So I do know a thing or two on how to pick up on trends. My name is Bailey, and I am here with the YouTube blog. The million dollar Etsy shop. Don’t leave just yet as my tips and tricks cover all aspects of e-commerce fashion, art, jewelry and business, and I am sure there is some great information here today that you are going to want to hear today.
I am going over current trends that I am sure you are not going to win to miss out on so stay tuned, to make sure that you are in the know on what is hot. I spent a bit of time picking through not only the spring and summer. Runway shows, but also Google keywords and Etsy trends to see what people are currently shopping, for, these might be is self purchases, these might be gifts, and it doesn’t really matter that they are typing this information into Etsy or Google, because they are shopping for these items.
On Etsy, then, they certainly are also shopping for these items on all the other platforms, such as eBay and Amazon. Alright. So, let’s get started first things. First, findi is solving a New Age problem with an old-school solution. The fanny pack is back y’all with a modern twist. The double bag trend is here to stay and to make sure your iPhone is easily accessible for selfies and that your debit card is protected from pickpockets at the club.
During perhaps a night out, findi has redesigned the fanny pack to create a chic alternative. Look, you are a handmade artisan, consider jumping on the following keywords for leather iPhone case or leather fanny pack, leather fanny pack has a monthly google search volume of ten to a hundred thousand average searches which, if you’re not familiar with Google search volumes, is a massive Massive hashtag trending niche fanny pack is back the next trend, I’m covering has been popping up on the runway for a few years now and doesn’t seem to be going anywhere soon.
Statement, socks, personalized socks, even thigh, high socks. Etsy sellers have already been hopping on the personalized money wagon with the niche custom dog socks. Put your dog’s face on a sock makes it great Father’s Day gift a birthday gift or heck, buy it for yourself, okay, I know you might not be seeing Sparky’s face on a sock on some sort of Couture runway, but certainly fashionistas are still sir okay.
I know we’re not seeing Sparky’s face on socks on the Couture runway, but certainly fashionistas are still wearing beautifully colored and creatively pattern socks as a part of their everyday wear and street style. If you are in the monogrammed knit niche or if you knit or or maybe a pattern maker considered clever designs, remember Etsy loves to feature quirky and funny things that are also creatively stopped stylish on their Instagram and on their main page.
Socks are funny, and socks could be the key to getting your brand noticed on to our next trend. Since the dawn of time, even before cave paintings, one fashion staple has risen and fallen more than any other wardrobe accessory. The personalized name, pendant, you’ve loved it. You’ve hated it you’ve loved it again. Nothing has flip-flopped from tacky to fab over the course of modern fashion history van the personalized pendant, while it’s making its dramatic high-fashion comeback.
It’s time for you to jump on this cash moneymaker if you’ve been living and breathing in the jewelry industry, even for a second, you know all about these bad boys and if you’ve, even typed, the letter P into the search bar on Etsy. You know personalized is pimpin: okay, bad alliteration. You get the point on personalized pendants. Coming in, I had an average monthly search volume of a hundred thousand to over 1 million average monthly searches.
Name, necklace is the keyword that is hot, hot hot and all of the variations that come with it are also highly sought. After these other keywords are initial necklace, gold, name, necklace, monogram, necklace, engraved necklace and etc. You get the gist. Alright. Thank you. Next, moving on scarfs, lightweight and versatile, silk scarfs make the perfect spring and summer accessory, although the most commonly sought after longtail keyword is Hermes.
Silk scarf. Let’s get real few of us really want to shell out twelve hundred to two thousand dollars for something we were just going to spill our Starbucks all over anyways and let’s let that sink in for a minute. If no one wants to drop four figures on that. Look, maybe you entrepreneurs should jump on it and give these shoppers that look for Less make some chic scarfs in the three figure or even to figure range and you’ve got yourself a healthy handmade niche.
Remember this trend has been popular for over a hundred years. Maybe even more, I don’t know, I’m not a fashion major on Google. Silk scarf is searched upwards of a hundred thousand times a month and makes the most beautiful display at any sort of craft show, learn it make it sell it grow. And finally, don’t laugh we’re all here to make a little coin, but big ass hats are coming and hot and if you know how to make them get to grinding the Kentucky.
Derby is right around the corner, and people are already shopping for Kentucky Derby hats. Even top runway designers are preparing for the big event with enormous designs in their Couture lineups top design houses are boasting both simple bucket hats and encrusted bedazzled extravagant styles, fit for a royal gathering. Both terms bucket hat and Kentucky Derby hat are searched on Google upwards of over a hundred thousand times each monthly, with very little competition in the handmade marketplace, making custom hats an excellent niche to get into if you haven’t considered it already.
Okay, guys, let me know what you thought about my very first trend report. Let me know if you thought this was perhaps useful. I know sometimes high fashion and runway looks can be a little weird and strange, but I promise they do trickle down into common trends and things that you can make money on. If you have any questions about these trends or have any suggestions, please let me know I would be happy to do some styrol style report style reports like this for other niches, perhaps such as home, decor or something else like that drop me a comment.
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It’s episode number 109 and I’m John person and I’m Bob DeMarco, welcome to the show, welcome to the knife. Junky podcast the place for knife, newbies and knife junkies to learn all about knives and knife collecting our midweek show where we dive into the weeds and talk knife lifenews a little bit of stuff about Bob’s state of the collection which we’re doing this week.
Hearing a little bit about some of his new knives and we’re also going to be talking about the YouTube blog bob is back in the saddle again with some of the the article making bob the knife reviewing yeah I’ve gotten that you know I got last summer. I got into doing the collection selection articles on a you know. I do one every other day or so, and I busted out about maybe 60 summers about 70 of my collection and then I lost a little bit of steam with that and but I’m picking back up because in the interim you know I’ve gotten some new things That definitely need to be shown off before any sort of review happens and also you know.
I never finished what I already had at the time. So you know so I’m bringing them back and I like them because they’re the kind of article I like to read. You know if it’s, if I just want a quick take and to check out a knife and hear a little little chat about it and then be off. That’s the kind of article this is. I have plenty of people that I follow that when I see a nice new 20 minute article from them, I’m excited – and I tuck in.
But if you don’t have 20 minutes and you want to check out the new say, DLT exclusive XM, 18 warning no choil. Then you’ve got three and a half minutes to check it out. Yeah, seven minutes you could rewind it and read it read it again, but that’s what I’m saying and you could hear all the brilliance come out of my mouth evil. What there’s brilliance coming out of your mouth yet you’re not reading the articles clear, although okay? Well, I’m listening to the podcast, so we’ll give you a chance for some of that brewing.
It’s going up here on the knife: junkie, podcast again episode number 109! But talking about the knife, junkies YouTube blog. If you are not yet subscribed, you need to just go to the knife: junkie: calm, /yt subscribe, then I have chunky. Comm, /y, t subscribe and you’ll be able to subscribe, don’t forget to click that little Bell notification. So you’ll be notified any time Bob drops a new article or when he goes live for Thursday night knives every Thursday at 10 p.
M. So the knife, junkie, calms, YouTube blog and the knife junkie.Com slash YouTube. So a lot of great articles already in the in the in the blog and more to come, that’s right and every one of our podcast goes up on YouTube too, and sometimes it’s handy to listen to podcasts on YouTube. I do that at work. Sometimes, if I’m doing busy work that doesn’t require any writing and I can listen to people talking I’ll put it on YouTube and just kind of minimize the screen, because I can’t just wear headphones and listen to my my preferred podcast catcher on my phone at work.
Just not a good look right, but if I need to if I want to listen to something that I’m doing, busywork YouTube is great, so we put all of these podcasts there too yeah. I listen to a lot of podcast and a lot of motivational talks and those kind of things on YouTube. Just again, as you said, start it going minimize the screen, so I don’t have to read it and a little trick. I use I always like to play it at 1 and 1/4 or 1/2 speed kind of speed it up a little bit.
It doesn’t distort the voices too much, but I can listen to more content and quicker amount of time. So that’s my little trick. I do yeah I’ve gotten in the car with you before to go to lunch and your podcast comes on automatically. You need something for those guys who’s copy at the end of the commercial. How do you listen to this? Don’t you want to savor their voice he’s like I’m listening for information man, you know it’s so funny.
I listen to. I forget who it was. Maybe even I think it was Gary Vaynerchuk. I listen to. I’ve got his daily Flash briefing and the other day it came on right after I had listened to a Cass sounds like who’s that, because I’m used to listening at one-and-a-half to even two times speed for some of them and I’d gotten used to the cadence of His voice of that faster speed, then we came on normals like has he got a guest today? Who am I listening to so his book sounds much deeper yeah.
