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One more postscript on my independence question. If you need help, get it. There’s no shame whatsoever in finding yourself in need of help, there’s no shame whatsoever in availing yourself of that help And there’s no one-size-fits-all explanation about how much of what kind of help we may need. Remember, this is a guy about to be enering into chronic care talking. I know all about needing help. And I don’t care what you choose to call, or not to call, independence. I was just curious.

—@bruce_toews

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Envisioning a happy “in”accessible experience on a.website, with share links, of which one is labeled X. Sadly, a frequent issue among popups and dialogs is to label the close / dismiss button as X. Cue lots of people unwantedly opening x share dialogues while hoping to actually close a cookie popup.

—@jakobrosin

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Be careful if you register your domain name through #Bluesky. “Bluesky offers an additional layer of privacy protection by acting as your domain registrar agent. We do not register your personal information with the WHOIS directory, [sic]” which, in practice, means you don’t control your domain name, you are not even the holder, Bluesky is.

https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/7-05-2023-namecheap

—@bortzmeyer

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ALSO also, as others have mentioned, “Judeo-Christian” is not a neutral framing. It has a particular vector of deployment by specific groups who mean it in a very intentional way.

It flattens the concerns of diverse groups and it smuggles assumed Jewish support into areas where Jewish people might and probably do have wildly divergent views from the “Christians” in question.

End of the day, “Judeo-Christian” is almost always used as a euphemis phrase for “White Christian Dominionist Eschalotogy.”

“Abrahamically-derived” is more descriptively accurate, but still, if you mean to talk productively, carefully, nuancedly about Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, it’s probably better to just SAY, “Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.”

—@Wolven

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> Must know accessibility tips for developers
> 1. Learn to use a screen reader

No. This is never the first step. The first step is understanding the spectrum of needs that your code works with. Screen readers are only an itsy bitsy tiny part of the overall experience. And you don’t need to use them at all to write good code for 90+% of all situations.

#accessibility #a11y

—@yatil

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If you use good practices and clear semantic HTML, screen reader users will be fine. It might not be great, and there might be obstacles. And you should try to improve, always.

But remember, screen readers are made to work with the worst the web has to offer, they will often work around issues that other assistive tech can/does not work around. Or reveal information oblivious for other tech.

—@yatil

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We shouldn’t talk about screenreader access like it’s basic or simple. We call it basic to encourage people to follow web/OS standards, but esentially lying about the challenge helps no one. Nor are screenreaders simple to use! We tech literate people are used to them but it’s nothing compared to the UX of glancing at a screen and tapping/clicking a mouse. Good luck teaching the modern web to a blind person who’s 65 and thinks “the big blue e” is how to access the internet.

—@objectinspace

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I was once at a conference where two of the delegates were hiding their badges. When I asked them why, they told me it was because they worked at Halliburton and were ashamed of the fact.

I feel the time is near that folks who work at Google will be doing the same. (The ones with a conscience, at least.)

Another time, Eric Schmidt told me “if we become too evil, we won’t find anyone to work for us”.

Here’s hoping, Eric, here’s hoping…
https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/issues

#Google #EvilAsAService #web

—@aral

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I try to balance the good in the world as a blind person, with the obvious bad. The continued huge wave of people that care about ALT text is just amazing! More and more, if a photo doesn’t have a description, someone in the replies will add it. And again, if this mindfulness of accessibility happens nearly automatically here, on Mastodon, then I think the future is bright for all digital #accessibility. A button label here, audio description there, and asking #disabled people for their input and advice everywhere! And I think it’ll always be the indie developers, website builders, and game creators that go first. Skullgirls? Yeah, I can play that. The whole audiogame scene is full of indie devs. And now, because of that and the general accessibility movement, we’ve got The Last of Us that we can play. Yes, for operating systems, it has been the other way around, but we just have to push harder. I think that, once Windows 10 goes End of Life, there will be a good many blind people that will be looking for another OS. 🙂

—@devinprater

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“Ad blockers are unethical—that’s how they pay to keep the lights on!”

Exactly. It’s how THEY pay to keep the lights on. It’s not how I pay for anything. I didn’t agree to see ads, although I’m ok with some ads; what I definitely didn’t do is agree to be tracked and profiled and have arbitrary third-party code running on my computer just so I could read this awful, pointless, SEO-ified shitfest of an article that doesn’t come close to answering the question I was googling.

#enshittification

—@maxleibman