The reason I called this talk your new superpower, for those who have been in web design more than four or five years, you remember when mobile responsive was the new, had to build everything mobile responsive. Building accessible websites as being mandatory, it's coming. I don't know when but it is coming. And of course certain niches require it. So I'm actually in the middle of a project now that requires, I'm actually building a website for blind, for the blind and visually impaired that provides service dogs for those people. And so we're taking them from a website that was built before accessibility was even, I think the websites may be over ten years old, a non-mobile responsive website into something that we are actually testing all the way through. So before we get started on that, who am I? I've been building websites for like over 20 years. I started out when Dreamweaver started actually before that go live, if anybody remembers that. I've been using WordPress for eight years. I'm a former art teacher. So I have all the art education and then I moved completely to the opposite end of the spectrum as an IT director. And there is a story behind that. And I actually did a small stint as Apple tech support. So I've been freelancing full time for eight years also. That decision was made for me because I got laid off. And I had one freelancing client think, oh, I'm going to try this in here I am eight years later. I'm a past presenter at WordCamp Atlanta, WordCamp Birmingham, WordCamp Miami. I've done meetups here in Atlanta. And probably going to start a meetup in South Atlanta area in noon in Georgia. So for all of us that live south. And so I'm going to talk a little bit about a lot of this was covered in Christine's talk yesterday and Kim's talk yesterday. But what I'm going to do is actually kind of get more into the technical things that you think of, themes, plugins and stuff like that. So web accessibility refers to the practice of removing barriers that prevent interaction with or access to websites, people for disabilities. Now, my project I'm working on visual people are visually impaired. But that's also mobile mobility, hearing impaired. You've got to kind of think of the whole the whole gamut when you're building. And one in five people have a disability. And what I loved about Christina's presentation yesterday is she said, you know, if you wear glasses, it's a disability. You know, I am pretty much legally blind without contacts or glasses. In fact, I'm wearing contacts now and I'll be putting glasses on top of them so I can read. So you can exclude up to 20% of potential users, customers, buyers, clients from accessing your website. So I'm telling you right now, yes, there's work involved, but get ahead of the curve. Because if you do it now, and you market that as part of your service, you're going to be ahead of everybody else. And in fact, I'm a short story to side. I just got a huge project with a retirement community that has owns 12 retirement communities throughout the Atlanta area. They were working with an agency in Atlanta, weren't crazy about what they did. I had one meeting with them that lasted two hours. I now have the project. They're dumping the agency. And it was because, well, you do realize that all your websites have to be accessible because some of your communities accept Medicare. And that was not something that the other agency ever even brought up. And even the design that they actually showed me their designs, I'm like, well, this won't pass and this won't pass. I can tell by looking at it. And that was the thing that got me that job. And so be ahead of the curve. Besides, it's the right thing to do. You don't want barriers between you and what you want. So just do it. The standards, I'm not going to talk a lot about that. Christine covered that yesterday and you can go read it. WCAG standards. What you want to, there's three levels.  What you're striving for is AA, the middle of the road. What I'm striving for on the website I'm building is AAA on most pages. So you can go in and read what those are. And I have some links later on in the slides. And my slides are available. So the U.S. Web Accessibility Laws exists now for only organizations that receive federal funding or organizations that work with those that receive federal funding. So when you're doing that interview with a client and if you remotely smell any federal involvement or if they get anything or their client tells them they have customers that they market to that have that, you've got to ask because you have to abide by those laws. Now there is talk about adding the web accessibility standards and making a law across the board with the American with Disabilities Act. I'm going to say it's probably coming. It's probably coming very soon. You've got to have that accessibility and not have the barriers. You don't want to be called into a lawsuit because you build a website for a company and they get sued. Now I'm going to bring up a fact because I was helping somebody out online the other day who just had a new website. They built it with an accessible theme and he got a lawyer. There are certain lawyers from a certain West Coast state that are trolling websites. And what they do is they hit the contact form and that they're saying your website's not accessible. We're going to sue you even though you don't do business with somebody out in California. But this guy had just redid the site so he thinks the person saw the previous site which was not accessible and this one was and he asked me to do a quick audit on it and what happened was he was using a theme that worked perfectly but he had added a CSS rule that broke the tabbing through the menu. So I went through and I just did a quick scan with some tools and said you know it's it's great this is the only thing that's broken and here's the CSS rule that's causing it. So you know fix this and you'll be fine. So now what are the legal demands for accessibility? There are lawsuits out there. I only put a few. Kim had a whole bunch of them yesterday and one of the things like the one I heard very first and we most have is Wendixie. Wendixie got sued because they did not have an accessible website even for screen readers and why it went part of the reason it went through is because Wendixie has a rewards program with their little tick now little scannable thing and you but you had to interact with the website to sign up for it. He couldn't interact he couldn't sign up for it so he is being disclued he is being denied the access to the rewards program and the discounts. So you've got to make sure that you follow all those rules and you're not excluding anything anybody from any offers. Netflix, Hulu, Home Depot, eBay, it seems like the big ones are getting targeted first the people with the deep pockets it's only a matter of time before the mom-and-pop stores get targeted. Okay if you learn the standards and you understand what the most common barriers are you're going to do fine. First of all you're using good markup because you're using WordPress so that's not going to be a problem. Learn Aria, vet themes and plugins just because a plugin says it's accessible or accessible ready doesn't mean it is and a good example is beaver builder plugin how many people use the beaver builder page builder like I use it almost every side of it not every module in there is accessible your if you stick with tabs and accordions you're pretty good but when you get into the more fancy animated stuff may not be accessible so check check check read the documentation I know most people they throw a plug in in their last resort if something isn't working right is actually read the documentation so read it especially if it's a premium plug-in read it before you buy it don't be afraid to say hey you know how is your accessibility I've reached out to people with developers and does this work on accessible it's just an accessible menu and find out well no we haven't got there yet okay cross that one off the list and you test with tools and Kim talked a lot about tools I use Wally W a 11 y if you're wondering why it's called that because there's 11 letters between a and y so W a 11 y wave tools what I'm going to show you here acts as a chrome plug-in but if you want to get a full list of tools you know get Kim's presentation from yesterday now here are the common barriers non-text content such as images videos and don't have a text equivalent so are your PDFs accessible if you have video is it captioned or is there a transcript you have to have it have it both ways captioned or transcript would both boys would be great but at least have a transcript or written transcript of it user cannot ask content via the keyboard that's a big thing I'm starting to like keyboard navigate everything to see if it it will show can you get there through the arrow keys in the tab key action items without defined purpose or context IE click here read more and I'm going to talk about how you can solve that now you have to get around your whole well some of those websites just says read more continue reading or has a more link why can't my website why does mine have a big long link like this well because you're accessible and actually actually the problem I'm having with my client now that I'm building the site for it because I did that and they told me to turn it off because they just wanted to say read more and I'm like no and we can't do that and here's why the inability to visually determine if an element has a focus some people turn off that browser focus when you're tabbing through your website with the tab key it puts a little border around the element that it's on some people don't like that so they actually write a CSS rule that turns that off so don't do that because it really helps using only color to convey information if you're using charts or grids or some visual make sure that you have an element besides color use a shape use an icon along with the color so people that are colorblind aren't going to get lost in the chart and that they can skip content and they have a skip header and I'll show that most most WordPress themes have that and it's easy to test just by hitting the tab key let's say how can I build with accessibility in mind okay the first part is easy because you're using WordPress good semantic meaningful HTML 5 so if you're picking a theme make sure it's not a really old one that's not in HTML 5 color contrast now here's where it gets hard like for me I didn't do the design of the website I'm building they I'm doing it as a subcontractor for a marketing company so I didn't do the design but the designer I don't think read one thing about accessibility when they did design so the first thing off the bat when I saw it was this isn't going to pass this isn't going to pass badly and so I had to go in and say well here's I'm going to build it like this because I'm using beaver builder I can build it out really quick and then I did the the testing and I wrote down everything that was