Jess Budd

Software Engineer/Frontend dev.

You can find me testing out these twitter replacements:

Bluesky: @jessbudd.bsky.social
Mastadon: @[email protected]

[Jess Budd @jessbudd]

Testing your product for #accessibility yourself will *never* compare with testing with real users.

This week we conducted 5 usability interviews with frequent screen reader users. Here are some things I observed:

(a thread) 🧵👇

[Jess Budd @jessbudd]

I wrote a blog post about it in case someone else is ever searching the web for answers
https://t.co/siFeISGUPg

[Jess Budd @jessbudd]

#a11y friends! Anyone know a work around for a bug with @typeform where radio button labels in a radio group are announced as "Object Object" in screen readers?

Implementation is an embedded iframe.

[Jess Budd @jessbudd]

Good news! Determined the issue was caused by bolding of the text. This created a <strong> tag node where typeform is expecting a string.

[Jess Budd @jessbudd]

@12infinity @Qantas Yep, down for my partner and I too. Web and app.

[Jess Budd @jessbudd]

@404mediaco really enjoying your site!

Quick feedback on the login process - magic links are a good, but super frustrating if you use multiple browser profiles. Would love to see an option for regular email/password combo login as well 🙏

[Jess Budd @jessbudd]

Get ready for click-bait in your AI responses!

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

We’re announcing a multi-year partnership with News Corp to enhance ChatGPT with its premium journalism: https://t.co/sGnshXLaMs

[kepano @kepano]

if your data is stored in a database that a company can freely read and access (i.e. not end-to-end encrypted), the company will eventually update their ToS so they can use your data for AI training — the incentives are too strong to resist

[Jess Budd @jessbudd]

I got to use the new `text-wrap: pretty` CSS today.

Where have you been all my life 😍😍😍

[Jess Budd @jessbudd]

This new experimental html feature to invoke other elements would be really handy!

I love javascript, but I also retiring it for use cases that HTML and CSS can now handle 😍

https://t.co/gkkQEd1yWe

[Charlie Gerard @devdevcharlie]

✨🆕 New project! ✨

For educational purposes only…

I HACKED A CAR IN JAVASCRIPT!!! 📡🛻

I built a web tool to hack wireless devices right from the browser and I used it to run a rolljam/replay attack against my friend's car (with consent of course) and IT WORKED!!! 😃🎉

[Jess Budd @jessbudd]

Center all the things!

CSS align-content property can now be used outside of flex and grid. Huzzah!
https://t.co/yD0VGSlZGf

[Jess Budd @jessbudd]

@developerjack Wow. As if job hunting isn't a soul crushing enough experience as it is - they just gotta dial it up to 11.

[Jess Budd @jessbudd]

@picsoung @typeform I'm actually still trying to get an answer from our marketing team on that 😂

[Jess Budd @jessbudd]

@picsoung @typeform Resolved!

https://t.co/GBTr8VyNnR

[Jess Budd @jessbudd]

Good news! Determined the issue was caused by bolding of the text. This created a <strong> tag node where typeform is expecting a string.

[Jess Budd @jessbudd]

Excited to share I'll be speaking at @webdirections Code on making single page applications accessible - and good news, it's easier than you think!

Hope to see you there!

https://t.co/nIbhCpQkCV

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

I wrote this Format dialog back on a rainy Thursday morning at Microsoft in late 1994, I think it was.

We were porting the bajillion lines of code from the Windows95 user interface over to NT, and Format was just one of those areas where WindowsNT was different enough from Windows95 that we had to come up with some custom UI.

I got out a piece of paper and wrote down all the options and choices you could make with respect to formatting a disk, like filesystem, label, cluster size, compression, encryption, and so on.

Then I busted out VC++2.0 and used the Resource Editor to lay out a simple vertical stack of all the choices you had to make, in the approximate order you had to make. It wasn't elegant, but it would do until the elegant UI arrived.

That was some 30 years ago, and the dialog is still my temporary one from that Thursday morning, so be careful about checking in "temporary" solutions!

I also had to decide how much "cluster slack" would be too much, and that wound up constraining the format size of a FAT volume to 32GB. That limit was also an arbitrary choice that morning, and one that has stuck with us as a permanent side effect.

So remember... there are no "temporary" checkins :)

Follow me for more random code musings!

[Ben Dechrai @bendechrai]

I appreciate the level of detail given to ensure I provide a valid email address. Good work!

[Jess Budd @jessbudd]

@nickbreaton @adamwathan @tailwindcss Agreed, love the way these job descriptions are written 👏

[Mandy Michael @Mandy_Kerr]

A little post about using data-attributes and the CSS Content property for things like Text Effects and why it's problematic for accessibility. Plus, what you can do to make it accessible.

https://t.co/MvAycZ7zoQ

[Jess Budd @jessbudd]

Love that the city of Kyoto has live streams of tourist hotspots to gauge the crowd intensity before you visit.

Whipped up a site to view them all together on one page for easy checking back at different times of day 😀

https://t.co/JUYAtBxEhA