New Low in the Accessibility “Industry:” Overlay Company Sues Globally-Recognized Accessibility Expert https://www.lflegal.com/2023/07/adrian-roselli-slapp-lawsuit/
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NEW: A seven-month congressional probe finds tax-prep companies spent years sharing taxpayer data with Meta and Google in potential violation of federal law — data that in some cases was misused for targeted ads. Legal experts are calling it a “five-alarm fire” for taxpayer privacy: https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/12/tech/tax-prep-companies-taxpayer-data-google-meta/index.html
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📣 As a blind person, I’m deeply concerned about the proposed closure of ticket offices and reduction of station personnel in England’s train stations. This move would leave us with limited assistance and inaccessible services. Let’s voice our opinions and participate in the consultation to ensure our needs are taken into account. #AccessibleTransport #InclusiveServices
https://act.guidedogs.org.uk/page/131432/action/1?locale=en-GB
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@CharJTF Happy anniversary!
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Accessibility companies should not be filing SLAPP lawsuits against accessibility advocates. (SLAPP = Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation). But in my opinion that is what is happening in AudioEye’s lawsuit against Adrian Roselli @aardrian for his writings and talks about the harms of accessibility overlays. I wrote about it here: https://www.lflegal.com/2023/07/adrian-roselli-slapp-lawsuit/ #Accessibility #a11y #SLAPP
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It’s fascinating to watch people here uncritically buying into the narratives around recent legislative efforts to make tech giants start paying news agencies for the news stories they scrape, narratives that begin by assuming that “News” is all dirty corrupt billionaires but Silicon Valley Tech Giants are our friendly underdogs who desperately need defending.
Like. We all know the big businesses in both industries are rotten and corrupt, why are we so stupid as to picks sides when we should be looking at the actual issues here.
Like, for example, the way google et all are trying to eat EVERYBODYs lunch – they want to scrape everybody’s content and serve it as their own. They want your audience to look at them instead of you. And it doesn’t really matter whether you’re a Big Evil Media Baron or a small recipe blogger who pays their rent from the merch bought by a few thousand fans who (used to) find them through a google search, it’s wrong either way.
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vmWare Fusion 13 Pro for Mac supports Windows 11 for ARM. Fusion requires a Windows 11 ISO to install Windows 11. Microsoft provides install ISOs of every OS, except the ARM version of Windows 11, providing VHDX files instead. “Remember, now, downloading ISOs from anywhere except Microsoft could result in hacking and other bad things, but we won’t give you an ISO, because fuck you.”
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Thinking about how much heat Mastodon gets for being “confusing” when most of the people saying that use Discord on a regular basis. Discord is a UX nightmare. I’ve been on it for several years and still struggle to figure things out. Twitch, too, is confusing as hell. Why do Discord and Twitch get a free pass while Mastodon gets berated 24/7? I’m not saying that the fact that Discord and Twitch have awful user interfaces excuses Mastodon’s problems with onboarding etc., but it’s weird that it seems to be held to a very different standard than other popular platforms.
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@chris Yeah I did too and given the fights I've already had with Windows today I'm thinking we should just reset Wednesday back to its defaults.
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@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.
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How long until we start buying greeting cards for Amazon Prime Day — calling parents, holding cookouts to celebrate this most American of annual holidays?
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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.