patrick_h_lauke

patrick_h_lauke, 11 months ago to accessibility

what #accessibility #a11y work boils down to...

patrick_h_lauke, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

@siblingpastry as somebody brought this article up again recently https://www.tpgi.com/is-swiping-a-path-based-gesture/ ... not sure i'm quite with you on example 1. if the point of the map interaction is "i want to move my map to this point", and i as a user can use a variety of movements/ways to get there, then it's intrinsically not path-based?

patrick_h_lauke, 1 year ago to random

"what's the problem if we defederate this instance you're on? just migrate to another one..." is, pardon me, a bullshit proposition. no time for this drama banana...

patrick_h_lauke, 10 months ago to random

random question, as i'm too lazy to research this properly ... but are there any nice bikes out there with the same design as these Eovolt ones (step-through, cargo bit over the backwheel) that are not electric? /cc @pete

patrick_h_lauke, 11 months ago to accessibility

catching up with last week's notifications, and seeing that this PR https://github.com/w3c/wcag/pull/3020 which fixes some long-standing bugbears of mine for #WCAG got merged... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4UqMyldS7Q #a11y #accessibility

patrick_h_lauke, 7 months ago to random

fucking tired of the "why am I not getting 'Ask to Buy' authorization requests on my phone from my son's account even though I'm set up as the organizer of our family account", and the "why can't I be set up to just share purchases/payment for my son, and not also my wife?" bullshit burning hoops of fire that Apple put people through. again, coming to the conclusion that none of the engineers that worked on this have actual family/kids

patrick_h_lauke, 1 year ago to random

yay, my first bit of bitcoin spam on mastodon...

patrick_h_lauke, 11 months ago to random

birthday treat...a nice full head shave...

the after shot, with a super smooth shaved head

patrick_h_lauke, 11 months ago to random

would love to have a reliable way to just search through my own posts on @Mastodon ? so many times when I think "i'm sure i wrote something about this, now where is it?"

does search here allow for scoping/filtering (e.g. to say "just from this user")?

patrick_h_lauke, 9 days ago to art

thanks to Bitmap Books I just discovered this and had a major nostalgia pang ... ended up buying a few prints https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/BobWakelinArtwork (batman and hunchback did it for me) #art #illustration #retro #gaming #retrogaming

patrick_h_lauke, 9 months ago to random

moment of panic on the weekend, when i noticed that my ancient version of Lightroom (the last one from before 2017, when adobe made it "Lightroom Classic" and Creative Cloud leasing model only) wasn't able to import the new .cr3 raw files from my new Canon R8. thought i'd have to finally cave and go subscription model... #photography

patrick_h_lauke, 5 months ago to accessibility

was idly browsing through (out of general interest) the french RGAA #a11y tests ... and this one struck me as odd: https://accessibilite.numerique.gouv.fr/methode/criteres-et-tests/#2.2 requires that the accessible name (in this case, of frames/iframes) be "pertinent"/appropriately descriptive ... and then hangs it off of WCAG 4.1.2. but that SC normatively doesn't say anything about whether the accessible name is good/bad/indifferent. seems to be stretching the definition /cc @access42

patrick_h_lauke, 10 months ago to random

"you should all move your accounts away from large fedi servers to some super small artisanal obscure micro-server, so that your posts get no traction because nobody knows about it so it will never be found"

patrick_h_lauke, 3 months ago to random

when your life is so rock'n'roll that you get excited about a delivery of really useful storage stackable boxes to replace some older non-stackable ones ...

patrick_h_lauke, 2 months ago to random

i've sold shit on ebay before, no problem. but something about selling camera equipment/lenses specifically seems to bring out the morons on that platform. case in point today: a rando offering me £300 for my £400 lens listing, then £350, and then sending me a "helpful" pass-agg message wondering what "best offer" i'm after since he can get that lens for £370 somewhere else. like...you do you, mate

patrick_h_lauke, 7 months ago to random

managed to have a long walk with @SteveFaulkner and squeeze in a few photographs while the weather was nice here in toronto...now looks like it's about to lash it down with rain...

patrick_h_lauke, 8 months ago to accessibility

"trickle-down accessibility" #w3cTPAC #a11y

patrick_h_lauke, 11 months ago to random

random thought on all the AI shite at the moment: yes, it's all cool...but it comes down to the fact that AI per se cannot create anything original. it's just very good at mashing up anything that came before. if you're all in on just using AI, you're basically saying that you're cool with just stopping anything truly new/creative...we don't need anything new, we can now just rehash what came before. it's...certainly a take

patrick_h_lauke, 22 days ago to accessibility

just me, or is support for <input type="datetime-local"> ridiculously broken in Safari/VoiceOver/macOS ? #a11y #accessibility

patrick_h_lauke, 11 months ago to random

i know it's not a competition or whatever, but ... i do wonder how @zeldman racks up nearly 20,000 scrobbles in a week on @lastfm (ok, ok, the answer is likely that there's multiple machines/clients all scrobbling to the same account)

patrick_h_lauke, 7 months ago to photography

missed the best light, but...at least got to see jaume plensa's sculpture #photography #toronto

Jaume Plensa sculpture of a woman's head in white stone. The statue uses forced perspective to only look correct from one particular angle. This is a close-up looking up, quite distorted
Jaume Plensa sculpture of a woman's head in white stone. The statue uses forced perspective to only look correct from one particular angle. This is shot from behind

patrick_h_lauke, 8 months ago to random

maxing, relaxing, with el jefe @SteveFaulkner on a #w3cTPAC come-down

patrick_h_lauke, 6 months ago to random

log into german bank (with a special physical security device where you insert the bank card, then hold the device against the screen to scan some blinking light patterns), try to change my postal address after the move. can't do it myself, as it won't let me change addresses abroad. send them a message, no reply. try the chatbot, and it tells me to email a generic address. sure. get a reply "we need to verify you since you're abroad..." 1/

patrick_h_lauke, 4 months ago to random

tried making spätzle for the first time tonight...a fun success (if you're not too fussed about the shape)

a pot of boiling water, with a few spaetzle floating in the water. above it a metal spider full of cooked spaetzle

patrick_h_lauke, 2 months ago to random

found myself flicking through some old paper copies of ".net magazine" (around 2010ish). good lord, what a time capsule of early fun web stuff, with lots of the usual suspects of the time (very young looking versions of @brucelawson, @chrisdavidmills, @alastc, @tink, @colly, @lornajane, @malarkey, and many more). that was back when, for a while, I was on the "advisory panel" for the mag (and occasionally contributed to accessibility and html5 related topics) ...