joelanman

A few years back I took part in an online design challenge to make a pocket calendar - it was a lot of fun, my designs are here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/joelanman/albums/7215759450272...

One of them is very similar to this one (Design 2) - I was tidying up someone else's idea. Dunno if David Seah's was related in any way or just people came up with the same idea.

From the executive summary:

Gutenberg has significant and pervasive accessibility problems, the likes of which amount to a step backwards for users with disabilities over the legacy editor. Our user-based testing – backed by data from our technical review – indicates that the accessibility problems are severe in nature.

We feel concerned that Gutenberg’s current accessibility issues will prove problematic for website owners who deploy Gutenberg to content creators in protected populations or for website owners who are themselves part of a protected population. Therefore, organizations which have high risk profiles should consult legal counsel before using it and may want to choose to use the legacy editor instead.

From a few days ago, this is also excellent for exploring colours with accessible contrast from each other:

https://color.review/

Disclosure - I work on the team. The GDS equivalent, GOV.UK Frontend, is part of the GOV.UK Design System:

- https://design-system.service.gov.uk/

- https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-frontend

This looks cool - is there anything about accessibility testing - how well it works with screen readers for example? I couldn't see anything in the docs.

Also UK Government Digital Service guidance on writing:

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/content-design/writing-for-gov-u...

On behalf of everyone, thanks, always good to know :)

Can't think of where that particular finding is written up, but you can find a lot of our research and guidance on our blogs and site:

https://designnotes.blog.gov.uk/

https://insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk/

https://www.gov.uk/service-manual

At GOV.UK we do a lot of user research, and find bullet points to be very successful in drawing affection to and clearly conveying lists of things. For example requirements.

That's an elegant explanation

not sure whether this gives much advantage over just listing the results in order of travel time? It gives an indication of direction, but is that really useful?

That's because there was massive protest against a centralised ID system in the UK, which led to it being shut down.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/may/27/theresa-may...

this is the quintessential Hacker News comment

I have a degree in animation. We definitely covered a lot of computer stuff, but there was a lot of film theory, life drawing, that kind of thing.

I now do interaction design, and there was a lot I learnt in animation that's helpful. Mainly about trying to convey ideas clearly. You learn that when someone else comes to something you've done, you need to lead them clearly through a story that makes sense. Build on concepts they already understand. Draw the eye to certain details or characters. Basically that the work has to stand on its own, if you have to be there to explain it it's not very good. Same with interaction design.

On a similar note, I started making a thumbnail view: http://www.git-browser.com

Recently started making http://www.git-browser.com - browse repos by thumbnail.

I work at GDS - that sounds broken, can you let me know where that link to localhost is?

it's real: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10795344

To be clear, the logic I'm suggesting is to hide the text on the Show page only. The text would still be in the title in the database, and shown everywhere else.

Pete Cooke was responsible for a lot of great, great Spectrum games. I don't hear Micronaut One mentioned much, but to my mind it's the smoothest 3D game on the Speccy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfKUZRI90rI

His "Whole New Ball Game" was brilliant too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyIHM8SY1pE

Little Computer People

https://www.c64-wiki.com/index.php/Little_Computer_People

"Unlike a true VM, a docker container does not also require a host OS"

Shouldn't that be guest OS?

The point being made is at the bottom - progressive enhancement. If at least the html makes it across the wire, a progressively enhanced website will still "work": you can still read content, click links, submit forms

http://jakearchibald.com/2013/progressive-enhancement-still-...

That's why I said "aspects of". If I fully disagreed with a project and thought it was evil, I wouldn't work on it.

However, that's not normally the case. There may be aspects I disagree with, and if you get to do research, you can often show problems and affect the direction of the project. But after all, I could be wrong. I've done enough research to know that :)

That's an excellent point, and has happened with the UK GDS. With user research you can make a strong case:

https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2014/06/20/i-fought-the-law-and-the-...

I work for the UK Government Digital Service - my views don't necessarily represent my employer.

There are lots of comments here around the idea of whether you would work for a government if you disagreed with their political views.

What I love about working on GDS projects is the potential to improve so many people's lives. People often don't have a choice when it comes to interacting with government - it's often a legal requirement, and there's only one way to do it.

So, even if sometimes I may disagree with aspects of policy, the reality is there is going to be a digital service based on it. And I can help a lot of people by being part of making it as simple as possible.

I use radio mode on Google Music, and follow various people on SoundCloud

GOV.UK ran some stats on who wasn't running JavaScript and why:

https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2013/10/21/how-many-people-are-missi...

Code Club is a not-for-profit organisation, and Linda was a founder. It may cost them money, but don't the aims of the organisation come into it?

Interesting - do you have a source for that?