If we truly want people to join the #Fediverse, the *best* way to do that is to post content that you can’t get anywhere else.
I haven’t seen anyone do more in that regard than @Deglassco, who is not only sharing American history, but American history that many politicians on the right are actively trying to erase from public school curricula.
*This* is how you do it.
If you aren’t already following @Deglassco I encourage you to take corrective action immediately.
Clears throat, then says it loudly for those praying in the back of the room.
I absolutely hate the “yes or later” UX patter with all my fucking heart. If you were asked whether you’d like to be hung today, would “no, but please ask me next time we talk” be an acceptable answer for you? Because it sure isn’t for me, and that’s how I feel like when I’m forced to click that “later” button. Even if a software, in fact, is going to ask me later, it should at least have the decency not to rub that fact in my face. NVDA’s “skip donation this time” is a much better wording here.
For abled folks: Next time you’re about to argue you’re not ableist, think about the fact that there even need to be laws to create a bare bones accessibility ….that it wasn’t something abled ppl just wanted to do to include their fellow human beings.
Then contemplate that these bare bones laws are very often disobeyed and society isn’t in an uproar about it.
Lobbying is simply legalized bribery, pass it on.
In reply to @marklemley.
@marklemley Is this referring to hyperlinking the photo, or using Instagram's photo embed?
@Marvella Oh no I'm so sorry I will definitely keep you in my thoughts.
Kevin McCarthy blasted Democrats for criticizing Israel, and then excused RFK Jr.’s antisemitism.
https://trib.al/4y6k5Tl #press
Because #AI trains on content it finds on the Internet; and because most of the frontpage stuff you find with a Google search now is just AI-generated junk…
I think we’re about 8 months from the entire Internet being like one of those barely-legible, recompressed-a-million-times jpegs you see on your uncle’s Facebook… but in paragraph form.
It’s cool, everyone, I’m sure mega-rich GOP-patron coup-supporting fascist assholes just want what’s best for the Democratic Party and America by bankrolling an enfleshed-horseshoe-theory dipshit whom exactly zero people OTHER than Republicans and Naomi Wolf want to run for president and who only Naomi Wolf and the handful of people who still think Naomi Wolf is smart will vote for.
Seems like a solvable problem. Can any ace programmers create a way for alt text to be attached to an image so it automatically is included when shared? https://mastodon.scot/@Gordon_DHG/109335742331988213
In reply to @yatil.
@yatil @matuzo Yeah that's an AccessiBe affiliate, as in, AccessiBe runs an affiliate program and I really hope someone at the NFB convention asked them while they were doing their apology tour presentation how all of that squares with their current attempt to convince us all they're super sorry and stuff.
Never thought I’d be one of those folks going on about how great their company is on social media but here I am.
We have a web-based terminal that pre-installs/auths our CLI so you can upload code and launch apps from the web. As a blind screen reader user, I don’t often need web-based terminals, but when I need them I need them and usually they’re a11y hot garbage.
Asked in Slack where the code for ours was, pulled it down, discovered it used xterm.js which has a screenReaderMode flag which, I’ve learned, is essentially what VS Code’s terminal uses.
15 minutes later and my PR adding this in is up for review. Waiting for it to get more testing to determine if we’ll need to make it a toggle, but I fully expect this to be live within the week.
I’ve made a lot of small, quick win a11y changes on our platform over the past couple months. Meanwhile I met with the vendor for our collaborative wiki, suggested some very simple landmark changes that they could have made in 15 minutes, and guess whether any of those are in?
Company culture really does make all the difference, and the Fly folks have gone out of their way to empower me to change things, and to make things more accessible for me without me having to ask. A thousand points to them.
Newest Reaper version, right at the top of the changelog, are accessibility items. Oh, but not just the typical accessibility items, the new fixes are all to improve accessibility of the Video Processor. A lot more blind people must be using Reaper as a video editor now, and that’s kind of amazing. “add preference to use standard (screen-reader accessible) OS editing control for video processor code” and “improve keyboard navigation of video processor presets” http://reaper.fm
In reply to @ANGELGIRL1976.
@ANGELGIRL1976 @WingnutKV @amorphisbear @Marvella @summersun704 @lynnskyi If you can't find them in your area they're on Amazon, but kind of expensive.
Children born after like… 2005 or so, will never know the joy of pushing a sandwich into a VCR. That makes me sad.
In reply to @pfefferle.
@pfefferle I call us fedizens.
ANY COMMERCIAL FOR ANY BIG COMPANY: Our customers are family and we love YOU personally and want to hug you and together we will create utopia.
THAT COMPANY’S ACTUAL OPERATING POLICY: We will no-shit find a legal way to murder you if it makes us a two-cent profit.