Eric Eggert

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Covid Competent Accessibility Advocado

http://yatil.net

Outline Consulting · Axess Lab
formerly: Knowbility, W3C/WAI

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2026-03-17 15:33:13 UTC

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Someone genuinely replied to critique “Many think of this critique, but once you have used Claude, you understand.” And I couldn’t stop thinking that they could as well talk about drugs.

2026-02-04 15:46:35 UTC

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I was in a project where the developers requested from designers to specify all ARIA and interactivity in annotations. I questioned if they wanted the designers to design or to program…

2026-02-04 15:15:10 UTC

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LOL, I read your toot and not the title of your article and thought “I wished everyone would just stop annotating focus order”. Then I looked at my browser and read the title. 😂

2026-01-18 16:18:52 UTC

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I saw this on Nebula yesterday, pointed at the screen, and said “at least don’t put it in the middle of the stroad” just 30 seconds before you brought that point up. So many unforced design flaws.

2026-01-14 10:03:48 UTC

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Kilian

2026-01-14 09:45:17 UTC

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The main reason that I grind the beans at home is that we get our groceries shipped and I had too many coffee bag explosions. If the coffee is ground that is just a terrible mess while beans are manageable. Please don’t tell the people who have strong coffee feelings! 😝

2026-01-14 09:29:13 UTC

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This reminds me of that time in January 2020 when @npub1fqn…7965 showed me his fancy coffee place in Rotterdam and that was when I found out that I am not one for fancy coffee. 🤷‍♂️
(I am grinding the beans freshly these days, but to be honest, I don’t think it makes the biggest difference for me.)

2026-01-14 09:03:55 UTC

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There is a symbolism in this post regarding depending on complicated frameworks like React or Tailwind for simple things. *slurps drip coffee and is happy about it*

2026-01-07 08:05:58 UTC

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As long as it still gets security updates, I would guess you’re fine. :-)

2026-01-07 06:51:57 UTC

When they put fiber in front of the house I live in and then planned the routing through the house, I replaced my ISP’s router with a FRITZ!Box. This way, I thought, I don’t need to change two things at once when the routing is done.
The FRITZ!Box sends a monthly health/status update email which is not terribly useful but also not offending me. So I keep it on.
I just received the 23rd email.
#Neuland

2026-01-02 09:01:48 UTC

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So, the correct reaction 😂

2025-12-31 13:46:10 UTC

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I guess that is why they only show it super small on their website.
And I mean, it’s not even a Q made out of D’s, which is what a D-Q would be for me. 🤷

2025-12-27 07:50:01 UTC

Asking people who wear a mask if they are sick is like asking people who wear a helmet on a construction site if their are hurt.
Protection is there to avoid getting infected/hurt. [@broadwaybabyto](https://zeroes.ca/@broadwaybabyto ) https://zeroes.ca/@broadwaybabyto/115789669030812292

2025-12-25 09:09:10 UTC

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It’s a display set, not a play set, so they caregorize it as 18+ so more grown ups buy it. The age markings on Lego products are all marketing.

2025-12-19 10:46:39 UTC

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Also, here are two kilos of salt. As a childless person who hasn’t meaningfully interacted with anyone under 15 in probably a decade, I have ideas but no advice. 😂😂😂

2025-12-19 10:45:13 UTC

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Maybe they are too luck based? I know I was frustrated by games of chance when I was young. It felt unfair.
(But then I’ve always been bad at skill-based games, but losing those was easier to accept 😂)

2025-12-19 07:34:55 UTC

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What card games are you playing? Maybe there is a way to give yourself a handicap (draw fewer cards) to even the odds. It might also be good to take the time to explain some of the decisions/strategy so they can learn from it – you lost, but look if you did this and that you can win next time (I would assume you already do this, but just to be sure)

2025-12-18 11:45:27 UTC

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FWIW, as far as I know this is a scam. I have never replied to those emails and yatil·com·cn is still unregistered.

2025-12-05 10:22:29 UTC

Narrowing accessibility to EAA compliance has dramatically hurt the whole field. The EAA is great and much needed, but “are we doing the minimum thing to not get fined” has poisoned the discourse. I think it dragged us down for the moment instead of lifting us up. I’m positive this will change, but it will take years.
Currently, most companies think of accessibility as a technical property of their website or app, instead of an intrinsic one.

