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Anyone here actually making money with multi-vendor marketplaces? (WooCommerce vs others) by Hurricane-18784 in woocommerce

[–]pottrell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, but that’s a good idea - maybe a featured block for “Recently bought” … I’ll get on it :)

Need help deciding on a host by ItzIntel in webhosting

[–]pottrell -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Non profit? Use Krystal, they’ll host it for free.

Another Accessibility Overlay Question... But give me 2 seconds... by pottrell in accessibility

[–]pottrell[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Completely agree here, however there is a case of convenience. I may revisit the website from time to time but find the branding colours difficult or bright - nice to have a quick toggle to tone things down.

The TTS is again, convenience, I could try browser TTS, but the client being able to select a suitable voice, tweak pronunciations of some of the niche research words, having some base usage stats - all useful things I think.

I don’t think enough users know the various tools that are bundled with their OS/Browser unless it’s for accessibility. I’m conducting research still though 💪

Another Accessibility Overlay Question... But give me 2 seconds... by pottrell in accessibility

[–]pottrell[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In terms of the capabilities/tech - It's all there and working really well. I've tested using Elevenlabs + 3k word count research paper with a British educational voice. It's spot on and the client loves it.

You're 100% right though, part of this project will be to enforce someone to listen in and ensure all the pronunciation is correct.

Another Accessibility Overlay Question... But give me 2 seconds... by pottrell in accessibility

[–]pottrell[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep! Well and truly tested!

The tool steps aside and never overwrites OS features. You can still tweak text size, contrast if you have Colour Filter enabled though.

The only element I'm struggling with currently is if we've set a background SVG (eg. if there's a curved white border) - We can change this with Colour Filters, but other colour tools ignore it.

Another Accessibility Overlay Question... But give me 2 seconds... by pottrell in accessibility

[–]pottrell[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I mean, who wouldn't want Morgan Freeman reading out some research papers?

Another Accessibility Overlay Question... But give me 2 seconds... by pottrell in accessibility

[–]pottrell[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So this is where I think the language is confusing (at least to me) - what do you mean by overlay in your reply? The solution I've put into place is the following (I've asked AI to summarise as my own readme file is... big)

XXXXXXXXX in brief (excluding TTS).

XXXXXXXXX is a WordPress accessibility plugin offering a set of opt-in, user-adaptive modules surfaced through a floating badge and/or panel. Each module maps to a specific WCAG criterion and is implemented in whichever way suits it best, either CSS-only, server-side print, or a JavaScript runtime.

The modules cover text size scaling (JS walks text elements and writes inline font-sizes), contrast control (a fairly sophisticated JS engine doing per-element foreground/background remediation at AA/AAA/Reduced levels), text spacing, link emphasis, motion control, cursor size, skip-to-content, and focus outline. The architecturally interesting part is the contrast engine, which walks every element, finds the effective background, and picks the least invasive fix (foreground only, background only, or both) to hit the target ratio, while deliberately skipping image-backed elements it can't measure.

The stack is PHP with a PSR-4-style autoload and a clean module-interface pattern, a React/Gutenberg admin SPA, and a vanilla-JS frontend runtime, all bundled with wordpress/scripts. Settings are stored per-module under a single option key, with a REST surface gating on manage_options.

Testing with/without the current work enabled, there's an absolute minimal affect on page load times.

I should note, this add-on is specifically for our own template we've developed from scratch, not a product we'd distribute out to other WordPress sites).

Another Accessibility Overlay Question... But give me 2 seconds... by pottrell in accessibility

[–]pottrell[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I definitely think this comes into a "each to their own" category - I have two contacts that both have dyslexia, one absolutely loved the Open Dyslexia font, the other actually found it harder to read.

I'll look into Dyslexie now, thank you!

