New blog post: "Introducing Pinafore for Mastodon" https://nolanlawson.com/2018/04/09/introducing-pinafore-for-mastodon/
Pinafore is an alternative web client for Mastodon that I'm releasing today. The goal is to make a lightweight standalone web app that can plug into multiple instances, with a UI focused on speed and simplicity.
Pinafore is still beta-quality in places, but it's already the main client @ElfLord and I have been using for the past few weeks. I've been working on it since the start of this year. Hope y'all like it. 😊
As noticed by @lychee, it seems Privacy Badger doesn't play nice with Pinafore. It thinks your instance is a "third-party tracker" because of the cross-origin requests. 🙃 https://github.com/nolanlawson/pinafore/issues/23
The only fix is to disable Privacy Badger for Pinafore apparently. Sorry about that; if anyone knows of any workaround please do let me know.
Really love the Mastodon community. Pinafore still has plenty of bugs and missing features, but folks have been super positive in the responses. Makes me want to keep working on it! 😊
@nolan wow, just trying this one out, and I must say I am pleased to see how accessible it is to a screen reader! Really well done, Sir!
@nolan Yes, will do, thanks! Already found a few keyboard focus transition issues. :) But also saw some instances where keyboard focus was already being handled gracefully. Am really impressed!
@marcozehe Yes, I try my best to maintain keyboard focus across multiple timelines. Curious to know where it loses it though. :)
@nolan See https://github.com/nolanlawson/pinafore/issues/42. There seems to be a difference when using VoiceOver's Activate command versus using Space to activate the Reply button. Interesting... Just noticing this now as I reply.
@marcozehe Awesome, glad to hear! 😊 I did spend some time testing screen readers (mostly VoiceOver on Mac). If you do run into any problems though then please feel free to open an issue: https://github.com/nolanlawson/pinafore/issues