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@DevilsChild1978 So do you get caffeine with the soda stream, or no?

@mcourcel For some reason I thought you did and I'm surprised that you don't.

@ner These things are there for risk management purposes. Probably not necessary, at least the children climbing on TV part, now that we don't have consul TVs anymore.

I'd advise learning Excel to do your accounting, and there are some great accessible Excel resources.

Drafts? It has a pro subscription, but there's also a free version.

@theynege @Pawpower In the case of hashtags, camelcase does the work of indicating spaces between words, at least as far as text-to-speech is concerned. It still takes up extra cells on braille displays though. What happens with alternate letter capitalization is that in text-to-speech situations, capitalization of letters can effect the way they're spoken. The text-to-speech assumes that capital letters should be emphasized differently than lower-case letters, because the assumption is in acronyms letters should spoken out instead of pronounced. So this context gets ported to everywhere else, since text-to-speech dictionaries don't do specific contexts.

It's RTFM, but for meatspace.

@quanin Yeah me too.

@theynege @Pawpower Speaking for myself, spelling out words using spaces is annoying , mostly because if I need to know the spelling of a word, in a document or on a webpage for instance, I can move by character. In social media contexts, it's mildly annoying and I'll skip past posts doing this rather than waste time asking people to please not do this.

Mixed case makes me want to throw things, mostly because there is zero way to make sense of it, and in social media contexts, if someone does it all the time, I'm liable to unfollow them or mute them for extended lengths of time just to avoid the noise. Because it's quite literally noise as far as text to speech is concerned, and doing either of these things, spelling with spaces, or spelling with mixed case, unnecessarily takes up cells on a braille display. And cells on a braille display are valuable real estate.

Hope this helps.

epub and odf didn't get embedded in everything, and they don't require extra effort to make accessible so that everyone can read them. PDF's do since they are more often than not generated via library, and since noone wants to make the effort, they're inaccessible more often than not.

And I have absolutely zero confidence that the same wouldn't be the case with any sort of portabilization of web page assets for browsers.

We have enough of an inaccessible web already, developers and designers and managers don't need another tool to make it worse.

Cream soda is awesome.

OK so it's not just me who does shit like this then?

Yeah same.

This is how we got pdf, which has been one of the worst things to happen to the internet in the last 25 years. Don't go down this path, down this path lies darkness and misery.

Welcome!

Actually it pronounces it as "copylet", or similar, but I can see how your student came up with their version.

@mcourcel @quanin Actually we'd appreciate it if you kept it with you, but at least we now have someone to blame lol.

@mcourcel @quanin Yes.

@quanin @JamminJerry Beer run later on before everything shuts down. Wow I missed a lot because honestly I just walked away after 4 yesterday, but still hoping your interviews turn into something James. Also, agreed on traveling in snow. I can do it, and yeah my city believes in snow removal, but it's a huge hassle. Not sure how much snow we're getting by the time this is all over, which will be sometime Sunday I think.

Nope. Baton down the hatches it's going to be a long week. I should probably do another beer run.