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hdv, 18 days ago to random

Europeans are you all ready to vote next week?

It's a good opportunity to vote green and not let the populists and/or bullshitters win.

hdv, 19 days ago to random

The ‘I have half a talk now’ stage of talk writing is hard. It's probably going to be okay, I tell myself, but it isn't yet. 😱

hdv, 25 days ago to random

Imagine Microsoft stopped spending money on AI and start putting it into making copy/paste work in their apps.

hdv, 27 days ago to random

Scarlett Johansson says OpenAI approached her to use her voice long before it was released. She said no and they still took it. https://www.npr.org/2024/05/20/1252495087/openai-pulls-ai-voice-that-was-compared-to-scarlett-johansson-in-the-movie-her

Now, in a blog post OpenAI says: “Sky’s voice is not an imitation of Scarlett Johansson” https://openai.com/index/how-the-voices-for-chatgpt-were-chosen/ But their CEO even tweeted the word “her” as a way of announcing the voice.

post truth much? this company just keeps on grabbing what isn't theirs

hdv, 29 days ago to random

The European Parliamentary Elections are during CSS Day so I've just arranged to vote in Amsterdam (with Kiezerspas).

This is an important vote. Collectively we've got to cast a lot of votes on parties that are not extreme right, and (personal opinion) prioritise very ambituous climate policy over nonsensical anti migrant populism.

hdv, 29 days ago to random

my German isn't great, but I understand and love that they can use words such as ‘arsch log’ on election posters

hdv, 1 month ago to random

The corporation Slack: we'll train some language models on your data
The people in about every single Slack community I am in: admin, can you opt us out?

hdv, 1 month ago to random

“Inspiration porn is the portrayal of people with disabilities (or other uncommon life circumstances) as being inspirational to able-bodied people“ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspiration_porn

(yes this is a subtoot of the “AI”/BeMyEyes video that they forgot to add captions to)

more thoughts: https://hidde.blog/links/inspiration-porn/

hdv, 1 month ago to random

Would pay to be able to turn off the AI stuff in “Teams (work or school)”. It's uneccessary, wasteful and nonsensical.

“Over events in your ankle”? Sorry, what?

hdv, 1 month ago to random

“Europe, let's come together!”

Petition to get Joost Klein back into Eurovision https://www.change.org/p/get-joost-klein-back-into-eurovision-2024

hdv, 1 month ago to random

Fun fact: WCAG is 25 years old this week.

(version 1 was published 5 May 1999)

(via @yatil)

hdv, 1 month ago to random

Thanks #AllDayHey for having me today!

Slides and links are on this page: https://talks.hiddedevries.nl/VZNuWJ/dialog-dilemmas-and-modal-mischief-on-building-popovers

hdv, 1 month ago to random

🔗 Popover in Baseline!

“With Firefox 125 shipping the feature, good news on popover:
This web feature is now available in all three major browser engines, and becomes Baseline Newly Available as of April 16, 2024.”

(From Una's post: Popover API lands in Baseline https://web.dev/blog/popover-api)

(Originally posted on https://hidde.blog/links/popover-in-baseline/)

hdv, 1 month ago to random

It looks like I might be in the US while AIR are touring with Moon Safari so was checking tickets.

Turns out pop music tickets are pricey there! Same show is €47 in Amsterdam, ~£100 in London, ~$400 in LA (resale but still). Yay government-subsidised music venues.

hdv, 1 month ago to random

‘Make content you frequently want to link to’ is a valid content strategy.

hdv, 1 month ago to random

Hit this Excel bug where it will display weekdays, except if you choose certain dates, on which it will just display a bunch of #'s. (Turns out, they only appear when the text doesn't fit)

in excel, a person changes date from tuesday 28 may to 29 of may, at which point the cell doesn't display the wednesday, but merely a series of #'s

hdv, 1 month ago to random

I'm going to talk popovers in a few weeks at All Day Hey in Leeds*. Have been updating my slides and it's so great browser support is once more improving.

(*I think there might still be tickets and look at that lineup! https://heypresents.com/conferences/2024)

hdv, 1 month ago to random

Ok, Google https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/google-worker-fired-protest-israel-project-nimbus

hdv, 2 months ago to random

🔗 European elections are coming up. Are websites of political parties accessible to people with disabilities?

The fine folks at European Disability Forum and Funka Foundation looked at websites of political websites and sadly, all of them had issues.

https://www.edf-feph.org/persons-with-disabilities-excluded-from-european-political-parties-digital-channels/

hdv, 2 months ago to random

✏️ I was locked in a room with accessibility policy people today, so I wrote a post on EN 301 549 and authoring tools.

(How could CMSes and other content tools be part of accessibility reqs in Europe and beyond?)

https://hidde.blog/authoring-tools-in-en-301-549/

hdv, 2 months ago to random

Two bullets in Microsoft Powerpoint 365. Why does their content start at different positions? (there is no space in front of the first)

hdv, 2 months ago to random

It's pretty wild to me that most social media don't support the fundamentel web feature of linking to another URL with link text.

Why do you think they don't?

hdv, 2 months ago to random

🔗 This week, once again, someone suggested that “AI” could replace (paraphrasing) normative guidelines.

Eric Eggert explains why this seems unnecessary: “The simple fact is that we already have all the technology to make wide-spread accessibility a reality. Today.”

I added some more thoughts on https://hidde.blog/links/ai-accessibility-and-fiction/

hdv, 2 months ago to random

Statistics Canada publishes lots of data on accessibility and disability https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/topics-start/accessibility

hdv, 2 months ago to random

Indieweb idea: a /uses page but it lists how many years the item has been in use (for those who try and buy less stuff).