This story totally back one of my (hyper-real) recurring dreams (yes, I have those) where I keep procrastinating on returning books to the library, racking up astronomical fines (and living a life in constant fear that the librarian will show up at my door any moment). I’m afraid the dream will haunt me again tonight! :D
I was anticipating this press release by Apple. For the past two years, on the day before #GAAD, Apple has consistently previewed new #accessibility features in iOS, macOS, and iPadOS about a month before WWDC.
Eye tracking is now available on iPad and iPhone.
Music Haptics offers a new way for users who are deaf or hard of hearing to experience music on iPhone.
Vocal Shortcuts allows users to assign custom voice commands that Siri can understand to launch shortcuts.
Vehicle Motion Cues can help reduce motion sickness for passengers using iPhone or iPad in a moving vehicle.
Numerous improvements to existing features, such as VoiceOver and Hover Text.
Meta post: Just look at how good AI image descriptions for #accessibility have become. This is what Ice Cubes (my Mastodon client) suggested. It’s spot on.
@aardrian Ha, sorry! ☺️ It wasn’t intended to be a parody, but you’re totally right: I was so happy with how the alt text of the original screenshot turned out, that I forgot to add an alt text to the screenshot of the screenshot.
A good alt text for the meta screenshot could have been:
"Screenshot for the Edit Media modal from my previous toot. Text in the screenshot: Screenshot of a social network feature with suggestions to ‘Add to your feed,’ showing a list of blurred profiles and a clear recommendation for W3Schools.com with a ‘+ Follow" button’. In the screenshot, a cut-off screenshot of the referenced screenshot can be seen.”
💡 When your friends share a link to W3Schools, always respond with a better link to an MDN article (https://developer.mozilla.org/). W3Schools' success can only be attributed to its deliberate association with the W3C.
Today, I scheduled a pickup with UPS (Belgium) through their website. The process took me 47 minutes. I came across broken links, horrible translations, and lots and lots of mystery meat. It's a #ux clusterfck. Needless to say, it’s inaccessible as fck too. How is that even possible?
I'm seeking a mobile app developer/trainer, proficient in iOS or Android development (we need both) to help host a workshop on building accessible apps. The workshop should focus on sharing the developer's expertise in #accessibility features, APIs, and best practices.
Can someone explain the difference between the option to "Stream files" while making the root folder available offline (= effectively mirroring the entire drive) VERSUS "Mirror files"...? Isn't that the same? Why is Google Drive even offering this weird choice? I don't get it.
@osfast Thanks! I get it, but when I make everything “Available offline” (by right-clicking on the root folder and selecting “Available offline”) everything also gets downloaded. Oh well. I've reinstalled everything and got no syncing errors anymore. Still hate it that I need to have iCloud, Dropbox and Google Drive on one computer. All of which have their issues and work in slightly different way.
I can't get used to these new "stacked” VRT logos. It's almost as if the designer was thinking: Oh well, adding "VRT" to our brands is just another whim of our CEO (which it is), so let’s put no effort into it.
@xavez Same. I have a paid subscription for demorgen.be. Even when logged in, it’s infuriating to use without a content blocker. I try to live an ad free life.
I did not think I would be so excited about a unified messaging client, but Beeper does exactly what it promises. On all my devices. No more excuses to miss messages. Gotta catch 'em all! https://www.beeper.com/
I think few people know that Last.fm is now (pretty much?) the oldest social network that's still around. I've had an account there for 20 years (never changed my profile pic), even from before I had an account on MySpace! 😱
