Month: 22 Iyyar 5783 (May 2023)

#WebDev people, please don’t use #accessibility overlays when making your site. They create more problems than they solve for people with disabilities and they’re not enough for #WCAG compliance. Accessibility can’t and shouldn’t be automated, you should actually care, solve it at the source and listen. Here’s why: https://overlayfactsheet.com/#what-is-a-web-accessibility-overlay

—@gracjan

Well, the Fediverse can cope with a full Eurovision it seems. It has passed the sacred trials.

—@guffo

I have read #accessiBe’s funding round / redemption tour and I am not swayed.

• the ‘apology’ is not on its site;
• old harmful content persists;
• the words are lifted from your free labor;
• angry tech bros gonna tech bro?

https://adrianroselli.com/2020/06/accessibe-will-get-you-sued.html#RedemptionTour

#a11y #accessibility

[Edited to fix typo]

—@aardrian

And folks in r/Blind are essentially calling it horseshit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Blind/comments/13eno41/what_is_your_opinion_on_the_apology_issued_by_the/

—@aardrian

Now that we’ve had some time to think on it, we’re wondering why the National Federation of the Blind is essentially hosting the #AccessiBe Rehabilitation tour. Specifically, what convinced the organization’s leadership that such a badly behaved player in the accessibility space has really turned over a new leaf?

—@worldblindherald

Y’all, DeSantis labeling Mr. Perry a good samaritan is peak 2023 Republicanism.

Using the parable of the good Samaritan, Mr. Neely would have been offered help such as food and shelter by Mr. Perry, not choked to death for 15 minutes.

Good Samaritans HELP people. The “good guy with a gun” (or chokehold?) is not a good samaritan, because they aren’t helping someone in distress. They may be some other cultural hero archetype, but they sure as fuck aren’t samaritans.

—@mcnado

I know tomorrow is rough for some people. For those who endured or still endure #abuse and for those who’s #mother has passed on, for those of us who have wanted #children but never gotten to parent them, so much care to each of you.

—@Faylen

Social Security is not insurance. It’s not a savings account you paid into and now can withdraw from. Social Security doesn’t work like that. The Republicans would desperately like you to believe it does because then you won’t realize that Social Security is socialism for old people. They want you to believe that you have to have worked hard to “deserve” Social Security, or that you might be able to get more money from it if you invested instead of giving your money to the government.

Social Security distributes money to people who are eligible for it. They could easily make us all eligible for it. That’s what they don’t want you to know. It’s funded by the government, not by people paying into it. It’s not going to “run out” unless the government cuts funding for it. It’s a line item in the budget. That line item could be increased easily by increasing revenue through higher taxes on the rich, or through cutting spending for the military. Social Security is a basic income, which could be made universal if there was the political will to do so.

Thus endeth the sermon.

—@intransitivelie