wrong and went back to them went back to the marketing company I said we need to redo design and here's why and if we just tweak this color here we can make this part accessible we're gonna have to get rid of all that because that's not going to pass and so we've in process of building this website we're actually building every page testing every page having user testing on every page and so it's taking a long time but we're fixing each problem as we go and and meaningful links not click here read more continue reading so meaningful headings okay think back to your high school term papers where you had h1s and h2s and then between those h3s your your you have a logical order to your your heading tags you're not using them because I want I want this thing to be this size but I want this thing to be this size so I'll just use a heading tag no you have it has to be a logical sequence because the people that are using screen readers can see that you actually have a logical structure to your website so you have your h1 tag and then you have your subheadings h2 and then your sub subheadings h3 so it makes it easy for them to understand the organization of your content all tags and descriptions for images besides being great for SEO it really helps the user now there's two types of descriptions there's the normal short description and then with WP accessibility plugin you can actually enable a long description not every website's going to need the long description a great example that Christine Kim gave was if it was an artist portfolio website you'd want to use long descriptions because you're going to be describing pieces of artwork but for the project we're working on we're using short succinct descriptions that tell people exactly what the image is and don't use mega menus it's really really hard for people with screen readers and people with low vision to see because the text on those mega menus are so small and it's just hard for them to read and plus when they're they're tapping through and then they have to tab through this column and then this column and then this column so you know I'm guilty I like mega menus but I'm not using them anymore so color contrast this is probably the hardest one I to do because you you do it's all this is a great design and then there's not enough color contrast for instance the original design for the project I'm working on had a lot of blue and orange together but they were about the medium shades each so for colorblind they're going to look exactly the same there's no color contrast so we're not we need to change this we let's set of orange let's use the pale yellow in your in your design guide because we can get enough contrast while this blue isn't quite cutting it if we make it like just a shade darker we can pass we can pass with a triple a so there's websites and stuff for checking that black text on a white background is not always the easiest to read especially for the low vision person or even dyslexic users there's a great you a great WordPress TV video go go watch it on UX design for accessibility and he actually talks about for some dyslexic users if they change the color background to a specific color like green or purple with white text they can read it perfectly I actually talked to a young boy who is dyslexic last weekend and I asked him had he tried that and so let's set down the computer and he actually found it easier to read when it for him if it was a green background and he didn't never knew that because he never noticed it and I I just saw this was a neat idea and when I found out that the son of a friend of mine was dyslexic I said can I ask him some questions and it ended up being a really enlightening conversation with him white text on light backgrounds first of all why I have a designer I work with her favorite color combination is a pale blue with white text and I always say you can't see this well it looks really good I said yeah you've got your 20 your 23 and you have 23 year old eyes I'm not 23 I don't have 23 year old eyes and it's hard to read and then we'll put it up there and the her boss is my age so I can't read that need to change the color and so you know after three years she's finally starting to get the idea that she needs to stop doing her a favorite color combination of light blue and white text colorblind users may not be able to see the colored links in the body without underlines now probably the first CSS rule you learned was to remove the underlines from links in the body copy put them back because especially if your color if you're using like the gray text and your links are blue or orange or red or green because the colorblind person are not going to be able to see the links in your copy their visual clue is the underlying now of course you can take it off in the menus and and in buttons but in the body copy underlying those links it really helps use a contrast checker to check your color contrast not just your your basic colors like your logo but every color that you use and don't put important text on top of busy images yeah we all love parallax we do that but it's hard to read and that was one of the big parts of the design that had to change on this website was because they did that a lot the designer did that a lot and you're like I was having trouble reading it so I can imagine somebody who had worse vision than mine or and needed it you just sit there trying to read this white text and on this busy image and let's go on to fonts okay your base font shot size should be easy to read first of all don't use really skinny fonts and really narrow fonts yes I love really light fonts and I love the the compressed ones but they're very difficult to read for the low vision person your base font shot size should be 16 or higher 16 pixels or higher I like 18 now and especially in the menus you really want that definition and easy to read in your menus use m's instead of pixels so it's easily scalable for the person who is using their browser to scale the fonts up and test your your pages using the browser zoom does it if they zoom way up and make the the base font this big is it breaking the design terribly you might have to rethink your design and you can use there's a text there's text scaling plugins there is part one with WP accessibility where you can just kind of up at one size but there's other plugins out there that you can actually just you know go to town on text scaling so just think about your fonts yes there there's some great fonts out there but they're not always going to be easy for the low vision person and headings I talked about this a little bit before one h1 and the structure the other elements in some type of logical order do not skip between levels don't go from h2 to h4 to h3 you've got to do it in a specific order and the website style sheet will do the rest if you have to resize you know one specific h2 tag to something else then you CSS screen don't resize text to give the effect of headings so page builders that's very easy to do oh I'm just using a text editor let me instead of making it an h3 because then it's not the right size I wanted if it's a h3 let me just use the text resize tool in the in the text editor widget no that's not what you do you have to have some type of structure screeners don't understand if you've got something gigantic and it's important that it's what you think is important and many meaningful links screen readers often do not read the link within the context of the rest of the page using the script descriptive text properly explains the context so instead of click here or about us you know read read more you have your little about us on your homepage read more well instead click here to read more about and then the name of the business yes it makes a longer link but it's this person with a screen reader is going to understand that link instead of you know you know learn more about name of business and about us click and then it's a link that's underlined so images when you make images you should all already be adding alt tags even to background images every image should have an alt tag start making every image have an alt tag in description you're psyched well I had this website off to my client and when they add images they're not going to do that they're just going to add the images well that's part of educating the client now that's also saying okay when you're handing the website off and you're doing the the training for your client to take over the website that's an excellent opportunity to bring up the web plant the your website care plans you know you brought it up when the proposal you've brought up okay now when you when you add a new page to your website remember when you change a picture you're going to have to do this and this and this I actually made a little e-book for the staff at the organization that I'm building the website so we thought the best way to teach them is on their organizational level pages is that they add the content following the directions in the little e-book you have to add an alt tag you have to have an image you have to do headings correctly so I kind of covered all this with examples then I made how to videos and put it in the back end of the website so this is how you add content this is how you change content on your website now when you start saying this is how you have to do everything when you change content on your website when you change images when you change this they're going to say well can't you just do that for me well absolutely if you're on a care plan and so now you're getting that recurring income and you're doing it for your client you're making sure the website stays accessible menus here's the big thing you must be able to access sub menus with keyboard navigation now the best way to test this it's almost everything has a demo page especially the premium themes go to the demo and start hitting the tab key because usually they have at least one drop down in their demo and now I can tell you that I had been using beaver builder theme Genesis if you're still in Genesis framework no problem but if it's a third-party three make make sure you test it I was using beaver builder on some small sites rather than setting up Genesis or generate press and I of course went to their documentation oh it's accessible well it was but for some reason right now on the beaver builder theme you hit the tab key and you get to a menu that has a sub menu it is not dropping down the sub menu it is still tabbing through the sub menu but there's no visual clue that that it's happening so I actually started building the website for this organization with beaver builder theme and I had to go back and redo it I switched it over to generate press generate press is excellent Astra is another one that is really good so look for accessible themes and test them and test them often don't just test them at the beginning because like I said the the person I did the audit on he'd written CSS rule that broke that so test test test test test all the way through