#66: The Fastest Fonts, UX and PageRank, and Twitter Audio Accessibility

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OK, folks, this is episode number 66 this week. I threw a curveball at air in about two hours ago. We had a whole other topic planned and ready to go. And I ran into some news and a couple articles and I went I want to talk about those instead. And so I threw together a whole new thing for so this week we’re gonna be talking about how to speed up your Google fonts, We’re gonna be looking at you. Exp a drink and Twitter accessibility issues that are out in the wild. So this is a little three for Po PRI episode. We haven’t done one in a while, and I kind of enjoy them.

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I am drinking. I went a little different. I I pulled a you this week, actually. Okay, I said I have things. I’m gonna make some of these who, Um And so I’m doing Sprite, Bacardi Superior and propel Black Cherry. Oh, interesting. And it’s it kind of takes a little bit like it. Like a cherry snow cone. Almost. Yeah. Yeah,

It’s good. It’s quite refreshing. My sprite is a little bit flat, unfortunately, but of course, propels just wanted cherry water. So Right, that would kind of mix it out anyway. But it does. It works very well. The flavors. Quite nice. So, folks starting things off this evening, we’re gonna talk about making Google fonts faster. This comes by way of an article at CSS wizardry dot com. This is Harry Roberts site. Um he meant this article was incredible. So, first and foremost, Harry, kudos on the work you did for this. Obviously, as always, links are in the show notes. So if you want to go find this article and check it out for yourself.

It will be waiting for you there. The article basically got into he was talking about how Google fonts now allows some different loading options to be passed in the girls when you are calling fonts from their cdn. And he was trying to figure out how to make his sights as fast as humanly possible. And so he took all of these different methods of making, you know, fought, loading faster and tested them all across his sight in different combinations to figure out what the fastest way waas A just if you are interested in page speed and figure out how to toe makes the faster, absolutely go read the article because it really it dives into a lot of detail. But without it being like, it’s not technical like, it’s not something that you have to be wildly Ah, adept at any particular technology.

Yeah, it’s been it’s got longer than that.

these fun CD. And like Google funds, one type kit is another that I think a lot of people be familiar with. You know, Web fonts have always kind of been a balancing act, right. We got this superpower, basically, what kind of well, 15 years ago, it’s actually been around a lot longer than people think it goes back like I e. 10 or something. What weirdly like old IE supported Web fonts and all of this by using Web fonts, you inherently add weight to the page. And so, you know, we started looking at converting different. You know, designers back. Oh, I love this font. Let’s use it So you convert it and uploaded.

But that’s now 80 kilobytes extra. It’s like another image on your on your site or what have you. And so there’s always been this sort of marriage between getting nice type of topography, design and good readability with the content but also maintaining your page speed. Yeah, and that’s so that’s where Harry’s article comes in because he was interested in all of those things.

just something the crowds are native rare, stood with Google fonts in particular. I don’t know about type Kit, because while I have photo shopping, all that I just never used type kit. But with Google fonts, you can now filter by variable thoughts. So if you only want to use a variable thought, you can filter down to just those toe to use them. And we probably will explain that Maybe yeah, as far as like what a variable font is.

Yeah, So it’s it’s all about Like So, for instance, now when you want to use like a custom Web fawn the way you go about, if you need italic and bold and different weights, you end up loading a font for each one of those weights. And so you may for any given typeset, you may have toe actually load, like, five fought files, for instance. Yeah, that gets waiting. As if every one of those files is 32 80 kilobytes.

You’re loading 45 of, um, well, now you’re getting upwards of, you know, 304 100 megs, half a meg. In some cases, yeah. What variable fonts have aimed to do is provide you a base font that you can pass properties in CSS to control all that. So common ones are weight. Whether you know, the amount of I tell is that at a tel ization Telus ization television, I don’t know which one of those words is right.

That’s that’s a fun. You can get into things like, What’s What’s there is Ah, a ligature. Is that the right? Ah, the right word. I’m trying to use their the little like hanging downers and stuff on G S and P’s, um, or whatever those air called. How long the Saref SAR. If you’re using a Sarah font so you can make all of these things change based on parameters. Yeah, now

is a ligature and nothing even. Yes, Um oh, a ligature is a special character that combines two or sometimes three characters and yeah, so I was doing I was like, I was right in that It is, in fact, a fond word, right? But it was That was not what I was thinking of. The sender’s You are right. The cinders is, was when I was meaning to say, you can tell I am not. Ah, typography designer.

