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yatil, 3 hours ago to random

Two days ago, a stone was thrown onto the window of a housing unit for people with disabilities in Mönchengladbach, Germany. The stone had “euthanasia is the solution” written on it.

It’s clearly a right-wing neo-Nazi attack, considering that the Nazis used to systematically kill disabled people which they deemed unworthy to live.

There has not been an appropriate outrage. Ableism is still very common in Germany, and the Nazi history is a reason for it.

Nazis raus!

https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/rheinland/angriff-wohnheim-moenchengladbach-100.html

yatil, 1 day ago to random

Filed a bug on a pretty inacurate web·dev article today. I appreciate the drive to explain WCAG rules, but you need to be accurate. Text MUST have a 4.5:1 contrast ratio (unless >24px or bold and > 18.6px, then it MUST be 3:1). Don’t weasel word a “should” in there.

https://issuetracker.google.com/u/1/issues/343229137

yatil, 1 day ago to random

Turns out when you use aria-owns on an element and point it to a wrapper of all your content on the page and then hide the element that owns that content, Safari/VO hides all of the page content, as it belongs to the hidden element.

yatil, 6 days ago to random

So, Mr. micro.blog now defends/explains Sam Altman and promotes 37signals in a 24 hour span… 😬

That’s not a good look.

Ref 1: https://www.manton.org/2024/05/21/when-your-company.html
Ref 2: https://www.manton.org/2024/05/22/jason-fried-previews.html

yatil, 10 days ago to random

Love that we here in Germany are basically prohibited from getting vaccinations, even voluntarily, unless we meet certain condition – mostly age and existing illness.

“You first have to get LongCOVID before we allow you vaccinations to avoid the thing you got” is bad policy. https://zirk.us/@AlexKourvo/112469763159775160

yatil, 10 days ago to random

Reminder that new COVID variants might be more effective, even when vaccinated. Watch wastewater data. Take care of yourself. Mask. https://mastodon.social/

yatil, 12 days ago to DoctorWho

Boom. #DoctorWho

yatil, 13 days ago (edited 12 days ago) to random

Will we honestly talk about the trickery in the “Be My Eyes Accessibility with GPT-4o“ video? Like the taxi that uses the signal way before the passenger signal and actually basically passed the signalling passenger before the signal and still coming to a stop? Or that we don’t see any real processing time? Or that the voice is clear despite standing in London with speakers on? (1/3)

yatil, 12 days ago (edited 12 days ago) to random

Be My Eyes has a lot of goodwill in the community – and rightly so. I would also think that exploring how to make their systems better with “AI” recognition makes sense. I have no problem with any of that (as long as it is ethical, affordable, reliable).

But if they participate in producing an advertisement video with “AI” claims that are impossible to verify, then it should be OK to be skeptical about it, especially with the deceiving claims that “AI” companies regularly make.

yatil, 13 days ago to random

I was a bit sad when I read that Raindrop.io which powers @links started to add “AI” to its product.

BUT:

Today this paragraph in the email announcement delighted me. This is how to use “AI” language models correctly and give users choice. Bravo.

yatil, 14 days ago to random

Happy Global Accessibility Awareness But Not For Immunocompromized People And Those Who Want To Protect Themselves From COVID And Long COVID Day. GAABNFIPATWWTPTFCAKCD

The silence on protections like air filtration in events is telling, especially at industry events.

yatil, 15 days ago to random German

Unsere Freunde von @intopia haben gefragt ob wir nicht die WCAG-2.2-Karte auf deutsch übersetzen wollen würden. Wollten wir.

Download (PDF) unter: http://karte.wcag-auf-deutsch.de

yatil, 19 days ago to random

My twelve days away from “work work” end after the weekend, but my stress levels are still at 11.

I’m so bad at relaxing these days. Even if I don’t do anything or do enjoyable things (Hiking, Lego, watching TV), it’s all stressful.