it and don't forget to test sidebar menus in fact W the ultimate W ultimate beaver add-ons they have a met a menu widget or module it is not accessible I had used that on part of the website and found out that you can't tab through the the sub menus on that one so I reached out to them and say you know this isn't accessible oh yeah we know well are you gonna do anything about it not right now I'm like okay won't be using that one can't use that so that made me go back and test every module I used to make sure it was accessible there's a there's a class built into word into WordPress called screen reader text class so for instance a great way how many people when they do header menus leave off the home button on a header menu because it's right there next to the logo oh you don't need it or I have too many menu items I don't put it in there you can still add it give it a class a screen reader text and so it's still visible visible to the screen reader but not to the regular person so there's a great if you go to the WordPress codex and look that up it explains it if you Google it there's another website that I think this is the one I have here the two links I have here on my slides talk about that and go and read and how do how you can use that class to actually make your menus accessible but still make them the way you want the hierarchy that you'd like to have so themes start with themes that claim that they support it Genesis works great generate press that's a free theme and then they have a an add-on that's a premium which is thirty nine dollars for unlimited sites so that's a huge huge bargain and don't just take their word for it because accessible ready doesn't mean accessible test their demos and then test all the way through every time you do a page test when you write CSS test just hit start hitting that tab button and seeing if that something that you wrote in the CSS menu broke it because I did that and I had to go out go back and change that plugins you have to read the documentation reach out to the developer if you find an issue make sure the form plugins I know a lot of people I use gravity forms but make sure that the if you're using a free form plug in that it is accessible your page builder modules not all of them are so test it and WP accessibility plug-in and that Wally plug-in Wally brings the one of the website testing tools into your website so you can test it along the way it's a great great plug-in and read the documentation and I can't say this you do not wait to the end of the design and development to worry about accessibility you worry about it from day one you start working on the project because by then it's too late you're going to go back and have to do a lot a lot of redo and it's going to end up taking you more time what tools contrast checker I'm going to show you in an example sim Dalton is a Mac app that allows you to test different types of color blindness and you can get that off the app store acts by DQ labs it's a browser add-on wave I'm going to show you that one wave dot web aim dot org it and they also have a Chrome plug-in the Wally plug-in and third-party services now these are you know if you have a client who just wants to throw money at the issue site improve tenant DQ they all have premium services that they come in and make sure your website's accessible and it stays that way my client is actually going to end up using side improve to make sure that they stay that way I'm just the contract worker so I'm not selling a care plan to them and the marketing agent I'm doing that for is not going to do that so they're actually going to be using a third-party service use your use your phone test your phone turn on your tablets accessibility features just remember how to turn them off and screen readers you can download free free screen readers use what's built into your Mac or PC download ones there's paid ones that are very expensive and test I we were very lucky that we actually have a group of volunteers we have low vision people we have and blind people testing every page that we build and we're getting great feedback and one of the things I've learned that screen readers do not all do I there's no standard there's no like every screen reader must do this because we have some screen readers that will only see unordered lists bullet pointed list if it's a bullet but if you use a custom icon they don't see it as it yeah there's some because I had one design where like I had them test it and one screen reader was not seeing it as a as a list and so you know just kind of I can't go back and you did bullet points because we knew that was going to pass and look at WordPress TV if you just Google accessibility on WordPress TV you're going to see a lot of great talks upcoming in May is an iThemes webinar called the Accessibility Summit now it's a paid webinar it's not expensive how is Nathan in here no okay I want to say it's like $67 for a few hours of every going over in depth of everything that I'm talking about here it's May 2nd and search for webinars WP engine put on a webinar back in February on accessibility if you get your emails from your different marketing people that of that you do a lot of people are doing them out they're like there's at least one every week and then follow what WordPress is doing about accessibility because it is it is coming it's going to be mandatory soon so you might as well be at the top curve so I'm going to exit here and kind of show you one tool a couple tools here we put my glasses on so I can see here's how not to do it let's look at ESPN see if we can get well it's not coming up wonderful yeah it's not it's a hundred this is just the homepage and there's actually it's gone down the last time I looked at it was 254 major errors on ESPN.com so they're going to have a lot of work to do down the road to make their website accessible and most of it has to do with the heading issue and you with this is wave.webaim.org you can put in any website here and get the report on it now sometimes a website is very very busy with that so it's easier they have styles no styles and contrast so if we go I'll just go back to this is a competitor to my client and as you can see this is yeah it's like whoa I've never seen with this much markup so it's actually easier to view it with no styles and they did with their report they have zero errors excellent they don't have 28 alerts or alert your things you know look at it see if it needs to be fixed keep in mind that some of them are false positives I found that anything has a parallax background even contrast checkers don't get that right so if it's got a background image even if it's really just very very paint the contrast checkers aren't picking it out so here's your alerts you get here and then you can actually click through and it will you can see the little movement up here of an upper type it's pointing out where it is there's two nearby images have the same alternative text here's six orphan form labels now are they really orphan form labels maybe maybe not so six there are six unlabeled form elements within the title to missing first here's one to missing first level heading so somebody went to an H2 without an H1 so very small text and then then it tells you everything that you're doing right which is encouraging so it's like oh everything but but this one I mean this is a website they just launched this new website just a couple weeks ago and it's doing fairly well in the color contrast they have a lot of issues with very low contrast but they probably had people tested is it really really up going to be an issue because you can't you take this with a grain of salt but use it as a starting point this is the website I'm working on one of the things we're finding like right now we have five errors and when it was multiple form labels and it says broken six kip links but the skip links work fine so really there's and the multiple form labels they have I've checked the code it does have labels so it's false and you look at it at no styles and then the color contrast and the very very low color contrast the issue they're having is with this right here and I'm trying to get them to let me make the images to list a little bit less and a little bit more of an overlay just to pass but you can see the text is all passing I'm triple a passing on the menus and on the text and that to me is the most important and let's see this is probably one of my favorite tools and then you have the contrast checker if you're doing colors when when you're actually designing come back up come to the contrast checker and check to make sure is it going to be enough of a contrast is there going to be enough contrast between this blue and let's say okay and you know this orange is there going to be enough of a contrast it's getting closer to know there's not going to be enough contrast so you can picture colors in there do them a check before you you do the design and with all the different tools between Kim's and here and I have this actually listed out you're going to be able to do your checks along the way your goal is to be double a accessible for all the website that you build from this point forward and you're going to be that that's going to be your new superpower to market your web designs oh by the way we all the websites we build are accessible when we hand them off and you know it's up to you to keep them that way but we're going to we're going to do everything we can to make sure that your websites accessible to everyone all everyone that's out there and make that a big deal it's going to put you ahead of the curb and so I'll take any questions that you have now yes sir no but it all depends on what you put behind it it depends on what the video is is the is the video water ocean wave lapping up on sand and there's the text dark on light yeah it's probably going to pass but the best way is find is to get human testing and you can reach out and see if you can find somebody to test it for you somebody who you know low vision for me one of the great tools I love that that Kim showed yesterday that wasn't where I was the blurring website blurring because without my contacts or glasses my field of vision where I can see clearly is literally this far anything beyond this point which is about six inches from my face is a big blur I would probably get hit by a car if I ever tried to cost the street without glasses because my vision is that bad and so for me if I can if I can kind of see the website sitting in my chair with my iMac here and I can actually navigate the website without my glasses then I think it's I can actually see it and move around so it's those well stay away from that tiny text and just look at it yeah I love the video backgrounds but if it's a moving city at night and it's white text it's probably going to be very difficult for somebody to read and that you know that the flash it could cause seizures exactly that was one thing that that's the first time I've ever really seen that it luckily it was fine