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That's pretty cool And then and then I like going down to the jungle Okay, let's fly to let's fly to West Wall first. Let's turn it. Let's turn in this quest You want to try gonna come down do it right now Okay Hang on I'll show you where it is And yeah, you just think about it really hard. Okay, ready and just try Now you don't be Okay, it's right here. It's right here. It's right here. Okay, so I just lift you. Okay, ready.  Don't squish me down. Okay. Okay, ready? Okay, breathe out Wait, I'm gonna breathe out. Breathe in first Okay, you already breathe in to exist. Hang on. Okay, breathe in first. Okay, put your hands Okay Why stop laughing I had permission to do this Say yes, you have permission to do this say say it out loud No, say yes, that's been you have permission to Ready That worked.  Did you get it? Really? Okay, bye Dude, my back cracked so much. I wonder if it's gone. It still feels sore Wait, Milord. Oh, sweet. So this guy said Milord I tis the Sabbath. Please accept my tithe Oh, indubitably Okay, that's what if you're talking to a girl online Okay, okay.  Let me do this and then let's explain this because I think my brain is not ready. Hey, I'm a lord Hey, I hope you find Need for these items with all your wisdom and experience one This is the sweat of a troll. I have no purpose for this What of a troll is he trolling you right now a powerful aphrodisiac? He's trolling you The king needs not have needs For an aphrodisiac My applause are over. This isn't insulting. What is this? Wait Why is amaranth here? Hey, baby.   This is your local authorities Stormwind guards are on the lookout for a man with 400 bottles of troll sweat It is unknown how he acquired so much of this powerful black market aphrodisiac But rumors say it might be from a sex dungeon What's going on in the scene of my life? Okay, so ask her the question again. So you're talking to a girl online and she's deaf. You'd never met her and She apparently Like Lives near you, but she refuses to meet up, right? Can I help you?   I think that Do I want to meet up with her? Well, don't you? Well, she's getting a video call See, that's what I said too. I said I'm 41 where I said that That's what I said, too. I well, I didn't say video call. I said FaceTime because I'm not 40. Yeah But doesn't it sound like a catfish?  The person that was trying to do it never asked her to go on a video call And I was like, what is wrong with you?  That's like the number one rule first.  That's not even good enough No, you don't get on a video call If you're talking to them like dating them, you don't get on a video call Well, so if you're chants and febe haven't ever been on a video call Okay, well chants and febe I don't believe that Actually, I do believe that they've been on a video. I do believe that they haven't been on a video call But I don't believe that they haven't met up I don't believe it. I think that it's a meme that he wants everyone to believe So much so that he's gonna convince all of his friends that that's true. I think that he has met up with her There's no way he would be this way. There's no way. There's no way. There's no way. It's not true.  Go to your local print store. I don't know You just go to the cvs and print her out Hey, malordi just got home from a long day of cleansing the plague lungs to find 800 bottles of troll viagra on my doorstep And wife's hunter pet is rock hard. Did you have anything to do with this? I don't know anything about what happened with the troll sweat guys Do you think febe actually looks like the pictures that she's posted? Bebe hasn't posted pictures She hasn't Yeah, what do you mean? I thought she had posted pictures of herself She did a face reveal. I thought no, she looks like this. I'm gonna have a gore. Is that there's like, I'm gonna have Don't do that, please don't do that Where is she from? Is she from america? Why is this dog so horny? She has the best voice Wait a second That is so funny. I got everybody. I got an idea for later. I got an idea for later No, I'll tell you later. Can I help you? Can I help you? I thought his name was milky's but his name is macael. Why are you so obsessed with milky's? I got it from you. You told me about all the joys with milky's.  I killed that one fair and square And you were gonna come. No, I'm tired of that. That made me so grumpy the other day I literally would kill things and then you'd come up and you'd swipe my loot And you'd get finished the quest faster than I could but I would spend all this time killing it It is on group loot. There's stump like it lets you loot one and then it lets me loot one And then it's it's just random if it drops or not Is that true? Yes And then if it doesn't if I get it first, you know what happens what I wait until you finish before I go turn in No, no, no, no, no, no, no, you're lying.  No, man. There's no reason to trick you You should be ashamed of yourself.  No, that's not what it says.  No, it does not Barney It doesn't. No, this is innocent. I thought it was some sexy little girls. Listen to the song. Pull it up. Okay, we have to tag these guys, but I don't see them because there's too many freaking heads here. Listen to that song. You, is it you bad religion? Did you hear it? Sexy little, yeah, sexy little girl. This is most innocent. Listen. Most innocent little girls. Wait, play it again. Go back. I know what he said. I heard him. I heard what he said. Yeah. And what did he say?  Most innocent. Most innocent little girls. Most innocent little girls.


Good afternoon. Welcome to my presentation. My name is Sarah Police. I go on to the Twitter handle SarahTK. And if anyone's tweeting today, you might like to add the hashtag for accessibility, which is A11Y. Everyone takes it for 2Ls, but what they've actually done is they've taken 11 letters out between the A and the Y, and that's how we get A11Y or ALI as we refer to it verbally. Today, I'd like to talk to you about creating dynamic and accessible web content in Drupal 7 using a W3C standard called WayArea. So, a little bit about me. I'm currently the Web Accessibility Evangelist queue for AccessIQ.  Back in 2002, I can still remember what my I guess the blinding moment for me, understanding accessibility was when I was at the Australian Accessibility Conference, the Aussie Way conference, and someone brought up an image map in a browser, turned off images, and there was absolutely no way for someone who was, for instance, blind or visually impaired to actually navigate past the home page because all of that information was inaccessible. I still remember today the feeling of sitting there. It was the aha moment for me. Throughout 2002 to 2010, I've done a variety of things. I've got a techie background, but I'm not a dev and I'm not a Drupal developer. I am a Drupal user. AccessIQ that I mentioned I worked for runs on a Drupal 7 site and is accessible as does Media Access Australia, which is our parent company, and we've got a few other Drupal sites hanging around. So, I'm fairly good at using Drupal, but I've never had to actually do any coding in Drupal. So, I've done a range of things. I've got the techie background, I've got a marketing background, and in 2010 I came to work for Media Access Australia, and then when they set up AccessIQ which is a social enterprise aimed at actually helping government, non-government, devs, anyone who wants to make accessible content, we're there to assist through training and services and content, and I became full-time for AccessIQ and go around talking about accessibility and doing training and generally being a jack of all trades pretty much. So, I wanted to ask how many people have heard any of the following statements? People who use screen readers, and just in case anyone in the audience doesn't know what a screen reader is for someone who is blind or vision impaired and has trouble seeing the screen, there's a piece of assistive technology called a screen reader, and essentially a screen reader uses text-to-speech technology to actually read out what's on the screen. Usually that's delivered in an audible fashion through your speakers, sound, so on and so forth, but it can also be converted into braille, and so for people who are braille users, they have what's called a refreshable braille display, and it has a whole lot of pins, which the braille language is actually made of little sets of six pins, and depending on the orientation they're in is what letter it is, so that information can also be communicated through a braille device. Today you'll see a number of examples of screen readers, one live one, because I promised myself I wasn't doing live demonstrations, and then they showed the Australian War website and I thought, oh, that would be cool to demonstrate, and here I am doing live demonstrations again, but there's also going to be, there's four videos today that I'm going to play. Unfortunately this projector is 800x600, really not up to the task, the videos are quite grainy. I will explain what's happening, and by and large it is a screen reader reading out information, so you will definitely hear it, but all of the videos are up on YouTube as are my slides on slideshare, so all of the links and that are all in slideshare, so don't worry about jotting them down or anything like that. So back to what I was asking, who's heard the myth that people who use screen readers just turn off JavaScript, so you can't use JavaScript if you're building an accessible website. A few people, maybe about five or six, that's really good usually, maybe because you're all here and you're all interested in accessibility you're a little bit smarter than that, but that's one of the myths that's often sort of passed around. The second one is that you can't have dynamic content on an accessible website, which has anyone