2025-11-27 13:27:11 UTC

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Yeah, and it is always the reckless people ruining it for everyone :-(

2025-11-27 13:18:01 UTC

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I understand that driving on curvy roads is enticing for bike drivers, but they are driving so hazardously here. High speed, leaning into the opposite lanes, overtaking without seeing a thing (because curves) is something I see almost every time I’m driving.
(But then I might be prejudiced because I come from an even more curvy part of Germany and we often had a fatality each week when it was biker weather. 🙁)

2025-11-27 08:43:06 UTC

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Do you have a link? Searching for “Burnout Syndrome” on YouTube is futile.

2025-11-24 09:15:59 UTC

42‽ Who allowed this to happen!

2025-11-20 21:48:56 UTC

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🎶 Uh-oh! 🎶

2025-11-20 13:28:08 UTC

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Yeah, there is always a bit of uncertainty. At least your body should be able to defend well. :-) Good luck!

2025-11-20 12:40:29 UTC

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jikes! I hope recover quickly! We did get our vaccinations with Covid last month. (And then also are hermits. 🤣)

2025-11-16 09:28:19 UTC

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Congratulations! I hope you have an excellent day.
I’ll revel in my 41 year youth until for another 8 days! 🤣

2025-11-07 13:38:12 UTC

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It’s a great video!

2025-11-03 08:02:05 UTC

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So the more “bloody” in the videos, the better? 🤣

2025-10-30 13:21:32 UTC

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Good luck and I’m sorry. We tried to elect people who would help fix it, but now we are back with the carbrained parties at the helm.

2025-10-30 10:50:09 UTC

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(Of course, criticism from someone, who lives in a country that barely has every other train on time, should just be dismissed 😄)

2025-10-30 10:48:51 UTC

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It perceive the Arnhem part as greyed out. The arrow should just be a straight arrow pointing at the left ← (even if the train changes direction here). What the bubble above Arnhem does, I don’t know.
What a weird graphic.

2025-10-27 14:33:21 UTC

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Settings → Bluetooth → Your headphone (i) should have settings for buttons… I have never enabled Voice Control with headphones, unless you mean Siri.

2025-10-27 14:08:38 UTC

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You should be able to change that setting, no?

2025-09-30 13:10:45 UTC

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Oh, elsewhere they use Eye-Able, so you have three accessibility widgets on the page. Looks like they removed two of them from the Marktüberwachungsbehörden page:
https://www.sachsen-anhalt.de/startseite

2025-09-29 12:16:24 UTC

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Wow! Looks like someone was played.
(I see myself out.)

2025-09-21 21:10:53 UTC

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This should all be so much easier!

2025-09-21 20:39:58 UTC

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It does. I noticed that I had to select English, which I don’t remember from previous purchases. https://www.kobo.com/de/de/ebook/this-is-for-everyone-1?sId=e903ada0-afca-47a8-9452-3955c52a25bf&ssId=aBzBiCI7HjO0lo2F0AYuL&cPos=1

2025-09-21 19:59:23 UTC

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Oh, I understand. It’s just fun how publishers treat it differently!

2025-09-21 18:03:10 UTC

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I use Kobo.com or ebook.de for my ePubs. Of course sometimes, you have to fudge with DRM :-/
Funny enough, the German translation seems to be DRM free (just watermark): https://www.ebook.de/de/product/50220281/tim_berners_lee_this_is_for_everyone.html

2025-09-18 05:26:38 UTC

Ah, the classical “walk into kitchen to get coffee only to be distracted by something completely different and then walk back to the office without coffee” morning routine.
Others go on runs, I saunter between rooms. This is my way.

2025-09-16 16:25:22 UTC

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Trousers “for men” have the opposite feature where there is a button on a short flap that you can use when you have eaten too much.

2025-09-04 22:40:35 UTC

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Time to open the Incomparabar? 😉

2025-09-04 12:11:17 UTC

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I think with a lot of preparation, you could have made this fun and interesting. For example, you could have used this clear children’s toy and make a make-believe sci-fi kitchen appliance out of it. Sometimes it can be useful to remove preconceived notions to let people see patterns behind the concrete application. It doesn’t feel like that was the goal or even attempted. If it’s just a prop, you can use the real thing.

2025-09-02 06:54:31 UTC

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Oh yeah. There was ample white/western privilege in that. I didn’t realize that at the time, of course.

