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@matt @objectinspace @SingingNala @miki I believe so yes. But I don't have an older copy around to double check that.
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The surgeon general’s warning about youth and social media is an absolute feast for people interested in the effects of tech and society https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/sg-youth-mental-health-social-media-advisory.pdf
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@caseynewton Which would be what I focused on in my Master’s. Unfortunately what I see is a lot of people rushing to shoot the messenger without considering the message.
I was a teen in the ’80s, an era of elevated youth suicides. It wasn’t television or telephones or even heavy metal music that drove them. It was living under the cloud of an existential threat of instant nuclear annihilation.
I haven’t read the SG Advisory yet, but when I see people like Jean Twenge claim they’ve examined the data and can’t see any possible reason for the current mental health crisis other than social media, I see people saying that they don’t think Climate Change is an issue, or Western countries’ adventures in the Middle East is an issue, or the disturbing rise of fascist ideas is an issue, or declining prospects for social and economic mobility is an issue, or the ongoing hot war in Europe is an issue…
My kid is about to turn 21. What he and all his friends make clear is that the problem is no one is listening to them about what the problems are. Blaming social media instead of fixing the issues that get talked about on social media is just asking them to be docile and accepting.
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@SingingNala @objectinspace @miki Yeah and apparently they penalize you for not contributing. That's why I got involved. Because my friend was being penalized by her congregation's elders along with family members. I did it for her but I swear that was the crepiest bit of accessibility related tech support I've done.
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@SingingNala @objectinspace @miki For them, "fair use" as a legal concept just never happened.
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@SingingNala @objectinspace @miki I know about their accessibility hacks because I had a blind friend who was a JW who needed help getting it all up and running. That library was the only way she could get access to stuff. Also, did I mention they're letigious and copyright trolls?
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@objectinspace @SingingNala @miki Sorry correction: the toggle added their mirror driver. It showed up in the Windows7 erra.
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@objectinspace @SingingNala @miki Yeah there used to be a key you'd have to add under local machine I think and then their application would be reasonably accessible. If you didn't do that, the text displayed pretty weirdly at least for screen readers. Then they added a toggle, but all it did was do the work to add that key for you.
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@SingingNala @objectinspace @miki Also, unless they put it back on the website, they strategically edited Watchtower and Awake! issues to remove all the condemnation of oral sex at some point. From what I understand there was a grassroots rebellion over it in the late 70's.
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@SingingNala @objectinspace @miki I always thought it was interesting and/or suspicious that they only included publications from 1950 or so onwards. Then again, everything before that is *wildly* out of sync with the stuff from 1950 onwards. Especially the 1879 to 1920 period.
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Only 9% of Disabled people are Wheelchair Users.
Up to 80% of Disabled people have a Hidden Disability.Accessibility and disability inclusion is about so much more than mobility… and so, so much more than wheelchair users (though they should also never be forgotten.
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@objectinspace @SingingNala @miki I'm old enough to remember when JWs forbade the internet. They did this for an incredibly long time. Oh and that weird registry hack they did to enable accessibility in their library, which they refused to put online until relatively recently. Those were some interesting times. Note: Wasn't a JW myself, just new several.
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Bye bye AccessibleHandler, you will not be missed.
The latest update to Firefox Nightly on Windows removes all traces of the old and slow architecture that gave us users and current and former Mozilla employees so many headaches, present company included. As of today, there is no way to invoke the old architecture any more, and the project formerly known as Cache-The-World is now the only way Firefox communicates web content to assistive technologies. Congratulations to the whole team! #Firefox #accessibility
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@simevidas Yeah, kind of like HTML expert.
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And more Covid accessibility enhancements rolled back. As predicted by disabled folks.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/22/dining/restaurant-qr-code-menu.html
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@matt @bryansmart I mean someone else writes it based on interviews/chat sessions and you guys get the author creds. So I guess ghostwriter isn't the word I'm looking for.
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@bryansmart @matt It would be really neat if the two of you could write/ghostwrite a book on this kind of accessibility history. Not saying you should do it for free of course.