Amanda Unvarnished

At this point I am literally just begging you to stop putting hCaptcha in your apps. Please. I don’t know what else to do. Please. Please don’t do it. If it’s on a website we at least have a chance. As bad a chance it might be. But if it’s in your app anyone who can’t do a captcha is completely locked out. So please. Do not do it.

—@talon

Remember how WebAIM showed #UserWay was lying to us by manipulating its WAVE results?

UserWay is undoing it:
https://twitter.com/UserWayOrg/status/1667238112282419218

Of course it admits no wrongdoing *and* tries to paint itself a peer to WebAIM.

I updated my UserWay post of its lies:
https://adrianroselli.com/2021/09/userway-will-get-you-sued.html#WAVESpoofUndo

#a11y #accessibility

—@aardrian

Hot take: it’s fun to joke about Frodo and Sam being gay, but it’s not actually good. Straight dudes supporting each other and genuinely loving each other platonically is a good thing and we need more non-toxic masculinity in the world 🥺

—@daeken

#News: Dozens of websites tied to the national mental health crisis hotline—988—are sending visitor data to Facebook.

By @jonkeegan and Colin Lecher, copublished with @STAT: #MentalHealth #Privacy #Data https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2023/06/13/suicide-hotlines-promise-anonymity-dozens-of-their-websites-send-sensitive-data-to-facebook

—@themarkup

This needs to be repeated occasionally: Alcohol is a disinhibitor. It does not change your personality. It degrades the self-control you use to conceal your real personality.

WHO YOU ARE WHEN YOU’RE DRUNK IS WHO YOU REALLY ARE.

Someone who’s “only a jerk when they’re drunk” is a jerk ALL THE TIME. They’re just able to control it when they’re sober.

Alcohol is NEVER to blame for anyone’s conduct.

—@wesdym

Why do new appliances play a jaunty little tune to let you know they’re done? For a full month, I’d run outside with a handful of cash thinking the ice cream truck was coming. But, nope. Stupid dryer.

—@the_etrain

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.

https://mastodon.art/@Curator/109279035107793247

—@Curator

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.

—@colepeters