Vincent has been quietly improving web accessibility in Micro.blog behind the scenes, and it’s bringing some other benefits such as new keyboard navigation in the timeline. More we can do here but already I really like it.

Ryan Way

👋 Cool site you’ve built.

Jason Heppler

I like the vim-like j/k navigation!

Joshua P. Steele

@jaheppler ha! Just tried this out and went "ooooh!"

Manton Reece

@jaheppler @joshuapsteele That's thanks to @vincent. I wanted to remove j/k for simplicity but he insisted we keep it. Guess he was right! 🙂

Pedro Corá

j/k us important!! Also, whenever there is a search bar, / should activate it. 😌

Toby Sterrett

ALWAYS j/k

Manton Reece

@pcora Stay tuned, we have some plans for "/".

Pedro Corá

/me likes this reply!

JL Gatewood

@pcora I know these are "slash commands" but my day job keeps wondering "why are they excited to be in the root directory?" 🤭

Steve Sawczyn

@vincent is doing a fantastic job, really love the keyboard shortcuts, they're above and beyond what I had hoped for.

Paul Robert Lloyd

@vincent 🙌 Amazing! Spotted a few nit-picky things (such as not needing to include the word ‘navigation’ in labels for nav elements, potentially too many labels around post actions) but this is already a great set of improvements. Dare I say it… finally!

Vincent

@jaheppler @joshuapsteele Glad you like it! cc:

Vincent

@pcora /going to be awesome!

Vincent

@SteveSawczyn That's great to hear and means a lot! cc:

Vincent

@paulrobertlloyd Great! We've had a bit of feedback from users that actively use these features, so it's encouraging.

Pedro Corá

@vincent nice!! You two got me curious!!! 👀

Manton Reece @manton
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