mm-hmm but definitely watch what flash is actually you know yeah mm-hmm what she talked about things that do a lot of flashing and and change of color contrast very a very sharp change of color contrast because that even bothers me as far as it you know eventually give you for me it gives me a headache so let me go back to my slides really quickly here and here's how you can reach me if you have any questions and you want to discuss things further my Twitter is mga creative and I'm Melanie MG a creative designs and you can get these slides at my website and I'm sure they'll be sending out a link to all the slides that everybody had this weekend later on so are there any more questions yes sir well I kind of up my rates about every six months so I I learned that from my business coaches you need to reevaluate you should need to raise your prices consistently so what I'm doing is I just kind of automatically raise my rates but it does add extra extra time to a project so you should probably adjust your rates according now of course like any new skill I haven't been doing this you know more than a year so you get faster at it so the first time you know I'm reading I spent a lot of time reading before the project started and watching WordPress TV and reading everything about it before I started the project but when I'm doing it and then I'm testing it and this has been a long process because we you know we do a page we have we send it I send it to the marketing they talked to the the organization the organization has their users test it so it may be like five days a week before I get feedback on something that I've built so it's a time intensive thing but at like any other skill if you're going to get faster at it and once it becomes part of your repertoire you're going to have we most of us that do this for a living we have our go-to themes so we have one or two or three that we stick to so now you're not going to have to look for a theme I know and now you're testing this okay I know that if I do this on a sub menu it may break the accessibility of the tab down so and you'll start testing you'll just start getting you'll be actually start using keyboard navigation a lot more just to test things you know sit down there okay let me test this page before I close it and make sure you can tab all the way from the top a great example I'm going to talk about skip links and I didn't do that so let me talk about the the skip links when you hit the tab key the first time upper left-hand corner skip to content first thing you should look for when you're testing a theme so when they they can actually skip the entire header go straight to the content because if they're in your home page and they've already clicked a link to go to one of your inside pages they don't need to go through that whole menu again so definitely test for that and make sure that it works and so you got you know skip to content when you start hitting the tab and then when you start hitting the tab key now when you get to a header menu does it go through all the sub menus does it does it visually make the submenu drop down the mind goes all the way through the third level menus so then this is generate press theme I'm a big fan of Genesis also but I started using generate press because it's very similar to Genesis and it works great with beaver builder so is there any questions yes ma'am okay yeah I'm like I was going to say what it was and I totally drew a blank Kim can you what what is Aria what is Aria stand for yeah accessible I always get to the accessible rich and then I forget the internet application accessible so some sliders if you use sliders on your website because we all know their clients love those make sure you pick one that that supports that and I know like like soliloqually I know is is one that does so you want to make sure that it passes that any other questions yes sir are there any ways to check check for cognitive accessibility no I have a client he's an older guy I'm gonna make that his cognitive disability yeah he loves to see HTTP HTTPS and I have an issue with it one of our designers hates to see these lakes ran out fully and Bill says I want to know I don't work just have an underlying I want to see the whole thing and that works he's the boss but the guy that we work with constantly is hammering on that yeah well I would do it as a link and put the text you know the link text and not put the whole URL in there but no but that's that's an interesting point I'm actually a good friend of mine is down syndrome young man and in and I'm gonna actually bring him in and see if this the website makes sense because he really loves his wife his iPad so he spends all the time on his iPad and and absolutely loves it surfing the internet so every Sunday at church he shows me what he's found that week on his iPad so so when I see him at church next Sunday I'm gonna actually ask me I said well how do you all ask him about the website and see that's that's an interesting question awesome thank you well there's the financial industries are getting sued now too yeah well the requirements change right now on industry as far as if you know they have any acts any any relationship to the federal government they have to be accessible and that's where the banks and the health care industry are having issues is because you know like my retirement communities out of the 12 two of them don't take Medicare so technically they don't at this point need to be that way because that they don't have any relationship to but it's owned by the organization this whole organization so of course we're just gonna make everything accessible from this point forward so you've got to if you do it now then it's not going to be an issue down the road because it is it is coming and as you can see with the big people getting sued right now it's only a matter before the middle level of businesses started getting sued and then no the mom-and-pop stars stores just like you know the ones that hunt down the stores that are the physical brook and mortar stores that aren't accessible the proof that are coming yeah yeah yeah yes yes no I I I don't like that one at all I used it for about 10 minutes once and I've fixed websites that use Divi but I don't know about it but you could reach out to elegant themes and ask them what they're their accessibility but like anything not not all the modules in Divi just like all not all the modules are going to be easy for the person that's especially low vision I'm finding that building for screen readers is actually easier than building them for the low vision person so that actually takes more work yes the forms that have they have labels you can tab through the form fields not all forms do that I mean back in that I remember several years ago when I first started using gravity forms you actually had to write some code to make it so you could tab through the form fields so since most of the free forms you you know things that's the first thing throw it throw a contact form on the page hit that can you tab through the form fields can you tab through and hit enter and submit the the form without ever clicking on it yeah yeah yeah okay thank you very much


So welcome to Super Mario time vlog Thursday. Hmm. I like it. Yeah good title good title See as the place becomes more complete more things come here And I did a video before I have a retro pie, which is a lot of fun And if you're not familiar with the project I can well find in my videos. I'll throw a link below The retro pie is a project that you take a raspberry pie and put retro games And when Tom relives his childhood on it and tell us what a raspberry pie is raspberry pie is a very inexpensive little arm-based computer So this whole project to build the retro pie and buy the controller $120 maybe but the reliving my childhood memories and playing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on NES Like I did with this guy when we were really small and we had Nintendo's and Atari's Yes Yes, I'm no Marvin that long. Yeah. Yeah, like the weight of the weight like Atari 2600 days Do you have a 7800 nope just as you did didn't know no who had the 78 must have been Jason Jason Jason had everything I had the 2600 and I had the 800 that was just like a computer was like a keyboard Oh, yeah, he had that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah the 800. Yeah, so yeah, we relived our whole youth doing that So it was fantastic. Yeah, we played so many I played asteroids a lot. Oh asteroids was my jam I was great at that game. I tried playing it like maybe a year ago and I have lost my touch Yeah, not nearly as good at it as I but we can we're gonna relive the little that here So we've got more furniture. We got more places to put our butt Which is important important place to put your butt very important So the building's coming along we got a grand opening, you know last time we got the sign There's like all these little details and we're putting them all together I'm making progress on everything though. I feel that's what matters like this moving forward as you're moving Last week. It's a fridge. We got like one more shelf. There's so this is a really big table. Hmm, and Where's frame at right there figure that's where all the crap is. Yeah It's so close.  We're working on it. We're getting there. I mean, it's it's a 10-foot table and four feet of it It's a little little junkie, but that's all right. And the reason for this is we have so many things We got art projects. We've been working on these are all details that mean a lot to us in some way for some reason Steve is built and we're gonna do Arts and crafts with Steve video. I thought that'd just be a lot of fun Some cool arts and crafts a lot of tech stuff with processors The motherboard lighting project. It's kind of been ongoing, but it's really cool. Yeah, so I'm gonna start I think he's getting ready to assemble now. So we're gonna do some documentation on it Interim because I thought about it after he built some of them like oh, wow, we should probably document some of that Yeah, there's certain things that you don't expect to hear when you work at a technology company like yesterday when Kyle and Steve said Marvin your wife's an art teacher, you know color theory come help us and I'm like They need my help with color theory for it was working on the motherboard project. They legitimately needed to help Yeah, I mean we thought about the scheme. Yeah, yeah, we laid out the things it was it was impressive It really is impressive. Yeah, so it's pretty cool. And there's nothing Steve likes more than lighting things up Oh my goodness. Oh, yes, he puts a lot of thought into how things should be late We're going to speaking of lighting things up and Steve We will do do you've seen our Roman candle video probably of course maybe some of you have seen it Yes, I don't think I've ever posted it on my channel. Maybe I should Well before I say I should I will Tell you we are making a bigger Roman candle shooting thing. Oh boy, and