I like I like listening to a lot of stuff on YouTube. As you said, and you mentioned, we put the podcast on there, so there’s a great opportunity to multiple times during the week to catch some knife junkie, contact content, because this midweek show comes out every Wednesday evening. The interview show comes out Sunday afternoon Sunday evening, and then we have Thursday night knives Thursday night at 10:00 p.
M. And so then the collection selection, knife review articles. All those kind of things we tried to. You know, publish on Mondays, Tuesdays Fridays Saturday. That kind of thing to kind of spread out the content, so you’re not overloaded every single day, a lot of great stuff on the knife, junkies, YouTube blog, alright Bob! What do you say we get into knife life news? No, let’s do it. You’re listening to the knife, junkie, podcast and now here’s the knife junkie with the knife life news.
The first knife hard to talk about this week is named after a mythical monster in the Odyssey, probably my favorite, mythical monster in the Odyssey Scylla. Scylla is a six headed beast. She lives in the crags above in the Palisades between Sicily and the mainland. I believe it was, and you have a choice you can either steer toward Scylla. Who’s got six heads with with monstrous fangs in each one of those mouths and snatch people off your ships, or you can go the other way and and go down Carib this, which is a giant whirlpool.
So that’s that’s where the term rock and a hard place comes from. In any case, this new knife from Steel will is named after Scylla, the six headed beast and it has a really interesting opening way of opening. It’s just a thumb. Stud right, your standard, sorta thumb, stud opener, but the thumb stud is sort of well, it’s cantilevered out on the end of an extended tang. It almost looks like when it’s closed, like a friction folder, but it is not it’s a it’s a locking knife.
It just has this the thumb stud out front, and now you can use it like a normal, some stud and slow slowly, rotate it out the blade out or you can flick it, but you can also kind of front flip it too, if you can imagine a Protruding Tang at the front of a closed blade near the pivot. You can just put your thumb on there and pop it out that way. Also, if you ask me now they don’t advertise it this way, but it looks like you could probably wave the scylla out of your pocket using that Tang.
You know just applying some pressure as it as it passes over the hem of your pocket. That Tang part, you could you could pop that thing out and wave it out, and none of that would matter. If it wasn’t such a cool-looking knife, it’s got. What is it a three point? Four inch drop point blade and it comes to a very acute point. Apparently it’s quite thin and slicey and then that that really acute point which I would no doubt drop the knife on – comes to an extreme tip.
So I mean this. This looks like a and not only a a nice change or tweak to the traditional opening setup of a thumb-stud knife, but it’s also got this. You know beautiful profile and seems to be extremely useful, there’s no flat on the blade it’s all belly, but it’s very gradual. So you could basically use this in many different ways and it looks like a cool knife. So, do you like the looks of the knife as much as the story of the Scylla, or does this? Does the story just really make it that much better? I I have to say Jim.
When I saw I saw the knife first and I was like that’s cool – I really it resonated with me. You know how I feel about steel. Will I’m hot and cold with them. Some other designs are just gorgeous to me, and some of them are just like. Okay, well, alright. This is one of those ones that I looked at and was like wow. I can’t wait till that comes out that just looks great and then, when I found out it was called Scylla.
Thank God they didn’t name some normal kind of lame knife. Scylla, that’s what I thought all right or the J 275 right great. Exactly it’s a good thing. They didn’t name this very cool knife that they named Sylla. The J 275 could be a waste yeah, tragic, all right, real, real steel wheel, real steel! Will man that’s right? Hey, maybe we’ve got an idea in store for them there all right. Moving on knife life news, another company, that’s really one of your favorite stops and I love the headline to insane new knives from tops.
Well, I wrote it that way because they’re both they both have a little bit of insanity, I’m going to start with a short sword. The kuma cog, a kuma cog, a is designed by sea ho waste, see how is his CG? Oh, I’m not sure how you pronounce it. It’s the title way: son Johnny side, he’s a yeah he’s a knife designer way: son, Johnny, sighs a knife designer who’s done a lot of work with tops. He designed the kuma that came out a couple of years ago looks kind of like a cuckoo kur, curry a Gurkha kukri and was adopted into the GI Joe world waist on Johnny, sighs, a big GI, Joe fan and he’s also a master and some bladed martial Arts and you know as an outdoorsman as well, and so you put all these things together and comes up with some pretty great knives, so this this short sword that cool mechag, a is, has a 15 inch blade 15 and a half inch blade.
It’s a quarter. Inch thick, it’s got an almost two-handed handle and this thing is it’s ready for the wilderness. It’s ready for the battlefield, it’s ready for anything. This thing is insane. Oh, say sounds like a 15 inch, so I only give you ready for anything. Well, I mean you know, tops knives, has flirted with some pretty big knives, but this one crosses over. You have to call it a short sword at this point: waste on Johnny side, who does a lot of Filipino martial arts designed this thing to be as long as his favorite length of Kali stick, I always used seven.
Twenty seven inches College sticks. He uses 24 inch, and that means you can get even closer and you can do some well, that’s just his preference anyway, so you made this this thing that size and then, at the end of the it’s got a relatively straight blade until you get to the End and then it swells out into this bowl and then comes to an acute point. Now that bulb adds a lot of heft to the end of the 15 inch blade, making it even choppier, if you will and and that sort of extreme curve down.
At the end, it’s like a little belly on the end of a long straight blade just adds the the power of a recurve like you would get from a kukri weight at the very end, and that would work great in both bushcraft and battle. If you will, that sounds so corny, I’m sorry, but it’s true and and then at the end of the handle where the pommel is in Filipino martial arts. That’s called a pony, oh, and that is used a lot as an impact weapon as well.
Imagine you’re very very close to someone instead of swinging the stick you’re just going to take that butt end where you know where your pinkie is and do not go around the head, yeah exactly so waste on Jonny’s I added a nice little sharp piece of metal To the end, in case, you need to do that, so this thing is is kind of insane and it’s got the tops, build quality and apparently to keep it from being an absolute boat anchor Leo and Leo, and Craig from tops chimed in on the design and Put in some Fuller’s on the blade to reduce the weight and some some additional lightning holes and under the blade you know under the handle and everything, so it’s now a manageable blade.
But this thing is cool. You got to check it out and there you can see a couple of articles on the tops blog on YouTube of them going out into the bush and just like chopping down trees. With this thing. Well, I got to ask before we move on to the to the second insane knife from tops. You said it’s a 15 inch short sword, a short sword. So when do what’s what? What at what length does a knife become a short sword and then becomes a sword? I mean, is there a is there criteria or for length? You know? Actually I’m not sure.
If anyone else has that criteria, I will say so. You said 15 inch, that’s the blade, that’s 15 it and I would say that, for me, it’s like 13 inches in over your into the into short sword area at there might be plenty of people who disagree with but knives with blades over 13 inches. Really don’t have much more of a use than chopping in field craft stuff or you know, reach for battle. You know the longer the sword the longer reach you have, the the less in trouble you are or theoretically I guess so to me I would say a 24 inch.
Knife overall is a short sword. Well, yeah, 24 inches honey. Let me pull my knife out. 24 inches all right all right, well, speaking of other insane tops knives. You wanted to talk about a cleaver Karambit. Yes, that sounds insane right there. Those two words together. Thank you. It is. It is the second insane knife from tops. That’s just coming out now. It’s called the tidal force and, let me just say when I say insane, I’m not saying not totally cool, not totally useful.
It’s just it’s just something I never would have thought of this title, for certainly is is chief among that because it’s it’s a field. Cleaver. That’s got lots of nice organic curves to it, as is it. It looks kind of like kind of looks like a cartoon cleaver. In a way, it’s got a real, deep Swale in the back of the blade and and and that the cutting edge is is nice and curved. But the interesting part is attached to.
This is a curved handle with a ring on the end, like a Karambit and to me it’s just I it’s cool and it’s interesting, but I’m not exactly sure why? Why? Because you can well, because you can, why not it’s a it’s! It’s an almost five inch. Cleaver blade, so it’s not a huge, you know. The first thing I thought of is: if you have your pinky in there and you have a huge chopper, you can mess up your pinky if something goes wrong, but this is a you know: it’s a it’s! An almost five inch blade, it’s it’s their usual 1095 and you know I could see using that that ring at the end, for generating generating more inertia right now, generating more momentum in your chop and you’ve got a small, relatively small blade, as so.
If you choke down, if you will and put your fingers one of the one of your fingers through that ring, I could see using that ring to to sort of hinge this relatively small blade on to get as much chopping power out as possible. But I just think it’s a cool thing and maybe that’s what they were thinking hey, why not a cleaver with a ring on the end. You know a Karambit cleaver no-one’s done that before and it’s eleven and eleven point eight ounces.
