Month: 14 Adar 5783 (March 2023)

Thanks to the amazing organization A Mitzvah to Eat (all the Yidden should know about them!) I was able to hear the whole Megillah for the first time in several years, and leyned beautifully and powerfully by a woman, which always beautifies the mitzvah for me. This is the best #Purim I’ve had in a very long time. #Mazeldon

—@amaditalks

Haraldur “Halli” Þorleifsson is the employee Elon is currently making fun of on Twitter. He has muscular dystrophy.

He’s won multiple Person of the Year awards from Icelandic media outlets for his efforts to build wheelchair ramps across the country and his charitable givings during the holidays.

When his design firm Ueno was acquired by Twitter in 2021, he opted to be paid the sale price through wages rather than receiving stock that would be taxed at the much lower capital gains tax rate.

His employment contract wasn’t that of a typical employee, nor is his termination. Twitter now owes him the entirety of his outstanding sale payment.

https://www.icelandreview.com/news/haraldur-thorleifsson-sweeps-person-of-the-year-awards/

#Twitter #ElonMusk #Musk #HaraldurÞorleifsson #Þorleifsson #Halli #Iceland #Tech #Ueno #Employment #Contracts #Ableism #Discrimination

—@shiruken

The #id24 @inclusivedesign24 call for presentations is open:
https://inclusivedesign24.org/2023/

Event is 21 September 2023. It is live-streamed, free, and requires no sign-up. Not even a sign-up for the YouTube URL.
#a11y #accessibility

—@aardrian

Sorry, #newsletter people, but I’m way past full up with subscriptions. I know your $5-$10 month isn’t much on its own, but multiply that by 10 gazillion and it adds up. It saddens me to see how much of what used to be open #blogging has been monetized and commodified.

—@fncll

If you want to leave Twitter and can’t find a good home on Mastodon, consider https://strangeobject.space.

as we’ve grown we’ve gotten a bunch of different people living different lives but at its core the admins are two trans socialist neurospicy polyamorous art and science queers. English and German but other languages are available.

I think we’re cool so if that sounds like you, come hang out.

#findaserver #twittermigration

—@james

How the WBC grows baseball around the world https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-global-reach-world-baseball-classic There’s only one stage on which Mike Trout can face Shohei Ohtani with national pride on the line and baseball fans all across the world watching, from the U.S. to Japan and beyond. It’s the World Baseball Classic.
Not even the World Series can conjure such a moment. The possibility #MLB

—@MLB

I just want to point out that today is Purim, the Jewish holiday that celebrates the moral and spiritual obligation to fight back against people, societies, and systems that are trying to kill you and eradicate your people.

It specifically and explicitly calls upon people to fight back in self-defense.

“to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, and to slay, and to cause to perish, all the forces of the people and province that would assault them”.

Purim sameach.

—@sigridellis

how about instead of banning tiktok we pass a data privacy law instead

https://www.forbes.com/sites/cyrusfarivar/2023/03/07/tiktok-could-be-banned-under-new-bipartisan-bill/?sh=f516ae02d416

—@emilygorcenski

Ecstatic to announce that the PDF editions of iOS Access for All have now shipped! If you buy any edition of the book now, you get the current one – no waiting around for me to fight with portable documents.

http://iosaccessbook.com

—@Shelly

I’ve been writing weekly posts about accessibility for The Admin Bar and this week my post was about why you should use labels, not placeholders for form fields. Someone shared this video by @heydon in the comments, and I literally laughed out loud while watching it, so I had to share it will you all. It’s all so true. 🤣

https://briefs.video/videos/what-happened-to-text-inputs/

#a11y #webdev

—@amberhinds

Meanwhile, things are going great on Twitter. @gruber has a good write up about it.

https://daringfireball.net/2023/03/thorleifsson_musk_twitter

—@jon

It’s the 40th anniversary of the release of Blue Monday, which was originally a joke encore because the whole thing was New Order setting the synths going and walking offstage for a beer, but then they rather liked it and added lyrics and bass. https://lnk.to/no_bluemonday40

—@KevinMarks

Android developers and enthusiasts! Have you ever wanted to learn and communicate about accessibility with a group of blind people that use Android? Are you curious about how blind people use your app, or if your app is #accessible? Join the Blind Android Users group.

Email: blindandroidusers+subscribe@groups.io

—@devinprater

So I know it’s only been like two or three people so far, but sighted developers asking how to use Orca on Linux to test for accessibility, shows that the time is fast approaching where accessibility is going to matter on Linux. I don’t know if it’s gonna be the explosion of the SteamDeck, or FOSS communities, or the rising interest in non-corporate computing and social networking and stuff. But this is already trickling down. Developers are needing to know about accessibility. They use Linux. I’m so glad to see KDE working on accessibility, and I hope that, one day, blind people can boot up a Linux installer, be told how to enable a screen reader, be guided through setup and onboarding after installation (with no unlabeled buttons please even though it’s just a slideshow Gnome (And an accessible Internet accounts adding process)). Shoot I’d even be glad to write tutorial information for it, like I did for QuickDocs in Fedora. But the time is now to focus on it, not when accessibility hits the FOSS community like a train. And I appreciate every single developer that comes to me, wanting to learn and understand. It’s miles, **miles** better than not giving a damn.

#accessibility #foss #linux

—@devinprater

This blog post by @signalapp is excellent. It talks about how there is “no such thing as global communication norms”. Some features, such as stickers or voice memos are massively more popular in some regions than others.

This is something to take into account of what’s going to happen if/when the fediverse starts to scale.

https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-for-everyone/

—@fediversereport