So the with the thing about the variable thoughts becomes is the variable fund has to be bigger just by virtue of meetings, support this kind of, you know, variable ization of different properties. So a variable thought may come in 300 kilobytes in upwards of 500 kilobytes in some cases, so it’s a tradeoff. You wouldn’t want to load five of those for different things. But if you’re having the load four or five different variations of the same font, you may in fact save space by using the variable font and just adjusting its settings for different use cases.

So you just can I have to, you know, fudge it and, you know, not estimate, but, you know, test it and see is one lighter than the other. You know, depending on your use case, but you just have toe. You know, there’s no way to know without doing that. CD INS help. Obviously, if you’re using Google fonts or type kit that can speed things up, there is at least a chance that people have stuff cashed from Google or from type kit. At that point, they use the Internet a lot. You know there may be a good chance in some cases, so that can speed up that page loading, and it’s it’s tough because with designers in particular, designers want to make a page pretty.

They want to make it look nice, but they aren’t necessarily concerned or have to be concerned with the debt that they incur by using a different front for the header for the body text or, you know, accent, text and all of this stuff. So that’s where, like as a friend and developer, you start looking at those designs, and it’s like, Oh, crap and I’ve run into that with designs where it’s like we’ve started looking at our payload and it’s like men over half of our site. Weight is just Web fonts, that air hitting downloaded and that’s a tough cookie at that point. So speed becomes very important to us. One of the properties that Harry hits on is one that I don’t think a lot of people are even aware of, which is a CSS property called fought display.

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text you thinking of. So okay, font display is a property that lets you tell the browse, or what to do with text that is using a Web bond. Oh, literally as it is loading. So it’s a means by which you can control what happens as that file is being downloaded. And so there. There are a few different options for it that the average window for this feature is about three seconds, and anything longer than three seconds starts to time out.

The different features, the values you can have for it, our block or swamp there are also there’s also fall back and optional. But those air just sort of a mash up of blocking swap and how they behave. But what it amounts to is if you’re using a lot of Web funds, you can control how the page behaves. So if you’re blocking your basically saying, don’t show the text until my font is downloaded, it prevents the flash oven styled text by hiding it until it’s ready.

I’m sure it’s happened.

So with Swap, it’s the opposite of that. So it enables the flash of on style text. So when it swaps is basically saying, I’m going to show you the text and I’m gonna style it with the Web font. Once the Web funds ready, fall back and optional basically create timeouts. And that’s where at three seconds I mentioned comes in. So if there if fallback is enabled, if it doesn’t load within that time span, it’ll do one thing. If optional is there. If times out, it just shows you the system fond. So those just give you some different being, but he behaviors, but it doesn’t mean you lose a little control in the event that your Web bought loads slowly.

Yeah, and at the end of the whole thing, he’s got some screenshots that are very cool. Where not only I mean, he hasn’t just broken on the Matthew actually recorded the paint times for these patients. Cool and captured, like the different render states at different time points, using each of these different methods. And so this there there is a certain amount of what do you want? So, like, for instance, if you wanted to do font display block, you’re making a conscious decision to say it is more important to me that they see the right thing rendered immediately rather than seeing it wrong and then having it become right.

So there, you know, there are things like that to consider and those are just decisions to make from a design standpoint from aux standpoint. But he gives a really thorough kind of look at all of these and then gets into what you can do on the CSS side. So doing things like, you know, reload, for instance, toe sort of prime the cash, so to speak, right, you can do you could do pre load, of course. A sink, you know, loading things a synchronously pre connect, Get the DNs ready. So he factors in all of these things as well, so that you are trying to get stuff to the user as quickly as possible, and that comes up in all of the numbers.

So there’s just there is just a lot of information that’s very cool and gets in the late in seeing gets into some of the theory as to how CSS loads, for that matter. You know how CSS gets prioritised first as a blocking download, and then when you a think it drops way down the priority tree, and so that changes the way your page renders as a consequence for him to check it out, it’s over at his sight. CSS wizardry dot com Giving a shout Out If You read it and found it helpful I thought it was cool cell. So I think you will really

So next on the docket, we have another article that involves Google, not intentionally. I just thought this was an interesting discussion to have. So Google is Well, let’s rewind first. This comes from my Lily Smith over Fast company, and the article will be Guess where in the show. Notes. Um, she was reporting on the fact that Google is going to begin to favour websites in results that have good user experience.

Well, uh, so according to the article, Google is saying next year, okay? And they will offer six months of warning before it actually kicks in.

right? Yeah.

