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gnomicutterance

@gnomicutterance@hachyderm.io

here is my finger .plan:

#a11y / #accessibility, software, #libraries, #archives, publishing, children's & YA lit, #disability, #W3C

Don't feel obliged to follow back. I delete all my posts after a week. I live on #dreamwidth.

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thomasconnor, to random
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Well, it was bound to happen eventually...

Anti-Personnel Vehicle rusting on Garden St. in Cambridge.

gnomicutterance,
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@thomasconnor I like how your alt is an argument for the social model of disability, like, in a world where cybertrucks are the norm, the disability is being able to see them.

gnomicutterance,
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> "Ok, so I finally got to check this and I simply can’t reproduce your results at all."

/me stands on one leg

Software that doesn't have reproducible results is buggy software. The rest is commentary.

patrick_h_lauke, to random
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of course he does, the culture war sniveling cunt that he is https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmmqq4qv81qo #TERFwars

gnomicutterance,
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@patrick_h_lauke https://kuntandthegang.bandcamp.com/track/rishi-sunak-is-a-rat-faced-cunt

gnomicutterance,
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"Mr. Nvidia, tear down that firewall!"

-- Ronald Reagan, probably

gnomicutterance,
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To be fair to google, hiring disabled people, bragging about it in DEI puff pieces, and then refusing to give us accommodations is practically a national pastime. Although this story is an amazingly egregious version of the same.

gnomicutterance,
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archive.is.
private and incognito windows.
wayback machine.

gnomicutterance,
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Also, disabled people are so disadvantaged in the job market (and a disabled Black woman, whose job accommodation requires an interpreter, no less), that it's not a question of naïveté. It's a question of paying the rent.

(Per the BLS, "In 2023, 22.5 percent of people with a disability were employed--the highest recorded ratio
since comparable data were first collected in 2008." Look, ma, an improvement!)

gnomicutterance,
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You're not taking advantage of google to expect your rights under U.S. law to be upheld, and you have both an ethical and legal ground to complain about it.

Your argument boils down to:

  1. Google illegally and unethically discriminates against people from certain backgrounds.

  2. We all know about it.

  3. So if you get a job with a company that we know discriminates illegally, and then you make a fuss about it, you're being unethical.

That's not how any of this works.

gnomicutterance,
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"The only reason I can understand to go work at them is money"

Well, yes. That's why all of us work anywhere.

gnomicutterance,
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"He brought up the example that in the past building a stadium for a sports game took six months. In the past year, it took six weeks, and it's not unnatural to think that in the coming years, it'll take six days."

Does anyone know what the hell he's talking about? Even in Qatar and China, not countries known for their sterling commitment to workers' rights, building a stadium takes 2-3 years.

gnomicutterance,
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oh wait does he mean in a game? Did it really used to take 6 months? (I'd believe it, but I would really want someone to explain why to me, if so. Unless he just means "6 months of FTE hours if you include all the artistic assets and all the shape modelling and getting permission from the stadium owners for IP.")

gnomicutterance,
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Thanks! I know next to nothing about graphic gamedev, so it just seemed so high, but I know it's a pretty complex space.

All I know is that there will probably never be another Dragon Age and this is a source of great sadness.

gnomicutterance,
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there's been a teaser trailer for dreadwolf, but there's no release date that I've seen, and since they've already killed and rebooted the project once, I choose to withhold actual faith until I have it in my grubby hands.

baldur, to random
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That feeling when you have a look at Linkedin and see a former boss write about how LLMs mean the end of coding and programming as a job. That now the only thing needed to get working software is to describe clearly what you want, something they were always manifestly incapable of doing

😑

gnomicutterance,
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@baldur The people who are convinced LLMs replace developers are the same people who always get mad when I ask questions like 'what would you like the system to do if two people share a phone number' or 'okay, what's the definition of Person Is Vaccinated - does country of vaccination matter, does vaccination brand matter?' or 'do you know that you can't extrapolate country of legal residence from dialing prefix? I'm happy to write it but I want to make sure you know that.'

gnomicutterance,
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@baldur 'LLMs will give me some code without telling me inconvenient truths without asking me about edge conditions or definitions I don't care about' is the actual story here.

patrick_h_lauke, to accessibility
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waiting for the cries of "WCAG has gone WokeCAG" when this hits review https://github.com/w3c/wcag/pull/3680/ #a11y #accessibility

gnomicutterance,
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@patrick_h_lauke doing god’s work in the wcag trenches.

jmac, to random
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I want to comment on this by sharing literally any light-hearted anecdote about my own upbringing, but it would sound like I was airing terrible childhood trauma by contemporary standards. https://mas.to/@beatnikprof/112027293818011553

gnomicutterance,
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@jmac I have described light-hearted childhood anecdotes & had people pause and say "whoa, whoa, that's not okay."

If one of my friends sent a 10 year old to school with a key on a string around their neck & then made them walk 3 miles home because you aren't going to arrange alternative transportation after detention, I guess I'd find it weird? But it really was fine. (The problem was structurally not diagnosing ADHD in girls ➡️constant detention, not the latchkey.)