heard that one? Heard it but wouldn't believe it, lovely. And the last one accessible websites are boring. I've got a good audience, this is really good. Well these are the three myths that often we hear and often we have to debunk, and today talking about ARIA I guess addresses these three myths. First off that people are not turning JavaScript off anymore because there are ways to actually make JavaScript or Ajax content accessible and by that there's also ways to make dynamic content accessible and so we're getting away from that whole concept of an accessible website has to be boring, I can't do all of those neat funky things that I want to do. So I mentioned way ARIA so ARIA stands for accessible rich internet applications and it's a standard that's published by the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative. The Web Accessibility Initiative are the guys who also publish a lot of the other accessibility standards WCAG2 or the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines which I'll probably talk and touch on today is often the main one we look at. If anyone here is working on government websites you probably would have found that they're asking for accessible websites that conform with WCAG2 and this is because in June of 2010 the Agamo the Australian Government Information Management Organization released the National Transition Strategy otherwise known as the NTS and the NTS essentially outlined that all government, all federal, state and territory websites needed to be level A compliant which is the first level accessibility by the end of 2010 so we've been and gone past that deadline and they must be double A compliant by the end of 2014 so this has done a huge amount for accessibility, it's brought accessibility back on the radar and obviously the demand for people who can create accessible websites and web content has definitely gone up. So the problem we really grapple with with dynamic content comes down to the information that is communicated from the user agents so the web browser through to the assistive technology in essence when you've got static content that doesn't be driven by a scripting language there's a contract between these two items and so elements like roles and states actually are communicated through to the assistive technology so for instance if a screen reader hits a link it looks at that link, it knows it has an AHRF reference and so it actually says to the user that this is a link and then it will actually announce the link text and all of that information that the fact that it is a link or that it is a button is communicated from the UI or user agent through to the assistive technology but when we've got javascript actually driving that UI component and actually changing elements within the DOM on the fly what happens is if we don't use a technology like ARIA that information the changes in roles states and actions, values, changes in relations doesn't actually translate through to the assistive technology so a good example is some, let's say you've got a news site and in the corner you've got a little area that is actually dynamically updating so every minute that someone's on a website it actually asks for the latest headline and it updates automatically now for a screen reader user what I should say is they recognize that something has changed but for a screen reader user they don't actually know that something has changed on that website so they either don't know that that change has happened or if they happen to actually be reading that out at the time using their screen reader suddenly it changes from reading about yesterday's heatwave to an example, I've forgotten an example, what's a nice news headline to floods happening now so that's why we actually need to communicate this information to the screen reader so ARIA actually is all about HTML attributes is essentially an extension to HTML and the attributes actually are divided into two main groups the first group is we have way ARIA roles and within those roles we have four broad categories we have abstract roles so they're actually not used when we're creating a website but we do have widget roles we have document structure roles and we also have landmark roles the other elements we have are states and properties so these are to actually indicate to a screen reader when something actually changes so this includes widgets that are updating content or actually changing states due to a user interaction live regions so updating content that's just refreshing on a screen things like drag and drop elements, tree elements and also relationship attributes so these can be used certainly in all of your websites but they're definitely important for web applications where we're trying to simulate a lot of those things that we're used to in a desktop environment which currently are quite accessible when you say running under Windows or Mac but now we're moving into a web environment and we need to make sure that all of those interactive elements are also accessible so what we'll look at today first we'll look at page structure and in particular landmark roles we're then going to look at ARIA live regions for updating content using ARIA on forms and lastly using ARIA for widgets and at the end touching on Drupal and what you can find what ARIA elements you can find in Drupal currently I've tended to focus in this presentation more on the ARIA side of things rather than the Drupal side of things first off I'm not a Drupal expert but secondly you guys know how to patch modules and that kind of thing so it's more about communicating what ARIA can do so that you know and you can take that back into your workplace so you're probably familiar with skip links there's a success criteria it's probably the only success criteria I'm going to quote which is 2.1.4 and it's all about bypassing blocks of content and essentially it's that we have repeating blocks of content on a website you know our banner, our navigation elements now as we get familiar with the website we might not want to hear all of the information and the banner and all the information in the navigation for a screen reader they actually read information out linearly through the page from the top to the bottom and so they're forced to listen to all that information before they arrive at the actual main content area which is often the area that they're interested in and so because there was no way to actually mark up a page with semantic information we used skip links which is essentially just anchor links that usually are put at the top of a page and in this case on the NAB site they've got a skip to content link that when activated takes you down to the introducing the new way to trade so it was really a work around because there wasn't anything better in place what ARIA gives us, it actually gives us nine landmark roles that we can use to mark up our page structure. You'll see that some of them actually do overlap with HTML5 for instance we've got a role equals navigation and there's the nav item in HTML5. Currently screen readers support ARIA much more than they actually actually support HTML5 elements so if you are coding websites in HTML5 I'd still recommend you use the ARIA roles even if you are using the HTML5 nav element or so on and so forth. So to briefly go through the nine roles we've got an ARIA role which is Banner which is essentially the information that you've got on the top that usually consists of your logo and so on generally roles are assigned to divs and they can actually be nested there's the role equals search to actually mark out your search box. This is particularly important for people using screen readers because often they will use and rely on the search function even more than we do because it's an easy way for them to find if there's some information on the website or even the webpage so it's important to mark up that area we've got role equals navigation. Now this role can be used multiple times. The roles that only should be used once according to the spec are Banner, main and content info. So we can have multiple navigation items. Role equals main which is essentially your main content area and you can also have role equals form and role equals application having said that application is not very well supported by any assistive technology so I wouldn't actually recommend using it right now. There's also an area role equals complimentary which is for complimentary information so often you've got your right hand side elements that might be promotional elements or something like that. They could be assigned a role of complimentary having said that complimentary can be nested within main and we'll see an example in a minute of where that occurs. And our last one is content info and that essentially is the elements usually found in the footer. One thing to note is for the roles that can actually use multiple times within a web page it's really good to use another area element called attribute I should say called area label. So the example here is we've got two navigation areas. One which has an area label of main menu and another one which has an area label of sub menu. When a screen reader is actually skipping from landmark to landmark that area label will actually be read out so if there's three navigation areas on the page it will actually not only identify them as navigation it will also identify them by their label so that a user can actually differentiate whether they've hit the main menu navigation or sub menu navigation. So I'm going to go to the Government of Canada website. Later on in the presentation I've got two Drupal distributions that actually have been created to be accessible out of the box and one is the WET, the website experience toolkit and it actually has been designed by the Government of Canada and the Government of Canada website is based