Hi All,
I agree with you, Jacob. In many situations I have experienced, even with
sighted developers, there is a division of labor between the developer and the
User Experience and designer side of things. Besides that, if you end up making
your own CSS for any reason, possibly to make tweaks, remember that you can use
units such as percentages and em, because you can translate visual talk into
math.
After a while, you get a feel for what to do when someone says something like
“Move it over a smidge,” which you can translate to five percent, then if it’s
two far, move it back the other way by 2 percent, and so on.
Thanks.
Jim
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Jim Homme
Digital Accessibility
Bender Consulting Services
412-787-8567
https://www.benderconsult.com/our%20services/hightest-accessible-technology-solutions
From: program-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <program-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf
Of jacob kruger
Sent: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 5:17 AM
To: program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [program-l] Re: web development when blind
Chris, while I am a full-time web developer, I, honestly, don't bother too much
with full-on CSS look and feel, beyond what suits me in terms of functionality,
client-side interaction, etc.
In other words, while I might make use of some forms of
formatting/presentation, when it suits me, it's up to other guys to integrate
full-on look-feel styles, etc., but, especially when using things like react,
bootstrap, etc., they need to be very careful not to break my code/scripting,
etc.
Stay well
Jacob Kruger
+2782 413 4791
"Resistance is futile...but, acceptance is versatile..."
On 2020-02-01 10:54 PM, Chris Westbrook wrote:
HI, I haven't been on this list in quite some time, but thought I would pose a
question. I had been working on an intranet in asp.net<http://asp.net> and c#
with sql server. The company I work for is transitioning to winapps instead of
an intranet, which I think is probably the best decision given our team. So I
will be handling the c# back end and database code while one of my colleagues
will be designing the forms. I think I would still like to modernize my web
development skills. One thing I struggle with being totally blind is handling
the visual look of a website. I am learning react, for example, and the
create-react-app is very basic. Are there good resources out there that would
help a blind person learn css enough to make things look passable, or am I
better off just learning how to hook html up to javascript with components,
state, etc. and then handing it off to some magical sighted person to look
pretty? Since I am mostly doing hobby projects I don't care a ton but I would
like to learn as much as I can about presenting things visually. Lately I'm not
feeling especially motivated to work on side projects lol but would like to
change that. Any help would be appreciated.
