Kind: Reposts

@bigidea A message to anyone using non-standard font/display characters — for forced cursive, italic, gothic, bold, monotype effects; or flipped, reversed order, &/or rotated/upside-down letters — in usernames, or, worse, in posts: DON’T.

Assistive tech will either announce each character in exhaustive, excruciating technical detail — because each is a glyph with a specific meaning, not the stylized letters they sometimes appear — or simply ignore them, creating an informational black hole. Either way it’s frustrating & annoying as hell.

Most sighted users hate them, too.

They don’t make you look original or different — they instead signal you don’t care about those who use assistive technology.

—@oedipusnj

How long until we start buying greeting cards for Amazon Prime Day — calling parents, holding cookouts to celebrate this most American of annual holidays?

—@pilhofer

Facebook hasn’t done anything to support the open web. All they’ve done is put it in a press release and post an email to a mail list. It’s a long road from there to being on the open web. More likely they’re going to use the open web and leave it a toxic waste site after they leave.

—@davew

This is exactly the kind of society the reactionary majority on the Supreme Court wants: Every business in the country gets to claim they are engaging in expressive behavior and then discriminate against whatever protected group they don’t like – because “free speech.”

https://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/national/article277196783.html

—@tzimmer_history

The intersection of data-hungry private social media networks and misogynist government policy that criminalizes ethical conduct.

Nebraska Mom Pleads Guilty to Giving Abortion Pills to Her Teen Daughter

Both the mother and the now-adult daughter face prison time; the latter could face up to two years in prison.

Evidence came from private FB messages turned over by Meta in response to a warrant.

https://jezebel.com/nebraska-mom-pleads-guilty-to-giving-abortion-pills-to-1850621217

—@jbe

I was lucky during the flooding yesterday and other people were not as lucky. If you are in Vermont and need help, if you are in Vermont and can offer help, or if you want to help from a distance, this crowdsourced document is a pretty good place to start. #VermontFlooding #MutualAid #VTflood23

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZqJUO2ThkSebFryKL1UXuefQQM2LNs4A-NQ73go2KFw/edit

—@jessamyn

New Post: Blindness Briefs – Edition 80 https://www.worldblindherald.com/blindness-briefs-edition-80

—@worldblindherald

How to eject an SMB share from the iOS files app: press eject from the rotor. Then try from the context menu. Kill the app, restart the app, restart the phone because the app won’t come up, try again. Repeat 3 times. Turn on airplane mode. Go back into the ejected folder and hit the more button. It’s finally gone.

—@tspivey

A teen died in a sawmill accident as Republicans push to roll back child labor laws

https://www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/2023/07/teen-sawmill-accident-republicans-child-labor-laws/

>Department of Labor statistics show a steady uptick in child labor violations in recent years.

#VoteOutTheGOP
#votebluetoendthisnightmare
#VoteBlueExceptRFKandCornelWest

—@pivoinebleue

Facebook is where you realize, you don’t like the people you know.

Mastodon is where you start liking people, you have never met.

—@randahl

Did you know there are projects going on right now to ensure space exploration is accessible to #blind and #disabled people? On todays show we meet Andy Squires who recently went on a course called SpaceKind. Listen now: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/double-tap/id1309267346?i=1000620603258

—@doubletap

All the things we say about people at funerals should be said at birthdays and anniversaries and brunches and Tuesdays and so many other times as well.

—@chrissanders88

who called it object oriented programming and not class struggle

—@exchgr

Investment advice:

BUY STUPIDITY FUTURES!

It’s clearly a growth sector this decade.

—@cstross

What idiot called it severe constipation rather than a massive backlog?

—@gupton68

I’m proud to say I’ll be presenting on accessible astronomy for Vocal Eye’s Almost Live event via Zoom on Wed. July 12, beginning at 6:45 Pacific. We’ll hear some great descriptions from JJ, some sonifications, and we’ll welcome Dr. Sherry Wells-Jensen, a flier on the Astro Access 0G flight. Register here, and a Zoom link will be sent to you on the day.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdbFOkCzW38dsiD1g1SllLkQMnovQhx1acqs8MyVKwZ2OBlZg/viewform?pli=1

—@TalkDescriptionToMe

“Your password is not strong enough”
It’s ok, password, don’t listen to them. You’re perfect the way you are.

—@mayaisloading

If you are an engineer and you write code that enables autoplaying, audio enabled video on a web page, I HOPE YOU ARE WOKEN UP BY CONSTRUCTION NOISE EVERY SINGLE FUCKING DAY FOR THE REST OF YOUR FUCKING LIFE

—@yuvipanda

Really enjoyed this post from Karl Groves on the concept of “normal,” and the urgent need to move beyond it in our design practices: https://karlgroves.com/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-normal-user/

#accessibility #a11y #ResponsiveDesign

—@beep

“Hey dude, I dare you to try and eat that rock.”

-How potatoes were discovered, probably

—@adhdeanasl