It’s got a Kydex sheath got burlap micarta scales, which are absolutely gorgeous. I love burlap, micarta and – and I’m really looking forward to seeing this I’ve only seen still pictures, but I’m really looking forward to seeing this in hand in someone’s hand doing work. I want to see you know what it’s like scale wise, because I see it in the hand in someone’s hand, you don’t know if someone’s hand as small or large it.
So I don’t know just to see it in action is what I want, but interesting insane blade the title force. Well, it’s also interesting that coming up with new ideas, new things as long as knives have been around and swords have been around, there’s something new. All the time it seems like yeah, yeah, you’re right – and you know what else is kind of neat about this. I got to say they they give themselves a they put their own design flourish at the end of okay.
So you know how tops knives has the dot the long bar and the dot, and I believe, that’s Morse code for something I don’t know maybe tops, maybe SOS. I have no idea, but you see that on a lot of their knives, these the hole and then the slot and then the hole cut into the top of the blade. Well, they did that in this blade, but at the very end of it, so the hole acts as the hanging, the hole that you see on a traditional cleaver, the first hole, and then you get the slot and then the other hole.
So it’s kind of a clever clever nod to the traditional cleaver design, while, while being on this insane modern American Asian, this insane amalgamation. That Bob said that he desperately that he desperately wants. This thing is ridiculous: where do I buy it? Oh you bitch and tops knives. A couple of new ones want to remind you that on episode number 48 we had Craig Powell of tops knives on the knife junkie podcast.
You find that by going to the knife, junkie.Com slash for the knife, junkie.Com slash for 8, the knife junkie.Com slash 48, and I know that was one of the interviews that you were really looking forward to having. Since you were such a big tops fan yeah. It was great talking to him because Craig is so integral to the company that he knows everything that’s happening in there. He has the inside scoop and he also has a lot of influence in some of the designs in their knives.
So yeah great to talk to him all right next up in knife life news we’re not going to talk about a knife. What I know it’s crazy: this is an accessory. If you will, it is, and it’s a it’s it’s an accessory whose time is well. I’m glad it’s here we put the best waiter, it’s a hoodie by a California based clothing company called what are they called the spindle collective and they have a new hoodie out called the Sigma 50 and it is optimized for the EDC person dome a total or Seer, well, it’s a it’s a pretty stout hoodie, that’s got you know, top top materials and cuffs that won’t, you know, get out of shape and you know all of those things we’ll get those out of the way.
It’s a really nice, really, nice, hoodie and and all of that but being optimized for EDC use. It’s got a number of pockets on the inside, which you usually don’t get on a zip up Hoodie. I have a million of them and I have I have no EDC pockets in any of them, so there are three EDC pockets on the inside to lighten the load of your jeans, pockets. Presumably so you can get a knife, you can get your phone, you can get lighters and flashlights and those kind of things in these little pockets on the inside and then the cord that goes through the hood to you know to cinch down your hoodie.
If you want to do that, but it is yeah yeah exactly it’s: it’s 550 paracord! So and it’s a it’s a it’s a nice length of it too. So you can, you can draw that out and – and you know, 550 paracord – you can cut and you can use the seven or, however many strands that are inside you can tie those all together and get a quite a length of pretty strong string. Out of so it’s an IndieGoGo project, another crowd-sourced crowdfunded project and I think it looks it – looks really cool.
I looked at two of their other jackets that they’ve put out. One is called the half century coat and the other is a forever flannel woolen jacket and they both look awesome, I’m a jacket guy like I like clothes, just fine, but I love jackets and their stuff looks cool. So I highly recommended the jacket junkie, having never worn yeah. That’s my next podcast the jacket junkie. I follow, after my dad there’s like there’s a special jacket for every like five degrees, spread of weather, mmm, okay and every occasion has a special jacket as well, and now you have hoodies that you can keep your everyday carry items in, as you said, to lighten The load down below, I think, it’s cool.
I think it’s a great idea and absolutely and with with the proper construction. Now I have to say this: none of the hoodies I have were too dis, regular sweatshirt material. Would I want to like have a bunch of gear stowed inside them, because then it would be just like a swinging pendulum on the right, but this the build of this hoodie seems to be really stout and I think that will help carry the weight too.
It’s like that material is what’s going to carry the weight as well, how stiff how? How firm that material is so right, great idea, all right! Great idea and great thanks go to knife news for bringing us all these stories. That bob has a chance to talk about each week. Knife news always seems to be on the forefront of keeping us up to up-to-date about what’s going on in the knife world, that’s right, and and not only is it a great resource just to find out.
What’s going on, but I have to say: Ben Schwartz is a fantastic writer. He is a really good writer. So I mean you read three paragraphs about the new steelwill knife and you feel, like you, just read a short story. You know he’s a reason. Very good. Writer so check it out, follow the knife jockey on Instagram at the knife, junkie.Com slash Instagram, all right back on episode, 109 of the knife, junkie podcast and our section now that’s giving Bob a chance to talk about some of his new knives as what we call The state of the collection, and not only we’re going to talk, is new knives, but also promote the ultimate steel, give a chance to talk about that, but also talk about our knife auction that Bob is going to be doing so.
First of all, we’ve talked about the collection selection. Articles already just want to remind folks again that Bob’s YouTube blog is at the knife, junkie.Com slash YouTube and you can see articles about these new knives that are in his state of collection, including the new Hinderer XM. 18 warning and the try way pivot and that’s something he wanted to to talk a little bit about yeah yeah. Well, if you’ve been listening to the podcast at all in the last week do know, I can’t stop talking about the new DLT exclusive deal.
T trading one of my favorite online knife purveyors: they do a lot of exclusives, not just with Hinderer but with Medford, knives and and others, and their newest exclusive with Hinderer is the XM 18 three-and-a-half inch, no choil, that’s the real USP warned cliff, try way knife And so I couldn’t resist, I love the Hinderer warned cliff. I think it’s, the best-looking warn cliff out there and I can’t say it’s the best performing because I haven’t tried them all and but III absolutely love my XM 24 warranty.
So when this came out, I had to jump in because I’ve been wondering what a hindrance of a toy guy a finger. Choil guy, I like to have the blade the sharp edge come kind of all the way up to the handle. That’s just how I like it and that’s what that’s what you get with the with the notes: oils models that that DLT is coming out with this: isn’t the first one they have the slicer model. I believe in a note, oil and they might have another one.
Maybe the span toe, but anyway in having this for a week. You know it came loaded with the with the bearing pivot, but err with the bearing collars, but you know that on the try way pivot, they also send you the traditional Nayla tron, and then they also send you phosphor bronze washers, and I have yet to put The other two on, because which is what I thought I would do immediately when I got this, then try them all out, see what how they all feel can compare them, but having my first XM 18 on bearings, I don’t want to change it right now.
It’s amazing, the action is incredible and the detent is close to too strong, especially with the with the shape of the XM 18 flipper, which is kind of like a a little little blade. You have to put your finger on to open up your big blade and the detent was very, very stiff when I, when I first got it, but over a week of obsessive flipping sorry, I just did a gym. That’s perfectly fine, flip away a couple of times with the obsessive flipping it has broken in and and I can already feel that the knife itself is starting to to break into it – is getting used to itself.
If you will starting to understand its own power and it’s coming out Sandler and its Hamlet, I am yes at like breaking a horse. I am bringing this Hinderer into my you’ve broken it in I’ve, broken it in. Actually, I have a very good friend who actually does break horses or used to so that that’s no mean feat and I don’t mean to compare breaking in a knife to breaking a horse, but over a week this thing has now become so smooth that you know Not only in in how it rolls out, but in how it actually deploys that I I’m in love with it, and I don’t think I’m going to change the change, the change to phosphor, bronze or or Nile Ektron anytime soon.
I think I’m going to leave it like this and just kind of roll with it. I love it and I’m going to stop talking about it in three two one and I’m going to talk about my new. I got another new knife. I got the Kershaw bare knuckle. This is a knife that you know it’s been out for quite a while I’m late to this party as usual, but I saw it for a very, very reasonable price by a by béla blades, on blade forums, great guy, to do business with, and he got a Great price: for it, it’s it’s just a standard, 14c, 2840, z28 and blade that’s the standard that they have, but it’s got a black wash finish on the blade and it’s got a dark green anodization on the aluminum handle – and you know this thing was quite a Quite a splash when they came out a year and a half ago, its USA made $ 60 USA made Kershaw with excellent materials and without the speed, safe, assisted system, but indeed with roller bear with with ball bearings on the pivot.
So it is a really really smooth USA made under $ 100 Kershaw, not ZT, but Kershaw that that people have been clamoring for or people were clamoring for a year and a half ago before they came out with it again late to the party. But I’m glad I picked this thing up, because it is a really really excellent knife and it replaces in my heart and in my collection, the knockout that I gave away to a good friend.
