Launchaco – Instantly generate a responsive, free, website

Re:Launchaco – Instantly generate a responsive, free, website by cameronrohani on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @05:03PM (#13126675)

Thank you for this enlightening comment, and apologies that our website isn't more accessible. We'll be looking in to this through out the day and will try to add some better html to accommodate for anyone who may be in a similar boat to you. I'm really sorry we didn't think about this stuff up front, and will do my best to from here on out.

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Re:Launchaco – Instantly generate a responsive, free, website by ndarilek on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @05:22PM (#13126816)

No worries, I get that we're probably not a demographic you've considered, and like I said, I don't even know if in the end this tool will work for me.

To give you an idea of what I'm thinking of, I've looked into https://github.com/dennybritz/neal-react (unfortunately the hosted demo appears to no longer be up.) I'm sure this will bring out the "JavaScript shouldn't be abused like this!" haters, and I'm not the biggest React fan, but I like that I can position a few high-level components without having to think "I need 2 divs, one that's a panel, one that's X width and another 12-X, etc." Granted, I've never built anything with this React library and don't even know if it looks good, but it's closest to what I want in a page design system. Just give me a few high-level blocks that are responsive and look good, and I'll go from there.

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Re:Launchaco – Instantly generate a responsive, free, website by cameronrohani on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @05:29PM (#13126862)

I recently read a really great book about issues similar to this called "politics of design". Making things more accessible to everyone honestly really excites me. I hope that every time I ever make something I get called out on all of it's accessibility flaws. So thank you for bringing it to light :)

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Re:Launchaco – Instantly generate a responsive, free, website by astronautjones on Thursday December 08, 2016 @12:28AM (#13128608)

This probably sounds idiotic, but I am so wildly inspired by how much more coherent your presence, even here on HN is, as opposed to people who can see. Big up and I hope you have all the success you seek

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Re:Launchaco – Instantly generate a responsive, free, website by rhizome on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @06:20PM (#13127134)

It's a common sentiment on HN that degradability and accessiblity are time and money wasters that have no real value since screenreaders can handle JavaScript now.

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Re:Launchaco – Instantly generate a responsive, free, website by mrexroad on Thursday December 08, 2016 @12:25AM (#13128597)

Examples?

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Re:Launchaco – Instantly generate a responsive, free, website by odbol_ on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @10:47PM (#13128283)

Please run your site though an accessibility validator like ACA. At the very least make sure all images have an alt attribute! I feel like so many devs ignore accessibility even though it's not really that hard.

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Re:Launchaco – Instantly generate a responsive, free, website by steedsofwar on Thursday December 08, 2016 @02:54AM (#13129024)

It really tends to me an afterthought. A lot of places that i've worked for, accessibility is never factored with estimates. If it does make it, it's a rushed job, or it never makes it and after few complaints, it's added as needed.

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Re:Launchaco – Instantly generate a responsive, free, website by steedsofwar on Thursday December 08, 2016 @02:51AM (#13129014)

I am a software developer/engineer/<whatever the new fad is>, and i am the only "computer guy" in the family. So i've been tasked to create a website for a bakery startup. I couldn't agree more with the previous comment, about creating a website as being a momentum killer!

So when i saw this, my initial thoughts were, hmmm another one of 'those' sites. However i'm pleasanlty surprised, sure the elements aren't perfect, and the colours could be more varied, but it's an almost complete site. Replace the graphics, the fonts and text, i'm good to go! I just need to focus on the content and not the boiler plate crap.

Thank you!

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