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Read: “The Mack Open Web” from Bitsplitting.org and offered some thoughts

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· 19 Iyyar 5779 (Friday 24 May 2019) · 1 minute to read
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This one is devoted to all things Mack and iOS that allow you to consume and create content for the open web. I don’t have a Mack, and have not gone through all the iOS apps yet, so you’ll have to test the accessibility of some or all of these apps for yourself. Indieweb developers are very open to accessibility feedback though, and this includes implementing things for the sake of accessibility, so this is sort of the one place where productive conversations about accessibility which don’t involve accessibility folks talking to each other are still possible.

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Read: Defining PDF Accessibility by @WebAIM

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· 18 Iyyar 5779 (Thursday 23 May 2019) · 0 minutes to read
Defining PDF Accessibility by WebAIM: Web Accessibility In Mind
When people talk about "accessible" PDF files, they are usually referring to "tagged" PDF files. PDF tags provide a hidden, structured representation of the PDF content that is presented to screen readers. They exist for accessibility purposes only and have no visible effect on the PDF file. There is more to an accessible PDF file than tags, but an untagged PDF would not be considered "accessible".
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· 18 Iyyar 5779 (Thursday 23 May 2019) · 1 minute to read

I didn’t have AOL in high school, but my school library had that as well as Prodigy. So did a couple of my friends. I had ICQ in college. I guess that puts me in the “something else” category. It also means I get to escape all the generational boxes. Go me!

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· 15 Iyyar 5779 (Monday 20 May 2019) · 1 minute to read

Ozzy on the radio, (until I figure out what I’m listening to for today). Final steps for a major site migration which has been an incredible pain in my ass, and the promise of nuking its old home from orbit later this week, which I get to do personally. I have never looked forward to decommissioning a server in the way I do in this case, and it’s almost like a high. I think I may even have a little celebration of the server’s demise. Welcome to Monday everybody, let’s do this!

904 S Pugh St, State College, PA 16801

70 °F Mostly Cloudy

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· 13 Iyyar 5779 (Saturday 18 May 2019) · 0 minutes to read
Secret Lake
Boalsburg

72 °F Clear

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· 13 Iyyar 5779 (Saturday 18 May 2019) · 0 minutes to read
Oak Hall Regional PARK
Pennsylvania

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Secret Lake
Boalsburg

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· 13 Iyyar 5779 (Saturday 18 May 2019) · 1 minute to read

Getting ready to leave for a weekend of fun.

State College, PA, United States

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· 13 Iyyar 5779 (Saturday 18 May 2019) · 0 minutes to read
Oak Hall Regional PARK
Pennsylvania

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· 13 Iyyar 5779 (Saturday 18 May 2019) · 0 minutes to read
Boalsburg, Pa
Pennsylvania

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· 13 Iyyar 5779 (Saturday 18 May 2019) · 1 minute to read
PA Wine & Spirits

Picking up some libation for the weekend.

State College

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· 13 Iyyar 5779 (Saturday 18 May 2019) · 1 minute to read

Blogging in braille with the Orbit 20 Reader because why not? this is just a test post. I need to get bettér at typing in braille. My skills are rusty. I’m getting ready to leave to go over to some friends’ house for a weekend of fun before their dog goes for surgery and they have to be on lockdown in ordér to take care of the little guy. I may post later on unless we’re having too much fun. The weather’s supposed to be gorgeous for the next two days at least so we shouldn’t be interrupted.

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· 13 Iyyar 5779 (Saturday 18 May 2019) · 1 minute to read
Bag End

Getting ready to leave for a weekend of fun.

State College

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· 13 Iyyar 5779 (Saturday 18 May 2019) · 0 minutes to read
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Pennsylvania

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· 12 Iyyar 5779 (Friday 17 May 2019) · 0 minutes to read
Bag End
State College

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· 12 Iyyar 5779 (Friday 17 May 2019) · 0 minutes to read
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Pennsylvania

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· 10 Iyyar 5779 (Wednesday 15 May 2019) · 1 minute to read

Shit! It’s almost 4 in the afternoon and I have no idea where all the time went. Also, as of today my sweety went from never having encountered the back end of a WordPress installation to customizing his first WordPress theme in the space of less than three months of off and on time with it and I really couldn’t be more proud. If he keeps it up we’ll have him on the IndieWeb in no time. Hell, I might even turn him into a WordPress contributor.

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· 9 Iyyar 5779 (Tuesday 14 May 2019) · 1 minute to read

Dear accessibility practitioners, please don’t use @medium as your primary publishing platform. Syndicate there if you must, but Medium doesn’t support alt text for images, and has given no indication that it plans to. Its last comment on the subject of alt text was made several years ago and amounts to “Sorry not sorry”. So, avoid Medium as your primary publishing platform, and go with a website of your own that you can control instead. Then, syndicate to Medium.

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Be the boring front-end developer

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· 9 Iyyar 5779 (Tuesday 14 May 2019) · 1 minute to read
The boring front-end developer by Adam Silver
Cool front-end developers are always pushing the envelope, jumping out of their seat to use the latest and greatest and shiniest of UI frameworks and libraries. However, there is another kind of front-end developer, the boring front-end developer. Here is an ode to the boring front-end developer, BFED if you will.

I’m not saying that a framework or design style is automatically rendered inaccessible simply by virtue of its becoming trendy. It’s worth pointing out though that, if there were less emphasis on using the hottest thing and more on all the very unsexy parts of front-end development, (semantic HTML, properly written CSS, designing with things like color contrast in mind), the web would be a lot less problematic from an inclusive design standpoint.

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How To Create A Slack Slash Command That Goes Beyond Real-Time Events For Your WordPress Store

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· 9 Iyyar 5779 (Tuesday 14 May 2019) · 0 minutes to read
How To Create A Slack Slash Command That Goes Beyond Real-Time Events For Your WordPress Store by Iain Poulson (Delicious Brains)
How we built a Slack Command to pull WooCommerce revenue numbers into our own Slack workspace.
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