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joelanman

@joelanman@hachyderm.io

He/him, previously design lead on GOV.UK Prototype Kit and other GDS projects.

Looks after plants and animals. Anxiety and depression

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purplepadma, to random
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I like immigration. I like not to have serious skills gaps in our services. I like mixing with people who grew up in other countries. I like being enriched by other cultures. I would like the feeling that my country opened its arms to people fleeing terrible situations elsewhere. I don’t understand why other people don’t think like this

modulux, to random EN

If you're a sighted user and your first reaction to an accessibility feature is "nobody asked for this", maybe keep it to yourself. Almost certainly someone asked for this.

Yes, this is about Mozilla's alt-text generation. The level of thoughtless rage on that thread is overwhelming. Do better.

swelljoe, to random
@swelljoe@mas.to avatar

This fucking guy, again. If I hadn't cancelled my Spotify years ago, and if I hadn't cancelled it the dozen other times Spotify has shown zero regard for musicians, I'd cancel it now. Tidal is the streaming service that paid artists the most last I checked, and the one I use, but buying an album or merch directly from the artist is worth thousands of streams. https://www.loudersound.com/news/spotify-ceo-sparks-backlash-after-social-media-post-that-claimed-the-cost-of-making-content-is-close-to-zero

mcc, to random
@mcc@mastodon.social avatar

A cool thing about alt text on Mastodon is that it works with the translation feature. Once you've translated a post the alt text beneath will change to your preferred language also.

So by adding alt text to your images not only are you adding accessibility for visual impairments, you're also adding language accessibility. Neat!

The same post, but now the Mastodon "Translate" button has been clicked and it shows "Translated from Nederlands using DeepL.com". The screenshot is still in Dutch, but now the alt text is translated into English, revealing that the article was about solar panels.

cferdinandi, to webdev
@cferdinandi@mastodon.social avatar

🍦 New Article: A simpler way to build dynamic user interactions https://gomakethings.com/a-simpler-way-to-build-dynamic-user-interactions/

brucelawson, to random
@brucelawson@vivaldi.net avatar

Today is the 11th anniversary of the release of React. Microsoft Edge is migrating its UI from React to web components. "The UI is now 42% faster for Edge users and a whopping 76% faster for those on a device without an SSD or with less than 8GB RAM!" https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2024/05/28/an-even-faster-microsoft-edge/

seediffusion, to random

are you a blind webmaster who wishes to monitor the status of their site(s), or do you just like to know when websites die? Introducing UpSiteDown, the simple, accessible live website monitoring solution without limits! https://seediffusion.cc/programs/UpSiteDown

joelanman, to accessibility
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An take: people are too quick to use an empty alt on images to declare them 'decorative'. This means you can't easily know an image even exists on the page, for example to copy or download it, or discuss its existence with others.

There are some valid cases but for the most part blind users deserve equitable access to information that the images exist at all (and what they are)

jscholes,
@jscholes@dragonscave.space avatar

@joelanman I think people have a "wonky" understanding of what truly represents a decorative vs non-decorative image. But speaking as a screen reader user, I rarely want to know that an image exists just for the sake of knowing it exists.

All those websites with "Joe's avatar", "Joe's profile photo", etc. are irritating to browse, because inevitably the presence of those images is repeated for every user, every comment, every post on a feed, whatever. When I'm on an accessibility statement page and there's an image with alt="wheelchair icon", immediately followed by a paragraph of text about wheelchair access, the image is redundant.

The only times I want to know that an image exists are:

  1. when the photo is legitimately described; and/or
  2. when I can, and might want to interact with the photo for some reason (e.g. download it, make it full-screen); and/or
  3. the page content is otherwise not informative.

I'm only one user, of course. And I do think screen readers and/or browsers could make images easier to access even when they're marked as decorative. In that way, I'd like more control as a user, and less responsibility to always get it right placed on the author.

DrALJONES, to Israel
@DrALJONES@mastodon.social avatar

Report

They burned people alive with 2,000-pound bombs. US supplied.

Survivors of the Israeli attack on the displacement camp in Rafah:

“The air raid burned an entire block. They burned people alive"

The attack used seven 2,000-pound bombs - a clear message from Israel & US that the massacres against displaced persons & children will continue, & that breaking international law will not stop.

