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"nature calls" i say, excusing myself to the bathroom only to receive the tragic announcement that they will be denying all my submissions going forward without so much as a cursory reading, and that, were I to try, I'd also have to submit said papers as evidence in court

@Dee huh, weird. they also added some odd threading indicator on mastodon.social

@lauraamalasunta@strangeobject.space summer is great for this because you have all these nice (partially) outdoor day festivals from like 2pm till evening

@weirdwriter Something else that should help here is the user info, bio, and toots all being wrapped in separate sections, so they are easier to navigate around as entire groups, if I understand correctly

@weirdwriter right! So when I posted those screenshot, the ordering would have been the header, avatar, display name and username, then the section with (pinned) toots, followed by the profile fields and bio. Which also matches how it's laid out visually, from top to bottom, and left to right.
I tried out moving the bio column to the left though, and visually people seem to prefer that as well, and that ordering also makes more sense for screen readers I think, like you mentioned.

My comment about discrepancies between DOM and visual ordering is also not an issue then, as they're moved to the left/start for both.

In the general sense, DOM elements are ordered from top to bottom, and if there's space, can go left to right before wrapping further down. But there are ways to radically change the visual order, through CSS and other attributes, which can cause confusion for people who use screen readers combined with visual perception, as now jumping to the next element does not match the expectation.

@weirdwriter I was thinking about that, yes! It would make sense, but from what I remember, having different DOM/visual ordering is discouraged for accessibility. Or are you suggesting to have it visually on the left too?

in other news im considering designing my own 2s quadcopter lipo charger 🤔 🤔

like this emax one is decent, but it only has 2 ports, and the other 2 ports are for 1s so i never use them. so a nice 4 port multi-charger with a similar design would be great, probably usb type-c too

@steph@toot.party have you heard of this little thing called "adhd"

hollywood adaptation of The Dispossessed

the studio execs are on board but they insist on making a few changes. nothing too severe!

really minor things, you'll hardly notice most of them. the main one is instead of the main character being Shevek, instead he's Shrek

@Are0h you're living in their heads rent free, it's probably a tax write-off loophole

I had big issues introducing profile fields to the existing design, just nothing looked quite right. So after lots of pondering and experimenting I tried out this layout on a whim (it's similar to mastodon 3.x profiles) and actually quite like what I ended up at

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