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piegames, 1 month ago to random

Every time I do tech support for my family I get very angry about people who whine about lacking "tech literacy".

90% of the stuff I have to teach them is how to navigate manipulative software and dark patterns. This has nothing to do with tech, but with capitalism. Tech is not complicated, it is just made maximally confusing on purpose to remove agency.

Better tech ed won't fix this.

dgar, 2 months ago to random

dgar, 1 month ago to random

To all the people that always said I'd never amount to anything because of my procrastination:

Just you wait.

siblingpastry, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

"We care about your privacy" is the latter-day "I'm not racist but..."

dgar, 3 months ago to random

Incorrectly is the only word that even when written accurately, is still spelled incorrectly.

dgar, 1 month ago to random

They said a mask and gloves would be enough when going to the store.

They lied, everyone else had clothes on.

dgar, 1 month ago to random

Remember when the EU cleared out 1 GB of space?

yatil, 2 months ago to random

So, question on wording for what we used to call “color blindness”: Is that still the preferred term? I remember a discussion about “color vision deficiency” which sounds very medical model to me, and I don’t remember a clear cut outcome.

siblingpastry, 1 year ago to random

Note/reminder that JAWS has a public bug-tracker for issues relating to web standards implementation. Stuff like incorrect ARIA support, unexpected behavior with HTML, CSS or SVG, can be logged here by anyone.

The bug-tracker can be found here: https://github.com/FreedomScientific/VFO-standards-support/issues

And there's a post on the TPGi blog that talks more about it: https://www.tpgi.com/jaws-wide-open/

siblingpastry, 10 months ago to random

In the work I do, function takes priority over form, I’m far more concerned with the content, than its style.

That’s why I call myself a content creator, because my output is content, not style.

#HegelianNotCorporate

siblingpastry, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to random

In 1996 I bought a box of 250 self-adhesive labels.

I used the last one today.

#TrueStory

simon_brooke, 3 months ago to random

Just had one of those AHA! moments: we should build houses for the homeless, of course we should, that's obvious. But we build them at FIVE HUNDRED YEAR QUALITY. That is to say, designed so that, with minimal maintenance, they will be good homes for 500 years. Yes, obviously that makes them a bit more expensive in the short term. But it means we develop a building industry with the skills to build 500 year homes. But more...

siblingpastry, 5 months ago to random

The unicode presentation selector FE0E can be used to stop iOS replacing standard unicode glyphs with emojis, for example:

[aria-checked="false"] > i::before {  
 content: "\2610\fe0e";  
}  
[aria-checked="true"] > i::before {  
 content: "\2611\fe0e";  
}  

This is useful because emojis can't inherit CSS colors, so they're not the same color as surrounding text, and might not have good contrast. And they rarely make good functional icons anyway, when that's what you wanted the glyph for.

siblingpastry, 2 months ago to writing

Woah.

I keep finding myself writing in iambic pentameter. Just naturally, not intentionally, just because it flows with such a nice rhythm.

This might yet explain my tendency to finish sections, with a rhyming couplet that expresses my affections.

#writing #fiction #iambic

dgar, 2 months ago to random

#Dgar remembers the days when a long-distance phone-call would go like this: "Hi I'm fine how are you good ok better go this is costing money bye."

siblingpastry, 5 months ago to random

It continues to amaze me how entire ecosystems can develop from a single person's unwillingness to learn how inheritance and specificity work.

siblingpastry, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

There's a video available for my recent webinar on Accessibility Testing with WCAG 2.2, along with a transcript and slides:

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcSSTBaegi8

Transcript (HTML): https://www.tpgi.com/wp-content/uploads/Accessibility-Testing-with-WCAG-2.2.html

Transcript (raw text): https://www.tpgi.com/wp-content/uploads/Accessibility-Testing-with-WCAG-2.2.txt

PowerPoint Slides: https://7192965.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/7192965/files%20for%20email/Accessibility%20Testing%20with%20WCAG%202.2.pptx

dgar, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

#90sMusicTaughtMe that
Love Will Lead You Back, probably because Opposites Attract, which is good because, How Could I Live Without You, Nothing Compares 2 U.
#HashtagGames

siblingpastry, 3 months ago to Rap

Do you ever think, like ... in these confusing and chaotic times, what the world really needs is a british rap about hiding drugs up your arse.

You're welcome ☺️

https://soundcloud.com/brothercake/socket-full-of-moses

#comedy #rap #explicit #british

siblingpastry, 1 month ago to random

Continuing our series on testing for WCAG 2.2 -- SC 2.4.11 requires that interactive controls are not entirely obscured by author-created content, at the point when they receive focus.

This is the only SC in WCAG 2.2 that can be fully automated, and I've included a detailed breakdown of how this can be done ... in theory. Unfortunately I don't yet have a finished script to demonstrate, since it turned out to be a lot more complex in practice than it seemed in theory!

https://www.tpgi.com/how-to-test-2-4-11-focus-not-obscured-minimum/

dgar, 1 month ago to random

2050 is closer than 1990.

siblingpastry, 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago) to random

fyi. Sonoma 14.5 includes some changes to the QuickNav feature in VoiceOver, and after I updated, it was turned on by default.

Some hours of confusedly testing why none of my JS key handling scripts are working anymore, turned out to be that -- unmodified arrows and navigation keys aren't passed through to JavaScript when QuickNav is on.

(You have to hold Option. I don't know if that was always the case, I didn't know about QuickNav until today.)

siblingpastry, 1 month ago to random

I've updated an article I wrote last year, on whether various kinds of single pointer interaction constitute a path-based gesture, for the purposes of 2.5.1 Pointer Gestures.

This update has two significant changes:

• Clarification of intent -- this article does not define pass or fail criteria for 2.5.1.
• Working definitions for the difference between swiping, dragging, sliding and flicking/flinging gestures.

https://www.tpgi.com/is-swiping-a-path-based-gesture/

With thanks to @patrick_h_lauke

#a11y #accessibility

dgar, 1 month ago to random

If you're a hammer, all your problems look like nails.

dgar, 1 month ago to random

I just read that someone in New York gets stabbed every 52 seconds.

Poor guy.