I don’t know what to do, and I guess this is all burnout-consequences still after many years.

sigh, exhausted

yatil, 20 days ago to random

We used to have 14 halogen bulbs at 14 watts in the ceiling fixures in this appartment. They are built in and I am not the largest fan of them because they create a weird spotlight light.

That said, I just finished replacing them with 3 and 5 watt LED bulbs.

And while we have them never on at once, that means that the energy they need went from 196 watts to about 56 watts.

(The 3W are less bright than the 5W/14W but I vastly prefer their light. I don’t need to be in stadium lighting.)

yatil, 22 days ago to accessibility

“We use hurzpurz 72 and snomdrum 98 to build this website really fast. It was easy to work with and what a great site did we relaunch!!”

“But it’s not accessible, is it?”

“…”

Every inaccessible relaunch is a missed opportunity. Inaccessible relaunches must stop. Now.

#a11y

yatil, 23 days ago to random German

Weiß irgendwer was Sodastream mit einem „Sammelpunkt für Kunststoffe“ meint?

Gelber Sack scheidet ja aus weil keine Verpackung und Typ-7-Plastik (♹) ist wahrscheinlich eh unrecyclebar. Ein Fall für den Müll?

https://support.sodastream.com/hc/de-at/articles/360049944173-Wie-entsorge-ich-Sodastream-Flaschen-richtig

yatil, 24 days ago to random

#Snooker final predictions/analysis

Kyren Wilson seems to be the obvious candidate to win it this year with a five frame lead. But this is far from over. Winning the session only by 5:4 instead of 6:3 by Jak Jones means that it’s still an uphill battle. The session could have been a game changer, but now it’s more keeping the status quo. (1/2)

yatil, 24 days ago to accessibility

Happy 25 years of WCAG!

On this day in 1999, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 were published. WCAG 2.2 is still one of the most important standards on the web, ensuring a base level of access for everyone.

1.0 – May 5, 1999 https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/
2.0 – Dec 11, 2008 https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/
2.1 – Jun 5, 2018 https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/
2.2 – Oct 5, 2023 https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/

#wcag #a11y #accessibility

yatil, 24 days ago to random

Uhm. I really appreciate that the live stream from the Crucible is free on Discovery+ for everyone in Germany because it is Rolf Kalb’s last match as a commentator.

But this seems to also mean that we have no option for a non-German commentary now? I like Rolf, but I got used to British commentary years ago.

#snooker

yatil, 27 days ago to random

Maybe having constant mass infections and hence constant virus mutations was not that brilliant of an idea after all? https://aus.social/@DenisCOVIDinfoguy/112375851220692242

yatil, 29 days ago to random

When your automatic translation makes “An alternative proposal for CSS Masonry” to “An alternative proposal for cheap maisonry” in German, maybe hire some capable translators for your materials?

(The better half of this household has switched from HTML/CSS/Accessibility to being a translator, and now I also can’t unsee bad translations. And translating whole articles automatically just is performative internationalization.) https://mastodon.social/@pmmueller/112364602311717784

yatil, 29 days ago to random

If WCAG lets you do something to meet a Success Criterion (do the absolute minimum), that does not mean that it’s a recommended way to do it.

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

LOL, the neighbor who mowed his lawn on Thursday afternoon is mowing his lawn again Monday morning.

Unrelated question: What’s a good thing you can send to your neighbor anonymously that will become a quiet inside hobby they can obsess over?

yatil, 1 month ago to random

Considering I have 37 years of experience with allergies, I should realize to take my anti-histamines before 12:30?

“What’s this weird tinkly feeling in my nose that makes me sneeze – must be nothing!”

🤷‍♂️

yatil, 1 month ago to random

Yeah, let’s illustrate a LinkedIn post about the book “Being Heumann” with a bad AI generated image of people in hospital wheelchairs, horrible expression on their faces, and guns for hands.

That sounds appropriate!

#wtfAccessibility