on this particular module. There with me I've got a few things open. So this is the first video as I said apologies for it being grainy. What I'm showing you here is that screen reader users can actually navigate landmark roles in two ways. One way is that they can actually bring up a dialogue box which is what we'll see here and it will actually allow them to navigate the landmark roles in a tree type structure. So you can see we've got some nested elements there we've got search which is nested under banner and we've got complementary and content info which is nested under main. Landmarks radio button checked out deep. Tree view navigation one of five. Banner expanded to of five. Level one search one of one. Level zero navigation three of five. Main expanded four of five. Level one complementary one of two. Content info of two of two level one. Level zero content info expanded five of five. Level one navigation one of two. Navigation to a two level one. File sub nine one of four. No go away you're too early. So that's just giving you an example of how a screen reader user may actually look at the overall navigation structure of a page using landmark roles. The next video which I'll queue up now is exactly the same page but instead I've actually gone through this page using a shortcut key. So the shortcut key D actually jumps from landmark to landmark. I should say that all of these demos are done using a screen reader called NVDA. It's free and open source so it fits in very well with this conference. You can download it and it's homegrown. It's actually developed by two blind developers up in Queensland. So if you're looking for a free screen reader to test on windows that's your guy. And if I can encourage you these guys are they lift off grants and or actually project funding to do this. So if you are using it and you can spare some money to give them a donation you can do that through their website I really would encourage it because it's the only free solution out there. By comparison you've got commercial solutions like JAWS which is the key solution for the windows environment. It costs about $1,500 to buy and then the upgrades are also close to $1,000. So I really want to support these guys and allow them to keep on doing what they're doing because they're just doing an amazing job. And they're the guys that are often doing things first. Navigation. Landmark. Government of Canada. Navigation bar. Heading. Level 2. Banner. Landmark. Government of Canada. Visited. Link. Search. Landmark. Search. Heading. Level 2. Navigation. Landmark. Site navigation bar. Where it says navigation landmark site navigation bar that's our ARIA label tag coming in and actually being read out and communicated via the screen reader. I mean landmark home heading. Level 1. Complimentary landmark supplemental content heading. Level 2. So that just gives you an idea of what a screen reader hears for landmarks and also how beneficial it is. I would still encourage you to include skip links within your template. The reason is that although screen readers are actually reading out landmark roles, you can't actually use and get to landmark roles using your web browser. And it is useful for people say who have screen magnifier users who actually magnify the screen rather than having it read out to them. They might find those skip links useful and at the moment because the web browsers don't actually support landmark roles and have shortcut keys to use them, I think it's still good to implement both solutions. So there's quite good support for landmark roles within assistive technologies. JAWS 11, 12 and 13 has complete support. Chrome Box which is a screen reader that works specifically with Chrome has complete support as well. VoiceOver which is the Mac screen reader which works on Mac OS X and also on iOS devices supports all landmarks except for forms and NVDA supports all landmarks except for applications and forms. Window Eyes doesn't support ARIA landmarks but thankfully there's only a small case of users still using Window Eyes. So the second topic is actually using ARIA Informs. As I said, I think ARIA landmarks and ARIA, the ARIA Elements Informs are two of the most easy things to be doing right now with very minimal effort and just working it into your coding practice. So there's a few attributes that can help. The first is ARIA Required. So this attribute actually is added to your input element and essentially means that the input element is a required form field. So this will be communicated again through the screen reader so that when a user tabs into a form field it will actually read out the label such as first name and it will also identify the form field as being required. Again, if you're using HTML5, do use both the HTML5 required and also the ARIA required. Another nice element is ARIA described by. So often there's information in this example. It's where it's got extra information about the characteristics of a password or what you need to, things you need to meet in order for your password to be valid. There's different ways that you can do that in Forms without ARIA. Usually at a minimum we suggest that it's at the very, very top of the form field. So as a person navigates nearly through a form they hear all of the information about restrictions up the top and then they navigate through the form field. But an even better way to do it with ARIA described by is actually to be able to associate the input field with that piece of text. So when the user again tabs into that input field it will actually read out not just the form label but it will also read out the information that is identified by ARIA described by. So in this case we've got a paragraph with an ID of password required that says your password must be eight characters in length and include one number and that's linked to the input field using ARIA described by with the value of password required. Another nice one, ARIA invalid. So this can be used in form validation. If there is a field that is invalid you can actually inject an ARIA invalid equals true into that form and so as a user moves through that form again when they hit that form field it will communicate that that form field is invalid. You could also use the ARIA described by also 2.2 an error message as well that informs the user of the error and also gives suggestions on how they might fix it. And the last two elements are ARIA label and ARIA labeled by. So the purpose of these elements are the same but you use ARIA labeled by if the label text is visible on the screen. If the label text isn't visible on the screen then you use ARIA label. Nice example of how this is used is this comes from a web aimed presentation. It's a little form that says self destruct this page in form field five seconds and they've used ARIA label sorry ARIA labeled by to actually associate with three elements. They're associated with the label element the time element and the seconds element. So it will actually read our self destruct this page in five seconds all as one block. Just checking the time because I have a horrible thing of going over time. ARIA live region so I mentioned ARIA live regions are fantastic for dynamic content like stock tickers or news items that are dynamically updating. What you can do is you can actually mark a particular region within a web page with an ARIA live attribute and there's three values that the ARIA live attribute can take. The first one is off and this just means that the updates are not announced to the user. The second one is polite and that means that when something updates those updates will only be announced to the user if the user is idle. So if they're not actually reading out anything on the screen and suddenly they stop accessing the page it will actually then read out that information. The last one is ARIA live equals assertive. So that's where for really important updates the updates are announced as soon as possible but they don't actually interrupt the user. So often users when they're reading a web page they'll use the arrow down key and it will read sort of chunks of text maybe about 10 to 15 words. So for instance if a user was using that method of reading a page when they got to the end of that particular chunk of text it would actually jump in and alert them to the fact that there was a change. There are also other attributes for live regions that actually communicate relevance. So there's an ARIA busy attribute which takes the values true or false and the assistive technology such as screen readers will only announce changes once ARIA busy equals false. So this actually allows you some control about when you actually communicate something to the user. There's ARIA atomic which also takes the values of true or false and it only reads out actual changes or the entire live region. So if you've marked up a live region but there's only certain text within that live region that's updating then you can actually ask it just to read out those updates or to read out the whole a lot of text again. The last one is ARIA relevant so the values are additions, removals or text so you can it actually reads out the changes to the live region depending on what your value is. So for the next demonstration we're actually going to go to the Yahoo 7 website. So unfortunately this is probably one of the ones that's going to be really hard to look at. This video is broken up into two pieces. The first piece is I've got Firebug open here down the bottom and we've got the Yahoo search on the top and I'll give you some context because it's really hard to look at but what I'm going to start to do is type in Drupal into Yahoo 7 and if you can see what would actually be happening is this text down here which reads live class and it's aria live equals polite role equals status and then it's got some text which at the moment