The fediverse has a huge community of blind and partially sighted users, as well as people accessing the internet from bad or limited connections that don’t load images. Alt-text helps everyone.
*Please* make an effort with it. If you’re on .art especially, we expect you to be either adding alt-text or using one of the many options available to ask for help with it, which can be as simple as adding an emoji to your post.
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@SingingNala @amy0223 @wesderby If you can, make joining something requires prospective members do something like write a simple thing about why they want to join. It won't solve all your problems but it'll add some friction that the problematic people will not want to deal with.
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I haven’t watched the talks from #CSSDay yet, but this post from @adactio really resonates with me.
https://adactio.com/journal/20238
I’m in the middle of writing an article on how little one needs beyond web standards today to craft engaging content on the web, but I also feel like there’s so much cognitive dissonance keeping a ton of people from enjoying the evolution of these standards.
I’m with Jeremy and other like minds in thinking we need to keep making all the noise we can about this.
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Today is an important day in assistive technology history. On June 13, 2003, the version of DECtalk that shipped with Window Eyes was compiled. To celebrate the 20th anniversary of this event, I have published a blog post titled “The strange mystery behind Window Eyes and DECtalk, evidence and analysis.” It can be found at https://datajake.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-strange-mystery-behind-window-eyes.html
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In light of the Trump indictment over alleged mishandling of classified documents, listen to a discussion from January with Benjamin Wittes, Quinta Jurecic, Scott Anderson, and David Priess on the differences between the Trump, Biden, and Pence cases dealing with classified documents: https://www.lawfareblog.com/lawfare-podcast-even-more-classified-documents
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You old fucking fidiots need to step back and let people who actually know what the real risks are to this stuff do the talking.
Half these old fuckers can’t even program the clocks on their old 1980s VCRs, and we want them talking about how to approach AI? No, thank you.
Safeguards should be a thing, but let people who know something about it sort it out, not some dumbasses who think it’s a good idea to hook AI up to our weapons.
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@weirdwriter @MostlyBlindGamer So one more thing, because I yelled at you over this. If it makes you feel any better, this one time I started a fight with Karl fucking Groves, publicly and while sober as a judge, and I lost spectacularly. And I promise, this isn't the end of the world. So while I've yelled at your take and think it's shitty, there is online life after incredibly dumb/shitty takes in this space.
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@weirdwriter @MostlyBlindGamer I can appreciate the frustration, and I also appreciate your acknowledgement of the cheapshot. And yeah that was one hell of a cheapshot.
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@weirdwriter @MostlyBlindGamer Dude, you're quite literally lumping everybody who uses a11y into the performative camp, and I'm telling you that's not anything close to how any of this works, and if use of that particular abbreviation is your only criterion you should probably spend less time posting and more time actually talking to the people who use it.
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@MostlyBlindGamer @weirdwriter I'm not into performative inclusivity either. But performative inclusivity isn't what's at issue here.
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@weirdwriter @MostlyBlindGamer Why is it a problem for non-disabled people to use a numeronym? I mean it's not like they're not stepping up and doing the fucking work. Often without thanks. Some of the most patient, hard-working people in the accessibility space are non-disabled people, and if any of them ever decides fuck it I quit, we're in sorse trouble than we already are. And you're mad they're putting a numeronym on stickers and t-shirts?
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@objectinspace Hi Drew I'm blind and just wanted to check in to tell you you're a bad person for reasons. Note: You're not really a bad person I'm just fucking with you, and also fuck reply guys.
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Just posted: Improving Mastodon developer documentation – many things to work on, and things are moving along! @fedidevs@venera.social @fedidevs@a.gup.pe #MastodonAPI #fedidevs #DevRel https://dev.to/andypiper/improving-mastodon-developer-documentation-12cm
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#Lemmy just broke 100,000 users!
Right now, it’s the 7th most used server software on the Fediverse. It’s on pace towards overtaking Pleroma and Microdotblog. And we don’t know how much Lemmy growth will happen during the next two days.
The #RedditMigration to the #Fediverse is now in full swing.