it's now that we have a drone We're going to involve the drone. I haven't decided at what angle we can safely shoot at the drone But I want to get some really cool flyovers with without hitting my drone with it because it's fire, you know fire shouldn't hit my drone May I'll find a clip of it and it's a little piece of here Just give you an idea what a Roman candle shooter is but the Steve was the one who? Crafted a lot of that project and no that was our beta that was our test run and we recorded it I tell my personal channel, but I can bring it over here and we'll talk about what it takes to build one and build a One to scale that we feel is adequate for us. It's like myth busters, right? Yeah We're like, okay, so it didn't work this way, but now we're gonna build the biggest one ever Because we're gonna make this work. Yes We're having a grand opening and the mayor's coming out and all that stuff So once we make friends with all the city people were friends with just in case this goes wrong because I actually want to do The video here of building the Roman candle shooter So that way when when the police come or if they come if something goes awry They could be like weren't you just here with the mayor on the grand opening like matter of fact, I was sure enough Here's a screen capture of it. See how we're shaking hands very friendly very friendly. Yeah in the city where I live I am friends with the chief of police on Facebook. They've seen some of my shenanigans and not commented Is that plausible Mainly for legal purpose maybe illegal papers, and I do post this our vlogs do get posted on Facebook I don't know if the chief of police takes the time to watch my blog. She's a busy person and by the way very great police officer We were really happy. That's how I became friends were on Facebook Was an incident that they were just above and beyond with the city So thank you very much if you do watch this we are really appreciative of the police force there Anyways back to technology things we have more projects with surveillance cameras and everything else That's really growing like a lot of like we're getting a lot of people that want security cameras. Yes, which is good One of the things I just did it before vlog Thursday because somebody was late Getting here. Yeah, but that wasn't so much late as okay. Yeah, I was late. Okay. He was late We usually do this at 80m but he wasn't here and I was already in video mode in my head So I recorded a video and the scalability of building your own Unify and VR video system now one of the problems I'd run into was there's not a lot of details on this and we're trying to detail it and I Talk a lot about that with people is One of the my goals with the YouTube channel is to give you the details to get something now Everyone's like oh use this thing and Contract us to set it up and I'm always like well I just show you the entire setup process and if you want you can contract us I mean, it's great, but I'm not doing this just for a Marketing ploy. It's more of I love sharing technology and by doing that someone sometimes looks at the setup I didn't go hey Here's a better way to do it and that's how you build community That's how you build interest in this and that's how we all get better at doing the things that we're doing here Now I just did the free NAS build and I printed it feels like a half hour long roughly. I don't know Anyways, yeah, probably someone. Yeah. Yeah. I was gonna say it's the server here It still hasn't been delivered it gets delivered today because we do so much testing on them And you know, I'm right away new because I put that we use non ECC memory So some there was gonna be the the age-old debate about that. I had my responses I actually knew people to debate me on it. So I had my responses in a note pad. I'm like when someone does this Here's my note on what to copy by pace like they replied on my copy paste I have an entire response for them and based on the argument that you present of how I'll present it back You know because we're passionate. We're tax. We're passionate But the other thing and I expected this as well someone's like well, you built it on not server hardware I'm like Yes, now that comes down to clients. I have clients that have budgets When you have clients that don't have budgets and we we can just say I want to build the ultimate no problem Let me build you an entire EMC storage array for your raid. No problem You have $50,000 to spend on this project Most of my clients now we have larger clients and we do some of those and unfortunately I can't document everything we do for them because we're very conscious of client privacy and some of them to say You know we prefer not having any details about our company revealed. We're fine with that But the small businesses are like hey do whatever and most of time you don't know their names because we're doing it here and kind of showing An overview but we always ask permission if we do anything on site with them And but these clients have budgets and those budgets sometimes are like I have about a few thousand to spend on it And someone's like oh you didn't build it with like enterprise NAS hardware I'm like hey, there's a company called 45 drives They make a really amazing storage arrays and the base box before I buy the hard drives Which were one of the more expensive parts of this project costs more than the project. It's like here's your $3,000 hardware box. Oh and you have to buy hard drives for it. I would love to get an approval on that from this client I know what they do for a living and what they do for a living just doesn't pay enough to that We're in Detroit by the way. We are The Motor City. We are not the richest place where we're at. It is not like there Yeah, the streets are not paved with gold and we can't all afford giant rate arrays of SSDs I mean we'd love to it's it's a different market though and That being said we come up with solutions for the clients now one thing about it Even if you build the nice enterprise storage, right? Yeah, maybe there's a little bit more reliability You're gonna get out of it, but the other part of this project that's not really being covered as much because it's not It's not as relevant, but I mentioned it is we have to build a second array on site to back this up So that we're actually gonna be reusing an old ray They have and putting a few new drives in it less redundancy But it's gonna mirror it because a lot of people will realize this and I've seen this happen on enterprise hardware Granted as much left off them catastrophic failure that wipes out the entire system So it's not a backup unless it's in two places You know it has to be in two places well We're gonna be three for this because we're doing you know on site backup because they got about eight terabytes of data they'll be storing on this within a year and After that it's backed up to the cloud so to speak the problem backing up to the cloud is you know Long it takes to get eight terabytes back. We don't have fiber here In these areas either back to where Detroit we don't have that Oh, by the way bandwidth caps and everything else that you deal with If you get a couple terabytes of month in bandwidth your one download is like oh by the way not to mention the time So that's kind of the overall project. I'd love using enterprise hardware. It's not like we're just trying to cut corners I've heard it called like cowboy it where you just kind of whip something together and build it Hey That's fun and we like doing some of that but it comes down to providing solutions for the client That's how boys are cool. Hey cowboys are boys are very cool We should really be wearing cats like cowboy hats and stuff So there's still a lot of thought and planning goes into them It just comes out to using resources we have to build something so that's kind of my thoughts and it's still an impressive Piece of equipment. I mean it's 36 terabytes. Yeah, there's still a lot of storage. Yeah, if you're interested in free nests Watch the video. It's pretty cool The thing that because it's the same day I released the video which of course the build occurs before then There there's now free nests 11 out, but I don't trust it enough after the free nests 10 debacle Yeah, yeah, they left a lot of people stranded on that so I'm waiting You know, it does have a clear upgrade path that I'm waiting before we do it We'll probably do it in place at the clients But because they're not using all the fancy features that come in free nests 11. They don't care It literally is one share for a lot of video files and Random drawings and stuff because it's a civil engineering company It's gonna be filled with sewer videos That's actually what they have a camera that goes down like the big sewers and looks for stuff And they have lots of project pictures when they're putting in new sewer lines So that's really what this is is a giant archive of sewer so when somebody says hey Did you dump that crap onto the server? They really mean they need to dump that crap on the server Just saying check out the group check out this crap on this video the good crap on this Crap's backing up We have to back up the crap We're backing up the crap keep the crap from backing up This is got way meadow for this early matter for this really the crap backed up so it doesn't back up Yeah, so it doesn't back up in sep show up in here So that being said I've also I was on the internet advisor radio show Which was interesting because I've done podcast I do a podcast I've been on other podcasts as a guest But being on radio is weird because of all the ads So that was different so you got this little music that comes in the headphones that starts playing it Let's me know I got 15 seconds to wrap up whatever I'm saying because we're gonna roll to an ad that was kind of fun learning experience then I was interviewed by the Daily Detroit daily Detroit, which was really cool to interview with them and it's fun pulling up history of Tom So they you know their reporters they do the research and I'm like, oh wow you read I forgot I posted that and It's just things I had done in the past and my past also Revisited me on Tuesday, which was two days ago because I Was a photographer and a lot of people know this so I was not just a photographer. I was a wedding photographer My stuff's been published. I've had photos in the night I've you know, which if you're if you're at the wedding industry, it's a big wedding public Very good wedding photographer don't I've done very very well with wedding photography I retired from it about a year or maybe a year ago now Like yeah last year was last wedding I did I just got really burned out I've done hundreds and hundreds of weddings But I sold by another friend who also retired from the business And I finished liquidating the combination of equipment I had that I just been sitting on and all that so it was actually fun the people that hang out with They're getting into wedding photography. So I ended up having like an entire