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Couple of items about github reports
Brian's Mail list account
Firstly, can somebody tell me how you know if you have uploaded a file or not? It does not seem obvious to me. You take browse, you highlight the file, than go to the open button and press it and nothing appears to alter or no button saying start the upload or upload completed seems to appear. I've tried waterfox and firefox.
Second, after my posting the template and maybe the file.. grin, I got an email saying something like you logged in, we did not recognise your location, if this is you take no action. Is this normal, and no I've not moved but my isp does change the IP address quite often to balance load. Brian -- bglists@... Sent via blueyonder.(Virgin media) Please address personal E-mail to:- briang1@..., putting 'Brian Gaff' in the display name field.
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Gene
I just tried uploading a file. After I pressed the open button, I
tried downarrowing and heard a message that my file was uploading.
Down arrowing might have had nothing to do with the message. I
might have heard it if I did nothing.
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I don't know how you looked at the page but I quickly moved line by line from the top of the page after a moment when I thought my file had probably finished downloading and I found a line somewhere that says this: [JAWS Keystrokes.pdf](https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/files/9139172/JAWS.Keystrokes.pdf) I looked in that way because you said you found nothing. I don't recall if I first tried to move around near where I was but if you don't know what or where you are looking for something and think there is a reasonable chance it should be on the page, check the whole page. Now, my question is how to delete the file since it is just a test. Gene On 7/19/2022 3:34 AM, Brian's Mail list
account via groups.io wrote:
Firstly, can somebody tell me how you know if you have uploaded a file or not? It does not seem obvious to me. You take browse, you highlight the file, than go to the open button and press it and nothing appears to alter or no button saying start the upload or upload completed seems to appear. I've tried waterfox and firefox.
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Gene
I checked and I don't have any repositories so I can't delete the
file in that way. I don't think anyone will see it since I hadn't
created an issue when I uploaded it. I'd like to delete it because
its just sitting there taking space but I'm not sure it is possible.
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Gene On 7/19/2022 3:59 AM, Gene via
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I just tried uploading a file. After I pressed the open button, I tried downarrowing and heard a message that my file was uploading. Down arrowing might have had nothing to do with the message. I might have heard it if I did nothing.
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It's in markdown so the easy thing is to go to the top of the edit field
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then look for [filename[](http://link.to.path) Take care and hope that helps.
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From: chat@nvda.groups.io <chat@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Brian's Mail list account via groups.io Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2022 1:35 AM To: chat@nvda.groups.io Subject: [chat] Couple of items about github reports Firstly, can somebody tell me how you know if you have uploaded a file or not? It does not seem obvious to me. You take browse, you highlight the file, than go to the open button and press it and nothing appears to alter or no button saying start the upload or upload completed seems to appear. I've tried waterfox and firefox. Second, after my posting the template and maybe the file.. grin, I got an email saying something like you logged in, we did not recognise your location, if this is you take no action. Is this normal, and no I've not moved but my isp does change the IP address quite often to balance load. Brian -- bglists@... Sent via blueyonder.(Virgin media) Please address personal E-mail to:- briang1@..., putting 'Brian Gaff' in the display name field.
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Brian's Mail list account
No its very unsatisfactory. I mean one finds, on many many web sites hat the result of an upload displays writhing a few lines of the actual add files or browse buttons. Github seems to be basically, out of step. I upload a lot of files for our talking newspaper every week and in no case have I seen anything that does not pop up a status bar or put the file uploaded near the control it was uploaded with.
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Brian -- bglists@... Sent via blueyonder.(Virgin media) Please address personal E-mail to:- briang1@..., putting 'Brian Gaff' in the display name field.
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From: "Gene" <gsasner@...> To: <chat@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2022 10:15 AM Subject: Re: [chat] Couple of items about github reports I checked and I don't have any repositories so I can't delete the file
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Brian's Mail list account
Why? Surely markdown is only relevant for the text you input and its formatting?
