Re: [racket-users] Re: RacketCon 2018 Website

2018-04-25 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Side comment, for students... One way to do this kind of distributed hypertext Web page (for now; Tim Berners-Lee is giving a relevant big talk at MIT next week) is to start with an mid-1990s declarative model for all the content of the page (with minimal tweaks for HTML5), then do the CSS in t

Re: [racket-users] Re: RacketCon 2018 Website

2018-04-25 Thread Leif Andersen
Okay, Jay just merged my commit that makes the ascii art work with screen readers. I still don't know if search engines will be able to pick it up (I doubt it though), and its still hard to see when using screen magnifiers. I think if we either used a different font, or slightly increased the space

Re: [racket-users] Re: RacketCon 2018 Website

2018-04-20 Thread Jay McCarthy
On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 1:07 AM, Greg Hendershott wrote: > 0. Another consideration with the ASCII art font is that it won't get > indexed by search engines. This doesn't matter so much for the first > three, since the same info is in the page . But it means > searching for "Kent Dybvig" won't tur

Re: [racket-users] Re: RacketCon 2018 Website

2018-04-20 Thread Greg Hendershott
0. Another consideration with the ASCII art font is that it won't get indexed by search engines. This doesn't matter so much for the first three, since the same info is in the page . But it means searching for "Kent Dybvig" won't turn up this page. 1. The "organizers" href is "http://mailto:jay.mc

Re: [racket-users] Re: RacketCon 2018 Website

2018-04-20 Thread Neil Van Dyke
RacketCon visual design increasingly reflects the avant-garde nature of Racket.  In this piece (Digital, Visual-Textual, 2018), zooming out reveals the reference and elaboration of DrRacket Contour and Large Letters, challenging the viewer to question normative views of existential questions of

[racket-users] Re: RacketCon 2018 Website

2018-04-20 Thread HiPhish
Yeah, those fancy things are an accessibility nightmare. When I zoom in in FireFox the line breaks are fine, but between 110% and 200% zoom factor the text actually gets smaller when zooming in, and beyond 200% it gets larger again. As for screen readers, I am no ARIA expert, but from what I (t