Studio session with them as I used to also be a trainer of photographers I was the person who would bring them out to teach people how to do it and it almost made me wonder I mean, they're like can you do a whole video series on this because I spent like an hour Going over all the little details about doing it and sharing my experiences. So it's kind of funny to think about it going Oh, yeah, there's more past Tom Yeah, that's a bad idea. Yeah, and one more thing and we're gonna post this in our blog So there's a local group and they're amazing called it in the D for you know it in Detroit and we're friends with those guys Bob and Dave from an amazing thing They they're networking one beer at a time Yes, and they are for them. It's rarely ever one beer. Yeah one beer at a time a bunch of beers per episode. They have a podcast Watching Bob get passionately angry about things is epic. So I was on their podcast for their 200th show They had just they have a great a list of geeky guests, which is awesome We're talking like you know people in the comic book world and in some of the wrestling stuff They do and they also have an ATM in their lobby, which is hysterical. I think you seen pictures to that It just popped up. Yep Yep, it just kind of showed up. That's a whole there's a whole thing I want to do if they can get it together wait in front sewing your reversal keys Davis and I told her I'm more than one to help with the hacking of the ATM project for this and So it's gonna be fun. That's that's oh, I'm hoping if we can get this going This would be a whole separate video But back to the ITD guys a listener podcast listen to Bob rant about how angry is about things and it's so funny Like it's being on there with a bunch of tacky guys and sharing a lot of geek humor I was privileged to be on her show. It was great I get to go under and hang out once in a while and you know, we're all friends and it's good But if you look in for a funny podcast not deeply technical But surface technical because they cover tech topics ITD is a great podcast for that It really is it really is and and like Tom said Bob is so passionate about what he gets passionate about Yes, that would be the way to put it. You know Bob is passionate when he's passionate about things So Bob ranting about something he is is really really funny. Gosh. Yes. Yes, Dave has his own Dave's very He eggs Bob on if Bob gets a little mad Dave's like, oh Yeah, you're seeing so close to the ledge So that was a lot of fun I was on that show that was on Monday night So that was they record every Monday night episode 200. So that was really cool And back to other things that we're doing Mostly it's been sales because we're out of money That's spent way too much moving Yeah, we got a So that kind of you know, I still I'm rocking out the videos But it it does you know get out there beat the streets get the sales going We got a good process for it But it's also it takes some doing and I get distracted because I love making videos and then there's tech things and there's hanging out with Bob and Dave and Then there's like the hangover from Bob and Dave so then to say becomes a less productive day Productive at all. I got the free NAS video. Oh, well. All right. Well, that's something so we got that Yeah, so and you know, I made an archaea trip. So that was no excellent. We got furniture assembled So there's like things did kind of happen. Those those mesh chairs are going to be dangerous around here I will be napping in them. I guarantee you it's going to happen going to happen napping in a mesh. Yeah Oh, it's speaking of promotional stuff. We want to send out a thank you to uh, tim summers of Bizarre marketing for getting us some cool marketing materials a bunch of sticky notes Just on those or something. I don't know. I've got to come up with something clever We have a bunch of sticky notes with our company logo on it. We're always looking for ideas and trinkets Um, I wish I had it here, but I think I left it at home. So everyone thinks this is a horrible idea with tom and microsoft I don't know what you guys think it's probably is a terrible idea. It's it's one of those ones.  Normally. I'm just like, I don't care.  Maybe it's because I like jelly beans, but It's like Barbara. It's like like people you can't just drop these off tom and like be your it service solution I'm like, why not? Well, because children will find them and be like, oh, there's candy in these bottles These bottles have candy in them. I whenever I find them, I can just eat whatever's in it. Yeah, it's a terrible terrible idea Yeah, so maybe pill bottles is the best idea and I already had them in a wish list on amazon I found out what I could get pill bottles for I didn't like a plan for this Because that's exactly what we need is that in our history is pill bottles Oh, our amazon search history is interesting enough. Yeah, exactly. Exactly There's a subreddit called amazon wtf and I click it a lot and So the weirdest things end up in my amazon search list like you looked for this at one time. I'm like, no, oh wait No, I didn't know I did though. Yeah, I did look at it from reddit. They had a link to it So now amazon thinks I'm looking at whatever the weird thing it is Maybe I should just do a video on all the amazon wtf stuff because it's really entertaining Yes, yes it is. Be amazed what you can get on amazon. I had no idea Mm-hmm Final last thing we'll cover before you wrap it up here is I wanted to do the videos and what wanted and going to Do the videos on how they got hacked. I actually reached out to some security friends. They're interested They were rolling it over on how they want to Present things to make sure we you know keep anonymity of clients because there's so much with you know Confidential and nda stuff that gets involved in this But it's interesting, you know, I want to talk about some of the behind the scenes of how the security breaches occurred And of course by knowing how they occurred gives you an opportunity to hopefully mitigate them with your company So it's a little bit more of a serious thing But I love the intricacies of it and things like that So and sometimes it's absurdities of what was done to get them hacked So i'm a little looking for more stories. I only know, you know, I only have a handful That I can kind of gathered so I got to work out all the technical details Exactly how to do it, but I want to present it really well So that's about it for vlog. There's anything you could think of marvin. No, that's about it You know always leave him wanting more tom always leave him wanting more I think we like we probably hit that mark seven minutes ago. Yeah, you guys are probably going wow I didn't even no one's watched it to this far That's you know, we really need to do that we need to put we need to start putting something like at the end Problem is they can just go fast forward to the end. Well, I don't know something I don't know we live in that world now you can do that Exactly, right? We also throw it up because the battery light isn't quite is it blinking But um it's getting there. So part of the deal was I sold is when you do wedding photography is You have duplicates of everything double cameras double lenses and everything else. So I sold my duplicate equipment One of the things that's missing and it's probably at some brides house Is the battery charger Because sometimes you you know, don't have the battery charge and you put the battery in and charge it When you get there at the wedding as opposed to doing it beforehand and it wasn't me that did this It was a friend who didn't have stop charge. So I only had one charger even though having multiple cameras And so to close the deal on selling all the equipment I had for sale I had to throw in a charger because the person said, oh, yeah, I got canon equipment too So I already have a charger. I don't need it. Say when they message me about buying it I'm like, I'm missing the charger. You can buy them online. Well, they had the wrong canon charger So I had to give them mine. So also I said, well my two batteries are charged and That should be enough. Well, then I've been filming the last couple days and so burning up these cameras Because what you don't realize is there's a lot of footage we shoot And then there's I try to to make it more concise before I give it to you and then some things just don't work I shot an entire thing and it was completely wrong About if I get a fact wrong, I rewatched the video and I'm like, these are wrong facts I try to be very uh fact based on these. We also started building the original free dance video and it's uh wrong too Oops, we didn't realize it wouldn't fit in the case the original case I don't know. There was some major oversight about when we started assembling it. So There's there's actually two free dance videos one that didn't get done Because we realized nothing would fit after tom did, you know, the whole talk And and hung over a case that wouldn't fit the stuff that was sitting in front of me So and glaringly someone would have pointed that out if that would have ended the video there going Hey, you know one the final builds looks different than what you said you were going to do So that video is going to become like a bootleg like the star wars holiday show People are just going to be clamoring. They're going to be like, how do I get my hands on that video? Yeah, it's a Tom doing something dumb. So anyways, the battery's blinking. So thanks for watching like see you next week. Oh, uh, also tomorrow I'm doing a live stream. So if you're watching this whatever date this is published on tomorrow I'm doing a live stream with crosstalk solutions. I'm also reaching out to other youtubers To do some cross channel promotions stuff and things Uh for reference today is june 15th. So i'm june 16. I am so glad somebody knows what today is doing the uh The thing doing the thing the what he just said. Yep. All right. Thanks for see you. Thanks for watching