2025-09-01 21:10:52 UTC

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The fall of the Berlin Wall to 9/11 was such an innocent time, at least for me as a child/teen. It felt like an utopia becoming real.

2025-08-28 09:28:29 UTC

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Plus traditional automation usually makes things more consistent and more efficient, while LLMs are not necessarily more efficient.
And yes, if we know the domain better, we do care more. I think that’s pretty normal. 🙂 (2/2)

2025-08-28 09:28:29 UTC

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The difference with LLM vs. classic automation is that they are non-determinable. You just don’t know if you get reliable outputs and we see this with “hallucinations”.
There are appropriate uses of LLMs. I used Parakeet V3 yesterday to get transcripts for videos. Transforming stuff works reasonably well, this includes quick (but not necessarily good) translations and grammar testing. (1/2)

2025-08-25 05:11:50 UTC

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I don’t know if that really is an argument for making it more expensive or, because nobody is earning anything anyway, shouldn’t that rather indicate to make it cheaper to sell more? And the production costs for ebooks are negligible, especially if you make it DRM free.

2025-08-24 19:59:48 UTC

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Yeah, I know that there’s not much in it.

2025-08-24 16:04:20 UTC

Why are accessibility books so expensive? I hope everyone is paid well, but 27 Euros for an ebook and 54 Euros for the paperback is quite steep for 300-odd pages.
(Here I am sharing most of my knowledge for free. I must be a fool?)

2025-08-24 16:02:06 UTC

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If only they wouldn’t collab with Brave. I’m still very happy with DDG. Maybe I search wrong and still get good results while everyone tells me I shouldn’t be happy with them… 😂 🤷‍♂️

2025-08-22 12:04:03 UTC

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As a mainly iOS user, everything on Android feels some level of janky. That said, those settings drawers seem to work comparatively reliably.
(Edit to say that iOS has also a lot of jank, but it is the jank we got to know along the way!)

2025-08-18 11:04:21 UTC

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The next cinema is also like an hour drive away from here, longer with public transport and with the COVID risk, besides likely minimal due to masking, it is just not worth it.
Plus pee breaks whenever I want, captions that actually work, free snacks, and the ability to rewind if something is unclear or awesome.
I miss the event character of going to the cinema, but especially with longer and longer films, home cinema is just so much nicer.

2025-08-12 07:27:29 UTC

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I mean, this is your decision, but if I go through the pain of self-hosting, I wouldn’t want to put my public work on a different service.
I understand to have a usage limit on private repositories, but the wording is very squishy and I would not want my account to be removed because I crossed a line I didn’t know about. (1/2)

2025-08-12 07:11:49 UTC

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Re: Codeberg posting and then deleting “Uhm… https://docs.codeberg.org/getting-started/faq/#how-about-private-repositories%3F ~n” (screenshot attached)
*sigh*
It would be neat to have a one-stop-shop for git hosting needs. I can’t, thanks to NDAs, make all my work public, even if I wanted to.
Maybe Codeberg is not a good fit after all.
(I was just about to look into setting up a donation this week. 🙁)
https://cdn.masto.host/yatilsocial/media_attachments/files/115/014/546/743/799/005/original/288c22f347cbb89b.png

2025-08-12 06:56:42 UTC

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Codeberg has private repositories.
https://cdn.masto.host/yatilsocial/media_attachments/files/115/014/487/317/252/896/original/6ea24929d52acad5.png

2025-08-06 09:30:56 UTC

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I love that it’s 22 random developers (or devs that are on his payroll and would say anything that their boss wants them to say?), so the source is basically: Trust me, tech bro.
It’s all so bizarre.

2025-07-23 08:43:59 UTC

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Polypane says it should work. Maybe a nice edge case for @npub129a…2fex?
https://cdn.masto.host/yatilsocial/media_attachments/files/114/901/662/962/578/875/original/3d2235c01217928d.png

2025-07-18 10:32:25 UTC

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Reading through the comments and follow ups “non-default feature flags” is descriptive and relatively short. (But I prefer clear over short every day :-D)

2025-07-13 05:30:51 UTC

Teaching people resulted in community. Now they want us to “teach AI”, which will result in numbers going up for billionaires.
And yet, through the smokescreen we’re told that these things are equivalent. But nothing could be further from the truth.