is no suggestions and as I start to type letters in what you'll see is that that no suggestions actually will be dynamically updating with the number of suggestions in the drop down list that are there. The second part of the video is then what you hear with the screen reader so it will essentially be mimicking what you'd see in Firefox but you can have a look at it on YouTube a little bit later as well. So we're still at 10 suggestions and now we've hit 5 suggestions 2 suggestions and 1 suggestion Search Query combo box collapsed has auto complete editable blank. D expanded R 10 suggestions U 10 suggestions P 10 suggestions A 10 suggestions space T C 5 suggestions O 2 suggestions M 1 suggestions Drupal commerce Drupal commerce Yahoo 7. So that's actually using a combination of aria live regions and also some other aria attributes to insert that so that the user actually knows that there are suggestions coming up underneath that text box and I find this particularly important. I remember going to the Woolworth site and on the Woolworth form it asked me and I was actually testing this for accessibility. It asked me to sign up but it actually has to verify your address against a central database and it had the suggestions popping up in that same way as suggestions underneath and that was not communicated to the screen reader at all and so unless you actually typed in your address exactly right there was no way to know that if you just pressed the down arrow you would actually get a number of options and you'd be able to select that option which was being sourced by the database which would then have a much better chance of actually being correct so this is I find really important for forms such as that as well. So the last topic is aria for widgets now aria for widgets is a huge area that you could come across and at the end of this presentation I've got a number of references including this code from accessible jQuery UI components demonstration which is on github which I do encourage you to go and have a look at because it's got some really nice examples of what you can do with code examples and if I actually no I haven't got it open. I'll just click through because it's a really nice library so it actually has examples for sliders, progress bars, menu bars buttons, dialogs, checkboxes, accordions, trees, carousels, tabs, tooltips, auto, complete and date picker and if you become familiar with a screen reader you can run the screen reader over the examples which come under here and actually see what's happening and actually have a look at the code. So in my usual way as I said I wasn't going to do live demonstrations and then they this morning we talked about the Australian law reform commission and I thought look at that menu I wonder whether that menu is accessible or not so I'd like to run the screen reader over it. It is accessible but I would actually like you to think when you see how NVDA runs over it is it actually usable for our user who's navigating through a menu. Just ignore me while I get to the bit I'm looking for. Okay so we're just about to tab into the main menu. At this point I think if you weren't interested in anything to do with about and you could have determined that from hitting about the first time you've spent a whole lot of time listening to 13 extra items that you didn't really need to. Now look I'm all for practical solutions and I'm all for things being as accessible as they can but the next demonstration will actually show how you can use ARIA to actually be able to navigate and expand menu items and not have to make it into that very very long list type structure where essentially a screen reader has to listen to all of the list items and all of the sub menu items before they actually get through to the end. The menu bar from the GitHub example I just showed you the screen reader is going to be navigating through the menu which is file, edit, view and more options. View sub menu 3 or 4. More options sub menu 4 or 4. File sub menu 1 or 4. So there's instructions up the top but all I was doing there is actually using the cross arrow to navigate through each of those menu items. I could also use the tab key at least to get from those items. And once I hit file I can use the down arrow to actually expand out that sub menu. Open 1 of 6. Save 2 of 6. Save has 3 of 6. Recent documents sub menu 4 of 6. Close 5 of 6. Quit 6 of 6. Copy 1 of 4. Full screen 1 of 3. So because I'm in the sub menu I can actually just move across into the next sub menu as well which is what I'm doing there. File sub menu 1 of 4. Open 1 of 6. File sub menu 1 of 4. Edit sub menu 2 of 4. So again that's another way of interacting with the menu where I went into file, I got into the sub menu. The beep you heard was me pressing escape which brought me back up to the level 1 menu item and then I could navigate across. A completely keyboard operable menu item by someone so it's not... We tend to focus with ARIA on people who are blind and vision impaired using screen readers because obviously it's the communication with the screen reader. But in this case this is also for people with a physical impairment where they might only be able to use the keyboard or even to use what's called a switch device where they have one or two or three main switches that actually replace the more complex keyboard because they don't have the fine motor control that actually allows them to use the keyboard. So I'm not going to go into all of the code, you can have a look at that on the jQuery website. So lastly looking at Drupal with way ARIA. So I'll be completely upfront and say that this might not cover everything that's in Drupal 7 and also coming in Drupal 8. However I do know there are a number of Drupal 7 themes with way ARIA. Boron, Genesis, Panels, 9, 60 GF they all have ARIA landmarks already as part of them. Some ways that you can also get more information or become involved with the Drupal accessibility community. So there's the accessibility Drupal group which is spearheaded by Mike Gifford. He does fantastic work. He has contacted a lot of us actually just in the last week or so to say hey guys look if you've made any updates to Drupal core from Drupal 7 please let us know because we want to incorporate that into Drupal 8. So the Drupal 8 becomes even more accessible out of the box. So if any of you are working on accessible websites and haven't submitted any of those patches back up I would suggest that you do so. He's also put together a list of Drupal sites in the disability sector and I guess being in the disability sector they tend to be accessible. So if you are looking at Drupal sites that have been built and more than likely accessible then I'd suggest having a look at that list. As I mentioned before there's actually two Drupal distributions that have focused on accessibility. The first one is the Web I think it actually should be Web WET. Anyway WET which as I said was done by the government of Canada up and can be downloaded. The other one which was recently released at the end of last year by previous next was AGov. So AGov has been packaged so that it is accessible out of the box. It has Drupal core plus a number of modules that government may need to install their websites. It's also got accessible themes that fit the branding. Previous next actually worked with Agamo on the branding so I think from memory there are six themes to go with AGov and again that can be downloaded and set up as well. So a few things with ARIA validation. ARIA attributes don't validate in HTML4 so if you're using any of the standard validators it's going to spit up errors. It doesn't actually mean that it isn't conformant and you sort of have to ignore the, there's a success criteria about conformance in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines so you kind of just ignore that one with an understanding that you've done rigorous testing to test that your ARIA attributes are actually working as expected. You can use the HTML5 dock type with ARIA markup and then you can validate it using the W3CNU markup validation service. Last time I checked they didn't sort of say it was completely stable but at least it won't actually throw up all of the errors if you are using ARIA attributes. So a few takeaways. Dynamic content no longer has to be inaccessible to assistive technologies and it's really nice to see an audience who I seem to be preaching to the choir in the sense that you already know and believe that. You can start using ARIA now if you're not already and there are easy wins like the landmark roles and the forms that you can form attributes that you can use now that are really easy to do. And the one thing I always think is it's kind of fun. We live for a challenge development is all about challenges. It's all about finding solutions to things and accessibility is no different. It is as much of a challenge and as creative as a lot of the other endeavours you do when you're solving an issue. It's just a different type of issue. The obligatory slide of don't forget to fill out the session evaluations. So my session creating dynamic and accessible content in Drupal 7 using way ARIA. I've got a bitly link there which is actually you can have a look at it at slide share. I'm not going to read that out. And just a reminder. So the slides are on slide share with all of the links through to the elements that I've referenced today. The videos are on YouTube and when you visit the slide share you'll get the pages of the ARIA documents. So they're the specs. Some ARIA resources that I think are useful particularly if you're getting started. And even more ARIA resources. These are more library based ones. So the accessible jQuery UI that we saw demonstrated before. Accessibility code library. Yahoo has a fantastic accessibility blog. They expose all of the things that