At least 45 killed, 249 wounded

https://aje.io/jwe0qf?update=2928170

21.45 GMT MAY 25 AJ

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ZachWeinersmith, to random
@ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social avatar

So, one lens on the weird direction of the modern Internet is that entities created to route you to cool stuff, e.g. search, social media, have especially in the last 5-10 years been taking an ever larger part of the pie via having giant networks. Google can now control whether a news site lives or dies. Meta can take 99.5% of all ad revenue displayed next to an artist's work and they have no power.

Long-term effect? Damage to the creative class.

joelanman, (edited ) to UX
@joelanman@hachyderm.io avatar

a question. If a site has both a signed out home page, and a signed in one (for example a feed or dashboard), what should you see if you're signed in and try to view the home page?

eviljonny,
@eviljonny@mastodon.social avatar

@joelanman I don't think I expect either, there's so many examples of both. Aws and pagerduty both showing a product page with a link to login, Jira showing whatever you chosen Jira 'home" page is, Facebook and twitter showing the signed in stuff. I note that all my examples have a different signed in domain than just their standard site though and I definitely navigate to the different domain.

lexfri, to random
@lexfri@hachyderm.io avatar

I’m a pretty good mime. That goes without saying.

joelanman, to random
@joelanman@hachyderm.io avatar

Go use this thing I designed

https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote

roomaroo,
@roomaroo@mastodon.green avatar

@joelanman Just applied for a postal vote from my phone while watching TV. Always a pleasure using gov.uk.

sarahjamielewis, to random
@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social avatar

"Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

The computer, however, will stop you from recording DRM'd content.

Find it fascinating that when faced with drawing safety and security boundaries, the primary beneficiary is not the owner of the device, or the person using it, but random corporations who control the intellectual property rights.

The system doesn't work for you.

jonty, to random
@jonty@chaos.social avatar

So @jamesbridle granted my wish and made a fediverse bot that posts the latest images from the Mars Curiosity Rover.

It is very appropriately hosted on botsin.space: https://botsin.space/@marslandscapes

nixCraft, to random
@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar

Now, everyone is so furious about OpenAI stealing a beloved celebrity's voice. But what about the many artists, writers/authors, and creators whose copyrighted works OpenAI stole to create works resembling and replacing those people's products? Not famous enough to generate the same outrage, right? At least now, everyone knows how bad Sam Altman is. He thinks he is above the law. I'm glad someone is standing up to this bully and I hope something good come out of it.

Meyerweb, to random
@Meyerweb@mastodon.social avatar

OpenAI stealing Scarlett’s voice for their new product after being told “no” is so perfectly on-brand, it’s almost painful. https://www.npr.org/2024/05/20/1252495087/openai-pulls-ai-voice-that-was-compared-to-scarlett-johansson-in-the-movie-her

tink, to OpenAI
@tink@front-end.social avatar

So, #OpenAI people are smart enough to create GPT4O, but apparently not smart enough to know how to label buttons properly...

Or how to get over their teenage tech bro fantasies and avoid perpetuating gendered stereotypes in AI assistants.

😔

Amy_Hupe, to random
@Amy_Hupe@social.design.systems avatar

We talk a lot about the benefits of designers learning more about web development. Is there any equivalent conversation about app development? It's a huge gap in my knowledge which I'm keen to fill, if anyone has any suggested resources / articles etc to start learning more

seaotta, to random
@seaotta@toot.cafe avatar

ScarJo saying no you can't use my voice and Altman doing it anyway is so telling.

weirdwriter, to disability

I think I found the first Disability dongle made by Disabled people. This Glide has a subscription and this deposit doesn’t mean that you are pre-ordering it. Naturally, I’m not ordering one but here it is if you want to explore https://glidance.io/deposit/

hugovk, (edited ) to ai
@hugovk@mastodon.social avatar

Here's @simon talking about slop in the @guardian:

“Before the term ‘spam’ entered general use it wasn’t necessarily clear to everyone that unwanted marketing messages were a bad way to behave. I’m hoping ‘slop’ has the same impact – it can make it clear to people that generating and publishing unreviewed AI-generated content is bad behaviour.”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/19/spam-junk-slop-the-latest-wave-of-ai-behind-the-zombie-internet
#slop #AI #spam #junk #ZombieInternet

matstace, to random
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For some reason, what3words, and how crap it is, popped into my head, so I had to check and see if “misheard.plural.location” was in their location database.
It was so much better than I expected.

stephaniewalter, to random
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It is a Job board, that specialized in offers for junior in UX, Service and UI designers. And, they have a newsletter too!

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