Hi, my name is Leo Muro currency trader and trading coach at trading 180 calm and welcome to this week's supply and demand for us in gold fundamental and technical analysis for the week ahead starting the 5th of February. Hope you had a great trading week and If you do like the videos that I provide every week Please don't forget to like subscribe and share the videos with your fellow Trading colleagues as is a free way to support the the channel and get the quality content out to those who may need it. So Getting into the week ahead 5th of February In the upcoming week investors will closely watch for insights from the Federal Reserve officials along with key economic indicators such as the ISM service PMIs and trade balance data Internationally the focus will be on interest rate Decisions in Australia. That's going to be a very important one Although they are expected to hold rates. It's really about whether The RBA the Reserve Bank of Australia are going to be more hawkish or dovish depending on their what they see in the data in terms of inflation and and GDP so additionally external trade data for Australia, Germany and Canada They're going to be watched and in China investors will scrutinize the services PMI and consumer and producer prices China hasn't been doing too well, but that may give China a bit of a boost And if that is the case then obviously that will affect commodity currencies or it should affect I have a decent effect on commodity currencies and Finally Germany will release factory orders and industrial production Canada labour market data and Euro area retail sales and so lots going on in the week and Before we get into the some more technicals and fundamentals. I thought I would go over My trade of the week which was the Swiss yen and looking at the Swiss yen if we go to the the the fundamental Trading 180 sorry This called group and in fact, let me just make this a bit zoomed in a bit too much on this one second. Yeah, so So if you go to the to the group and and the Swiss yen This was a set up It was a stop hunt that I posted to the group and I said if anyone's looking to buy the yen over the Swiss This is a very nice stop hunt set up if it occurs and so If you look at the the stop hunts Set up that I had posted and this was on the 26th of January So it was at the beginning of the week we had seen this set up And this is what I was Expecting to happen in terms of you know prices do you know pop up a pop up above that level and give Some sort of stop hunt indication and then a pull back down into the lows of this area matter of fact That's what I was kind of planning out and that was what was you know I was looking for in the group. So We ended up a few people actually end up getting involved in the trade. So later on That was on the 29th a few days later. I Said if anyone is looking for this trade obviously a nice set up if it occurs And I said they didn't want to get it else getting this trade and there's a few people two traders that also saw the same thing and managed to get involved in this trade and This is the the image. So you had again the stop hunt here occurred right there So that was the level level stop hunt above and the respect in prices to kind of come down which it ended up doing So this was the actual trade set up in the charts. So that was the level the stop hunt here And so the entry was at this candlestick Right here and my stop was about 15 pips above the highs somewhere around there Let's just see what 15 p yet somewhere around here 15 pips. And so that was the risk now They ended up going around Three to one if you know towards the bottom of the range in the book the bottom of the auction But with this trade the way I manage this trade is really I'm taking One-to-one Around here to get myself to really like a break-even position. And then once I'm in a break-even position then I'm gonna say one-to-one taken half position off at one-to-one. So I'm taking you know risk a pound I'm taking you know 50 pence off and leaving 50 pence in the market And then my plan really is to actually swing trade this up We zoom out a little bit more, you know something like on that on a daily time frame chart I'm looking at actually swing trading it down to some of these lows, right? Reason being fundamentally and why I'm getting sure I got short on this was because The yen which we'll talk about in later on in the video is really the only bank central bank The G10 that are expected to look to high crates this year Whereas the Swiss Frank are looking to cut rates. It is an interest rate divergence play going on there I think the Swiss Frank should weaken over the next quarter or so. And so this play now becomes Decent when it comes to certain targets on a higher time frame. So So this is what I'm looking for and I think many of the other guys might be looking for this We've pulled back obviously Not ideal of course We always want our trades to just drop like a stone or you know rise in our in our favor But ultimately I do think that This should eventually roll over if it doesn't roll over worst thing that can happen is that I am I will be at break Even because of the fact that I've taken some profit. So Let's just say prices do come up and men is to stop me out right here Well because I've taken half profit already if prices do come up here Then I haven't lost anything other than you know overnight swaps for example I will still look for short trades because I know like I said fundamentally I want to be a buyer of the the yen over the Swiss Frank So it might offer me another opportunity to get involved in this maybe a better price and hopefully then it starts to roll Over so let's walk. I'll keep an eye on this trade. Obviously. I've entered into some other trades as well like the Euro Swiss and Aussie Swiss and let's see what happens with those as well, but that's been the trade of of the week a profitable trade You know depending on how you managed it or a break-even at the bare minimum. So yeah, that's really the trade So if you do got if you guys are watching this and want to get involved in the mentoring I put up my mentoring probably Maybe once a quarter meaning maybe about four times a year four or five times a year and one of the areas that you can get access to is my trading videos and This is a members only area where I have members wrote only analysis and videos that are in here that you don't see on YouTube So if you do want to join The next intake will be probably maybe around the end of March beginning of April and by the way to all the guys that are in the Discord group This is the members Video as well. So go to the trading videos channel and the latest Fundamental and technical analysis Video is in there and it's not the same as what I provide on YouTube It's more in-depth and I go over all the pairs that I'm interested in anyways So that was the trade of the week. So getting into The dollar index now so the dollar index The massive news this week was that the Jobs really and non-farm payrolls on Friday the headline is blockbuster jobs report turns slowdown narrative on its head So employment jumped 553,000 in January exceeding all estimates and strong hiring is likely to delay federal Reserve rate cuts and so in order for there to be rate cuts. You need to really see a downturn in the economy as well as inflation going back to the federal reserves 2% target and Jobs and employment are an indication of how well the economy is doing and so if the economy if there are you know is a higher employment and low unemployment then It doesn't give, you know, the narrative It's not playing into the narrative that the US economy is Contracting and going into a recession anytime soon. Therefore There will be a delay or there's likely to be a delay to federal reserve rate cuts now I believe that rate cuts are coming this year as we are in an election cycle, but You know, I don't think they're gonna come in March and I've been saying this for a while. So So when we look at really the charts You can see that the market is re-pricing the dollar higher because it's pricing out rate cuts And so this is an equally weighted dollar index by the way and if you do want to You know understand how to get this calculation on trading view I have a video on my YouTube channel if you go to the the Trading 180 page you should be able to find it's like that Maybe the second or third video most recent video that I've done Regarding and it has I think in the title Currency index something like that anyways like that. Maybe the second or third video that I've done a Recent video anyways So we did have you know prices pretty much move to the upside I was expecting prices to potentially want to come down to this demand zone. It didn't do that That's fine. No, I didn't manage to get into some a dollar trade on the dollar Swiss So that's okay as well, but I will expect the dollar to some degree either You know push higher or it's gonna, you know, maybe pull back a bit to push higher I think the dollar is gonna be supported at this level here Can't really see it going below that unless obviously we have some data That that really comes out and really kind of supports the fact that the Fed may start to Cut sooner rather than later. So who knows but for now that those job date that job data Is basically making the market reprice rate cuts meaning that the The dollar is looking to strengthen at some point. So for me the dollar is continued by Many of you been who've been following me on the Week-to-week have been saying that my biases to the upside and you can see, you know, what's been happening So let's see what happens. But if you are short on the on the dollar Then we are up into this supply zone and you also have another Supply zone probably around there to look for a short trades, but Personally, I would probably look for this area You know, the the demand zones is really what I'm looking for in terms of buying the dollar so Moving on to the dollar yen and the dollar yen Again more of a trickier pair to trade because you do have in fact the The market expects as I've seen before the Japanese bond yields and bank shares jump on Bank of Japan rate hike bets so The Bank of Japan are really the only bank that are looking to hike rates this year in terms of the G10 banks And it says it's clear the Bank of Japan hawkishness has increased as MUF J as X Kato and the JGB 10 year yield climbs to its highest in more than a month and so When you have guess a delay in rates cuts by the dollar But also the fact that the yen are looking to potentially hike rates that needs to be obviously Supported by the actual data You can have scenarios where either you're looking for short trades at supply zones, right? Or you can actually still look for by trades if prices do pull back into this demand zone before looking at going long so that's really The play for the for the dollar yen not necessarily again a pair that I'm I've got my watch list For sure, but not a pair. I'm immediately looking to trade until I think the the US dollar really do start to Cut rates and they enter into their rate cutting cycle as this is an election year And so it's probably inevitable that the the Federal Reserve will look to Cut rates at some point So moving on to the the dollar CAD and the dollar CAD We have prices Being and being supported really by recent dollar news the Canadian dollar though did have some decent news of its own. I think the GDP month-for-month, I think it came out as better than expected. So Again, it's a bit more of a difficult pair to trade in the short term because you do have some positive sentiment for the Canadian dollar and I think there's been some pushback on the timing of their rate cuts So whereas maybe about three weeks Go it was probably somewhere around maybe the March April now I've seen reports saying it could be you know May June So let's see what happens But I'm in the short term if I'm looking to trade this I will still look for probably more buy trades on the US dollar and Look for some more upside potential But these are