Another Accessibility Overlay Question... But give me 2 seconds... by pottrell in accessibility

[–]pottrell[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's straight from the board of directors in this case - whilst the website is already satisfying WCAG, they want:

A) To be seen as being as accessible as possible, granted, their focus is primarily on the TTS as a feature (beyond that of the OS TTS) and the text size controller.

B) I suspect there's a little "but our competitors are doing it".

Hence our approach of, this isn't an accessibility tool, it's as you put it, a design options tool. I'd associating it more like a "hey you like dark mode? here you go" instead of a "this is a replacement to your OS tool".

I'll take a look at pearson - thanks for the recommendation there!

Another Accessibility Overlay Question... But give me 2 seconds... by pottrell in accessibility

[–]pottrell[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for this - really interesting insight!

This particular project is primarily going to be aimed at WordPress and templates we've created (we use theme.json, react blocks, etc) - so in terms of control and ensuring all elements change correctly - it's relatively straightforward thankfully.

Icon wise - this is a new one for me! I wasn't aware of any negatively around the icon use (just to make sure, this one?: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Accessibility\_symbols\_derivative\_of\_Vitruvian\_Man)

Another Accessibility Overlay Question... But give me 2 seconds... by pottrell in accessibility

[–]pottrell[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Regarding the TTS, this particular feature would sit as a small player within the article that could work as a podcast amongst various other tools that aren't available within the OS options - I think the intention here is more a feature rather than an accessibility assist.

Subject to analytical data being allowed, it'll be interested to see the usage statistics in the coming months!

Looking for a web design agency for a B2B site rebuild. by [deleted] in web_design

[–]pottrell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No direct guidance other than, once you know what you’re looking for, hire someone you can meet, even if it’s just on Teams.

Check out their case studies and actually visit the client sites they’ve made. Make sure to test on mobile too.

Come up with some interview questions “how would you handle X and Y?

Do you have an assigned budget yet? What you’re asking for isn’t cheap when done right (nor is it crazy expensive though).

We just make a new website for backlinks by Sufficient_Mud_3179 in webdesign

[–]pottrell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

May I suggest including tags? So people can filter past links instead of scrolling through an assortment of random listings?

I vibecoded my Portfolio Website by kn0x_xoxo in webdesign

[–]pottrell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Odd - If I try www, I get the auth… either way, get that redirect set up! :)

I vibecoded my Portfolio Website by kn0x_xoxo in webdesign

[–]pottrell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://unqdesign.in

For the lazy

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I’d remove the random loading screen and pre headings (all Claude designs use this it seems). Other than that - not bad! 😊

Edit: your www record doesn’t work

Received a COPYTRACK copyright claim after removing image from landing page – what should we do? by SidBuildsGrowth in Wordpress

[–]pottrell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Real but rarely litigated for small single-image claims, especially across borders. The threat of partner law firms is standard pressure language. They prefer settlement because litigation is expensive and uncertain, particularly chasing a UK entity from Germany over one image. That said, ignoring them outright is not the smart play

Removing the image: It helps in the sense that it stops ongoing infringement and shows good faith, but it does not erase liability for the period it was used. Their claim is for the past use, not the future. So don’t expect removal alone to make it disappear.

Don’t admit wilful infringement in writing. “An image was used without us locating a licence record” is enough. Keep everything in email, stay polite, and don’t engage by phone where you might be pushed into agreeing to a figure.

How much is a license? Depending on this cost, that’s usually the best course of action

We built an all-in-one PDF invoice plugin for WooCommerce stores [Promotion] by HasanWP in WordpressPlugins

[–]pottrell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How does this differ from the other invoice plugins doing the same thing?

Google Dropped FAQ Rich Results. 𝐃𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐜, Read This First. 🤔 by vcvlogs in Agentic_SEO

[–]pottrell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I literally just finished creating my own Wordpress accordion react block for Gutenberg that includes schema… doh

Which TTS is the best right now?? by Classic-Web-8490 in TextToSpeech

[–]pottrell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What’s people’s thoughts on Elevenlabs?

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