Category: Daily

Dear NFB: Using the government shutdown as a marketing opportunity for your Washington seminar is disgusting. People who work every day to serve this country, often without acknowledgement, have missed a day’s pay and have had to deal with the added stress of not knowing how they were going to keep their families fed or the lights on. And you choose this as a gimmick? You couldn’t possibly sink any lower.

Pocket’s implementation of ReCAPTCHA is downright hostile to people with disabilities.

Deer population is controlled by releasing wolves into an area. All problems should be solved that way. Jaws fans saying NVDA won’t survive because Jaws is professional? Wolves. Two guys in a garage arg.? Wolves. Blindness orgs with inaccessible websites? That’s right, wolves.

While composing the last business email of the day, I wrote “Attacked” instead of “Attached”. Clearly I’ve had enough internets for today. It’s quit-hundred hours bitches.

Dear people bitching about how their prefered stories don’t appear on the homepages of media outlets they love to hate, both right and left: We need to have a conversation about the difference between the front page of a newspaper and the homepage of a website. Apples to oranges.

“smart” speakers like the Amazon Echo are all the rage in the blindness community right now. But there are some significant privacy concerns with these devices, and I’d like to see some discussion about that coupled with all the hype and recommendations to blind consumers.

Writing a note on a site I have full control of, shoving that note to social media as a status post, and then collecting all the reactions and comments back on my own blog so that the entire conversation is in one place. These are all things that will never get old.

Dear blindness organizations: I know Google gives you tons of money and everything, but can you not hand them accessibility awards like sexual favors traded in a back alley? Can you at least pretend you have standards other than money? KTHXBye

Dear Microsoft, your shitty password reset process is the reason why people choose simple passwords. I can’t stand security theater, and this is a shining example of that.

I launched the Facebook app on my phone, and … why the hell would anyone want to use this thing? This is a pile of hot garbage.

PSA: If I help you with your WordPress site in any capacity this year, you can count on me bringing you on to the independent (indie) , web. By stealth if necessary. Inclusive. Open. That’s how we win back the internets from the corporate overlords.

I think I’m going to get myself a copy of “A Hero’s Call”. I still have Alter Aeon to play, but AHC looks incredibly awesome and I need to make a conscious decision to do more things this year that are fun.

Glad to be looking at the tail end of this work week.

We have a windchill of 32F (0C) here in Augusta so yeah I dragged out the thermals. So over this cold.

I did not get to read anything for my book challenge today, and I’m slightly disappointed about that, but only slightly, because I’m tired. Good night browser. Good night screen readers. Good night Tenon. Good night Thunderbird. Wednesday’s on the other side.

Testing one more time, both to Twitter and Facebook, this time without a photo. For the FB crowd, apparently Facebook will allow me to publish photos minus my provided alt text, while Twitter will not allow me to publish photos at all. Death to all silos. Kill them before they kill the open web.

It is with great sadness that I have come to the conclusion that it is time to abandon WordPress post formats in favor of straight no chaser indieweb post kinds. These really do appear to be much more easy to extend both in and of themselves, and with in WordPress.

Current status: Helping Denise breathe new life into her Jobina blog, which I’ve missed. Also, yelling at technology and rebelling against the fact that I really shouldn’t sleep in tomorrow. Maybe sleeping till 7 is acceptable. Oh well, if it’s not, screw it. I’m doing it anyway.