they're doing. They shove all of their code into the code library that you can go and have a look at. So it's a great resource to go and look at what you can do with ARIA and learn from what they've done. And also the Mozilla developer network ARIA. It's great and it also has quite a lot of links out to other content. Great blog where someone rounded up a lot of the screen captures of people using ARIA in different situations and so on and so forth. So all of those are available on the slides. And I'm done. And I'm on time I think. Questions. And please feel free. They don't necessarily have to be ARIA related if they're more broader web accessibility. Happy to take questions about that. Yes. So the technical spec is the one you want to have a look at. The authoring practices is also a good one. The technical spec is the normative document. The authoring practices sort of look at how you put that into practice and what have you. The prime is a good introduction. Sort of an overview of the issues and what way ARIA does and so on. So they form the suite of documents. The menus were accessible. Yes sort of. I guess yes I wouldn't be surprised if it's an AGUV website. I didn't know this morning and I think it's using SuperFish from I can't remember how I've looked at that but I thought oh I think it's using SuperFish. I guess it comes down to accessibility versus usability. Often we get quite caught up in is it WCAG 2 compliant. Does it meet the success criteria. And that menu definitely meets the success criteria. It's keyboard accessible. It's reading out all of the labels for the menu items and that which is why I say yes it's successful. And it even had shortcut keys which you could hear the screen reader announcing so that if you were revisiting the site you could use the shortcut keys to get the menu. By comparison though I guess with a menu of 13 items and thankfully that one that was the longest menu in the set. The others weren't nearly as long or didn't have any sub menus. But from a usability perspective if you're going through we visually sort of look at the top level and say oh what information am I looking for that's the element I want. Let me expand that and look at that. The way this is put together that doesn't give the user that option because it's actually listing them as a nested list. So it does come back to I think what I call user experience in getting away from the checklist mentality of it is WCAG 2 compliant. It is compliant out of the box. Yeah that's right. And look there's always arguments also for backwards compatibility and graceful to get... Thank you. I knew someone would help me out. From an assistive technology perspective. So I don't have all of the stats but you probably would need to look at which of the ARIA attributes were supported in assistive technologies. You get into this bind because it's not a problem for NVDA because NVDA is free and every time someone pushes out an update you get it. Same with voiceover and even orca on Linux. You get those updates just in part and parcel. But for your users and in the commercial as a commercial product it is the... it has a huge base. It's often cost prohibitive for people to be upgrading their technology. So it's always a little bit of a juggling act about when do you make it accessible using newer technologies and when don't you. And I don't have a good answer. It's like do you support IE6 or not. It's sort of that question. Any further questions? Wonderful. Well thank you all very much for coming. Please feel free to grab me if you had a question you didn't want to ask me. I look forward to meeting you again. Thank you.


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Today we have Tim Ord coming on and he'll be discussing a little bit about the future outlook for the SPX. Let's take a look. We have the NQs down almost about 1%. The S of the futures down about 0.66. YM about the same as well. Our bonds are going down. The interest rate's going up on them. This is getting into a really strange zone where we have a high growth, high interest rate environment. We'll take a look at that too. The Atlanta Fed is suggesting there might be, or at least projecting, there might be a 6% GDP growth for the third quarter. Gold on its way down to that 1,900 level down about half a percent today. Silver up a little bit and then Copper as well. Copper's been doing somewhat decently, especially with concepts of an impending recession, although those seem to be easing a little bit, at least in the mind of larger-profile wealth managers. Qs obviously down. Spy Tesla down 2.2%. Meta down 2.28. Google up really about flat. Disney, this has been such a shame mainly because I was an investor in them, but they've gotten slaughtered with everything going on. I know DeSantis was asking for them to stop pushing back against his change on what they have. Basically, the special privileges that they possess for such a long time. He said they're not coming back. Furthermore, they closed the Star Wars overnight project that they had. It was very expensive. A lot of the times when you see some of these larger companies leaning out a little bit and they cut different features or experiences, the market tends to really like that. We see that with Meta as well. It seems like I was just talking about this in the office maybe last week. When they cut plans for the Metaverse, they're stock skyrocketed. They just cut something recently where they had some AI essentially with different medical compounds and they cut that as well. This is stock skyrocketed again because the idea is you're freeing up cash to do more things and for whatever reason, a lot of this might be political as well. Disney, even though they're cutting some of their expenditures, continue to go down a little bit. We'll see what goes out there. They're nearing that March 2020 low right around here. That's pretty significant as well. That's down from pre-COVID levels that they're trading at currently. We're looking at a copper bit. Southern copper has done quite well. Also, let's get out of the five year. Let me just take a look at this on a year to date. We're trading from the beginning of the year, we're at that 72 level right around here, dipped down on some pretty significant volume down to 64 and then we had some private equity groups buying copper and some other people as well. Remember, maybe a month ago when I was on the show, I was talking about the potential for copper to go up to prices like this or at least some certain companies as it's getting a little bit more difficult to find it and it's in greater demand as time goes on. Of course, we get a little bit of retest on the last year with volume here, but it seems like it might be. We'll see what happens today. Let's take a look on the daily. Yeah, we're sort of down on trading sideways on some volume. We'll see how Southern copper pans out, but it was an interesting buy and if you got in around that time about a month ago, not a bad purchase. Steel Dynamics. I've been watching this very closely. So what I want to look at was constantly testing these levels. These were the high volume levels. Obviously, it broke down a little bit and kind of traversed down to the 90 mark. They came right back again on high volume, rejecting this area here and just trading into this balance of 100 and 110. Usually when you have a stock that's testing these high volume kind of bottoms and it rejects it on low volume, that might be setting up for a movement down. We had some high volume on the up end here on the close. So we'll see if it really wants to test this 110. If we can break through with some decent volume, we might be kind of making a new little zone to be trading into. Hawaiian Electric. So this company supplies about 95% of power. Obviously, Hawaii, I think it's Maui, experienced some pretty catastrophic fires. This is traded down pretty significantly, right? They almost have, I mean, I want to say a monopoly, right? 95% supplying energy to Hawaii. There's been some talk, you know, do we buy at these levels? Is this oversold, right? There's some lawsuits coming out against them. I'm not sure how well that stands up in court. And I was trying to find other examples, you know, from California at least, were there any lawsuits taken out against electric companies for not doing enough during fires. I was not really able to find much data. What I did find is some of the larger electric companies in California, it took about 11 months for them to really reach the true bottom from, you know, the pre-fire kind of price.  Just today, you had a 23% decrease down from this massive gap. And what I would say to that, you know, is a new company going to come in and ever get a foothold when Hawaii Electric had 95% dominance? Probably not, right? However, I am a bit concerned at buying at this level. We still might see again, you know, in California, you had about 11 month period when the largest electric supplier reached its bottom. So, buying at this point, you know, you might be still purchasing a falling knife here. So, waiting for some time to see kind of how this shakes out, seeing if they're going to get any financial help from the mainland. It'll be interesting to see. But keep your eye on this because, you know, if the recovery efforts are effective and a bit quicker, and let's hope they are, right, this might see a pretty decent bounce back. I was talking with one of my people about Duke Energy. They have a pretty big monopoly around where I live, and they're raising their prices. Like, I'm paying an inordinate amount for energy in my apartment, and I'm not really there often. I just run the AC all day, and Duke released. It's just interesting to see how these guys kind of operate, right? And all electric companies do this. They released a statement, and if you call them, they'll say the same thing, that natural gas prices were so high the past two years, so therefore we have to adjust our rates.  