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patrick_h_lauke

@patrick_h_lauke@mastodon.social

WCAG trash panda, web evangelist, ronin, sour kraut. uninvited expert. vague, but exciting. antifascist. european. #toryScum #a11y #pixelart #pixelfonts #photography he/him

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patrick_h_lauke, to random
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balm for the soul, chewing the fat with @SteveFaulkner tonight...

brucelawson, to random
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Just back from A&E. I had a terrible pain in my bum. The doctor made me touch my toes, put his hand up and, after a few minutes of strenuous effort, he pulled out a lettuce leaf. "It feels much better, thank you!" I exclaimed. He replied, "I'm sorry, Bruce, but this is just the tip of the iceberg".

patrick_h_lauke,
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@brucelawson you got lizz trussed

patrick_h_lauke, to random
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people of lahndahn...fair warning, i'm travelling down to you, and am unashamedly wearing shorts. lock up your daughters and shield your eyes from the exceeding glare of my super-white skin...

patrick_h_lauke, to pixelart
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tonight's quick recreation: one of the wide fonts from capcom's "street fighter alpha 3" (aka "street fighter zero 3", 1998) https://www.splintered.co.uk/experiments/1410

brucelawson, to random
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Dreadful news about that French chef who got depressed, just gave up, and died. Apparently he lost the huile d'olive.

patrick_h_lauke,
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@brucelawson randomly, know that your joke about the french guy who invented the beach shoes, philippe feloppe, still lives rent free in my head to this day every bloody time i see a pair

pete, to random
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I've finally taken the protective hessian wrap off the section of lime-mortared boundary/retaining wall we had rebuilt back in the autumn. We're on a slope so the wall on our side, the other side, is a good 60cm taller than pictured. For the sake of my bank balance, I wish we'd just put a fence up, but that didn't seem the right thing to do.

patrick_h_lauke,
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@pete i'd have gone for a gabion basket approach (big fan of those, used them back in our old house extensively), but that'd obviously give off a different (industrial) vibe

aardrian, to accessibility
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Thinking back to that time when WCAG 2.2 first went to review and French company , best known for its SLAPPs, asked to get a side-door added to WCAG for overlays:
https://www.w3.org/blog/2020/wcag22-wide-review/#comment-83070

patrick_h_lauke,
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@aardrian good lord, shades of https://www.webstandards.org/2006/05/11/all-aboard-the-pas-78-gravy-train/index.html

Tony_Meredith, to accessibility
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@SteveFaulkner @jakobrosin Hi. May I ask for a bit of help?
A friend @LALegault is claiming that Alt text helps AI training, and that "may" be its primary purpose. I'm disagreeing.
Please advise. Feel free to mediate, or to make a ruling.

https://newsie.social/@LALegault/112406829024828463

patrick_h_lauke,
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@Tony_Meredith @SteveFaulkner @jakobrosin @LALegault "may" in what sense? text alternatives are for people who can't see an image. whether machine learning bots can also make use of it or not is, at best, a side effect...

patrick_h_lauke, to random
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Tim Apple saving the planet https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/112403141929437816

aardrian, (edited ) to random
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“Digital Ocean” is a…

patrick_h_lauke,
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@aardrian get out of my dreams...get into my car...

patrick_h_lauke,
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@aardrian @bkardell still slaps though... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNgcYGgtf8M

a11yMel, to random
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I always want to start conversations about WCAG/guidance changes that I would like to see in the A11y Slack, but I feel like most folks want to talk about compliance instead.

For example: I want a link element to respond to the same keyboard keys as a button element does.

Another example: I think if you have alt="" and role="none" it is an acceptable demonstration of author intent and should not fail validators.

patrick_h_lauke,
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@a11yMel true, but it hurts users more immediately in the short term

patrick_h_lauke,
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@a11yMel sure, but as browser developers...