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Brian -- bglists@... Sent via blueyonder.(Virgin media) Please address personal E-mail to:- briang1@..., putting 'Brian Gaff' in the display name field.
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From: "Sarah k Alawami" <marrie12@...> To: <chat@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2022 4:31 PM Subject: Re: [chat] Couple of items about github reports It's in markdown so the easy thing is to go to the top of the edit field then look for [filename[](http://link.to.path) Take care and hope that helps. -----Original Message----- From: chat@nvda.groups.io <chat@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Brian's Mail list account via groups.io Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2022 1:35 AM To: chat@nvda.groups.io Subject: [chat] Couple of items about github reports Firstly, can somebody tell me how you know if you have uploaded a file or not? It does not seem obvious to me. You take browse, you highlight the file, than go to the open button and press it and nothing appears to alter or no button saying start the upload or upload completed seems to appear. I've tried waterfox and firefox. Second, after my posting the template and maybe the file.. grin, I got an email saying something like you logged in, we did not recognise your location, if this is you take no action. Is this normal, and no I've not moved but my isp does change the IP address quite often to balance load. Brian -- bglists@... Sent via blueyonder.(Virgin media) Please address personal E-mail to:- briang1@..., putting 'Brian Gaff' in the display name field.
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Gene
It is important to look at a page and, if necessary, carefully,
skimming line by line, if you take an action that might result in
something happening and the user being notified on the page, but you
don't see anything. A sighted person would see what is being
displayed, such as the file name and a bit of text about it easily
on this page, I assume. It may be in a different color or offset in
some way. It is very important not to equate accessibility with
usability or convenience.
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Gene On 7/20/2022 3:26 AM, Brian's Mail list
account via groups.io wrote:
No its very unsatisfactory. I mean one finds, on many many web sites hat the result of an upload displays writhing a few lines of the actual add files or browse buttons. Github seems to be basically, out of step. I upload a lot of files for our talking newspaper every week and in no case have I seen anything that does not pop up a status bar or put the file uploaded near the control it was uploaded with.
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Luke Davis
On Jul 20, Brian's Mail list account via groups.io wrote:
Why? Surely markdown is only relevant for the text you input and its formatting?The below applies to uploading files to GitHub comments only, such as the comment you are posting when you create or reply to an issue. When you press the "browse" button to attach a file to the comment, and press "open" after entering/choosing the file, two things happen: 1. The file is uploaded to a location on GitHub that makes the file publicly available via some randomized long URL, which ends in an escaped version of the file name. 2. In order to actually associate the file with the comment, a line of Markdown is inserted to the comment field, probably wherever you last had your focus mode cursor, which references the file. That is how the comment knows you want to link to that file. The file is not attached to the form itself in any way, as if you uploaded the file to that comment form. You are uploading the file to GitHub in general, and then dropping a link to it in the comment you are posting. If you return to the edit field for the comment after you upload/open the file, you will find a Markdown link line as Sarah pointed out. It looks like this: [freeform text that is the file name](actual_GitHub_URL) The part in the square brackets, is what is shown to readers of your comment. you can change that however you like, for example if you want to make it look like part of a sentence. The part in the round brackets (parenthesis), is the URL itself, to the public GitHub file server where they stuck your file. You can take that line and move it to anywhere in your post, just like any other text. You can copy and paste it, etc. It is just Markdown text, that generates an HTML link to the file when you ultimately post your comment. So, you could attach a file called "something.zip". you'll get a line like this: [something.zip](https://githubuserdata.com/blah/blah123/something.zip) You can select and cut that line, and move it to somewhere other in your text, like so: The files I wanted to show you can be [downloaded here](https://githubuserdata.com/blah/blah123/something.zip), and I would appreciate you reviewing them. Or, of course, you can leave it where it first appeared in the comment. As to Gene's side question of what happens when you upload a file, but then don't post the comment: I have no idea. It may eventually expire if it remains unreferenced, but I have never tried testing it. HTH Luke
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