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Joining Forgejo’s Accessibility Team
If you go and look at TEAMS.md#accessibility in Forgejo’s governance repo today you’ll find my name there in the list. I’m very proud of this!
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Improve repo file list table semantics for screen readers (second attempt)
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Lessons learned from the Forgejo v15 release blocker
A pull request of mine recently needed to be reverted due to a visual bug in order to unblock the release of Forgejo version 15. This was about 10% embarrassing, 10% frustrating, and 80% really really interesting. I learned a whole bunch about Forgejo’s code and release process, as well as my own biases and focus areas to become a better contributor. It would be a good problem to have if more people like me came along to contribute and made mistakes like these. I figured I’d write down what I learned so that it’s easy to pay it forward.
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Preserve focus on star/unstar & watch/unwatch buttons after click
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Add aria-label="Copy" to copy button
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Accessing localhost:3000 in VirtualBox for NVDA testing on macOS
After getting my JAWS setup in place recently, NVDA was next on the agenda. It was easy enough to install, which left me with enough leftover time and energy to make an attempt at loading http://localhost:3000 on it in order to be able to test unmerged changes. It went better than expected!
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Fix @mention combobox semantics for screen reader accessibility
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Add aria-labels to ensure watch and star buttons always have a text label
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Make label dropdown menu items with .tw-hidden unselectable
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Add aria-current="page" to active navbar items
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Inspecting HTML elements that disappear on blur
Web accessibility is mostly about HTML, I reckon. Tons of the bugs you work on end up being about adding or removing some attribute from an element. So the inspect element tool is a really important part of the toolkit. And most of the time you don’t even have to think about it: just ⌘⇧C, click on the element you’re curious about, and you’re in business.
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Testing in JAWS on a Mac
A tricky-looking screen reader bug in Forgejo inspired me to spin up a JAWS testing environment on my Mac.
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fix(ui): allow label descriptions to wrap in dropdown
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Do you really need those line-clamps and nowraps?
After getting my first Forgejo PR merged today I was struck by the realisation that I finally have a linkable public example of a type of accessibility bugfix that’s been a recurring thing for years across basically every site and app I’ve ever worked on. So I can finally get this off my chest. Everyone’s CSS is full of line-clamps and nowraps that serve little to no practical purpose, and prevent visually impaired users from accessing content.
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Golang LSP in Helix on macOS
Since getting my Forgejo dev environment running I’ve begun poking around the issue backlog and learning my way around the code, looking for the stepping stones to becoming a contributor. One important early milestone was to get the Golang LSP running in Helix.
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Running a Forgejo dev environment
Been wanting to get started making code contributions to Codeberg for the longest time. Finally got around to setting up a local development environment. Here’s my notes!