"ok, so from tomorrow, we all stop correcting this particular thing silently, and show broken webpages to our users?"
"do we all have to do it?"
"yes, otherwise people will stop using our product and use yours instead because to them 'it makes the webpage work while browser X shows it all broken/wrong"

not an easy sell...

patrick_h_lauke,
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@a11yMel thinking back to the "once we use xhtml 1.1, we'll process it as actual XML, so any validation error should just show an error message and nothing else" days and how that bombed rather quickly...

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It's clear the "Turing Test" is failing, just as it failed with the Eliza chatbot back in the 1960s. People are just too easily fooled.

For me the REAL test occurs when an "AI" is NOT speaking to you. What does it do with it's free time?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA

patrick_h_lauke,
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@scottjenson now having a horrible thought of "we'll just run a second LLM whose task is to constantly generate and then feed prompts to our main LLM"

patrick_h_lauke, to pixelart
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today's two-for-one recreation: the extra large font from capcom's "street fighter alpha 2" (aka "street fighter zero 2", 1996) https://www.splintered.co.uk/experiments/1408

patrick_h_lauke,
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and to go with it, the colour version of the extra large from capcom's "street fighter alpha 2" (aka "street fighter zero 2", 1996) https://www.splintered.co.uk/experiments/1409

rianrietveld, to random Dutch
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This is such an excellent blogpost, it explains why sometimes live regions don’t work and how to fix that.

https://tetralogical.com/blog/2024/05/01/why-are-my-live-regions-not-working/ by Patrick H. Lauke.

via A11yWeekly.

patrick_h_lauke,
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@rianrietveld i got tired of having to re-explain this over and over and over again to folks ... so finally have a link i can just send them to and go about my day. was also good to kickstart the conversation at browser/working group level to hopefully get this all a bit more up-front and clarified in the specs ... watch this space

patrick_h_lauke, to gaming
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while it got a bit too odd and linear towards the middle, i quite enjoyed the overall experience of POOLS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9Fv-vKXb5I

patrick_h_lauke, to pixelart
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today's two-for-one recreations: one of the large fonts from capcom's "street fighter alpha 2" (aka "street fighter zero 2", 1996) https://www.splintered.co.uk/experiments/1406

patrick_h_lauke,
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and as ever, to go with it, the colour version of the large from capcom's "street fighter alpha 2" (aka "street fighter zero 2", 1996) https://www.splintered.co.uk/experiments/1407

marcus, (edited ) to random
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Oh, people, please stop this approach of "that semantic role name sounds about right to what I am looking for, or what it looks like" when using ARIA.

No, a container of a carousel with separate slides in it is not a listbox.

This "dangerous half-knowledge" of ARIA once again easily replaced my Sunday morning coffee.

patrick_h_lauke, (edited )
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@marcus "it's ok, i'll add an aria-roledescription to it to explain what it actually is..."

patrick_h_lauke, to pixelart
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tonight's two-for-one recreation: the extra large font from capcom's "street fighter alpha" (aka "street fighter zero", 1995) https://www.splintered.co.uk/experiments/1404

patrick_h_lauke,
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and as ever, to go with it, the colour version of the large from capcom's "street fighter alpha" (aka "street fighter zero", 1995) https://www.splintered.co.uk/experiments/1405

flberger, to accessibility German
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Frage ans Team #Barrierefreiheit: Was ist denn von der #AxeCon zu halten? 🤔

Einerseits scheint das eine große, etablierte Konferenz mit richtungsweisenden Firmen an Bord zu sein.

Andererseits wirkt der jüngste Bericht doch arg wie ein Sich-selbst-Abfeiern unsympathischer Konzerne.

Lohnt sich das, da tiefer einzusteigen?

https://www.deque.com/blog/deques-fourth-annual-axe-con-does-it-again-with-nearly-30k-digital-accessibility-champions-in-attendance/

#a11y

patrick_h_lauke,
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@flberger ich persoenlich sehe das ganze doch eher recht zynisch ... also eher das letztere

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