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Why do we hate the Yankees?

Money. They have enough to make Solomon BLUSH. And they’re jerks about it. Everyone has to fit the mold these days.

Also? Their fans. They made racist remarks towards our Kwan last year and they can fuck themselves for that.

Bash a man’s skills all you want. Please. God knows we do.

But you fucking well leave race out of it.

—@ipstenu

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Protip: if you’re writing an article about how to make some particular HTML thing more accessible, don’t include an overlay company in the “Tools and Resources” section.

While you’re at it, probably double-check that all the ARIA roles you suggest using actually exist.

Or possibly reconsider whether you should be writing a series on web accessibility in the first place.

#accessibility #a11y #frontEnd

—@mu

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Second time I’ve seen it asked in two days…

No, `autocomplete` will not satisfy proposed WCAG 2.2 SC 3.3.7 Redundant Entry:

“The autocomplete feature of browsers is not considered sufficient because it is the content (the web site) that needs to provide the stored information for a redundant entry, or avoid asking for the same information again.”

https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Understanding/redundant-entry.html

—@aardrian

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CSS-only Widgets Are Inaccessible: “Any person, post, article, tweet, expert, fortune cookie, company, etc., that claims its #CSS-only interactive widget is accessible is probably wrong. While it may not be intentional, it is incumbent on you to confirm the accessibility because the person making the claim often has not.” #a11y https://adrianroselli.com/2023/03/css-only-widgets-are-inaccessible.html

—@fridayfrontend

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Many of you will fondly remember the people and products from Raised Dot Computing. Their newsletters are archived and nicely indexed. What made them unique was that they didn’t just discuss RDC’s products but products from other assistive technology companies as well, including their competitors. Because of this their newsletters are another great resource for learning about the history of blindness assistive technology.
https://www.duxburysystems.org/downloads/library/news/

—@DavidGoldfield

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One of the reasons christian literalist ways of interpreting Jewish texts is often asinine is that paleo and biblical era Hebrew did not have vowels. It had root consonants, and the interpretation of a word depended on context, not text. And each set of consonant roots has a WIDE range of interpretations.

Take the word chametz – one interpretation is leaven (yeast), but the root itself means puffed up or inflated, as well as harsh, vinegar, oppressive, and distasteful, and so on. Each root has a full circle of meanings depending on the vowels and tense *you* choose to insert, as well as the topic of the surrounding text – each root of those words also having a wide range of meanings. And those vowel insertions are man-made, not scripture. Not “god’s word.”

Men’s interpretations.

Literalists cherry pick what interpretation they want, and insist that is “THE” meaning, when it is no such thing.

https://lifeisasacredtext.substack.com/p/clearing-out-how

#Mazeldon #Hebrew #Passover #Chametz #linguistics #spirituality

—@ShekinahCanCook

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I remember when Aaron Swartz was criminally prosecuted for downloading too many academic journal articles, but, sure, it’s totally cool to scrape everyone’s personal photographs as part of a commercial effort to market discriminatory surveillance tech to police departments.

https://www.businessinsider.com/clearview-scraped-30-billion-images-facebook-police-facial-recogntion-database-2023-4

—@maxkennerly