Yeah, they tried to find a way to qualify some of the meaningful stuff. And the approach isn’t awful, cause I like you. My first. My first reaction was Oh, good. Google is going to try to force us to do, you know, try E. They’re going to try to force the Web to do something again. Um, and that’s a scary prospect sometimes. But as I write into this, it’s like, you know, performance is still performance, and the way they’re going about this isn’t terrible because it really is kind of focused on things that do genuinely impact user experience on bond, the way people will interact with content and things like that. Yeah, there’s an article and they’ll be linked somewhere. I don’t know where. Oh, it’s in the show notes. That’s right. It will be in the show notes. If you read the Koran when you blawg,

in the show notes the notes of this show, not last show and not the next one. That’s not up yet, but this one if you read the chromium blogged, they’ve got an article called Introducing Web Vitals. Essential metrics. They’re building on this thing they created called Web Vitals. This is the name they have given it, and it includes three primary categories of metrics, the largest content full paint, first input delay and cumulative layout shift.

Yes. Oh, Teoh, go through him. They outlined them. I’m there. They’re pretty straightforward. So largest content. Full paint paint, they say measures the perceived load time speed and marks the point in the page load time line where the pages main content has likely loaded and to build on the last topic. It would be, for instance, after your fought loads. You know, if you’re right, if you’re doing, you know the display block, you’re waiting until that web font becomes unblocked. Before you have meaningful content paint. Basically. So there’s a really good tie in there between those two concepts, meaning meaningful

but they’re basically just saying how quick is it? Take care. How long is it taking? Before the user can see your stuff, right. Which is it? That’s aux thing, right? If we know that page load speeds matter and we and we know that page speed in general has been a factor in ghouls search rankings for years at this point. Yeah. This is just sort of an abstraction of that idea. Well, the whole page may still be doing a lot of stuff, but the user can start to do things with it now.

Yeah, and I’m ashamed of how many pages I’ve built that take 104 seconds. Yeah, Yeah, it really does take a concerted effort, I think to get a page to load that quickly these days.

yourself there quicker. So for content especially, you want to get rid of anything that is render blocking. So your CSS and your Java script this argument about why you JavaScript should get put in the footer is a good one, because it means it’s rendered through the dom last or towards the last. After all, the actual rest of the markup is hit.

um, a sink and differ on CSS and JavaScript as well. That helps load things in tandem, as opposed to having it wait on everything combining requests. This is one thing that you know we’ve gotten really big about at work, which is we don’t want four different style sheets to load on a page way, have a build process that now takes care of all that we’ve got external resource is we include that into our build process.

So you request one style sheet for our site, and so you’re you’re eliminating the number of think of it like driving through town, right? And every time you come to an intersection, you gotta hit that stop sign or stoplight and wait for that to go. If you’ve got 12 and you want to know what’s bad about this WordPress when you look at what plug ins do if you’re using a lot of front in plug ins and they’re all in queueing CSS up and you look in your header and you’ve got 89 10 a dozen CSS files, sometimes every one of those if they aren’t loading a synchronously, is stopping your website in its tracks to download that file,

I I appreciate what Web PAC wants to do

Web pack is. And for just folks who don’t know, it’s a It’s a build tool that assembles your CSS and JavaScript and things like that and helps combine them men. If I them it also do trance piling. It’ll do pre fixing of CSS. If you’re using CSS that isn’t well supported. It’ll use vendor prefixes on all of it without you having to write them all. The reason I’m kind like it. Web pat configuration could be a real oh monster, and I

I’ve been using roll up and parcel a lot more, okay, and they are so much easier, especially if you just need a basic build tool to do those kinds of things like you don’t have a lot of nuanced things you want to have happen or do, and this is just a sidebar. But if you were wanting a build tool, that is a little lower barrier to entry. Rollup in parcel, I think, are better starting points than Web back. Sure personal opinion.

Yeah, yeah,

one of the other way Web vitals is first input DeLay, which is basically they’re measuring how quickly the user can interact with the page.

It reminds me very vaguely and to kind of understand. How does the timing the first interaction relate to you X to go to the laws of you? X fits law? The time to acquire a target is a function of the distance and size of the target. Now I’m obviously not the exact same thing, But time is a function of user experience in those cases. Sure, how quickly I can do the things I am set to do. Absolutely. And you know, we’ve known this for decades at this point that the amount of time it takes to do things on Web pages affects people’s, you know, conversion rates or interaction rates with pages. So

it’s weird that that is much shorter, right? Like that seems, Yeah, So I don’t fully know that because here’s the thing Right, OK, that may be a function of like, how quickly after, you know, page load, for instance, or something like that. Yeah, the sign post matters, and they don’t say Like what that is relative to That’s, I think,

Okay, that makes perfect sense then.

