"good-idea goldmine" and sometimes "unnecessary but very kind" @bas@iosdev.space
Joined June 2011
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When something is important, it mean a whole lot. Make sure your friends know how important dey are to you, just like beautiful cookie.
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Me have extra hugs to give out. @OscarTheGrouch said to give dem to other friends. Do any of you want hug?
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I posted on LinkedIn this morning about still being open to a salaried role in a newsroom someplace. At the risk of being immodest, I think I’ve earned my stripes after almost a decade and think you should hire me to report on disability in tech.
linkedin.com/posts/steven-aq…
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This ought to be something to cheer, but it’s so bizarrely bad with VoiceOver. iOS components come baked with so much accessibility support out of the box – it takes *effort* to make something this opaque. Why? To save some money? The V in MVP should include “usable by everyone.”
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One of the reasons I love working in #a11y is that it's SO deeply multifaceted. #Accessibility is about:
🎨 Design
👩🏻💻 Engineering
💁🏽 UX
🎁 Product
…and most importantly…
👯 People
I may not be good at all these things, but the chance to think about them all daily is a gift!
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We’re looking for an experienced iOS developer to join my team at @PSPDFKit. Nice place to work. Fully remote by design. Unusual challenges making an SDK. Willingness to use both Swift and Objective-C is necessary. pspdfkit.bamboohr.com/career…
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People are excited for spooky season, but October is also Nat’l Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM). Contrary to what society says, disabled people contribute much to the economy.
Disability deserves more representation in the workplace—especially in newsrooms!
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I remember folks ragging on this talk when I delivered it, saying it was too easy and they knew it already. It’s helped over 10,000 people since, and is the most watched @dotSwift talk from any year. If you have a talk you think would be great, no matter how “easy”, go for it! 🚀
I just saw @twostraws's conference for dotSwift as a part of day 51 of #100daysofswift, and it was so informative ahhh! Left me with a lot to read and research about! super fun stuff too!
here's the link if anyone is interested:
youtube.com/watch?v=OgU8d_E1…
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Want to make your app accessible? Today, Abra and Q42 are launching a new platform to help you do that: beta.appt.org/en/. With relevant data, guidelines and code examples for iOS, Android, Flutter etc. We're looking forward to your feedback!
#accessibility #appdevelopment
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🧵 The is<AT>Running APIs on iOS can be really helpful; they're also a good example of "with great power comes great responsibility." A few thoughts!
1) VO isn't the only assistive tech on iOS. There are Switch Control, Voice Control and more. It's important to understand...
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For me, #Accessibility is both about making products and services for everyone and deeply considering the individual experience of each user.
Some Friday afternoon musings in the form of a brief story time from earlier in my #a11y career: sommerpanage.com/posts/2022-…
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Next up we got @basthomas! With a personal story “Bas: My Accessibility Story”
We’ve wanted to bring Bas for some editions now and we are glad he hit this stage this year 🤗 #nsspainX
ALT Bas on stage
ALT Bas on stage
ALT Bas on stage
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.@basthomas shares a touching story at NSSpain ❤️ #nsspainx
ALT Bas on the stage at NSSpain.
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I’m teaching an online workshop on Text and Localization in SwiftUI at @tryswiftworld next week: tryswift.co/world/ It will cover lots of techniques for localizing apps, displaying rich text, formatting data and adapting layout for dynamic text sizes with the focus on iOS 16
ALT Screenshot of the Text and Localization workshop from try! Swift World website. The workshop is on September 21st at 1 pm EDT.
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🎓 Today I learned:
In the #iOS simulator you can increase/decrease the dynamic font size with a very simple keyboard shortcut which is great for testing #accessibility through your apps. 👷
⚙️ The two shortcuts are:
⌥ ⌘ +
(increase font size)
⌥ ⌘ -
(decrease font size)
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The superb talk that @natpanferova gave via Zoom is now available on YouTube.
Natalia Panferova - Mysteries of SwiftUI Text View youtu.be/-l7RsBENLbI via @YouTube
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Want to build cool stuff and don't mind working with me? Check this out 🙃 (says Cupertino-only but London's fine too!)
jobs.apple.com/en-us/details…
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📢 Today we have the pleasure to announce Sofia Swidarowicz (@phynet) who is coming from Madrid to to speak at #BASwiftable this December 🌟iOS engineer @Domestika & co-creator of #TalksAndCoffee 🎤🇻🇪💛
🎟 Last early birds available, go go goooooo: buff.ly/3SsC1ZO
