#accessibility
#readability
#tactility
#UI
#UIX

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