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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 #cisgender he/him

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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

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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

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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

patrick_h_lauke, to random
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can't fucking wait https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzFXDvC-EwM

matt, (edited ) to random
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Do you buy yourself a gift for your birthday? 🎁

patrick_h_lauke,
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@matt you and your ascetic, monk-like lifestyle...

aardrian, to random
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It’s not wrong. But it’s not right, either.

“Creating Fluid Typography with the CSS clamp() Function”
https://www.sitepoint.com/fluid-typography-css-clamp-function/#:~:text=setting%2016px%20(or%20whatever%20value%20you%20want)%20as%20the%20root%20font%20size

It is, however, nice to see that my advocating for less broken fluid type approaches has paid off, even if the handwavy ‘accessibility’ explanations don’t point to my post that first raised them. It’s cool, it’s only my ego (and detailed explanations with examples).

patrick_h_lauke,
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@stephaniewalter @geoffreycrofte @aardrian fwiw every time you all go on about "GF" my brain expands it to "girlfriend", with often hilariously weird connotations

flberger, to accessibility German
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Frage ans Team : Was ist denn von der 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/

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

patrick_h_lauke, to random
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i'm getting a distinct sense of today and you love to see it

patrick_h_lauke,
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TppbFVcfBcU

patrick_h_lauke, to random
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very randomly reminded of this banger ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW8GXGJ-X0A @andreasbovens @brucelawson @pepelsbey

patrick_h_lauke,
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@pepelsbey there's also your vimeo version, but it's unrated so hidden behind login

patrick_h_lauke,
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@brucelawson @andreasbovens @pepelsbey now we're just beautiful

200ok, to random
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AI hallucination of the day.

Matched only by AI's attempt at alt text for this image.

For those who actually need alt text: it's an AI mangling the concept of illustrating the broad eras of the web.

patrick_h_lauke,
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@bkardell @Meyerweb @200ok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FEDrU85FLE

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