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With apologies to CERN. Pronouns: he/they

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"Rosin listened to the screen reader, a tool to help him go through an online list of upcoming events at the club. However, he was confused when the audio described a toilet as it went through the schedule. He discovered later that the image of bullet points used for the list had prompted the mistake.

He told the club, which had installed AI-driven software on its website that automatically creates image descriptions for screen readers, about the slip."

https://archive.is/MRhll

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First gig for which we were provided a green room. Which was just a flat two doors down from the venue with one green wall and some odd decor.

Grey carpet with one section covered in a weird fake moss/plant thing.

heydon, to random
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  1. Eating raw shrimp
  2. Starting a fight with a skunk
  3. Juggling used condoms
  4. Subscribing to Spectator Magazine
  5. Running a half marathon in ornamental clogs
  6. Summoning a shit demon
  7. Caroling in Northern Ireland
  8. Putting shurikens in a tumble dryer
  9. Receiving email
  10. Using Tailwind
  11. Replying to email
  12. Voting Tory
heydon, to random
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I would like to join @ellyloel in willing the term "web designer" back into existence. Personally, I hate how "frontend developer" became a thing and suddenly someone else was responsible for design. "You can code? You're a developer, put the typography and the colors down!" People can do more than one thing sometimes. Not always.

heydon,
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@dotproto @ellyloel "web designer", to me, is UI, UX, writing, in code.

aardrian, to accessibility
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“The Insurance Buys The Wheelchair, But Not The App To Run It”
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/09/the-insurance-buys-the-wheelchair-but-not-the-app-to-run-it/

Which covers this post from a wheelchair user who had to hack his wheelchair to get basic features:
https://lemmy.zip/post/11077316

Because Alber’s ‘Mobility Plus Package’ locks features (like speed control) behind a payment:
https://www.alber.de/en/help-service/alber-mobility-apps/

via @eric:
https://social.ericwbailey.website/@eric/112202585269370056

heydon,
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@aardrian @eric LIKE SPEED CONTROL!!!

baldur, to random
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Just saw somebody on a mailing list describe “AI” sceptics as performative contrarians and I guess they mean people like me. 🤷‍♂️

heydon,
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@baldur I mean... writing is a form of performance. All writing. Including writing puff for AI "advancements". As for the "contrarian" part, they just mean "questions my doctrine".

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“Doing things online is great because you don’t get stuck in a customer support queue”

heydon,
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@DavidDarnes Worst thing I've seen today and I was told by Oracle J couldn't submit an invoice because it's "year-end" so I have to wait.

heydon, to random
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heydon, to random
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10 years after I wrote the article, folks are still talking about the "lobotomized owl" like that is a perfectly normal name for a thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thzhaYW_bn0

heydon,
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(FWIW, I just call it the "owl selector" now since lobotomies are a rather disturbing concept.)

heydon, to random
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Nobody:
Absolutely no one:
Audio description writer: [clicks tongue]

heydon, to random
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Recording. Drums today.

Man sat at a computer ensconced in speakers and recording equipment.

SteveFaulkner, to accessibility
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SteveSounds - An Accessible Steve Faulkner Soundboard by @lloydi

https://a11y-tools.com/steve/v3-fully-accessible.html

heydon,
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@SteveFaulkner @lloydi Best thing I've seen all week. Love it.

heydon, to random
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I am 42 today. Which also marks 20 years since I left university and started making web type things.

heydon,
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@sami with a first! And it never helped me get one job, only debt!

heydon, to random
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MDN is down for me?

heydon,
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Yeah, sorry, I had a bunch of stuff broken, just not all. So not a router thing but not sure what. Some data centres nit available here or something.

heydon, to random
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Gonna stick this on 90% of my Github... https://mastodon.social/@maelle/112116447689198295

heydon, to random
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Okay, so, without losing any media or with any noticeable reduction in quality, I've got my client’s homepage from 5.2MB down to 130KB. Just webp conversion + stripping out the extraneous JavaScript and CSS.

heydon,
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@sarajw soon!

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Task failed successfully ✅

https://webbed-briefs.teemill.com/product/wcag-compliant-tee/

heydon, to random
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It’s a meritocracy.

https://webbed-briefs.teemill.com/product/css-is-for-girls-tighter-tee/

heydon, to random
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Well this pains me. https://mastodon.social/@jimniels/112010426813893611

heydon, to random
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What Are Accessibility Overlays?

(reposting because—surprise!—there still aren’t any good ones out there)

https://briefs.video/videos/what-are-accessibility-overlays/

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