You can see I also didn’t do all my home.

Cumulative layout shift is my favorite because it is mostly what it sounds like. It basically involves. How much does stuff move around the page? And the classic example of this is banner ads. So you land on a page, you’re looking at something. You go to click on it and then add loads and everything moves out of the way and probably tricks you into clicking the add. So they’re factoring that into the U X of the page.

So if your page content is moving around constantly it it also is encouraging you to consider like elements, sizing and things cause, even if it’s not an ad, there are frequent times, right stuff is dynamically loading. For instance, it’s got a panel where something dynamically loads in. Ideally, you should probably know how big that thing is or how much space it’s going to take up, so that it doesn’t shift everything around for the same thing because it still has the same disassociative effect to the user. When things are moving around unexpectedly,

It’s a It’s a good metric like this to go back to you originally said. Like How would how would you measure UX in a way that can be valuable for indexing pages? I think these three things actually kind of

I mean, that’s an interesting point, And I think the thing I would say is wait. I mean, yeah, Google’s have been evolving their method of indexing pages constantly. We used to just be content is King, and that was the way Weeden said it. And for what it’s worth, they still say that they still say content is the most important thing where stuff like this factors in is when you have 1000 pages with the same basic content. The things that are going to move the needle for different pages are gonna be these little things at that point, right?

But he started with content is king. Then they started saying, You know, we’re going to start, you know, bumping up pages that are responsive. They started measuring for responsive layout. Then they started measuring for mobile first speed. It started factoring in page speed. They’ve they’ve constantly refined and added in like meta index type values. Yeah, toe improve stuff. Now we’re getting into this. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to think that accessibility could easily factor into that rank. Measuring how many images on a page have all text and knowing whether or not those images air decorative, for instance, they’ve got the ai algorithms, I think identify that kind of stuff now you know, checking contrast on elements we know that’s programmatically possible at this point.

Like I think that’s absolutely possible. And for what it’s worth, you know, Google is also very, you know, they keep that hand close to the chest. So while these three items we’ve listed are called out specifically and Web vitals, there are very likely others that we don’t know about because they’re specifically trying to keep people from gaming gaming. That measurement. Yeah, a couple things worth reading here from the article. The new ranking factor will combine quantifiable metrics related to speed, responsiveness and visual stability with other criteria like mobile friendliness, safe browsing, https and no intrusive pop up Windows.

In order to provide a more well rounded picture of the Web pages you X, they go on to say that pages should load within 2.5 seconds, which Aaron you alluded to already, and users should be able to interact with the page within 100 milliseconds. That’s F I D. Another measurement looks at how often visible page content unexpectedly shifts around. That’s the cumulative layout shift right. The closed out by saying This update will also no longer require that publishers use accelerated mobile pages to be eligible for top stories. And that is a good, interesting hidden little nugget. In that article,

I I’ve read it as them taking the foot off of the gas for ample of it. I think they realized that making

I think they realize that while the big publishers have all adopted AMP consistently, nobody else is. I don’t think anybody else cares. And I think at that point they don’t need AMP implementations. Teoh create those top story care cells at that point. If you’re interested in this, there is a chrome extension. It’ll be leaked in the show notes. It’s lengthen their articles well, and you’ll also be seeing Web vitals starting to get implemented in other tools, like lighthouse and some of those other site tools that are in the browser.

So you will actually see like Web vitals isn’t going to some weird abstract thing that is just out there. It is going to just like pay drank and page speed and stuff like that. It’s gonna be a component of their tool suite so that you should be able doing. And Aaron, you mentioned the site web dot dev. That’s sort of there clearing house for all of this information about, you know, best practices that they’re trying to encourage and push for people. Have you heard the controversy? Erin,

Uh, you don’t think that’s a good idea?

Actually, I shouldn’t say it’s a new feature. It’s an Alfa test or a beta test.

eso over. There’s an article over the verge about this. You can just search for it on Twitter itself and and look up Twitter audio, whatever. They are testing audio tweets which are available to a limited number of users on IOS and can capture up to 140 seconds of audio per tweet. Now, I don’t want to get into whether or not I think this is a good idea or a bad idea. You know, whether that feature is useful But let’s face it, this is a dumb feature nobody people don’t go to Twitter to use. Listen, the audio that’s

and and 140 seconds of audio is obviously kind of, you know Oh, yeah. Number two pick on their part as well.

