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Please sir, my fucks. They’ve flown away.

—@Stoned_Deva_

✍️ New post: Simple Truths About Personal Websites

#personalsites #websites
https://matthiasott.com/notes/simple-truths-about-personal-websites

—@matthiasott

I see you on Bluesky giving billionaire Jack Dorsey your free labor by reporting #accessibility bugs when he could not be bothered to staff up with practitioners.

You do you, but understand it devalues the work and rewards him for failing to hire professionals. #a11y

—@aardrian

This is an utterly ridiculous name for a #ScreenReader user to have to hear. This is someone’s youtube name I came across in the comment section of a video, and I think the best way to show you how annoying it is to listen to, is to show you an audio recording of what my phone does, when it comes across it. Standard letters really do suffice, people. It is not necessary for all this. Even with my phone set to the normal speed at which I listen to speech, it takes an age to get through this, not to mention that youtube actually repeats names twice before reading out the comment.
It’s just trying to say ‘Sinister Potato.’
ˢᶦⁿᶦˢᵗᵉʳ ᴾᵒᵗᵃᵗᵒ

—@FreakyFwoof

RT Alex גדעון בן װעלװל: Petition to demand all 10 commandment exhibits being foisted upon schools to be amended to reflect all 613 mitzvot.

I don’t make the rules, but they’re all binding, not just the first 10. Important as a religious nation for us to acknowledge our shared heritage and morals folks.

—@dennisfischman

Wow. WordPress just announced they have to drop support for Twitter in their Jetpack post sharing plug-in as they haven’t been able to reach agreement with Twitter for access. They are committing to adding support for Mastodon!
The majority of the Web’s individually run websites are WordPress! It’s ON!!

#TwitterMigration #TwitterBroken #Mastodon #activityPub #Fediverse

—@chris

People are calling today the 30th birthday of the web; more accurately it’s the 30th birthday of CERN releasing the source code. I vividly remember websites being a curiosity among FTP servers, Usenet newsgroups, and gopher holes.

Here’s to this marvelous technology, Earth’s biggest Choose Your Own Adventure book, one of the most backwardly compatible systems ever built. Modern browsers may be elaborate interpreter-compilers but they still render the first site: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

—@ianholmes

I’ve seen a few people repeating Roy Wood Jr.’s joke about Clarence Thomas being an NFT.

And I’ve got to say, I’m a little conflicted on this – because I don’t really believe that’s our (and here I mean white people) joke to make. Calling someone a token is something Roy Wood Jr. can do. I don’t think it’s something we should be doing as white people.

I mean, I get it, it’s a killer burn, and it feels good to have something to give an apparently corrupt judge that’s insulting. But I think when we (white people) use it…well, it’s just not our place to make that determination.

If we want the fediverse to be more diverse, we need to see to at least some of the background radiation of racism. This is that kind of thing.

—@oldladyplays

30 years ago, one decision altered the course of our connected world

On April 30, 1993, the World Wide Web was released into the public domain. It revolutionized the internet and allowed users to create websites filled with graphics, audio and hyperlinks.

🔗 https://www.npr.org/2023/04/30/1172276538/world-wide-web-internet-anniversary

#technology #npr #news #press #media #independent #usa

—@npr

Accessibility needs to be more than just going over a compliance checklist.

WCAG audits can be useful, but if all you’re going to do is sporadically order someone to make a list of pass/fail next to numbers, chances are you’re not gonna see much meaningful change.

For that you need to understand:

– What effect the (in)accessible solution has on the experience of disabled users
– How disabled people use the web
– How AT / a11y options work
– Techniques and tools you can use in your work
etc

—@fossheim