Also hose water was fine.

patrick_h_lauke, to accessibility
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one thing that i'd love the WebAim screen reader survey to differentiate better is how results break down by OS (mainly to be able to have more segmented "on Mac, VoiceOver is effectively the only screen reader used" or similar). it might then also reframe some of the other statements/results, e.g. "71.6% of respondents use more than one desktop/laptop screen reader" ... I suspect those 71.6% are effectively Windows users? https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey10/ #a11y #accessibility

gnomicutterance,
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@patrick_h_lauke I’m still sad WebAim almost never does non screenreader AT surveys. They did once, I think? But if surveys about braille displays, speech rec, etc. came out on the regular, it would be really useful to people. Hell, these days I would love to see feedback from people about which novel tools they’re finding useful for AT, anything from generative AI image descriptions to whisper systems, to just new OS tools (e.g. Talon). It’s really hard to get a good sense of what exists.

gnomicutterance,
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@patrick_h_lauke gap Outside of screen readers, a lot of people developing the new solutions think that they are inventing things that didn’t already exist, because we don’t talk enough about other solutions. So there’s a lot of reinventing the wheel going on.

misc, to random
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Twitter perpetuated the idea that we should have one place where everyone goes to talk, and that same place should also be the canonical archive for our trails of interesting digital detritus. There's been a lot of focus on restoring the former function, while the latter has been an afterthought at best. https://mastodon.social/@misc/111977476220799164

gnomicutterance,
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@misc The one place where everyone goes to talk was a bad idea, too. Everything that made it good (and twitter at its best was amazing) is the exact same thing that made it unbearable, and it worked best when it wasn't everyone. Context collapse + 8 billion people (or even 1.5 billion anglophones) = a collection of networks human capacity for social interactions can't manage.

jik, to accessibility
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If anyone knows of any concrete evidence that Google's Invisible reCAPTCHA adversely impacts people with disabilities more than others, I'd be grateful if you could share it with me.
I searched but could not find any; on the contrary, I found at least one study showing that Invisible reCAPTCHA is equally usable for disabled and non-disabled people.
To be clear, I'm not looking for theoreticals, I'm looking for concrete evidence one way or the other.
Thanks.
#accessibility

gnomicutterance,
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@jik It doesn't impact people with disabilities more than others do, but it does impact PWD.

It's me, I'm people with disabilities. It almost never identifies me heuristically, presumably because I use dictation & kb, no mouse. Like many other users of assistive tech, my patterns are more likely to be not identified as human.

It's certainly more usable than hCaptcha's piece of crap, but it's hard. And I have no cognitive problems but sometimes struggle with recognizing the sounds & images.

gnomicutterance,
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@jik @downey

None of them is usable by deafblind people, and all of them are difficult for people with cognitive disabilities. Meanwhile bots are excellent at solving them.

youronlyone, to webdev
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“Death To Icon Fonts” (2015)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xXBYcWgCHA

What's your opinion as a #WebDev today?

Did you find a way to address the issues presented while keeping #IconFonts?

Basically:

  1. When our friends with #Dyslexia overrides your fonts, font icons turn into black boxes since the font they're using doesn't have support for those Unicode code blocks.

  2. When screenreaders, or voice assistance, reads a site with icon fonts, they read the icon fonts really weird.

For No.2, a site with properly marked aria labels, or marked as hidden for assistive tech, is the solution I can think of.

However, for No.1, I can't think of a way since once the browser forces the user font, all fonts on the site will rely on the user's custom font.

The only other way I can think of is to provide an option to switch the site's font right from the website, so they don't have to override the site's font.

What's your solution?

#WebDeveloper #WebDevelopers #Coder #Programmer #Webmaster #A11Y #accessibility #assistive #Fonts

gnomicutterance,
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@youronlyone Icon fonts also suck for voice accessibility, since they're unlabelled icons, and I don't know how to speak their accessible name.

RobW, to random
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    gnomicutterance,
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    @RobW I can’t speak to the current 538 or their podcast, but if Nate Silver is still involved, he lost the plot years ago. He parlayed his baseball statistician skills into a couple of years of good reads of the last normal US election cycles, got some mainstream fame, & decided he was a society & politics Expert now, without learning anything about either. When covid happened he went full Reactionary Contrarian Centrist; ignoring all stats that disagreed with his new contrarianism.

    rriver, to accessibility Japanese

    Do we really need skip link for #accessibility ? Success Criterion 2.4.1 Bypass Blocks suggest we do, but is it really necessary?

    gnomicutterance,
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    @rriver Yes. (Assuming you have something to skip, such as a navigation bar)

    For keyboard and voice users, a skip link can be the difference between immediately being able to go to the right link/scroll the correct content, and having to go through 10, 20, 50 in a navigation topbar or sidebar. Magnification users can benefit from them as well.

    I’m speaking both as an accessibility expert but also as somebody who is a keyboard & voice user and tends to avoid sites without them.

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