The highest ranking search result for accessibility auditing tools is accessibilitychecker.org. The design and initial messaging had me suspicious out of the gate, but I didn’t see immediate branding for an overlay company.
That is until I submitted a sample test of Google and saw one of the overlay monsters appear as a recommended solution.
Equally as gross, to my mind, is the “legal action” modal that appears when you attempt to use the “back to home” link.
Don’t fall for this one, folks.
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I see dueling opinions about whether the Fediverse needs to be easier for “normies” to use, against whether the “official” Mastodon app promoting the “official” server is a betrayal of the very idea of federated social media. This could be a spicy take, but I think both can be true at the same time.
The Fediverse is great because it can be as simple or as complex as you want it to be – you have the choice of what your experience is. You can have the easy app, or pick your favorite server, or even build it all yourself. Both can coexist!
I get the fear of one big player dictating the experience, but undoing the open standards already in place would be very difficult. I think the pendulum has plenty of room to swing toward being welcoming without endangering what we’ve already built 🙂
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The inclusive design principles by @tink @iheni @heydon and @IanPouncey are back after a bit of a lie down
“These Inclusive Design Principles are about putting people first. It’s about designing for the needs of people with permanent, temporary, situational, or changing disabilities — all of us really.”
Available in 5 languages
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I would appreciate it if people could help me get more federated on my new instance. Please boost this post if any of the following tags apply to you so I can follow!
#actuallyautistic
#adhd
#disabilityrights
#auspol
#trans
#lgbtqia
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Just saw someone wearing a t-shirt saying Rage Against The Machine Learning
A sentiment I agree with wholeheartedly
Now I want one of those t-shirts 🥺
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A group of designers is called a “distraction.”
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I hope whoever is using these licenses understands the limitations and how to use AI based text generators.
[US] Congress gets 40 ChatGPT Plus licenses to start experimenting with generative AI :
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Docker is turning off the Mastodon foundation’s Docker Hub account unless they start paying, which they’re not willing to do.
If you’re running an instance with containers, they’ll now be available from ghcr.io/mastodon/mastodon.
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adapting a legacy codebase to new business requirements
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In reply to .
@summersun704 Sending you internet hugs.
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The Voice Dream team has announced that they’re dropping the yearly sub price to $40, which may mean more new users can afford it while still helping out the team with the costs of maintaining the app.
Imo some of the criticism that lead to Voice Dream making this decision was incredibly rude. There’s no cause for talking to small dev teams the same way you would to a multi-billion-dollar corporation. Fuck sake.
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A programmer makes a scraping bot. Makes it opt-out. The tool floods numerous websites with aggressive bandwidth requests.
When asked to change how the bot works, he tells the people complaining—led by well-known developer Terence Eden—that they’re getting in the way of progress and that his bot should be treated like a person.
Can we talk about how incredibly awful this behavior is?
https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3vmx/an-ai-scraping-tool-is-overwhelming-websites-with-traffic
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The three hardest problems in computer science are naming, cache invalidation, appropriate voicing of the letter “g”, and off-by-one errors.
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My anaconda don’t
My anaconda don’t
My anaconda don’t work probably I installed the wrong dependencies again