[fpc-pascal] Preview: New Website layout

[tsiegel at softcon.com]

On 9/4/2026 12:38 PM, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote:
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> On Fri, 4 Sep 2026, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote:
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>> On Thu, 3 Sep 2026, Travis Siegel via fpc-pascal wrote:
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>>> On 8/31/2026 9:56 PM, Travis Siegel via fpc-pascal wrote:
>>>> The site works well with a screen reader, that's good, but I don't 
>>>> know what the up arrows in various places on the page are for.
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>>>> Also, the very first button on the very top of the page has no 
>>>> label, and thus just shows up as button on a screen reader. 
>>>> Clicking said button does nothing as far as I can tell, so might 
>>>> want to either add a label, or remove it, depending on what it's 
>>>> used for.
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>> Can you be more precise, please ? There are 80 buttons on the page, 
>> as far as I can see, they all have aria-label.
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I'm thinking the button in question is invisible to you, because as far 
as I can tell, it's label is a single space character according to NVDA, 
but as I mentioned before, it's on the very top of the first page, the 
very first element at all, right before the skip to content link

As for the up arrows, they're all gone, except for the ones next to 
wiki, forum and bug tracker.

Thank you for explaining what those are for, I'd not encountered them 
before, and even if I had, I would have had no idea they were to 
indicate the previous link was an external one.  Good convention though, 
I'll need to implement that on my own pages too, I wasn't aware there 
was such an indicator.


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>>> These issues are still present on the latest version of the page.  
>>> The button is there just before the link that says skip to content.  
>>> The up arrows are fewer now, and appear to be next to headers for 
>>> subsections, but don't really explain to a screen reader what 
>>> they're for, is it to collapse the section? Is it to scroll up the 
>>> page? Is it for some other use?
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>> Up arrows indicate that what came before is a link to an external 
>> site. This is common practice these days - see e.g. wikipedia. I'll 
>> add aria-hidden="true" to them, so they're invisible for screen readers.
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> I did that and updated the site. If you have a moment, please test and
> report if it is better now.
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> Michael.
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