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#a11yWin #Indieweb Summit 2019 was captioned for the first time this year. I would like to point out that this conference has a $5 ticket price as well as the ability to stream it for free if you can’t attend in person, and yet they still managed to caption their talks and committees. I don’t have any data on attendance numbers but I’d be surprised if attendance is above 500, and I’m being very liberal with that. If a bunch of homebrew hackers and hobbyists can figure this stuff out, there’s no reason anyone else can’t. The only thing left is excuses and those become flimsier by the day.
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Summer colds are absolutely a thing and OMG muh brain! My eyes will not stop watering and I am coughing my brains out and I have a headache which is probably a result of the coughing and general stuffiness. The good news is that there’s a Rays game at 1PM and I get to go to bed early tonight.
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Dominos is evil
One more time for the folks in the back. Accessibility guidelines and a metric ton of supporting documents with examples along with easily findable mailing lists with every accessibility practitioner on the planet providing help and advice on accessibility for free every single day have been around now for twenty something years. There’s also Twitter, where those same practitioners have been providing free help for something like ten years every day. This isn’t hard. And a multi-million-dollar company to complain about paying $38,000 to fix their website so that it’s accessible to everyone is crap. Dominos wouldn’t be charged $38,000 to fix things if they had, wait for it, built accessibility in from the ground up. Stuff like this is why people with disabilities are practically in “sue them all and let God sort it out” mode. We shouldn’t have to keep asking politely that large corporations not violate our civil rights. “Please Sir, may I use your site?” I’m not sure if this will make it to the Supreme Court, it can decline to hear this case. I’m not even sure if the court ruling in favor of the plaintiff in this case is likely. But if it has to come to this, then so be it.
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Good morning and welcome to Friday. The Tampa Bay Rays swept the Boston Red Sox last night. Who’s your daddy now Boston? I hear tears mix well with several liquors, you guys should look into that. Also my Braves beat the Reds last night, so yesterday was a great day for baseball. Reds fans, see my comments regarding tears and liquor above. I don’t have any specific plans for the weekend but I’m glad it’s almost here. We’ve entered the most pathetic month of the year and I can’t believe how fast this year is flying by. No, we are not doing Christmas music or Halloween or even pumpkin spice this early. You monsters can wait for the appropriate time.
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