@aardrian I tried Substack as I'm not familiar with any of the blogging platforms I need to experiment with them. If I can garner enough interest I may set up cheap hosting and set up Worpress. Thanks for the tips.
One day I may become a talented prolific writer of articles like you 🙂
https://laurencetalksaccessibility.substack.com/p/the-first-rule-of-aria-is-broken
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","url":"https://toot.community/users/LRL/statuses/111961704858062875","date_published":"2024-02-20T03:33:57+00:00","author":{"name":"Laurence Lewis","url":"https://toot.community/@LRL","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.toot.community%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F292%2F604%2F516%2F171%2F540%2Foriginal%2F103195423b840b71.png","_microblog":{"username":"LRL@toot.community"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-02-20 03:33","date_timestamp":1708400037,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"30430606","content_html":"@yatil With Level Access’ acquisition of UserWay, and Mike Paciello moving to AudioEye, both with considerable reputations in the accessibility field, I am trying to be open minded to a better approach than is historically true for overlay companies. However, I completely understand your scepticism.
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","url":"https://toot.community/users/LRL/statuses/111855027754280072","date_published":"2024-02-01T07:24:34+00:00","author":{"name":"Laurence Lewis","url":"https://toot.community/@LRL","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.toot.community%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F292%2F604%2F516%2F171%2F540%2Foriginal%2F103195423b840b71.png","_microblog":{"username":"LRL@toot.community"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-02-01 07:24","date_timestamp":1706772274,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"30210144","content_html":"@aardrian Seem like a sensible order of precedence to me. Unfortunately I continue to find aria-labels everywhere, more often than not, duplicating the visible text. (Holds head in despair).
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","url":"https://toot.community/users/LRL/statuses/110619269255788691","date_published":"2023-06-28T01:34:55+00:00","author":{"name":"Laurence Lewis","url":"https://toot.community/@LRL","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.toot.community%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F292%2F604%2F516%2F171%2F540%2Foriginal%2F103195423b840b71.png","_microblog":{"username":"LRL@toot.community"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2023-06-28 01:34","date_timestamp":1687916095,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"20288729","content_html":"@aardrian I get the same results as you using Firefox 114.2.0 on a Samsung S10 running Android 12. The datalist is not exposed at ant time with and without running TalkBack.
","url":"https://toot.community/users/LRL/statuses/110619203126169086","date_published":"2023-06-28T01:18:06+00:00","author":{"name":"Laurence Lewis","url":"https://toot.community/@LRL","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.toot.community%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F292%2F604%2F516%2F171%2F540%2Foriginal%2F103195423b840b71.png","_microblog":{"username":"LRL@toot.community"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2023-06-28 01:18","date_timestamp":1687915086,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"16663631","content_html":"@SteveFaulkner I was thinking of this Github issue when I wrote the original response. Comment by joanmarie \"Just out of curiosity, how important is it to explicitly announce the popup type? If a user is on something with a popup, and activates that popup and winds up in a grid, will the user be completely confused if the screen reader failed to notify them in advance that a grid would appear?\" https://github.com/w3c/aria/issues/1024
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