really the zones you're looking at either you're looking at the prices to come back up to the 135s or the 136 round number before looking at going short if you're looking to buy the Canadian dollar Or pull back into one three fours one three three 90s into that demand zone if looking for Some buys on the US dollar looking at the British pound US dollar and again, you've got really kind of two Currencies that are that quite strong and look look into appreciate That's what the reason why you've seen prices kind of enter into this auction this range of what traders would describe it as because you've got two currencies that are appreciating and The market has accepted it to be a bit a bit more of a stable Exchange rate right when you have two One currency is expected to appreciate against the other then you have a trending market, right? So fundamentally, this is what you've been seeing over the past what since yeah since December really Yeah, December mid-December prices have remained within this one two eight 50 to one two six Level now there was some news this week where the Bank of England opens up prospects of red cuts in 2024 if inflation eases it's a key sense key interest rate left unchanged at five point two five and split vote and Central bank drops guidance that borrowing costs may rise. So Pretty much all central banks are dropping the same guidance but the Bank of England were pretty much just warning that if inflation eases then of course then they got to stop Putting rate cuts on the table now. I think initially the market might have interpreted that as being a bit A bit. Sorry one second. Where am I a bit dovish right? Here we are a bit dovish But on the day then we kind of had a bit of reversal but then we had obviously the the News come out for non-farm payrolls and that kind of push prices to the downside in terms of strengthening the US dollar So I think your options still are, you know, technically looking for buy trades on the pound and move back down below this one two six area or looking at the The moves up to the one two eight one two eight fifties before looking at getting short on this currency pair So now looking at the pound yen and the pound yen Again last week we did have price come down into this demand zone and bounced off it. So that was quite nice technically But I think going into the next a few months as long as the data supports the narrative of the The Bank of Japan looking to high crates Probably see upside of this pair is being quite limited and it's probably more downside I said over the medium to long term So let's see what happens with this currency pair if you do want to be a buyer in the short term I think any pullbacks internet demand zone is decent But my bet would more likely be on the yen strengthening overall in terms of in terms of interest rate divergences, so That's where my money would be. I'm not necessarily going to trade this currency pair though Be more like the euro yen and I guess we'll get into that a bit later Those are really your options for the pound yen I do expect prices to kind of stay within this overall auction note or there or there about somewhere like that before looking at again potentially rolling over over the medium term as we get closer to The Bank of Japan's decision as to whether they will adjust monetary policy Looking at the euro dollar so the euro dollar this week we had The euro actually has some decent news so the euro did have Unexpectedly avoided the downturn so they avoid the recession, but struggles persist so Yeah, the year the euro is an unexpectedly avoided the first recession since the pandemic in the latter half of 2023 as firm of growth in Italy and Spain offset the malaise in Germany So it's more of about gross domestic product stagnating over the last three months of the of the year And so what that did was They I think the it came in at zero the GDP and so it kind of was boosted The euro was boosted in the short term and also as well inflation came out as well, but when it It came down slowed less than expected and it clouds ECB cuts So euro zone inflation is less than anticipated at the start of the year testing investors Expectations that the European Central Bank will begin lowering interest rates as soon as the spring and so the Central Bank really need the you know core inflation to kind of come down and other inflation Edges to come down sooner before they start to look to cut sooner But if that doesn't if doesn't come down or slow as fast as they Expect then they're gonna push, you know out their expectation for when that rate cut is going to happen further into the future So Although that initially supported the euro, you know up until Thursday, I think against dollar I think expectations now have to be readjusted in terms of the dollar When they're going to cut an ease and the Federal Reserve and so I think there's potentially more downsides To come I don't think the downside is going to be a massive downside Maybe maybe a hundred pips from here Maybe a hundred and fifty pips from here, but I don't know whether it's going to be a massive downside As it looks like they're I think both central banks are a bit like neck and neck in terms of when they're looking to Cut rates they might cut rates at the same time in this right now. So again, I I do expect the the the dollar To rally a bit in terms of to the downside But overall I think my bias would be to look for buys on the dollar at least in the short term So any pullbacks into a supply zone would be quite nice So if you do get any pullbacks down, you know up into here before looking at getting short Or you're looking for at least that one oh nine fifty to one ten area before looking at getting short I don't know whether I rather you know look to buy the euro against the dollar Although I am a buyer of the euro against some other currencies like the Swiss franc Actually, I think that's the only one. I'm by the euro against them. So that's where we are on the euro dollar euros Euro yen so euro yen This was this is a pair that I'm definitely interested in getting short as well Again, just purely based off of what I see in terms of central bank divergences. So any pullbacks into Some levels are going to be really nice for a short trade You've got these little intraday levels as well So you can see here if you're zooming into the like the hourly where you got a wide zone or first supply daily Supply you can always break that down and look for Supporting resistance zones within that area of supply and look for trades like that, but ultimately Looking at the supply zone I think the best value if it does come up to these highs will be You know really nice if I can get any kind of trade to the short side Of course if you do want to go long then there is that as well You can go long here look for some buy trades if you're confident that the euro may actually Cut Later in the year, so there's probably some sort of may pull back into the buy trades on the euro But overall I do think I would want to be a seller of the of the euro against the yen as we get closer to the To the Bank of Japan's Decision so Looking at the euro pound and the euro pound. I think is a decent sellers world looking for Pull back. I do think that the Bank of England are gonna Cut rates later than the euro so any pullbacks into a nice area of daily Resistance and supply is going to be quite nice You can see that levels being traded in the past as resistance there support there support resistance So the prices can pull back. I think that's gonna be very nice for a short trade again, this may change if expectations change for the The timing of interest rate cuts by either central bank But at the moment, I don't I can't see that happening for now So I think the pound should be the one the stronger out of the two And so that pretty much would lead me to want to look for short trades on the euro pound Aussie Dollar so Aussie dollar this week again We've got some decisions that need to be made by the Australian dollar. I think it's on Tuesday It's not balance of trade that must be a interest rate decision on the 6th of February on Tuesday night But this week we did have obviously some strong news and good news out for the dollar So technically this was really nice, but I just think that obviously things have taken a bit of a setback in terms of The US dollar strength if the RBA do come out and they are hawkish I think then this this demand zone should be Should kind of be more supportive and maybe see some maybe some upside who knows but I think maybe not against the dollar or if you do It'll be limited to the upside, but I think the Australian dollar would be a buy against several other currencies But let's see what happens with that the Australian dollar for me is a buy just not against the US dollar Not against a recent sentiment and the news that has happened and gold and so gold Decent level that you know prices came up to earlier in the week on the Thursdays So that would have been a nice because position yourself up into that supply zone and then look for some short trades before just after the news And that's obviously worked out a little bit Depending on you know where you actually got in and where your stop loss was now I do think that Gold is likely to continue to devalue at least in the short term as there's positive sentiment for the dollar and positive data So but overall in terms of the the interest rate cycle and you know where gold is on that I would expect gold to continue moving higher, but nothing moves in a straight line so this is just basically an overall pullback once the The Federal Reserve do actually start to Cut rates right because they will cut rates at some point this year This is an election cycle year So I'm expecting prices to maybe pull back a bit and then look to move to the upside and go higher But again, that's more medium medium term The next few months. So once the Federal Reserve start in their cutting cycle then Gold I think is a buy but in the short term It's going to be difficult to to really to try and buy gold against this a positive and Non-farm payroll data and inflation data at the moment So any pullbacks into these zones if you want to be a buyer of Gold I think a nice if you're looking for short trades Then then again a pullback into this area that white line there Indicates a level that is potentially looking to be potentially stop-hunted So if that does turn out to be a stop-hunt and you want to get short on gold Then that's really nice in that daily supply zone. So Yes, that brings me to the end of the video and also as well I've got some emails to I get back to my sincere apologies This week's been a very busy week and planning to get back to some of your questions and queries So I definitely will get back to you guys ASAP and so if you have sent me a an email With any questions or queries I will get back to you within the next day or two Anyways guys have a good one. I'll be a bless Sunday and speak to you When next video comes out take care all the best