So I’m going to keep this and keep us as this is going to be a permanent collection knife, because it’s USA made – and I think, that’s kind of, even though I’m buying other Chinese knives and checking them out this knife. This knockout I mean this bare-knuckle comes with the purchase, also of a severe E and a CJ RB, I’m trying to compare knives all in that same realm, and this is the American representative of it and I think it’s an excellent excellent choice and if, if there Are people out there who are interested in ZTS, but maybe don’t want to spend the money on a ZT? You must check out this bare-knuckle because it has all that all the beautiful design of a ZT.
You know it looks very much like the 777, but it’s also got incredible, build quality and great materials. So if you want a ZT, don’t feel like spending the ZT money check out the Kershaw bare-knuckle. I know I’m not the first person to say this, but now you’re hearing it from me: alright, no, it’s just more nagging from the internet to tell you to get this Kershaw paranoia. So what took you so long to get it? Were there other knives that you’re in pursuit of and that one was on your list and finally got to run to it? Well sort of it? I just saw it, it was a.
It was a you know, you’re waiting in line, and you see that bag of M & Ms and you just snatch it. It was one of those kind of purchases, but the reason I didn’t buy it when it first came out is because being realistic about it. I know it’s not going to be one of my main: it’s not going to be an EDC, I’m not going to carry it with me all the time, except for the fact that it is thinner than I expected.
So I I probably will draft it into an in the waistband sort of role, because it’s it’s thin like that, but I didn’t get it originally because I knew I would probably pick up a Z T out of my collection before I would carry this one. Unless you pick up one of the new EDC hoodies, then you can start carrying it everyday and your in your jacket, I, I think that’s a moral imperative and more knives, because that means more pockets.
That’s true, it goes around. It keeps coming more knives. I got two and then I know they weren’t thinking of this, but you could take your jacket off, zip it up and then swing it around. It could be a makeshift morning start if need be only from the mind of the knife. Well, speaking about your opportunity to get more new knives, we want to talk about two opportunities to do so. Knife rights ultimate steal a huge fundraising opportunity for knife rights, but also with donations, become entries into your opportunity to receive knives and other products.
So Bob definitely want to give some promotion to knife rights and their ultimate steel promotion ongoing now yeah yeah. You know last year I’ve known about knife rights since their inception. Anyone in the and the knife thing knows about them, but it was only last year. I’m ashamed to say it was only last year’s ultimate steel contest and that contest ultimate steel, fundraiser that I ever donated to them, and I just had we had just had Doug Ritter on the show a couple of times, and I first I felt like well.
It was a sense of guilt. I got to say that that urged me into it and then once I gave money to the ultimate steel into knife rights, it was like why hadn’t I done that before come on, if anyone’s going to get. You know if you’re going to donate money to a cause that has an immediate effect on your own personal. You know what I’m saying is: is you can give money to this and it will help you down the road because they are helping to get rid of these ridiculous knife laws? I’m not saying that that it’s like helping helping children eat in Africa, but it is helping people here in this country carried things that they need knives.
They need to do work that they need to defend themselves that they need because they like them. Whatever the reason. It’s no one’s business. What the reason we should be able to carry these knives and Doug Ritter is our main proponent out there, making sure that this happens. So there you go, please donate to the ultimate steal. Now, if you look, if you go to the website, you’ll see that at various tiers of pledges you know you can you can give 50 bucks, you give 100 bucks, give 10 bucks whatever it is at each level, you have a chance to win a knife and Of course, the more money you give, the more fancy the knife, a lot of knife makers and knife companies donate knives to to knife rights to auction.
You know to give away during the this fundraiser, so you do have a chance to win some pretty sweet knives and then people regular citizens out there can also donate a knife at a certain tier level. I saw that epic snuggle bunny donated a SOG terminus under his name, and so, if you give a certain amount of money, I can’t remember what it is. Maybe a hundred bucks you have a chance to win a SOG terminus.
So it’s a it’s a pretty cool contest, but really it is an an excellent cause. Knife rides org. You can find all the information there or just use your favorite search engine and enter in ultimate steal, 2020 and you’ll be taken to all that great information and speaking of your opportunity to get some new knives or win some new knives. The knife junkie has a auction as well coming up to also benefit knife rights.
Yeah, that’s right. It was during our Town Hall. We had two of our guests: make on-air donations to the blog and we sort of stipulated right there and then that we would auction these off and donate the proceeds to the ultimate steel in knife rights. And so we have two lots that we’re going to auction off and we’re going to do it next we’re going to do it. On Thursday May 14th, it’s going to run the Queen 10 a.
M. Eastern Standard Time and 10 p.M. Eastern Standard Time and then we’ll announce the winner. The winners of the two lots on Thursday night knives that night and so we have. Let’s see we have the Bob tirzu all a lot. Bob Scherzer wool was one of the guests on our town hall, and he gave us sent me a new copy of his of his classic book, the tactical folding knife. This is a book that actually John Gonzalez, who we interview we had on the sunday show this week mentioned he learned how to make folding knives by looking at that book.
So far, we have the Bob tears we’ll about the the new edition. We have a great beautifully milled out Tirzah wool cap lifter in the sort of Aztec dragon design, that is his logo, and then we have the third part of this teruel auction lot, the mass drop and tirzu allah designed where the truth of all it designed. We knife produced mass drop, distributed compact, tactical folder. Now they are called drop as you know, but this was when they were mass drop.
So that’s what you will see on the box. The compact tactical folder is a knife designed by Bob Corolla. That has a lot of shares, a lot of design cues with the ATF and also the the Fox knives Corolla folder. It’s a really really beautiful thing. I must admit: I’ve taken it out of its out of its a little pouch a few times, because I figured I’m going to have to make a article of it. You know to temporize expend money, yeah and man.
This is a hard one to let go. You can bid, I can bid that’s right, but that would how would that look if I won both auction Lots? That would look bad. We have well as long as we have the high price that you paid for him. I’m sure that’s true, that’s true yeah. Then we got another donation from Stu, our good friend at stone and steel up in New England, a knife distributor up there and he donated a an emerson, CQC supersuit, CQC, seven Emerson, super CQC.
Seven, that’s not easy to say just taking your breath away talking about it, that’s right! It’s all black! It’s got the black coated blade and the black handle it’s an immense knife. It’s got a a five and an eight-inch handle. It’s got a three and three-quarters inch. Chisel ground tanto blade it’s from 2013, it does not have a box, but it has not used you. It has not been used. You can tell from looking at the pocket clip – and it looks like it’s been around – probably to a number of gun and knife shows and opened up and put on a table, maybe pawed over a couple of times, but the g10 is pristine.
You can tell when people have handled g10 for a while, especially a new emerson, because you can see it’s kind of gross, but you can see dusty skin residue and that okay in the aggressive pockets of that g10, you see none of that here. None of that how’s that for a sales pitch, this thing is a beautiful, beautiful knife and if it doesn’t go for a decent price, I might have to jump in on it there you go so the two lots and this is going to be on Instagram and It’s going to be Thursday May 14th bidding starts at 10:00 a.
M. Ends at 10:00 p.M. How does this work on Instagram this auction Instagram? Only it works like this. We’re going to have $ 10 increments, the starting bid. I have not determined the starting bid for either a lot, but they’re going to be $ 10 increments, and each new bid is a new comment. You have to put your new bid in the new comment, because the new comment – timestamps it and so at 10. At 10 p.
M. Right when we’re starting – maybe I should do it at 9:59 p.M. Already set it now right at the start, you’ll have to get the guest co-host to talk a while on Thursday night now, so you can check your Instagram right exactly. I don’t know if I planned this right, but yeah at 10 p.M. Thursday night. It will be the last comments. The last time stamp stamped comments with bids that will be the one so anything after 10 p.
M. If you come in and bid you’re out. It’s got to be before 10 p.M. But the last one commenting with the bid before 10 p.M. Yeah yeah exactly Wow, so it should be fun and it’ll. Be exciting. It’ll be a fun afternoon kind of keeping my eye on Instagram, seeing seeing what’s what, but that’s a it’s a little over a week away, so I’m going to build up a head of steam on it before okay, well, look forward to seeing that on Bob’s Instagram! That’s Thursday May 14th 10 a.
M. To 10:00 p.M. Your chance to bid on a couple of knife: lots there if you will and if you are not yet on the knife: junkies Instagram, that’s the knife, junkie.Com slash, Instagram, the knife, junkie.Com slash, Instagram and we’ll take you Right to his feed and if you’re not following along with the knife junkie, you’ll definitely want to do that especially follow along on Thursday May 14th, starting at 10:00 a.