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If you're not satisfied, let us know and you'll get a full refund within 30 days of signing up. Subscribe to the Fibonacci 24-7 newsletter today, TFNN.com Educating Investors. Welcome back, folks. Tim is not with us yet. I think he'll be on the next segment. Let's take a look here what I was mentioning in the first segment. This is the Atlanta Fed projecting nearly 6% growth in a third quarter. On Tuesday, Atlanta Fed's GDP now estimate moved up to 5.8% from 5% a day prior after fresh data from the Census Bureau's showed housing starts increased 3.9% in June. 5.8% GDP growth number held. It marked the most robust period of economic growth since the fourth quarter of 2021. And it's super interesting. When you have these high-rate environments, the Treasury is going to have to pay, the government is going to have to pay the Fed's set rate. So this acts almost in some capacity or it could in the future as some kind of stimulus in some strange way to where now we're getting to a high interest rate and high growth environment. This upbeat print on the consumer came after recent jobs data showed the economy is still adding jobs while unemployment remains historically low and monthly wage growth has begun to outpace inflation, providing a potential boost for further consumer spending. Kind of on this point as well, this target for the 2% GDP growth, I always found it, to me, it seemed somewhat arbitrary. And I was really young when this happened, but when austerity was kind of in place in Europe, I mean, they had that same kind of growth target. And it was always curious why they chose 2%. And maybe a few meetings ago, someone finally asked Powell what it was. And if, you know, can we start looking at some of this growth is actually acceptable and anything above 2% not being, you know, needing to be managed, essentially. And the only response he gave was like, no, he's like, we're only going to shoot for 2% and that's it. And that'll never change. And it really, you know, you can't help but ask yourself, why is it just at the 2% is that the only thing that is at the most manageable level? I'm not sure. Regardless, we'll see kind of what happens with that. Definitely a kind of voodoo time for all of this here. Another thing in wireless carriers, and this is being driven by China a lot as well, but also in America, but wireless carriers are losing billions as smartphone demand slows and a lot of the carriers for so long made it kind of a bit more viable to get the newest phone or the newest whatever, every month. So anyways, we'll get back to that in a second. Guys, we have Tim Ord on Tim. Can you hear me? Yep, I sure can. How are you doing today? Good. Thanks for having me on. Yeah, absolutely. Thanks for joining us. Quite a trend reversal. It's going on at least in the markets. I'm really interested to see what you have to say about all of this and what your analysis is. Yeah, there's a couple of things that I think the first thing out of cover is that chart number six. I sent you. Yeah, let's take a look. Yeah, it's just kind of skipping over some stuff. But actually, I've been long here, I thought we'd find support around that 4445 area on the SPYs. I had some actually kind of a panic signals, but we actually fell through that. We're actually getting down to the early July lows. And if you notice, I circled in blue on the volume chart, what that low is tested, we're testing that low right now. Day's not over. But that low is around 80 million shares give or take. I don't know. Looks like about July 3 or 4 somewhere in that timeframe. And usually previous lows, previous highs are between which way you're going. It was in this particular case, since we're going down, the previous lows are support and depends how you test the previous lows. If you test them on at least 10% lighter volume, that test is going to find support. But if you get pretty much equal volume or higher than the previous low, then a lot of times the market still can bounce and normally he'll break through those lows. Because volume is kind of like it's energy really, the more volume you got, the more energy it is. So as we're putting this update on, we're testing that low right now. So it will hold, I don't know, this is oxygen expiration week, which normally has a bullish bias. And in this week, obviously, if not, it's been pretty much straight down all, you know, last, last three days, counting today will be a third day down. So if volume does come in, say around 72 million shares today, or 73, we're probably fine, we'll probably see a bounce. But once you pass below some previous highs, we have some previous highs up around that 445 area. And you pass through those highs and now you're testing those kind of previous lows. So some sort of a worthwhile top is in. And I thought at one point, we might go down to 442, which is about another 5 to 7% lower over the next several weeks. And it's chart starting to kind of look like that. Because even though we did get panic in it, we're not bouncing. And so what that tells me we're going to need more panic before a bounce does occur. So so yeah, I mean, if it blows past this level here from, you know, July 4 or 5. I mean, we have quite a bit more ways to go down, right? Until we see a bounce. How are you looking at that? Well, actually, depends on today, right, you know, since we're testing those previous lows, if volume comes in, say 72 million shares that sanity, we're probably going to bounce first. Okay, up to around 4400 or 444 on the SPYs. And you can't create a right shoulder, probably up ahead and shoulders. Top pattern is what I'm thinking could be forming here.  And the volume is kind of ticking away here, we're close to, you know, 60 million shares already. So volume to me is at this stage, even though we got about a little over a half hour to go. Probably volume is going to be higher. So I'll have to get out of my long position kind of regroup and figure out, you know, my next signal if the market does bounce, do I go short? Or if it's unclear, just stay on the sidelines until it does become clear. So it's kind of August, if you have if you're five, if you're five months up in a row, normally the six months down. So we're five months up going into this month. So this month is going to be a down month. How big of a down month? I don't know. But if expiration week bounces, which doesn't appear will be normally the week after is down pretty big. Now, since this week is not even bouncing, I don't know what next week could be. So we'll kind of have to wait and see. But in a bigger skin scheme of things, I think this is not a major high. This is a correction or an uptrend. Okay, so this is not like the end of the world here. Right. But some sort of a pretty decent low at much lower levels than we are right now, probably back down to 442 on the SPYs, I think, or where the market could go before this bottom is found, that could happen later this month or even in September. So we'll have to kind of kind of wait and see. But we'll probably do for a balance, but it's, it'll be a bounce in the downtrend. So we can go on a couple of the charts and absolutely look at some still fascinating stuff. And then Tim, we're about to go to break, but stay with us through it. Because, you know, anytime you come on, you have you have great information. I'm interested to see what you have stored for us in the other charts. All right. Right. Sounds good. Okay, folks, we'll be right back with Tim or stay tuned. The gold report. As a precious metal gold is still king. 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Yeah, this is the bottom window is the five-day average of the equity put call ratio readings and so it's a five-day average not a single day and yesterday we closed at 1.03 which is pretty high everybody really jumped on the puts yesterday. On the five-day if you get around 0.8 which we closed yesterday there this chart goes back to about mid 2014 and I with red lines I notified those times every time that ratio book call ratio got down to a 0.8 or higher and so we hit it yesterday and so even though we're down a bit today we're probably getting close to some sort of a low Lisa sideways consolation. I don't think there's clients over on the SMPs but I think it's probably due for a bounce in here. It takes some of this put players off market you know you get too many people on one side of the market you know everybody buying puts usually of course yeah right and so that's kind of what's going on here especially this indicator actually has quite a bit of importance during option expiration week. There's kind of high fliers you know there's a lot of gunslingers I guess you might say kind of lean on on the puts or the calls during expiration week and and this is one of them they're kind of leaning on right now so I wouldn't be surprised if tomorrow will be an update we'll have to wait and see but this area is starting to look like at least a short term bounce a lease of consolidation that may last a week or so but in that long term it's let's flip to chart number two so the equity book call ratio readings are it's kind of a similar indicator kind of tells you where you are and chart number two Marty's wag come up with this he's passed away but he come up with a lot of type of different indicators he was really a master trader back in his day and the bottom window is a 10-day average of advanced issues divided by total issues and uh his indicator when he got below 0.4 and rallied to 0.6 which is the bottom window that's what the indicators but does it within 10 days is the sign of strength and that's what you want to see coming off of a major low you got to have a lot of weakness going into