Wow, the timeline here on Micro.blog (to which I added a lot of Mastodonians) fills quicker this morning than the one on Twitter. I can’t remember when the last time none of the people I follow tweeted something in more than 10 minutes.

This was a tough post to write, thinking about the loss I – and certainly many others – feel about Twitter and for me how that fits into the loss of purpose to contribute to WCAG at the same time. Lamenting Twitter’s and WCAG’s potential

2021: Tim Berners-Lee sells web source code NFT for $5.4m (“profits would go towards causes chosen” which remain unspecified as far as I can tell) 2022: Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee wants us to ‘ignore’ Web3: ‘Web3 is not the web at all’ Who could have imagined.

“Oh no! I forgot to make a post with the prompt form November 4, ‘exempt’, for the micro.blog challenge”, Eric’s voice echoes through the apartment.

OK, this is fun @blindscribe@writing.exchange and @SteveSawczyn@mspsocial.net are exchanging direct messages with each other and me over Mastodon, but my micro.blog does not understand this at all and sends me an email with the same message over and over again. FYI @help

“Accessibility ‘Gaps’ in MVPs” 412 words on the long frustration of being lied to over and over by software makers. Adrian Roselli https://toot.cafe/@aardrian/109291664751935785

The solution to Twitter’s problems is not another Twitter. That can’t work. A new, closed app is bound to repeat the issues. The Fediverse needs better and simpler apps and instances that people can self-host or at least setup easily.

It says a lot that people look at Mastodon (or other fedi apps) and say “this does not 1:1 work like Twitter” and do not take the time to try it out or read a little on what the differences are. Yes, it is different.

If you ever wondered why WCAG is sometimes laughably terrible, then look no further to this comment of a WCAG WG participant claiming that the definition of “element” in a “markup languages” was different in 2008.

My bike and its inner tube (follow-up) 🚴

Today I think I repaired my front bike inner tube properly. I got a bike holder to put my bike on while working on it, and after I set it up, I thought I could take another look at the inner tube. Turns out the patch got lose again, probably during reassembly or while adding air. I also found out …

I’ve got a huge admiration for the Twitter Accessibility Engineering team, all of whom have been let go today. What they have introduced, the culture they have changed, is enormous and cannot be overstated. Thank you.

Waves over to @tink!

It’s kinda cool that my bank is on the Fediverse: @glsbank@ruhr.social

It’s impossible to teach people ”In this SC, it says thing A but if you look somewhere else, it actually means that the words mean other words and this is a completely different SC.” (Rant triggered by this thread: github.com/w3c/wcag/…)

They want “Understanding” documents to be “Well, actually” documents that re-interpret the SC. I don’t think that’s OK. Either you see an interpretation gap in the spec and you fix it in the next version of the spec (WCAG 2.1.1) or the words used are now the definition.

So annoyed with WCAG 2 at the moment. Suggestions for updates/clarifications are just ignored, the WG seems to have moved on, and members of the WG think that non-normative documents somehow change the meaning of the normative text. Just so that they don’t need to change SCs.

When I got my driving license at 18 it meant freedom to get out of the small town I lived in, being self-sufficient and able to meet friends on my own time line. When I moved to Vienna, I realized that real freedom was reading a book while driving around in the subway.

Eurosport is closing the Eurosport Player app on Apple TV. That’s annoying because it is the primary way I watch Snooker and Formula E – slso the only sports I watch. I have zero interest in any other Discovery programming, indeed I’d rather not pay for that trash. Urgh. 📺

“Feast” is a tough word to write something about, but that is what @challenges asked us to do. So I wrote that it is not the most versatile word. Agree?

Had to figure out today how to fix my front bicycle inner tube. I thought it went well, but once I had it all put together it lost air again. Annoyed because I just had it professionally replaced just a few weeks ago. I think the tube I got was not suitable for bike+my weight.

Finished reading: The Patrios Network by Antony Johnston 📚 In his latest book, Antony not only works through the Covid pandemic and the rise of right-wing militaristic groups, but also weaves together an intriguing tech-spy story. Brigitte Sharp is (as always) a brilliant protagonist, but the book …

We made vegan Fondue for Halloween. Upside: Vegan Fondue. Downside: Everything now smells like Fondue. 😂

Robert, @blindscribe@writing.exchange, has excellent guides for orientation for users with disabilities. Remember that getting started with Twitter used to be hard, too. It gets easier with time

Remember when Twitter was inaccessible and you had to use specific clients to interact with it? pinafore.social is that client for Mastodon at the moment.

A Guide to Micro.blog For People Who Have A Love/Hate Relationship With Twitter - Jean MacDonald Tweeting is one form of microblogging. But when you use Twitter, your content stays at Twitter. At Micro.blog, you can write short or long posts that appear in the Micro.blog timeline as well as on a …