M. Get your bids in early and often to to win your chance to win some of these knives And again, all the proceeds going to knife rights all right Bob. We are running a little bit over our kind of traditional normal length of show, but a lot of stuff to talk about final thoughts to kind of close out episode. Number 109 of the knife junkie. Podcast, I don’t really have much to say Jim. I think I’ve seen all today yeah it’s true.
I could say something like sharpen your knives or don’t take golf for an answer, but I’m just going to say enjoy the week man enjoy the week. Yeah get your money saved up and get ready to bid before those knives on Thursday May 14th. That’s right, that’s right and be sure to join us tomorrow, night for another episode of Thursday night knives if you’re listening to the podcast when it comes out, of course, on Wednesday May 6th, I’m referring to the Thursday May 7th Thursday night episode of Thursday night knives At 10:00 p.
M. On the knife, junkies YouTube blog okay, so maybe I do have one last thing to say on last week, on last week’s Thursday night knot, we had our good friend and frequent contributor spirited whisky come on. You know article and audio and and do the knife fight with me, the debate at the end of the show, and it was great to meet him and got a chance to show off some of his his beautiful knives man.
His collection is insane. He showed some of that stuff off. I got a chance to meet him face to face after her. So many comments during the live show in past weeks and it was great to meet him. I really really encourage everyone to do the same. You know when you’re tuning in Thursday night knives and he wanted to say, hi or show something or whatever there’s no pressure on you, you dip in you dip out.
If you want to stay for longer, we talk longer. If you just have a knife, you want to show and then say, hi and go whatever. It was really really great to meet. Spirited was nice I’d love to do that with others? Well, two things he absolutely trounced. You in the knife debate did yeah, so he was. He was really great love to have him back on again but, as you said, anybody can join in on Thursday night knives if you’ve got a webcam for your camera or if you have a tablet that, as the you know, the camera or just your smartphone.
That’s all you need is your smartphone. We have a link for you, just click on that you can come on audio only or article and audio it’s it’s a article show so we’d love to be able to see you and see the knives you’re showing off. But it’s as easy as that tablet laptop computer with a webcam or even a smartphone, join us on Thursday, night 9. So that’s again, Thursdays 10:00 p.M. Eastern on the knife.
Junkies YouTube blog at the knife. Junkie.Com slash YouTube so for Bob, the knife junkie, DiMarco, I’m Jim the knife, newbie person, thanking you so much for listening to this midweek supplemental episode of the knife: junkie, podcast, thanks for listening to the 9th junky podcast. If you enjoyed the show, please rate and review with review, the podcast com4 show notes for today’s episode, additional resources and to listen to past episodes a visit our website, the knife, junkie, calm.
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Or with the hashtag a-1-1-y-t-a-l-k-s in Twitter, That’s A11yTalks, I’m today’s Host AmyJune, I’m the open source community ambassador for Kanopi Studios and our speaker today is Adrián. Bolonio, Oh and I might have messed that Up He’s a front-end developer and web team Lead in this month’s talk, which is testing web accessibility, Adrián will Speak a bit about automated accessibility tests and how they can Free up our QA team for manual testing every part of the application, but they Cannot do that automatically and magically to make our site accessible so He’s going to show us some testing tools, libraries and techniques to increase the Accessibility test coverage of our code And he’s going to do that by using a Simple react, application, so that’ll be great, So Adrián.
I wanted to ask you a Little bit about yourself, you know we had some discourse in email and you Mentioned that you had a love for traveling and that you recently went to Italy, with your girlfriend um, do you want to share with folks the exciting News that happened in Italy Yeah well, thank you for having me here. First of All Yeah we’ve been in Italy for a couple of Weeks and then yeah we’re engaged now so so all happy nice, but yes yeah.
I love Traveling, actually, that that’s your your your right, every time that that money, Allows it and time allows it, then I’m I’m traveling Right. Where is your next Trip my next trip is to Colombia, I’m going to be speaker in the JavaScript Conference in Colombia, Yeah, and so I can, I spend a week in Colombia, so it’s going to be very exciting, Fun, fun and when you get married, did you Guys pick a location, are you going to travel for the wedding? Not yet it’s Going to happen next year: yes, Oh, Oh fun! Okay! So um are you ready to get started? Absolutely yeah Perfect, take it away.
Yes, So it’s all good! You see my so. You see The presentation Yep Perfect, so yes, I would love to talk about testing web Accessibility today, So, let’s start again, my name is Adrián or Adrián Bolonio, I’m From Madrid, I’m from Spain as AmyJune said, I’m a web team lead of the front-end Developers in my company I’m a front-end developer of that team and you can find Me under my surname in Twitter Instagram keep health everywhere.
So let’s talk About web accessibility in the real world, we can see here three cases that Is obvious that are not implemented and build correct to the people that are Targeted to so Probably because they were built by not disabled people Or Maybe because they didn’t thought to put in their shoes, But it is very clear that Those three cases are wrongly done. Another is another case that that I can Show you in the real world from the wheelchair user perspective, this is Completely wrong and it’s clear that this was not tested from the end user.
Perspective, no one thought about sitting down and clicking the button and opening The door and see that there are stairs so why is it so clear in the real work But not in the online world, so let’s see how how can we translate this? This Reality to the online world, because it’s not so obvious and not clear when we not Visually impaired people when we see a website that is not accessible, so, let’s Make it an example: if you, you are in an online e-commerce and an online shop and You want to you call the IT support.
You want to know your latest purchases, so a Typical answer from the help desk would be: you need to click on the button in The top right corner – or you want to change your password, so they can say you Need to click on the button with the engine icon. The problem here is that People with visually impaired disabilities or blind people will not See anything there’s no such as tab top right corner, there’s no such as engine Icon, so we need to get these reality when we develop applications.
Why so? Important what accessibility? If we look at the numbers last year, we were around Seven point: six billion people in the world. The problem comes because more Than 1 billion people live with some form of this one impairment from light. Two hundred percent, which would be blind people, so we need to make our back Accessible as for as much users as possible, so my team and I, as I said, I’m We are working in a platform that allows people to sell secondhand goods, so we Are the second largest Austrian website in traffic? That means we need to to Reach these people and we need to to make our website accessible for for all These people, so we are not going to throw I’m not going to talk about developing Web accessibility today I gave a talk some time ago about developing web Accessibility is called, how does your website sound like, and anyone can read? It but today I want to focus in testing web accessibility, so, as you said in the Introduction automate tests can free up your your QA team for manual testing Every single bar of your application, but it cannot automatically make it Accessible magically, so we need to think about this ultimate accessibility test.
As one step of a larger testing process, so we don’t, we cannot forget about the Fact that only twenty to fifty percent of all accessibilities can can be Automatically detected, so we don’t. We cannot skip this this manual part so as I said: we’ve been using some libraries, some tools that I would like to show you A introduction about the tools, so we we will start or I will start talking about. Testing the code, so I create a very, very small react application with three tiny Components, one is the button.
One is a fake button, which is an anchor link and One is an image and I put a bunch of errors in the HTML, so the first one is Reax, which is built by the Qin and is probably one of the one, the the tools That I use more so is install as a developer dependency in your react. Application – and you can call it passing the react on object. Why so? Because it Scans, your code, and it keeps you in the chrome, dev tool console in my case.
I’m Using Chrome all the issues that your website does, the good thing is it’s: if The issues are group and it’s group as well by severity level, so you can have Front minor, which could be the warnings to critical, which is the things that you Need to tackle first so again you can automatically see while you are Developing in the in the browser, what issues to have Another thing, another tool that I that we use and we have in our code – Guidelines is the es link plugin for accessibility for JSX, which is the react Language, you need to configure the es lint our situation file and you can Configure the rules that you want to use as we see in the line 12, we extends they Recommended rules by the accessibility, all the accessibility rules as well.
We Can extend the a strict at once so instead of warnings, you will see errors So your application will not be able to build, and in the code you can see what Errors, viewer, you are having and basically hovering the the line that you Have the earth as well, when you run the application, you can see these issues as Well in the terminal so again very very helpful. While you are coding, you don’t Even need to pass any test, you will see them automatically one of my favorites Because we tend is Jax just acts because we tend to to forget the test in writing.
Test is part of the development process. It’s not a post development process is a Part of the development process, so you can write unit tests with just and with This library just acts as well as a developer dependency. You can render into A string the whole application and you can check if the application have Violations so again, if you pass the test in the terminal, you will see pretty much The same issues that you will see in the chrome tools in the ultimate tests, this Is very helpful in your testing.
I belong if you have end-to-end test With selenium or you can have unit test you will, you will see how the Application would not build or will not be deployed to production if the tests Are not fast and with the results you can build reports to your to your Product team or to your development team, so this we’ve seen how to test in the Code so let’s see, how can we test in the Dom structure, mainly from the terminal So again, acts library has an CLI in the terminal, so you need to install it.
