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Thank you for your continued support! Mona will be globally available on App Store starting May 1, 2023. You will be able to install the app and use many features for free. You can also purchase a Mona Pro or Mona Pro Max to activate extra capabilities. For customers of Spring and Spring mini, Mona Pro Max can be purchased with a great discount.
* USD prices listed on the picture are only valid until May 31, 2023. Prices may vary in different regions.

—@MonaApp

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Randomly noting: if you’re in the US, in April of 2024, the US will have a solar eclipse pass over a bunch of states for the first time in 7 years, and for the last time in *decades*.

It is an indescribably wonderful experience to be in the zone of totality. This article kinda covers it:. If you’re not sure if you’ve seen one, you haven’t. It’s the most bizarre thing where it feels like someone flips a light switch and turns off the sky. https://www.space.com/37791-go-see-the-solar-eclipse-in-person.html

—@mmasnick

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In the TestFlight app, if you saw a message says ”the developer removed you from the test program.” that’s a bug of TestFlight. I did not remove anyone from the test program of Mona Beta.

To continue using Mona Beta, please tap “Stop Testing” on TestFlight’s Mona Beta page, then use this invitation link to re-enter our test group: https://testflight.apple.com/join/xNdgUbh6

—@MonaApp

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You know the view you get in the MySQL command line, where vertical lines separate all the columns and it can be really hard to track what’s what with a screen reader? I learned today that you can terminate a query with G (uppercase G), or add -E (or –vertical) when invoking mysql. This puts each field on its own line, as in field1: value1. It’s way, way easier to read with a screen reader. I wish I’d known this years ago.

—@alexhall

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The highest ranking search result for accessibility auditing tools is accessibilitychecker.org. The design and initial messaging had me suspicious out of the gate, but I didn’t see immediate branding for an overlay company.

That is until I submitted a sample test of Google and saw one of the overlay monsters appear as a recommended solution.

Equally as gross, to my mind, is the “legal action” modal that appears when you attempt to use the “back to home” link.

Don’t fall for this one, folks.

—@belwerks

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I see dueling opinions about whether the Fediverse needs to be easier for “normies” to use, against whether the “official” Mastodon app promoting the “official” server is a betrayal of the very idea of federated social media. This could be a spicy take, but I think both can be true at the same time.

The Fediverse is great because it can be as simple or as complex as you want it to be – you have the choice of what your experience is. You can have the easy app, or pick your favorite server, or even build it all yourself. Both can coexist!

I get the fear of one big player dictating the experience, but undoing the open standards already in place would be very difficult. I think the pendulum has plenty of room to swing toward being welcoming without endangering what we’ve already built 🙂​

—@courtney

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The inclusive design principles by @tink @iheni @heydon and @IanPouncey are back after a bit of a lie down

“These Inclusive Design Principles are about putting people first. It’s about designing for the needs of people with permanent, temporary, situational, or changing disabilities — all of us really.”

Available in 5 languages

#usability #accessibility #inclusiveDesign

https://inclusivedesignprinciples.org/

—@SteveFaulkner

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The Voice Dream team has announced that they’re dropping the yearly sub price to $40, which may mean more new users can afford it while still helping out the team with the costs of maintaining the app.

Imo some of the criticism that lead to Voice Dream making this decision was incredibly rude. There’s no cause for talking to small dev teams the same way you would to a multi-billion-dollar corporation. Fuck sake.

—@JustGrist