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Terrill Thompson

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Terrill Thompson's personal blog at terrillthompson.com covers web and culture. Since 2009, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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3mentions?
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2009–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2016

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters cite Thompson's posts on web accessibility, including one on how reCAPTCHA's audio option works with screen readers. The comments use the posts as sources and do not judge the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

What Hacker News says?

  1. On the subject on accessibility, I just came across this - note the comment from Brad Martin: http://terrillthompson.com/blog/474

    Comment linking /blog/474

    on “CSS is powerful, you can do a lot of things without JS”
  2. Submitted Voice Your Support for HR 3101: Make Online Video Accessible as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  3. reCAPTCHA does have an audio option, and it seems to be accessible to screen readers, as detailed in this blog post: http://terrillthompson.com/blog/682 When the checkbox is clicked, a visual puzzle appears; right below, there's a button that can be clicked to switch to the audio captcha. Here's a demo: https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api2/demo

    Comment linking /blog/682

    on “KickassTorrents resurfaces online”

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