Post #1175543

2024-12-02 20:33 UTC

New blog post out (finally) ✨ I tested the dataviz accessibility of the 2024 presidential election dashboards, and (as expected) found a lot of issues to write about: https://fossheim.io/writing/posts/2024-dataviz-a11y-elections/ #dataviz #accessibility

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@fossheim@front-end.social 2024-12-02 20:44

Also added functionality to let me publish posts either from Sanity or from local markdown files. Completely useless functionality, but I was wondering if it was hard to implement, and the answer is it's not :blobcatuwu:

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@fossheim@front-end.social 2024-12-02 21:27

I'm not the only one finding a lot of issues. When running axe devtools (a free tool any developer can use!), 870 automatic issues were detected on the Fox News dashboard :blobcatfearful: A quick google search tells me Fox News made $15 billion in 2024. Weird that with that amount of revenue they didn't have the resources to run a free tool and add alt text to their icon buttons.

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@frankelavsky@vis.social 2024-12-03 17:38

@fossheim@front-end.social Sarah... I am completely blown away by how good this is. This is incredibly well done, informative, demonstrative, and helpful. This is a monumentally good piece.

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@pesh@mastodon.social 2024-12-03 20:33

@fossheim@front-end.social This is great, and closely matches my experience working on another one of these that wasn’t part of your evaluation.

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@paul@social.van.buu.re 2024-12-04 06:50

@fossheim@front-end.social wow. What a great piece of work. 👏👏👏

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