Kind: Reposts

This is a fantastic Decoder interview with @Gargron. Well worth spending time with this today. https://pca.st/episode/985c6d18-7849-4188-aaac-969b18586dfd

—@notnixon

Hi everyone! Decided to finally take the Mastodon leap and am shutting down my Twitter. For those who do not know me: I’m in eighteenth-century studies with approaches from book history, women’s lit, and digital humanities and I dabble quite a bit in studies in sexuality, empire, and colonialism.

—@grubstreetwomen

Good Tuesday everybody. WBH Volume 1 Issue 13 is here, with a featured perspective from Emily Davison on the 5 most frequently asked questions she gets as a low-vision person, plus Blindness Briefs edition 65 and Science Briefs Edition 28. https://www.worldblindherald.com/

—@worldblindherald

Descriptive Video Works is actively #casting for a #male voice talent of #Turkish background with a #NorthAmerican accent who can begin recording the #AudioDescription for a thriller series in early May. This will be a #freelance #remote role. for more details, https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nefertiti-matos_casting-male-turkish-activity-7046230295431274497-TX_F?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

—@NefMatOli

I was promised a sci-fi future where robots would do all the menial tasks so that humans could focus on creating art and instead you assholes built robots to do the art so we all have to fight over the jobs doing menial tasks, good job.

—@rodhilton

MAGA Logic:
-Abortion: Ban it
-Marijuana: Ban it
-Drag shows: Ban it
-Immigration: Ban it
-Dialogue on racism: Ban it
-Books by Black authors: Ban it
-Books by LGBTQ+ authors: Ban it
-Guns: BANS DON’T WORK YOU SNOWFLAKES
#CovenantSchool

—@QasimRashid

I’m sure this has been said before, but a bonus of masks is that they cover the resting bitch face my features often want to revert to during the more dehumanizing aspects of riding public transit. I can also yawn hugely without having to cover my mouth with my hand.

—@ChristineMalec

Accessibility Camp Bay Area in San Francisco, May 5 ! Nice to see the BarCamp format still going. https://www.accessibilitycampbay.org/

—@lizzard

Virgo: You will be chased across the moors by the Hounds of Hell until you finally find that squeaky ball and make them chase it instead.

—@sblackmoore

🥚 A simple custom

For whatever reason some people don’t like the standard HTML checkbox and radio button, they seek to jazz ’em up and in the process the often jizz up the usability/accessibility of these controls.

There are some good efforts out there to win over developers/designers to using native controls, or minimally customized controls. Here I provide my simple variation:

https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2021/01/24/a-simple-custom/

#HTML #ARIA #CSS #accessibility #WebDev

—@SteveFaulkner

I wrote about your oven’s secret Sabbath mode, and how that relates to your computer’s assistive technology features. https://ericwbailey.website/published/sabbath-mode-and-assistive-technology-features/

—@eric

ICYMI in my feed yesterday Mozilla Firefox has browser anti-fingerprinting built in, it’s just not enabled by default.

Browser fingerprinting is when 3rd parties use your computer’s characteristics such as which fonts you have installed, your type and number of CPUs, etc. to uniquely identify you to advertisers or other even less friendly sorts.

In Firefox type in About:config, click the warning then type in the search window: resist

Set
privacy.resistFingerprinting
to True.

#privacy

—@adwright

To anyone who needs or wants a hug goodnight right now, or just a general hug – here’s one 🫂💙
I know it’s virtual but, I hope you can feel it. Sending warm energy your way ❤️

—@skaly

A sudden realisation:
The reason Merlin lives backwards through time is so that he can drink his coffee before making it.
The smug bastard.

—@tigerfort

Concerned about TikTok accessing and selling personal information, and using it to manipulate you?

Wait until you hear about credit rating companies, HR companies, real estate verification companies, online mental health companies, direct to consumer DNA companies, the trackers on just about every news web site, and FB, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Snap, and Pinterest.

—@funnymonkey

NVDA 2023.1 is now available! New paragraph options, link destination & annotated web content keystrokes, new Braille tables, fixes for Kindle, Windows 11, Office, Chrome, Firefox, web, java and more! Read the full what’s new & download from: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2023-1/ Note: This release breaks compatibility with add-ons made for NVDA 2022.4 and earlier. The majority of add-ons have been updated, but please check https://addons.nvda-project.org/addons/nvdacompat.en.html for the status of your favourite add-ons.

—@NVAccess

It seems like every person born before 1980 has a baby photo of them being bathed in a kitchen sink and I have a theory that most of it stopped when people got dishwashers and realized it was a much more convenient way to clean their children.

—@Alice

Hey we have @yoyoel with a new guest post on Techdirt about one of the possible consequences of walling off a US-only TikTok: it might actually be *worse* for national security, not better.

This is what happens when the people making the rules don’t understand tradeoffs.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/03/24/how-forcing-tiktok-to-completely-separate-its-us-operations-could-actually-undermine-national-security/

—@mmasnick

We’re banning books, we’re banning Internet sites, and now we’re banning Internet sites that lend books.

And that’s just this week alone.

Good job, America.

—@cathygellis