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From: Jennison Mark Asuncion
Date: Mon, Nov 13 2017 12:07PM
Subject: toast accessibility
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I'd like to hear from folks who have created accessible toasts,
including for but not limited to screen reader users. I'm particularly
interested in how you've dealt with the practical reality that the
intent of the toast is to only briefly show a message and then have it
disappear.
Jennison
From: Bourne, Sarah (MASSIT)
Date: Mon, Nov 13 2017 12:52PM
Subject: Re: toast accessibility
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Jennison, I'm not familiar with the term "toast". Well, other than what you eat with eggs or give at a wedding. Is it those pop-ups you get when you land on a site?
Sarah E. Bourne
Director of IT Accessibility
Executive Office of Technology Services and Security (EOTSS)
1 Ashburton Place, 8th Floor, Boston, MA 02108
Office: (617) 626-4502
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From: Ugurcan Kutluoglu
Date: Mon, Nov 13 2017 2:30PM
Subject: Re: toast accessibility
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Hi Jennison,
In addition to using an "assertive" live region and the other usual
techniques for screen reader users, we do the following on our toasts.
1- Avoiding using them, if possible. We prefer using an user dismissible
notification bar, with a close button, on top of the page.
2- Using text length for calculating the amount of time the toast remains
on screen. It's currently 3 seconds plus 60 milliseconds per character.
3- Toasts don't disappear if mouse pointer is hovering over them
4- Making sure we are not relying on color to convey different toast
states. i.e Error, Warning and Success toasts have different icons in
addition to different colors.
5- Making sure they have a visible border in Windows High Contrast mode.
6- No toast messages on page load. We wait at least 5 seconds before
showing a toast.
Ugi
On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 11:07 AM, Jennison Mark Asuncion <
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> I'd like to hear from folks who have created accessible toasts,
> including for but not limited to screen reader users. I'm particularly
> interested in how you've dealt with the practical reality that the
> intent of the toast is to only briefly show a message and then have it
> disappear.
>
> Jennison
> > > > >
From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Mon, Nov 13 2017 3:14PM
Subject: Re: toast accessibility
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1. Entirely unrelated to accessibility, but this song about toast has
been a household favorite for years:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHptn_3RyYE
2. Could you create an example of the type of goast messages you
describe (or are they accessible on a public facing site you are
working on)? Short of not using toasts at all, your list looks really
good (it looks like you guys took care of all the accessibility
implications).
On 11/13/17, Ugurcan Kutluoglu < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> Hi Jennison,
>
> In addition to using an "assertive" live region and the other usual
> techniques for screen reader users, we do the following on our toasts.
>
> 1- Avoiding using them, if possible. We prefer using an user dismissible
> notification bar, with a close button, on top of the page.
> 2- Using text length for calculating the amount of time the toast remains
> on screen. It's currently 3 seconds plus 60 milliseconds per character.
> 3- Toasts don't disappear if mouse pointer is hovering over them
> 4- Making sure we are not relying on color to convey different toast
> states. i.e Error, Warning and Success toasts have different icons in
> addition to different colors.
> 5- Making sure they have a visible border in Windows High Contrast mode.
> 6- No toast messages on page load. We wait at least 5 seconds before
> showing a toast.
>
> Ugi
>
> On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 11:07 AM, Jennison Mark Asuncion <
> = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
>
>> I'd like to hear from folks who have created accessible toasts,
>> including for but not limited to screen reader users. I'm particularly
>> interested in how you've dealt with the practical reality that the
>> intent of the toast is to only briefly show a message and then have it
>> disappear.
>>
>> Jennison
>> >> >> >> >>
> > > > >
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From: Steve Green
Date: Mon, Nov 13 2017 5:14PM
Subject: Re: toast accessibility
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This song about toast was a UK top 20 chart hit in 1978. They don't make them like this anymore, which is perhaps no bad thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJmKStqugMc
Steve Green
From: John Hicks
Date: Tue, Nov 14 2017 3:29AM
Subject: Re: toast accessibility
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The totp crowd were really grooving to that one !
2017-11-14 1:14 GMT+01:00 Steve Green < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >:
> This song about toast was a UK top 20 chart hit in 1978. They don't make
> them like this anymore, which is perhaps no bad thing.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJmKStqugMc
>
> Steve Green
>
>
>
From: Karl Brown
Date: Tue, Nov 14 2017 3:51AM
Subject: Re: toast accessibility
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https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/11998/what-is-a-toast-notification
And here I was thinking toast was something I had for breakfast :-/
On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 10:29 AM, John Hicks < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> The totp crowd were really grooving to that one !
>
>
>
> 2017-11-14 1:14 GMT+01:00 Steve Green < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >:
>
> > This song about toast was a UK top 20 chart hit in 1978. They don't make
> > them like this anymore, which is perhaps no bad thing.
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJmKStqugMc
> >
> > Steve Green
> >
> >
> >
From: JP Jamous
Date: Tue, Nov 14 2017 3:59AM
Subject: Re: toast accessibility
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Thank you Karl. I was never aware of this term until now.
It sounds like a problem to A11Y. First we had breadcrumbs and now toast. What is next? Apple pie? Never mind. They already used that term too. Pie chart. It looks like the kitchen is now on our desktops.
From: John Hicks
Date: Tue, Nov 14 2017 6:52AM
Subject: Re: toast accessibility
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... and no one's done the dishes for 20 years ...
2017-11-14 11:59 GMT+01:00 JP Jamous < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >:
> Thank you Karl. I was never aware of this term until now.
>
> It sounds like a problem to A11Y. First we had breadcrumbs and now toast.
> What is next? Apple pie? Never mind. They already used that term too. Pie
> chart. It looks like the kitchen is now on our desktops.
>
>