I’m certain that “Web Accessibility Overlay Tools” do not work. They just can’t fix coding and design error in a way that is inclusive, let alone meet WCAG. Some of the technologies used can help to identify issues but not fix them. See more at the Overlay Fact Sheet.
Waiting for my new keyboard… I never had a fancy keyboard. 😨
I think I fell in love with the Moonlander mechanical keyboard today. I never had an ergonomic keyboard. Can someone please tell me that this is a bad idea?!
Oh wow, the new Porsche Formula E car looks stunning. Red and black livery and the triangle shape of the car make it look super dynamic. Porsche first manufacturer to reveal gen3 Formula E car
Lots of people refer to different Mastodon instances as “silos” in contrast to Twitter where there are “no silos”. The reality is the opposite because all instances talk to each other. Twitter is the mall where you get a place but it sets the rules and doesn’t let you talk to other shops in other …
Finished the working day, now hoping the best for that election that is going on… 😩
One of the best investments of this year must be the seat heating for my office chair. No room heating at all needed yet, but still a warm bum. What else do you need? 😂
I like that micro.blog is so much simpler than Mastodon and your posts can breath. No follower count, stars, direct messages to think about. No “unlisted” posts, no direct messages. Just you and your text field against the web. Pure, raw, real. And only one column of content.
I have worked in a consensus-based organization (W3C) and I can tell you that it is not easy that more than two people are in consensus. OTOH, consensus can also be treated very flexibly. Every argument becomes a political gamble. It’s exhausting.
The worst performing fonts for the dyslexic group were the ones that were ‘designed’ for their benefit. Open Dyslexia, Dyslexia and Comic Sans. Which opens up questions about the hypotheses behind them. Gareth Ford Williams on LinkedIn
I recently gained the insight on why I don’t read a lot. When I start a book, and I like it, it must be finished as quickly as possible. My world is then filled by that book, and my duty to complete it. I. Can’t. Stop.
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/…)