Globally, to be able to use it and you can run the command in the terminal. Followed by the URL of the page, you wish to test as well. You can pass localhost, so you can test in your local environment or you can use The flags, the rule flags, so you can test only one rule, in particular in the Second example: I’m testing only the color contrast, so if it I want to test If it’s compliant with a double A or the Triple A the good thing for this library, Is that it gives you the issue, the violation give you why in and where and Give you an link to the deck where University, so you can read more about How to fix this issue? There is another library which is very similar to ax Which is pa-11? Why and it basically does the same so you can.
You have to install It globally, yes NPM package and you can run it in your terminal, followed by the Url of the page, do you wait to test again? You can test against localhost and You will see all the issues listed. What years? What are the issues? Where are the Issues so it will see, it will show you the HTML, where the issue is was found. And a bit of information for me, one interesting thing about this: Library is that it has a CI in the so you can use it in the code, so you will Have to create a P, a PA 11 y CI dot JSON file, and you can pack and the URLs that You want to test, you don’t need to test one by one.
You can generate a full Reaper so in the URLs you can use it blind. I have plain you can use it as a conflict, so you can see down about or You can screen capture, so you will at the end of the test. You will see the Results and you will have a screen shot of the page, so you can test the visual Inconsistency as well and for me again, one of the interesting things about this When is, are the actions, so not only you can load the page and see if the Accessibility tests are passed, but you can perform actions so, in the sake in The third case I’m calling the Drupal group’s website and I’m waiting for the Element with the class menu three four, seven, three, which I expect the element I Know is the event link to be visible.
Then I take a capture. I click the Element and I take another capture so at the end I will have a screenshot of both Hamza and google provides a library which can be used from the dev tools as Well, so you can run this directly from the browser, but in this case i’m running This from the terminal, so I will show you the article, so you can see how how it Runs so lighthouse run a drum instance and it Will start performing tests not only accessibility but performance and SEO Because it’s my experiences SEO as a accessibility and performance both has a Very huge impact in SEO for google, so at the end of the test you will see all the Tests at the pimple and it will generate a report inside the Report, you will have the accessibility tab and you can see the score that you Have and again some information about the issues where and how to fix them.
So This is how this is some tools that you can use to test the Dom structure and, as Well, you can test in the browser, and now we are going out of the out of my tester To go to the manual testing, because all these tests that I’ve been talking about Can be automated in scripts or in the pipeline of the of building and Deploying so in a in a continuous delivery and continuous deployment, System but in this case I’m going to talk a bit about manual testing in the browser So I just selected three like a three plugins that I think I I used quite Often so this is the small react, application that I create and created, and I’m going to show you the Okay, first riad acts as we as we said, so you can see the the element and they are Highlighted so you can see.
Where are we? Where are we, then? The first one is acts So if you click in an allah ice, you will see again the issues that you have some Information about the issue: where is the issue found, and the good thing is how to Solve it and if you want to learn more again, there’s a link to the tech way. University, the second one is the art and our so a RC toolkit. So if you run test Then you can see group pi test and, for example, and they the red column, is Errors and the yellow columns are warnings and, for example, let’s take aria Usage, the good thing of this library is that they are highlighted in the code as Well, in the interview – and you can highlight where you are inspecting so in The in this case, there is a fake button that has a role and any set in valia Invalid aria role specified and if you click, you will directly go to the Element in the HTML inspector other thing that the chrome dev tool has is Enact a new accessibility panel, where you can see the whole accessibility tree Which is the Aria tree, so you can see what the screen readers will read when When the element will be focused, I think Sergey hey, I know Sergey.
I talked about This a couple of months ago, very interesting, so really read this Talk because it’s really interested and some other manual testing the rice that I tend to do is climbing a Chrome extension called no coffee. Which is a vision simulator, so you can simulate how what what can happen when I When a person has a kind of blurry vision, so this is how your website will Appear for them or someone with protanopia.
In this case the colors are Different, so it’s very interesting how to to to simulate the disability of Someone so you can develop this application in a better way, so yeah Those are three extensions that you can use to test your application in the Browser again manual testing, the small react application that I create again is Just a test to to to use these tools, you can find it in the repository in github.
In my in my profile, and I want to leave with with the sentence that I found and I really really like it, which is it says it just it’s not just about disabled Users being able to access your website is about everyone being able to assess Your website, so when we develop and with web accessibility in mind, we just we Don’t develop for disabled people, we develop for everyone, so so we need to we Need to to think about this, and that’s it! Okay, thanks Adrian, do you want to put us On you know, stop sharing your screen there.
You go So are there any questions from anyone on the call today? I know that there was A question from from Andrew he was curious to know which Jas X, Alli air as You extend beyond the default recommended ones, yes, so the errors that I am used for this example and again you can see it in the in the repository. Are All tasks, and you can say which elements you are looking for alternatives in this Case I use image, object, area and inputs with the type image no interactive tab.
Index so I want to avoid table indexes and different numbers, so not interactive. So in a div or in a label, no static element interactions, so I don’t want to I’m looking not to have on click on mouse down on Mouse up on creep press on Key down and on key up in a non static element. So only the the elements that Could have on click should have on click, so no thieves that looked like a button. That you can click on them.
No redundant rolls label has associated control again. Labels with an input so no input without labels, interactive support, focus again. Focus focus of all elements should only be part on check box link search boards. Switch text box le Phaedra Phaedra, the anchor link is Valid – and this is very interested because you can specify here the Components do you looking for, so, if you remember at the beginning, I I create a Tiny component called fake button, which is an anchor link, so in This case, I’m extending anchor is Bartlett and I’m passing the component Fake button, so every time that in react, I’m using this fake button, the Linton Will say, look, this is not.
This is not an phallic anchor and I can look for Special link so href left and HOF right and no ATF. Obviously, anchor has content. So, for example, the most typical example for this is you have the logo of your Website and is wrapped into an anchor in the image or you have an anchor with Nothing inside so the every Ankara should have an a Content. I’m looking Forward language Aria roles, so in heaven heaven has content, so I’m looking for as Well, heading so h1: h2 that has content no empty h2 host because of we are Things you want to use it as separate or whatever things that you should not to That’s that’s the the extension.
So I’m doing but again, if you, if you want to Take a look of the of the repository you can find everything specify the labels So to one it depends on critical minor, whatever you want to do to treat them. Perfect um so certainly has a question for you. You wanted to know if you use Cypress js4 accessibility, testing and if you have yeah no, no, we don’t. We don’t Use Cypress, we use react testing library from Kent, art asked he said.
No, no. We Don’t use Cypress we evaluated to use Cypress at the beginning, I mean we use Playing just and and now we are starting to use, react testing library. If react. Used to have a react, thus I eleven, but it was deprecated Towards react, ax well done liquid, because hopefully it Will be included in further versions of react um. What do you do when the Different tools give you different reports or conflicting reports: sorry ii, What do you do when different tools give you different reports or conflicting Results: okay, it depends on first, you will.
I will check how each library Is configured so, for example, maybe in the linking that we were talking before I I was looking for Encore not valid in in my component, which is the fake button. But if I don’t specify that this, but because I’m specifying explicitly this Component is wrong, but react. Acts in the browser will not say anything because I’m not specifying to this library a this component is not a nun.
It’s not a Valid anchor so for other libraries will be a valid anchor. So first you need to See the configuration of each one if you have a conflicting one, I normally go to The w3c specification and read about like okay, what is the best practice and Why is this not correct in this library and wise is correct in this library or What is the levels? Maybe one is a warning and one is a error. I normally go.
Directly to the specification so and has a couple of questions in the chat Window, the first one he asked was: do you normally test the entire application for Violations in one assertion, as opposed to testing specific components or Screams we do we do both, so the test that you’ve seen is rendered the whole Thing and and pass it through the through the testing library text, yest Acts and we test component by component, but the problem with component by Component is that if you have a component, I receive an alternate test: For an image as a prop and the prop is not passed, you would need to have Several tests for this with the application you just know what is what Is there unless is obviously coming from database or an API The other issue for us is that we are a service site application based, so we use Next J’s, sometimes we have data render in the server that are not coming in the Client, so sometimes the data is not coming, so we sometimes we have Components that we cannot test, unfortunately, his second question in the chat was: do You ever find their violations that fail the test, suite that you need to write.
That you want to skip or ignore, and is that possible on a one-off basis or do You always need to make code changes to address accessibility, test failures and Then, following that up with, how do you account for testing the rendered app in Different states: okay, for the first question: yes, there’s violations that Fail the test suite that we need to ignore sometimes pick it again. There’s Something that I always say to my team, and not only the team that I that I Developed with, but product team in general is that we need to be the most Accessible as we can it’s very difficult to be hundred percent accessible, Unfortunately, but I can tell you an example because it happened today, we Have an image gallery and some of the thumbnails are not images – are our Background images, the good thing is that all the thumbnails are in the gallery, so All the images have their correct alternate test.