2025-06-27 11:52:30 UTC

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The Duke of Mantoa who sings it in Rigoletto is described as “licentious” in Wikipedia, so it looks like the idea is that he’s a villain. Unfortunately in Rigoletto, he survives.
Thanks for making me learn about opera, btw! 🤷‍♂️
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigoletto

2025-06-13 08:53:06 UTC

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…in a PDF in an iframe.

2025-06-12 09:50:27 UTC

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I use LanguageTool and I review every change manually. Some things they do are truly remarkable, theyn’t are?

2025-06-08 21:56:21 UTC

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These people count on the outrage to spread their message. I think the best way to handle this is to starve them off of reach by blocking them.

2025-06-08 15:19:03 UTC

I blogged, a little less coherent than I hoped, but I hope still understandable :-D https://yatil.net/blog/so-you-screwed-up-your-eaa-compliance-what-now

2025-06-06 11:59:42 UTC

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I think accessibility without whimsy is not worth doing. That’s why I have a whimsy (critics: unreadable) headline font on my website. Accessibility can and must be fun.

2025-06-06 11:53:51 UTC

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How did I miss that? 🤩

2025-06-04 09:14:34 UTC

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.lol’s are way too expensive. I am already regretting my .rocks and .social domains. #makeEverythingASubdomainDotComOoops

2025-06-04 08:28:04 UTC

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Oh yeah, it’s totally something only arseholes would do.

2025-06-04 07:38:14 UTC

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I mean, until recently, the “by Level Access” didn’t even show up. WCAG is not a trademark, I don’t think W3C/WAI could do something, even if they wanted to. (Apart from threatening to throw them out of W3C – which would be what I would do 😂)

2025-06-03 13:36:01 UTC

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Exactly. But you can’t test if something you implemented works as per spec by testing in a browser that has issues with said spec.
If you want to know if you have implemented something correctly, you need to test in a browser/screen reader combination that supports it.
When you have verified that it works in proper browser/screen reader combination, you can see if Chome’s implementation is good enough for you.

2025-06-03 12:50:55 UTC

Don’t test using VoiceOver with Chrome. Chrome does no good job playing with macOS accessibility API. It’s rarely reliable.

2025-06-02 21:28:26 UTC

Classy! Registering WCAG dot com and then having a 1.1.1 fail in the logo of the site.
(Reminder that Level Access is an overlay company now: https://yatil.net/blog/level-access-userway)
https://cdn.masto.host/yatilsocial/media_attachments/files/114/615/891/100/042/188/original/59a8cc9748668d66.png

2025-05-24 04:59:05 UTC

Lovely how (former) Google engineers now blame accessibility people for their sub-optimal CSS carousel invention. Build “shining demos” they say so they can improve their stuff. Of course unpaid in free time at half the earnings of developers who came up with that shit.
Gas lighting and victim blaming is high. My reply on the Butterfly site: https://bsky.app/profile/yatil.net/post/3lpvdvuvjuk2d

2025-05-22 14:50:16 UTC

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I never heard of this. Bodies are weird and wonderful, but mostly weird. 😂

2025-05-12 19:49:35 UTC

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I mean, the “Lohn” in Lohnsteuerhilfeverein means Salary, so that’s not surprising. I’ve never been employed, so I don’t know anything about that. I just know that it was pretty straightforward when I did it. If you have to go to a Steuerberater, you might book the costs as expenses for the company and lower your tax burden.

2025-05-12 19:23:25 UTC

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Yeah, Kleinunternehmer is really easy. No VAT and you just put it in your income statement. You probably can register your company online in Hamburg for a tax registration number…

2025-05-12 19:02:41 UTC

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Look up Kleinunternehmerregelung (earnings of 25k€ or less per year). I thought about Freiberuflertum a few times, but with the mixture of what I do, being a Gewerbe is so much easier. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleinunternehmerregelung_(Deutschland)

2025-04-18 19:38:46 UTC

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I wasn’t wondering about Kagi after they agreed to work with Brave where Brendan Eich is the CEO and who do crypto stuff. 🤷‍♂️

2025-04-16 08:28:02 UTC

Only in Germany:
The guides for accessibility that we posted on linkedin are so successful we put them on our website.
The guides are PDFs with incredibly small/horizontally scrolling text on mobile.
Make effing web pages, you effing cowards.