Well, the controversy side of this comes out because they pushed it out. The person that I saw the, um, was party B cardi B apparently was one of the folks who got early access to it because, of course, they’re having, you know, influencers. The, you know,

big technical, basically access to this to try it out. But the controversy comes in with the fact that there were no captions. There was no transcript. There was no text audio. Also, uh, that immediately set off a firestorm about releasing this inaccessible feature. So I have a lot of feelings about this, and I think given what we’ve talked about in the past, that should not surprise anybody.

E. J and Nicole Iran from Web flow talking about culture of accessibility at a company? Part of this came from the discovery that Twitter uses a voluntary force volunteer force for accessible accessibility work at the company.

their employees who are who care, which is good. I mean, you want them to care. And that is an important part of building a culture of accessibility,

gas And the clarification came from Andrew Heyward, who is a software engineer, their Twitter and one of the co founders of Twitter. Able, he said, just to clarify, given that this seems to have gained some traction, were volunteers, and so much as the work we do is notionally on top of our regular roles rather than being full time, we all are otherwise paid employees. Twitter’s not outsourcing unpaid labor so that because that very quickly kind of blew up, I think in a lot of Twitter circles that how could Twitter not be? You know, how are they relying on volunteers? What’s not that basic?

and they make on long making a lot

So there are some different sort of angles on this. So yes, I think I think while obviously we made that clarification about what What it meant when they said volunteer, Um, the idea that there isn’t sort of that dedicated core group that helps oversee this and functionally push it in the products is disappointing. It it reminds me a lot of WordPress and everything that happened with work. Yeah, this idea that because there was even a comment on this one of Andrew’s comments was for what it’s worth, we didn’t where is frustrated and disappointed as the rest of the community.

And when I read that comment was like, that sounds exactly like what we heard from the WordPress Accessibility committee when Gutenberg was going through this idea that they were saying we were raising issues, but things were pushing ahead just the same. And this feels very much the same as that. But this but Twitter has the resource is to deal with it in the way that wordpress didn’t not making excuses for WordPress.

and I think I just I just simply mean that Twitter has revenue. Twitter has money. Twitter okay, Yeah, they have none of the excuses with

so that was surprising to me. And for what it’s worth, there was. If you go through and read, I’m going to include some of the tweets in the show notes. But there was a lot. The head of design and research twittered Dantley Davis came on to this discussion, and he said, I appreciate the feedback in direct conversation about accessibility from our passionate community. It’s clear we have a lot of work ahead to make Twitter more inclusive for people with disabilities. I will advocate for accessibility to be a part of our design from the beginning of all projects. I mean, that’s the right response. I think I think that is an appropriate and reasonable, you know. Wait a kind of stand up to that discussion. I think the proof will be in the pudding, obviously. But now it’s

in, you know? Yeah. So, yeah, when the when it releases. Right. So here is where I wanna go. A little devil’s advocate advocate E, though, Okay? Obviously, we don’t know if this feature would have released if it if it hadn’t been beta tested, like in public. If it had just been released and was available one day, we don’t know what support may have come with it. And we also know, you know, images.

How long did it take us to get the ability to put all text on images and twitter like that that took in, like, years too long to get that kind of support? Yeah, So we know that we they have a history of being slow on some of that stuff. At the same time, we don’t know what this would have looked like in a final state, but sometimes those features simply take longer to develop.

knows 13. I think their team that

There’s two, I think, very specific components, right? If you know, support audio tweets, you need to support automated transcription of those tweets because not everybody will enter them and you need to support manual because some people will take the time to do them correctly, and so they need to be able to upload those. But I also know that those tools and features, especially the automated piece, you know, we know the trouble we have with automated transcripts of the podcast and the issues that show you are there. Automated transcription is still not a solved problem in this world.

And so, you know, baking in those features for a beta test May. It’s simply a feature that could take a lot longer. And I guess the point I’m trying to make is I think there are constructive and productive ways to draw attention to some of those things. And there are not those ways. And I saw a lot of people in some of those Twitter threads getting very angry and very up in arms about something that’s not a finished feature yet. Yeah, instead of just saying, Hey, we saw this and you know, we were looking at the feature we noticed it doesn’t have transcripts yet. Is that going to be in before release?