a bottom and right after the bottom you got to have a sign of strength and i didn't circle those time of strength in there but there's a couple of men there that's what kept me bullish all the way into the top back in july i got out in july and uh but now now we're back down to 0.4 the yesterday's reading was was 0.37 uh which was the day before readings and and yesterday's reading was 0.4 so we're writing that vicinity that the market's pretty oversold right and you put that with the five-day average of the equity book call ratio readings you know you you're you got two many people on one side of the fence here right and so uh and you're also running into the lows of uh of early july so one be surprised you get some sort of bounce you know into next week and from there i don't then from there i i think we could possibly relieve some of the the negativity here and the market could possibly resume down again though um but yes there's a couple of different endcures i'm looking at and i do have another ender i sent you chart number three yes and uh this is what i kind of do i thought was going to that the shaded tan areas are gaps open gaps and i thought we'd find support of that gap area uh the one from the uh mid july i have where i have open gap where we filled it and i thought we'd find that and the reason why we had quite a bit of panic panics you know you got the form of bottom you have to have panic and there's a bunch of different reasons or a bunch of different indicators to identify panic and i use the ticks and trend usually you get a trend reading above 1.25 and down to green below minus 200 same day majority of the time you're going into a panic of some sort especially if you get to them in a row we actually got three over about a five-day period here right and it didn't seem to stop the market which kind of surprised me a little bit so and that's the reason why i kind of was along here because i think panic and the ticks and trend and going into option expiration week to me it looked like the expiration week would be an up week and i'd go for the rally then and look to get short again well i'm stuck along here so i got to figure out if we are going to start bouncing right here or not but um normally those ticks and trend readings when you do get a bullish combination of that you're you're within a day of a or you usually happen the same days or readings to as late as two days later well we'll pass two days later on all three of them so at the moment they're pushing up the 10-day average of the trend to bullish levels but we're not there yet we're only 1.12 on the 10-day it needs to be up to around 1.2 or higher so it's getting there it's kind of one of the reasons why i don't think this is going to be a big decline of any consequences it's going to be a decent pullback but it's not going to be at 10 percent or down or 15 percent or down probably you know six or seven percent from the highs which is decent but um um but but not you know in the world scenario pardon i said but not like an you know end of the world scenario with it no it's not it matter of fact when you start hearing air and you know a scenario of the world on the radio and stuff like that chances are you're looking at a major bottom right so right right because it is all mostly indicators will be pushed to extreme and and we're not there we're kind of you know from what i'm hearing on the stuff i'm hearing they're kind of just almost ignoring the market right now like no big deal sure but once it gets back in the news you're you'll probably starting to see where a bottom is starting to form sure so um but anyhow it's kind of a declining mark you know corrections in an uptrend it really is kind of hard because indicators get kind of fluffy they you know when you're doing your body indicators start failing and uh you know you're you're in a at least a sideways market down market and because of these you know trend and tick readings over the last couple of weeks started to fail here we're no we're not making a bottom what that tells me these 10 and trick readings would get a lot higher over the next probably several weeks where a bottom may come in say getting 1.2 on the trend and an uptrend that's where a bottom forms you know we may reach two maybe two and a half even three on the trend before the next lower form that's probably what's coming at us you know see down to green instead two or three or maybe four hundred on the close you may see minus five six seven eight hundred on the close so that's probably what's in front of us so the micro is kind of probably blow out pretty big and that'll be the time uh to really look for a major low and that's same what happened um you know I think it was last year um or was it 2020-22 yeah the trend and ticks were just totally blowing out and I was buying all that low that was and I got pretty close to the low but uh you know I was a single guy out there sure it seemed like taking the orders because nobody else was buying right right Tim uh we have another break but if uh you want to would love if you could stay for the next one you can go through the rest of the charts here uh really fascinating stuff you're talking about awesome okay we'll do awesome folks stay tuned uh we're gonna wrap up here with Tim Ord on the next segment really fascinating stuff you're just tuning in um but stay right there and we'll be right back if you're looking for potential trading setups in the stock market then rocket equities and options report is a newsletter you should try Tommy O'Brien delivers options and equity trades when the markets present them using a combination of fundamentals and technicals sign up for rocket equities and options report today with a 30-day money back guarantee so you have nothing to risk for all the details and to start your subscription 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market kind of went up and down up and down um the sideways pattern sometimes lasted several weeks even a couple cases several months what what i really want to point out on here every time it went down below minus 20 it always went back above zero at some point right over that you know next uh couple of months or something like that or whatever so it never went minus 20 uh and went back down uh minus 20 again always went from minus 20 flip sideways and hopefully went above zero right so at some point we're going to and and this has happened one two uh seven times uh yeah five no eight times or seven times seven previous times and all seven previous times it went above close above zero and when it closes above zero that's when the uptrend starts on gdx so at some point an uptrend is going to start on a close above zero on gdx you know right now uh that indicator is minus seven so it's been minus seven in that range probably for the last couple three weeks and and gdx has kind of gone sideways to down uh in that time frame so it's actually it's making lower lows but this indicator is making much higher lows even though when minus 20 was hit back in mid june uh gdx a little bit lower but this indicator is showing a positive divergence it's went from minus 20 to minus seven but to say that the impulse wave of gdx starts is when this indicator closes above zero so and we know it's coming we just don't know when can it set here another week or two and and decay a little bit more on gdx possibly but once it does give by zero usually those those are all the shaded blue areas yes uh sometimes it the last just a couple weeks sometimes they last several months so i don't how long this one will last but uh you know the the rally is still in front of us but it hasn't started yet until we get above zero and we can look at a shorter term chart on chart number five we have it right here see what i said we have it right here okay okay chart number five and this okay the bottom window is the actually it's advanced decline percent but it's an 18 day average and next higher window is the up-down volume with an 18 day average and what i'm trying to show here um the first uh box i have a outlined in red back in uh may of the red march of this year yeah and what i wanted to show is both those indicators at the bottom two indicators they made higher lows as gdx made lower lows and be going to the top so the red area is when both indicators are below minus 10 the blue areas when it's above minus 10 so when both indicators are above minus 10 the markets in an uptrend so anyhow you rallied out of the may low had a positive divergence turned blue went up to the highs and and um can't see what date that is it's for the may high or the april highs uh indicator gdx made higher highs and both indicators made lower highs then closed below minus 10 and yet a downtrend and got back in here um early july gave a buy and kind of actually gave a sell here on uh first part of uh august and is and it's still on itself they won't because both those indicators are below minus 10 right so both those indicators even though we got a positive divergence gdx is making lower lows both those indicators are making higher lows but you need to close on both these indicators above minus 10 which will signal be poor the 50 day average because this is only an 18 day average and i'll probably give you a heads up that the rally is starting but we need to close above minus 10 on both those indicators so when will that happen don't know um so just whenever it starts to turn up uh could be another few days could be another actually you know maybe a couple of weeks or so don't know it usually september october is sees now a wise is a bully for golden gold stocks and so we're not really a long ways from that you know a couple of weeks or so and we'll be there so it could be first part of september don't know but as long as both those indicators remain above minus 10 the uptrend should continue so how