On the way to a newsletter article

RantWoman just wants to put together a SHORT newsletter article about the U district Mobility Project workshop series about transportation options right near the soon to open University link station.

A Short Newsletter Item alerting readers to matters of buses, bikes, pedestrians, sidewalk networks, what parts of the area transportation network the project does or does not address.

Off we go to udistrictmobility.org

There is a new survey. RanttWoman can see the questions enough to know that is not what her screen reader is reading. About the third screen into the survey, RantWoman's screen reader tries to read all the individual items in a list. However the list items all have a long string at the beginning and the screen reader never gets to the individual items RantWoman is supposed to be choosing among. Sigh.

It is late at night so off RantWoman goes to Twitter to whine about said #a11y issue.

As long as RantWoman is griping anyway though, RantWoman thinks the same thing she thought at the most recent workshop: It would be nice if the survey were more interactive. Build a model of traffic, bus, people bike flows. Don't forget to tag the graphics. Allow people to send different percentages of the flows different ways. See what results.

Okayyy

Never mind that pedestrian data in transportation models is a pretty rare thing.

Never mind that idea is easy to specify, harder to code.

Nenver mind how one renders the results of one's experiments in ways accessible to the likes of RantWoman.

As long as RantWoman cannot have what she wants on #a11y grounds anyway, which is just to complete the darned survey, RantWoman is too happy to ask the impossible as well, along with a quote from Albert Einstein:

"Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible."
Albert Einstein