So if I look for images This thumbnail will not appear in my test, so it’s not that they failed. It is Just literally, they are not found so, for me is a failure, but I just keep it Because in favor of the other images, and sometimes we have to ignore them – the Better example for us is as our logo, the colors of our logo are not three pelican Compliant so it’s like our our corporate log, our corporate colors, it’s just blue And white: it’s something that I cannot change, because the board will kill me if I change the logo.
This is something that we need to ignore. How do you account for Testing the render up in different states mocking we normally model data That we pass to the test, so we mark some 500 errors. We mark some success. We mark Errors – and we test as much we can – is obvious that sometimes we miss Some stuff, but this is, I guess, that’s obvious and Kari asked in the chat if what you Thought of and I’m going to destroy this last name man, not you this article on Building the most inaccessible site possible with the perfect lighthouse Score, did you read that yeah absolutely absolutely, of course, actually actually He lives in Vienna and we are going to.
We are in the process of found in the Accessibility cloth, Vienna together so yeah, absolutely I mean again know all the all the libraries, the tools that we have seen. They are not perfect manual show us perfectly how to how to score 100 % with The list with with the worst website possible but yeah if you find the hole The best thing they can do or the best thing you can do – maybe it’s reported and Try to make this tool better, so yeah we need.
We need to use the tools knowing That it could happen and and again, as I said in my slide ultimate test, it’s just One part of the whole testing process, so manual test is very important as well. And I think manual said it in in a talk and Sergei as well the best testing tool That you can do is just is close your eyes and try to use your website with The screen reader, if you’re, able to perform an end-to-end action, you can log In you can purchase you can whatever Pro you’re selling or service, then then can You good yeah, there’s definitely limitations to automated testing, so this Is like a really broad question, but do you find that there’s one tool, that’s Better than another for finding certain issues, not not better but different, Situations so, for example, I use react, acts in the Browser instead of the acts, chrome, chrome, plugin, because I normally have The console log open, so for me it’s not that one is which is totally wrong.
Both Are developed by the same company, but one is better in one situation for Example, just I use testing in the terminal instead of using the CL eyes or The CI, so I prefer to write my own tests than to run PAE them in Y or or acts Directly in the terminal both are going to most likely most likely are going to give Me the same result but yeah I can run tests continuously and and the other one Is their one-time thing so yeah, it’s not it’s again, not not better than the other One, but with their situations Carrie asked well, she stated we captured A lot of the links, but do you have any other resources you want to recommend to The group for yes definitely, I mean a linear project.
Carrie, your your blog literally Scott ohhara Twitter account any any Accessibility guru, let’s say in Twitter, follow them they will. They are Continuously, sharing blog, post and and and tools to use in our development. Process you mentioned manual mitosis, which the His blog is a huge inspiration as well. He has a very cool section, which is Today I learned field section and every day is he posted he posts and heals Anything so my biggest resource is Twitter, follow probably the hashtag 11y And you will find would find a lot yeah.
It’s it’s social Media is really great for for targeting what you want to learn. The hashtag does Anybody else on the call any questions or discussion points for Adrienne Opening it up for people, no, nothing, okay, so I wanted to ask you something: About your music, playlist, Adrienne, okay, you said you liked jazz, but like what Kind of jazz, like comes you up when you’re doing the accessibility testing Like what like really gets you going like what really helps you get into that Groove, because sometimes you know I hate to say this – the testing can be a little Bit arduous and tedious, you know, so what do you recommend and I I just know, not a Specific art disorder – or I mean probably it’s more into the funk part, so Maceo Parker is my probably my favorite, Frank artist, but any just music is very Relaxing to tour with jazz doesn’t funk yeah.
I am not quite there in the jazz World you know I like the funky side of jazz, but some of the other stuff I Either are not cultured enough or I haven’t been exposed to the right. Artists to really have a deep sense of you know, love for the genre yet, but That’s okay: I can get there. Okay, I just want to give everyone else. One more Opportunity for questions or discussion points there’s a big group today, so I’m Just hoping someone has something to say it might be.
My Yeah, go on under you’re welcome to turn your microphone on to Andrew. If you want To do it that way, yeah! I can do that. Can you hear me yeah, okay, great yeah? This is Easier, so I’ve got lots of test suite questions, I’m in the middle of trying to Set up something for my team as full feature is this so when your tests are Failing that you choose to ignore, is that mean your test? Suite is literally Family, because a lot of test suites are gatekeepers for the CI to build.
So how Do you, how do you deal with that or how does that work? Yes, absolutely There’s this is something that you need to talk with your team of course, and so In our team again, this is what you just said: Our tests need to get to pass to continue building, so we have every pull Request that we make to the code, it has a test and the build breaks. We need to Look where is this the the wait break, what he braked – Oh buddy, Proctor, so Sometimes you need to analyze this this test.
We normally have our UX designer Sitting with us – and we need to talk – is this really a usability test? Failure is It an accessibility test failure is the accessibility. How is the level of Severity, so is it a warning, is in an error, is a huge error. Like okay, you have Links with with no ATF, you have images with no alt text. Okay, you need to fix That again, do you have color contrast that is not compliant with a triple-a or Not even double-a, okay, then we need to evaluate it and, if is if we need to in If we decided to ignore it either you delete the test.
Or either you make it past the test I mean, how can I say it like you: can Reduce the severity your tolerance today today to the test. So if you’re looking For errors in the industry, in in this specific test, you’re looking for Warnings so the error will go or the other around the warning will go: okay, That’s really helpful, so you’re you’re not letting a your test suite fail to be Green, you know indefinitely because that’s one Thing that’s important is that we trust the test suite.
So definitely I mean so In making a test with expect through and and passing to is just delete the test Makes no sense. Okay thanks. I really appreciate that good anybody else. Do you have anything else? You want to say Adrienne, one thing is just we need to understand that the Responsibility of web accessibility is not on the developers it has to be in The whole team so from product managers, product owners, you x-ray designers, UI Designers developers testers everyone, it’s not.
The developers needs to think Of everything, and if it’s not accessible, is part of the developments or the Developers fault, no. This is something that, if you, if your product owner Requests a new feature and if the feature is a button who perform an Action then it has to be a button and if it’s a link who goes to a place, then it Needs to be linked, ok, button against link. We talk about a different day, but But we have so HTML provides us with the correct tools.
We don’t need to download. Any polyfill we don’t need to download any library is everything. Is there to be Used so one is use with what you have correctly and again, it’s responsibility. Of everyone, so to argue, do not fight if it’s possible with your designer and say No, I’m not going to delete the outline of our focus only and an argue it Correctly, I will delete the outline only if we put something else or this this Button I want a button that looked like an icon and in small screens look way.
Way less this if it’s possible, because if it’s not possible, let’s look for a Different solution that that the UX, the user experience is not effective, so it’s Something that is is easy, because it is really really easy, because Aria, give you all the opportunity you have so you just need to do it and again Involve everyone in the process, so if you could involve the whole team, but I Prefer it for for your process, because if you have an accessible product, then Is a better product not again the same as they my last sentence, not for Disabled people, for everyone right – those are great words – well enjoy your time in Columbia, I hope you really enjoy the countryside, along with the conference.
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You can do it with reaching out to people on Facebook. You can find people on Facebook that are that. That would be interested in your products or services reach out to them on a daily basis, but the consistency comes like this is every day you have to do things so, for me, I’d do a article every day. I’ve been doing this for the last eight months. I haven’t missed a day and I’d. Do it all the time, and you know my I was I used to not really have the discipline to do that.
I started my youtube blog way back in 2011 and I remember at that time I was going to be consistent with my articles and I there was a few times along that path. Where I jumped into YouTube articles – and I would do some and then a couple weeks later – I would be going on to the next thing and I’d used to do this for a long time. The thing about creating consistency within something that you do. It opens up a lot of other disciplines in your online business and in order to really get it going and succeed like with these articles, you have to have a lot of value out there on the internet, because there’s so many people out there that are creating Value and you have to stand out and you got to really push to the next level and get your your value out there I mean with you know: if you have an Instagram page, you got a post every day.
Maybe you post two or three times a day. It’s got to be consistent now the thing is, with consistency also comes this mindset of your mind. That starts playing tricks on you. It starts to tell you that what you’re doing is not it’s not good or it’s. You know go, try something else and you get sidetracked and you start working on different things that aren’t going to really help you succeed. So, if you’re, if you’re creating articles every day for the first three or four months, if you created articles, nobody’s going to read your articles, there’s going to be likely one or two people are going to read your articles.
