I was listening to the latest Debug podcast, which was talking about Swift. There were a number of interesting technical bits in there, but they made a detour into accessibility, and there were several eye-opening things for me when they talked about that.
The first was thinking of accessibility a little differently; thinking of it as just "inclusiveness". And one of the guests, Ms Natalia Berdys, after bringing that up, also brought up an pretty amazing Vimeo video by Robin Christopherson, that showed a lot of what Apple's accessibility enabled.
I'd heard of adding accessibility before, of course, but never thought a whole lot about it. It was just incredible to see how it all worked, and how fast he could manipulate his iPhone, despite being blind.
It's fairly lengthy, but even the first ten minutes is enough to give you quite a feel for how it works.
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20140603
Debugging Vesper
I've listened to the last couple of Debug podcasts, and the latest involves Vesper (an iOS note-taking app, if you haven't heard of it).
There's a lot in there about sync, which is what they've been working on for the last couple of months. One thing that didn't get mentioned, is why they decided to announce that they were working on sync. Gruber mentioned a couple things (on The Talk Show, I think) about why, but a couple of podcasts (reinforced by this one) have led me to think that the real reason is that Bret wanted to blog about the process, and he couldn't do that if it hadn't been announced.
But the thing driving me to write this is that they came across one of my major irritations with a lot of online sites.
The whole point of asking for the password twice is as a sanity check (so you don't make the same typo twice, basically), because the user can't see the data being entered. If the user can see the data, then asking for it twice is just asking for the user to make a mistake. So if your site is asking for the email address twice (and I can't count how many times I've seen this done), don't do that! You're not providing additional security, and you're probably annoying the user.
There's a lot in there about sync, which is what they've been working on for the last couple of months. One thing that didn't get mentioned, is why they decided to announce that they were working on sync. Gruber mentioned a couple things (on The Talk Show, I think) about why, but a couple of podcasts (reinforced by this one) have led me to think that the real reason is that Bret wanted to blog about the process, and he couldn't do that if it hadn't been announced.
But the thing driving me to write this is that they came across one of my major irritations with a lot of online sites.
The whole point of asking for the password twice is as a sanity check (so you don't make the same typo twice, basically), because the user can't see the data being entered. If the user can see the data, then asking for it twice is just asking for the user to make a mistake. So if your site is asking for the email address twice (and I can't count how many times I've seen this done), don't do that! You're not providing additional security, and you're probably annoying the user.
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