long those two indicators will be above to i don't know uh it could be a couple of months could be a couple of weeks it depends on on um what gdx wants to do so this is a little bit different i've kind of figured out these types of indicators i don't know about a couple of years ago and i've kind of been honing in on them working on them and they really work well but they give decent buy and sell signals but right now uh they're the 50 day average and the 18 day averages of these indicators at the moment are still on sell signals but they're giving positive divergence so do you see any you know china's having some issues with you know their economy and that area of asia is a is a massive consumer of gold worldwide even just like you know on it on a simple you know citizen basis right with the issues that they're having their economy and kind of decrease spending that you're they're seeing over there do you see a longer term kind of you know maybe price down trend with gold because of that's or what do you have any thoughts regarding that well exactly far as gold i i think it's actually it's still going to keep going up um and gold's way outperformed uh the gold stocks if you look at the xcu the gold ratio you know the gold ratio has been hovering around this range for a low range for a number of years and you know for some reason people are not coming back they're coming into gold but they're not coming back into the gold stock so and gold stocks is always mystical um they run up and they run back down and um i don't know how to you know what china's got to do with it right now but there doesn't seem to be a other than a trade that may last two three four months in the gold stocks you know the uptrend on on a bigger time frame i don't think i started yet and i don't know when um where we had a big rally you know in 2000 all the way in 2011 gold stock went through the roof a lot of stocks were in that penny stocks that turned into you know 20 30 dollar stocks right i think at some point that's going to happen again and we may be in the process of building that base where that base may start i can't say when when that will happen but i think it's still in front of wonderful well tim thank you so much for joining us today that was uh that whole thing was great and folks we'll have these charts in the den if you're not in there yet you should get in it uh tim thank you so much for joining us today all right thank you for having me okay take care now folks stay tuned we're about to wrap up the show in this next short segment and we'll be right back are you ready to take your trading to the next level introducing tom o bryan's award-winning newsletter market insights your key to successful active trading tom o bryan renowned for his expertise in the financial markets has designed market insights to be your daily guide to profitable trades tom publishes his daily market insights newsletter every market day before the market open 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awesome to have on he's always taught me so much especially as i'm you know a younger guy and really starting to wrap my head around much more trading and kind of all the dynamics in the market all right when i take a look at toll we had a bad day today obviously with it but i want to pull through this article here essentially the home builders are doing quite well with all things considered you take a look at this home builders rise this bottom line here this chart is the s and p 500 index and this is really how these other home builders are really just outperforming it in a major way quite a bit about three quarters of us homeowners have mortgages charging less than four percent interest new loans last week averaged seven six uh excuse me seven point 16% matching levels last seen in 2001 and this is the quote here bottom line supply is short and demand is returning to affordable offerings and builders will need to produce more homes to fill the void you can see here this immense run up in uh in home prices starting from 2020 again this is this kind of post uh pandemic era or you know in the midst of it as well you'd see really from toll starting at about you know what 54 bucks at this 55 line a little bit below in the beginning of the year going all the way up reaching a high of 83 72 of course we had a down day today but um we'll see how that shakes out on the long end that's on you know not significant volume uh by any means whatsoever all right um you know i love doing some science stuff i say that every time this one's interesting and perhaps one of the more uh most italian studies i've ever seen is uh eating their pizza and again that's has to do with you know non-poly uh unsaturated fatty acids but pizza consumption can actually improve diseases like rheumatoid arthritis this probably has to do with um high quality cheese and eating olive oil i will link that uh what a wonderful study folks thank you so much for joining me i will be back with you tomorrow 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Hello, welcome to this week's CMC Markets Currency Snapshot with myself, Jasper Lawler. We're going to be looking at cable, that's the British pound against the US dollar at the moment. PM David Cameron is in Brussels. He's talking up a prospect of a UK deal with Europe. And since this debate has become a bit more current, a bit more topical, and since Cameron has really been trying to get this deal hammered through, the British pound has really started to suffer. And we've got that on one hand, but we also have changing ideas about how much the Federal Reserve can increase interest rates in the US. So both these two factors driving the British pound at the moment, we've got a fairly clear defined price range on the chart, which we're going to have a look at and see what the prospects are for a breakout. So first I want to show you just this slightly strange looking chart when you first look at it. It's a daily price chart, it's just comparing the British pound against the dollar index. The reason I'm doing this is that you can see, if we look at this chart now, there's a sort of gradually inclining price trend in the dollar index. This is happening throughout December and into the early part of January, basically with the idea that the Fed has just raised rates, they seem to be the only one capable of doing so and the US dollar has been going up with those prospects of higher interest rates. But if we look at the British pound, that's really crashed pretty severely. The downtrend is pretty sharp and so I think where we can conclude from this, it is not just the US dollar driving this decline throughout December, there's something else very much British related and I think there's a good chance that it's the Brexit debate weighing on the ability of the Bank of England to raise interest rates this year. Now you'll have seen on that chart that after those two areas of trend that we talked about, there's been quite a sharp drop off in the US dollar and the British pound has managed to stabilise a bit. That to my mind is more of a US dollar phenomenon because bets that the Fed are able to raise rates further this year have seriously declined. The US economy is looking a little weak and there's a lot of cause for maybe not even any more rate cut, any more rate hikes from the Fed this year, even some talk of a rate cut and the Federal Reserve themselves have actually been looking at negative interest rates as a possible policy tool. So US dollars, Paul, and off the British pound has stabilised so now we're going to have a look at the longer term chart for the British pound that a shorter term chart just to see where we are in terms of levels and where we can work out from here. So this is a monthly chart for the British pound that we're going to look at next. You can see that the 142.30 support area has really been the big one that we've reacted from here and you can see that even though we pop below it, we're back up through it now and we're sort of stabilising. Now if we drop down to this daily price chart, you can see a bit more specifically the price levels that are involved, the 143.50 has been quite the pivot level. We pushed up through there, found support, we dropped through there again. Now we're right in around that area acting as resistance. This is what's causing the price to bounce around in the time being but really for us to get some ideas to where the direction of the pound can be headed next, it's got to be a move through this 142.30 support to tell us that we're renewing the downtrend or push up through the 146.30 resistance which was the peak from January to tell us that actually this downtrend has ended and we're looking at more of a potential uptrend taking place. OK, that's it for this week's CMC Markets currency snapshot. We were looking at the pound of course against the US dollar namely. Now we've talked about this price range. Really whether the price can push up through the top or bottom of the range kind of depends on these two factors. It's do expectations remain low that the Fed is going to be able to raise rates this year? If it does that, that's a positive factor for the pound. Does David Cameron sign a pretty weak deal for Europe? Maybe even no deal at all. That's a negative impact for the pound. To my mind the two are kind of offsetting each other at the moment. There's uncertainty of a Bank of England rate rise. There's also uncertainty about a US rate rise. And so that sort of combined uncertainty probably means we're going to be in and around this kind of price range for a while probably without much of a breakout in either direction. We're probably looking at range trading which means high probability trades at the bottom of the range, high probability trades at the top of the range.


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