So you have to come out the next day, knowing that nobody’s going to read your articles, but the great thing about YouTube is that your articles stay inside of YouTube forever. So people could come back and read your articles that you created two years ago. So consistency is going to help you stand out. I remember you know Casey nice dad he’s a huge YouTube or online and he was. He was telling a story that the first five years, I guess on his YouTube blog.
He acquired five hundred thousand subscribers, which is huge. Then he said, and he was he was posting a YouTube article, maybe once a week, maybe maybe once every two weeks, okay and he required 500,000 subscribers. He said that he started posting every day. You know a article. Every day, and then that next year after the fifth year so was six year, he acquired 500,000 more subscribers to his YouTube blog.
What did he do? He just became consistent. He came became more consistent in his articles. You can do the same thing if you’re doing a blog, it has to be consistent over and over and over again, you look at John Chow John Chow calm. His consistency with blogging was, you know, he’s making millions of dollars now, but he talks about his first. Eight months of blogging, nobody came to his blog. Nobody was there, nobody bought his.
You know nobody clicked on his affiliate links. Nobody was even there, but after eight months he started to start seeing some money coming in and now he’s. You know he’s like eight years into blogging and he makes a million dollars a year because of all those blogs that he’s created in the past and he was consistent every day and he still does it every day. So daily consistency is going to be your key to success.
Doesn’t matter what platform you’re Adam you could be on Facebook, but it has to be something that you create value to. You know if you go and – and you you know – are commenting on people’s. You know. If you’re not really creating value on certain social media platforms, then you’re, not that’s, not consistency so like liking. People’s posts on Facebook is not being consistent. That’s not creating value, but if you create a post that helps somebody in a certain way, if they’ve they want to learn about marketing and you create a article on how to create marketing and you put it up there, you create value for somebody.
Now people are going to be interested in what it is that you have to offer so consistency every day. So what I want you to do is sit down with yourself and I want you to say: okay, I’m going to do something every day. One thing: just one thing: I’m going to do every day it can be make a article, it could be create a blog post. It could be. You know, reach out to ten people on Facebook, new new people on Facebook.
Anything like that. Every day you have to do it and it has to be done. You know three months into it when nobody responded to you nobody’s reading your articles nobody’s looking at your blog nobody’s getting back to you. You have to step up the next day and continue to do it because, eventually, what’s going to happen, is just it’s going to start the snowball it’s going to start to eventually pick up, I used to grow up in Ohio and when we used to make snowman You have to you know you snowman, have the the big big giant you know base, but in order to get that base going, you had to pack really tight snow and then you had to you had to work it right.
You had to work it in the snow and eventually it started to roll and roll and roll and become easier and easier. But at the beginning of packing that little tiny snowball you had to pack it tight and you had to really push into that snowball and then eventually it started to go, and then you have this giant. You know this giant snowball that you’ve all you can do you just you can just like roll it and it’ll just cumulate, bigger and bigger and bigger, but to get it started, you had to really work it.
You had to work at heart. That’s what you’re going to do on a consistent daily basis, alright, so find one thing and just stick with it: just do it every day. If you want to do other things, and you want to you know, you know start one thing and stop with it. Another thing: that’s fine, but just one thing you’re going to do every day you have to be consistent with and you have to you know I used to get over and over and over again show up and you will be successful.
So that’s going to be the one thing: that’s going to help you propel your business. If you like this article click on the like button also share with your friends comment below. Let me know how I can help your business. This is Tyler Pratt. Hope you enjoyed that and we will see you on the next one.
You guys can see that over there, after six hours of doing retail arbitrage and all that stuff, you know straight. Oh, he was on a mission today because a few people been hitting me up about an hourly rate and it was like well how much do you make per hour or you know, what’s like an average hour or stuff like then I’m like, and I would just Reply, I don’t know like I’ve, never really calculated any of this stuff an hour like.
I never really cared about any of that stuff. You know so today we went out and we did six hours straight. That’s like everything you know. That’s packaging labeling. You know again we’re at UPS right now just package yourself off like after I finish this article, I’m going to take it in there. So it’s been a total of around six hours, so we’re looking at around nine hundred and thirty dollars in profit and that’s just like just just straight profit like I’m able today, I’m not going to lie.
I got lucky buddy going to lie. I got extremely lucky, so I went into a store that I rarely go into you’re, not probably going there like once every two weeks or so like I mean rarely going in, go in this store – and I find this product that you know I’m normally like selling. All the damn time – and it was just sitting right there on clearance, so we’re going to be making around seventy dollars in profit on each one and that’s after all fees like I wish I could have found more because that would have been great, but I mean It is what it is couldn’t find that many of them – but you know picked up – you know, picked up what I could and you know, took him home, packaged everything up and sent it right off.
So that was pretty much the end of it and the best part about it, too, is that I didn’t have to like go and look for the product or hope it was going to be at a store or any of that all you have to do guys. Instead of like using like something like break, seek and stuff like that, now I’m not saying don’t use it, but for me personally, I’ve never really had like major major major success with bricks things.
I’ve seen some people just absolutely crushing a big brick seek. They go to store the products there, the whole nine yards. For me, the product was never there like, especially at Walmart. I didn’t find. I think I only found one product that was on brick seek and at Walmart I’m brixey going to be like oh yeah, there’s just many there you get to store there, isn’t any of them there at all alright. So when it comes to them using like the little gun thing like a little phone like gadget, whatever thing they got or whatnot, it sucks that we can’t get that Apple.
I even acts like hey. Is there any way I can get that up? There’s like knowledge is for employees only so that sucks or whatever, but you know they can scan a product and it’s like 100 % accurate, like YouTube like. Oh there’s, just many over here this many over here this many over here this many over here. So all I have to do is just take down the addresses of where they’re at and then just go pick him up.
That was literally how simple he went today. The only downfall was that they were so far apart. So it took me wrong, like partly three hours, some chains just driving everywhere to get there, but I mean it was stupid. He’s like I said, 150 bucks basically an hour and we only burnt like 20 bucks worth of gas. So I mean he get $ 155. Put up per hour whatever, if you like, break you down and divide everything up, so it was real, simple, stuff, good and easy day.
I even found a few products over at the goodwill I stopped through there and if you guys, aren’t a line chart profits. Member definitely joke, you know, go join there and read gems in plain sight. Tell you guys, like you’re, going to kick yourself in the face when you realize all the products you walk by in the goodwill, a just crazy stuff like this product, I’m actually going to be sending off for whatnot.
I think okay well three dollars for and it’s selling for what was it a hundred, it’s like, let’s say out, 100 plus dollars like and there every single time. You know like not every time they’re in it, but they come in they’re like quite frequently, and is there just like right there and people just don’t pick them up. I was passing the ball, the damn time myself or whatever you know until I just started like looking stuff up or whatnot, but that’s pretty much it guys.
So hopefully this gave you guys a more of an insight or whatnot. You know on how to do stuff and how much you know you can make per hour and all that, like, I said, keep in mind, this is just my experience. It could be completely different in your area like if you are doing like what do you call it just straight thrift, store and stuff like that, it will take you a lot longer than six hours to like put all this stuff together to be 100 %.
Honest because, like I said for me, it went by like 30 minutes and everything in a box label and everything was cuz. I only had like two or three different products right, so I just escaped. I just you know, put everything on there and you know, put the labels on and then literally put in the Box took like 30 minutes max right. I didn’t I’m now, I’m just driving up the street, taking it to UPS now, when you got a bunch of different products like if you’re doing thrift store.
You know you’re going to have like a hundred different products on take you like two or three, sometimes even four or five hours, depending how quick you are to put everything in a box label, it check it the whole nine yards with this stuff. I didn’t have to check it. I didn’t have to do any of that, but that’s pretty much. It guys, don’t fertilize subscribe and all that fun stuff.
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You could also search by company name and Just add that to my criteria I can also click search, but I’m looking for Particular publications by S & P and it’s kind of hidden They are actually under a Organization called CFRA, which is the CFRA Research, And once we do that, we Click search and it will just search for that contributor and that ticker And so Here we find CFRA Research.
If we go to the next page, we can see that by Clicking on an older report like this, the contributor is actually a Standard & Poor’s stock report, (, that was the old name ) The new name under Mergent Online for the new report is CFRA. Ok, So now we found those reports. That’s good, let’s just say we want to find other equity or stock reports for Activision that aren’t just S & P reports. We can go down and search for the ticker Style ticker name and then the report style and click on the report list here.
And just choose “ company equity reports.” And once we do that, we’re just going to find Reports from other equity firms, in addition to S & P or CFRA, that talk about Activision, So here we have stuff from Global Data, Piper Jaffray. You know, Marketline Wedbush other places like that. That would be a great place to find Additional equity reports and brokerage reports and analysis for your particular Company Hope this article helped you find those stock reports.
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