Neocities.org
would people like if I made updates when new sites are added to the directory? note: this is directed towards people who will be using the directory to find indie websites
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Set up an RSS feed! https://accessiblenet.neocities.org/feed.xml I'll try to post updates here too but you'll see them more reliably in the feed most likely, so I'd recommend subscribing!
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does anyone have resources for dark/light mode toggles? I have a theme switcher in my resources but I'm looking specifically just to toggle between light and dark mode
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justfluffingaround
8 months ago
Lost letters on neocities just put this in a comment on their profile: https://derekkedziora.com/blog/dark-mode-revisited
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hiii I'm the admin for accessible net! if you have any questions or comments I'll try to get to them here!
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justfluffingaround
8 months ago
Here are 2 accessibility things I've learned over the years: Max line length for reading should be 55 to 66 characters including spaces. 2) Large blocks of text are hard to read for many disabilities and general readers, good rule of thumb is 4-6 lines or 4-5 sentences long to give eyes reading breaks.
justfluffingaround
8 months ago
Hyperlinks should always describe what they are clicking since screen readers often jump to links to navigate the page. Instead the link saying something like "click here" it should describe where the link is going like the title of the article or webpage or the purpose of the link like "how to code my accessible layout here".
justfluffingaround
8 months ago
Using bolds and italics sparingly is indeed good to avoid eyestrain or migraines for readers, but using headings or bolds before different sections of your articles/posts can be helpful for navigation of screen readers (they can jump to html eadings just like they can links), scan reading, and breaking up the paragraphs in described chunks.
pinkvampyr
8 months ago
Thank you! Most of these are things I knew but totally forgot to add π typical me
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hearing people actually putting effort into accessibility bc of accessnet has me tearing up like!! that's so lovely!!
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justfluffingaround
8 months ago
Next task on my to do list after I finish my links/resources page is coding a button to pause gifs/animations!
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btw I'm working on reuploading all the yesterlinks stuff to my own bookmarks page. right now you can only find it on archive dot org so I figure if anyone still wanted those resources handy I'd nab em.
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punkwasp
8 months ago
the source code for yesterlinks is also still available on github! https://github.com/sadgrlonline/yesterlinks so if anyone wants to they could potentially download it and fiddle around with it themselves, it looks like all the data is still there
pinkvampyr
8 months ago
@punkwasp yeah I thought about doing that but it involves JavaScript and bleh. I'm just using owls script. but if anyone else wants to do that it'd be awesome!
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ok i made a profile on neocities for accessnet, so if you have any questions you can drop them there! https://neocities.org/site/accessiblenet
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hey I wanted to check out your site but the scanlines effect kinda makes it hard to look at π
maybe if there was an option to turn it off?
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bluesnmoons
8 months ago
sry about that! I'm planning on adding a button to turn off animations on the index page but I haven't gotten to that yet,,,
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yeah! :3
Sure.
Yes please!
YES PLS