2025-04-11 09:20:25 UTC

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Agreed. I think 15% is training, 85% is experience. And that is not only accessibility testing experience but also experience with people who actually use assistive technologies on a daily basis. A lot of abstract concepts get a lot easier to understand when you get experience.

2025-04-07 07:34:31 UTC

*sigh* Gumroad now also works with DOGE. This is bad. Time for @npub1u75…dnq0 to support digital products, too. (Instead of only supporting subscriptions to content.)
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-department-of-veterans-affairs-ai/#:~:text=Lavingia%20is%20the%20CEO%20of%20Gumroad%2C%20a%20platform%20that%20helps%20creatives%20sell%20their%20work%20and%20takes%20a%20cut%20of%20each%20sale.

2025-04-05 12:40:10 UTC

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Do we have to get Sergeant Slaughter involved?

2025-03-28 11:24:57 UTC

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This is obvious bullshit because ChatGPT does not have an understanding on what a peer reviewed study is and how to distinguish good and bad peer reviewed studies. Might it use more words that are in proximity to the words “peer review”? Sure, but it is still just statistical luck that it worked.

2025-03-25 15:22:54 UTC

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Please copy and paste the content of the tweet into the alternative text field. The alternative text allows users to read what is on the image if they cannot perceive the image.

2025-03-13 15:36:25 UTC

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Is this the bubble bursting? Are investors searching for something that is more tangible than the money-losing promise of an “AI” future that may never come?

2025-03-09 21:08:49 UTC

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99% of Bluesky followers seem to be fake for me, so 🤷‍♂️

2025-03-06 22:50:48 UTC

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So not a lot has changed since I was last there…

2025-03-02 15:55:35 UTC

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I felt very smug when I wrote that sentence 😂

2025-03-02 14:52:58 UTC

Personal, stream of consciousness blog post on values:
https://yatil.net/blog/values

2025-02-26 08:03:53 UTC

Deque says “AI” will help to “automate 100% of accessibility”. That’s bullshit.
The automated transcript of the talk where they say it cannot figure out that they talk about “axe” and writes “X” instead.
Oh, and instead of “Deque“, the transcript says “TC”.
100% of accessibility errors! “AI”! Sure.
(Also they chose to not afford human transcribers. A multi-million dollar company. Because f those disabled people.)
https://www.deque.com/axe-con/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Ai-Media_46997_THE_STATE_OF_ACCESSIBILITY_FEB_25_2025_.txt
#a11y #accessibility

2025-02-25 18:42:27 UTC

Seeing a lot of chat that a prominent accessibility company is promoting their “AI” as the solution to accessibility.
They make products that sell in an ableist world.
Real accessibility advocates aim to abolish that ableist world and replace it with an accessible one.

2025-02-24 10:14:40 UTC

What are you using to test videos for flashing regarding WCAG, especially on macOS?
Maybe this way to use ffmpeg can work as a proxy?
https://video.stackexchange.com/a/29576

2025-02-07 11:03:19 UTC

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“Asbestos Intelligence”

2025-02-01 13:46:44 UTC

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It should float around on my computer somewhere… unless it got caught up in my recent NAS calamity.

2025-02-01 11:40:00 UTC

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But they see that their life has little meaning because there are no jobs and capitalism doesn’t see them as “worthy” people. So they thin their worth has transferred to “others”, but it’s gotten transferred into private companies.
Will those people understand? I doubt it. The easy answers are just too convenient. (3/3)

2025-02-01 11:39:59 UTC

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Now I doubt that this is the reason for how people vote here 100%, considering we pumped a lot of money into restoring towns and cities in Eastern Germany after reunion. And the xenophobes also live in places where there are almost no “others”. (2/3)

2025-02-01 11:39:59 UTC

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People think they are disenfranchised because of “others” but they are disenfranchised because of capitalism.
Capitalism is draining the state of resources and then there are people who do not have an enjoyable life because their communities are not well. (1/3)

2025-01-28 19:48:02 UTC

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Minor W3C w*nkery:
> The ARIA Authoring Practices Guide (APG) is a bit of an odd artifact. It looks official but is no longer recognized by the W3C as a formal document.
It is still an official deliverable of the ARIA WG, like the note before, but the note – despite looking like a specification – is not a specification, more like an article. The “officiality” of APG has not changed due to the design change. The current design better reflects its non-spec-ness.