You know their their ways to draw attention to that that aren’t like, yeah, why are you building such terrible tools that are excluded community like that’s a very antagonistic and unproductive, I think, way of getting the kind of change you want to get.

and and I I like that I’m I was playing Devil’s Advocate a little bit in my phrasing of that. So what is the phrase you know, it’s it’s easier toe find bears with honey than it is toe eat a mouthful of these what the thing about, you know, it’s when you’re not. When you’re nice about things, it’s easier to get your way than when you’re, you know, mean and nasty about it. And then,

Don’t know one of those things, but that’s that’s kind of where I’m thinking about stuff like that, because wouldn’t when you come at somebody that you immediately make them defensive. And I think in development in particular, people can get very defensive about things they’ve built.

I think, Ah, you know, One other way to look at this is I certainly don’t want to be the person standing up and saying Hey, let me make some excuses for Twitter at this point on this, because I don’t and I don’t agree with him, and I I absolutely think there’s a lot of change that needs to happen on that front. The one reason why I think I’m a little passionate about this idea of how we voice that displeasure is if we make it okay to crap all over Twitter than we make it okay to crap all over diaper base. No pun intended.

that’s, you know, from a relevancy standpoint, though, it’s just a matter of imagine. Somebody used diaper base and then tweeted at you and said, I don’t understand how how you could even get through Q A. Releasing this particular feature of the way you did. It’s completely wrong. It’s You’ve forgot about this this in this like and just really like, didn’t try to constructively help you fix the problem. They just said you screwed this up. You did this wrong. Whether you’re paid whether you’re volunteer or not.

have to, because that’s the thing. If we’re okay with doing on Twitter, we’re gonna be OK with doing it. It anybody and a lot of places. Those Web Dev’s our one man armies were already overworked and underpaid or whatever, and they’re doing the best they can, and they would love to help you with your problem. But if you’re the jerk in the room, your priority now drops way below everybody else, and you’re not helping solve the problem. And that’s that’s the own. That’s the real lesson. I think that I’m I hope I’m sending.

and and they do have a history of being less than you know, adaptive Teoh. Some of those needs, like I say, I do totally get that. What it really means is you have to look at the way you not just building software websites. Whatever. You have to start with accessibility, not finish with it. Yeah, we don’t know May. I don’t think that it probably came up early on in that discussion, but maybe it did.

And maybe the fact of the matter is, it’s just taking them a long time to get the technology sorted out to get auto captioning and transcription done. That could be a thing I don’t think it is, but it could be the issue. But the reality is wherever you work, whatever you’re building, the only way to make accessibility a priority is to make accessibility a priority.

And that means like you were saying, you need people whose role and job it is to advocate constantly and to build that you don’t need them indefinitely and forever. But you do need them there to start to get developers thinking about it, to get designers thinking about it, so that when you’re having those brainstorming sessions in those future development sessions and all of that, and somebody says I have an idea. How about audio tweets? The very next question should be that’s a neat idea. How could we go about making that? So that it would also offer auto transcription like that? Should be the next question. And that only comes with education and culture in an organization.

And this is why, at the end of the day, we bring this up so constantly again, I said at the start, I know it seems like we harp on accessibility quite a bit, especially lately but we have to. We have to make accessibility part of this conversation as frequently and constantly as we can, because that is how we start. A culture of accessibility is we have to talk about it, and we have to make sure it’s not a bolt on its part of just the way we work. Maybe you work somewhere where this message needs heard. So share the episode with people and say, Listen to these guys.

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We are always cool with just having a little chat or talking about whatever it is that you may be frustrated with in your websites and, you know, reason find. Or at least I mean, I’m on Twitter. Don’t know so much about about this guy over here, but I want I think I have drug you along the grudgingly

I’m also encounter social if anybody actually is over there too I’m just saying I think I’m leaning on counter social eso you

you know, I guess you humans are pretty awful. Thanks for tuning in. We hope you learn a little bit this week. Obviously, you little different topics. If you like hearing these kind of episodes, let us know about it. Will do them more often will work him into the rotation a little more frequently, state tuned. We do have some other guests that will be coming up to talk about, and actually, now I’m totally off my mark in terms of the order of things. But I think the next guest will be talking about simplifying tool chains and how to approach Miller processes in a way that doesn’t make your head bleed using, you know, there may be getting away from things like Westpac, for instance.

I like not having may I like not having my head bleed a little bit, too, because you know the best way to do that there is there is Ah, there is a lot of things from whether that’s implying tool chains or approaching stuff like accessibility from the start so that it’s not coming at you at the end because it’s at the end of the day. The best way to keep yourself saying is just to keep your personas close and your users closer. Bye bye.