Thread by @taras_rhymetime

I’m having a coffee and wondering how to invite everyone I possibly can to share this momentous occasion.

Let me see how far the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines will take me.

#AccessibleCoffee

If I let myself get all caught up
In how much there is to ask
And do to include everyone
I’ll never start this task.

I likely won’t get everyone,
But I can include a lot
So in place of wondering why do this,
I ask myself, why not?

#AccessibleCoffee #WCAG

One thing to help my brain work sweet

Is to break this into bite-size tweets
#AccessibleCoffee #WCAG

One thing that really helps with this?
There exists a giant list

A list that I can check against
To see if I am making sense.

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1

Ninety-five things to know about
To get my coffee message out

#AccessibleCoffee #WCAG

There's a lot to learn,
So I'd best start learning
And take my notes
At each page turning
Condensing them into a tweet
There will be a lot there to repeat.

Another cup of coffee is in order.

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First off, I am out of luck.
These guidelines are like holy fuck

It’s a masterclass of pure abstraction
To generalize specific actions
To categories oh so broad, see,
They include most everybody.

#AccessibleCoffee #WCAG

Time to get my pickax
And pick through this mound of facts
And rewrite all these abstract terms
Into something a lot more firm

Firm enough to stay inside my mind
For longer than 6 second’s time.

#AccessibleCoffee #WCAG

There are four fingers on my hand
And four WACG concepts to understand.

Perceivable,
Operable,
Understandable, Robust

Give each one a finger, I must.

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- My pinky gets Perceivable because it starts with P

- A ring is like an O, so my ring finger gets Operable

- My middle finger is like fuck U, so it gets Understandable

- My index is the strongest, and so it gets Robust

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Those four are stored inside my head

And now I’ve got them, l use ‘em!

Let’s start at the top with my pinky paladin Percy the perceivable, knight of shining perception.

Percy, you persevering, perceiving machine,
what does WACG’s perceptible mean?

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I have decided, just for me

That the pronunciation of WACG
Is ‘whack-gee.’
Rhymes with wacky.

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Pink pinky Percy (short for Priscilla, they/them, please) says,

portentously:

“Principle 1 – Perceivable Information and user interface components must be presentable to users in ways they can perceive.”

- w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/qui…

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Me: What does that mean? I do not understand, oh perception pinky Percy on my hand.

Percy: It means that I believe
In giving people coffee tweets
in ways they can perceive.

To clarify:

#AccessibleCoffee #WCAG

If their eyes work, I can show them
If their ears work, I can speak
If their hands work, without fail
I can talk to them in Braille
All because I believe
In talking to folks
In ways they can perceive. But more...

#AccessibleCoffee #WCAG

If they can read, then I write text!
If not, then pictures next
If they know a language, I use it!
If they don’t,
There’s things to to
To share nonverbal cues.
Emojis, songs, to name a few.

#AccessibleCoffee #WCAG

And so, (says pinkie Percy, as they pontificate along
I really hope that at some point they burst into a song)

“Because all folks are worth it,
I think you’d best believe
That I work to send out messages
In ways folks can perceive.”

#AccessibleCoffee #WCAG

“My WACG guides are limited,
But are a place to start.
And since it seem’s you really have
Taken it to heart
That your morning coffee tweet ought to be widely shared,
Here’s a quest, and a test
To get you all prepared.”

#AccessibleCoffee #WCAG

“Perceptibility for all!
I raise my standard on that hill.
And I’ve written out a checklist that,
if you have the will
You can join me at my standard
When the checklist is complete
To make so much more accessible
Your humble coffee tweet.”
#AccessibleCoffee #WCAG

Perception Guideline 1.1 – Text Alternatives.

Provide text alternatives for any non-text content so that it can be changed into other forms people need, such as large print, braille, speech, symbols or simpler language.

w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/qui…

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Atm I do not have to meet
This standard with my coffee tweet,
Because it has no pictures
There’s nothing to repeat.

But hey, I’ll add an image in.
To have some more insight
About how to write alt-text
And get this guideline right.

#AccessibleCoffee #WCAG

Drinking a morning coffee

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