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New review feat. THE Sapna Cheryan (essentially if you want to understand STEM gender equity gaps this is the scientist to read) free to access until Dec 2

"Global patterns of gender disparities in STEM and explanations for their persistence"

nature.com/articles/s44159-024…



Why people are not replicating the screen reader experience of native elements in their uselessly custom JS widgets is beyond me. ANyway, just spotted this lovely chatty fake <select> box in the wild. "option <Option_name> focused, 1 of 12. 12 results available. Use Up and Down to choose options, press Enter to select the currently focused option, press Escape to exit the menu, press Tab to select the option and exit the menu." Obviously all of this gets announced for every press in the list of options.
in reply to Jakob Rosin

I’ve seen this a few times, pretty sure it must be some very popular widget a lot of sites use. Gets even better when it’s implemented incorrectly and the accessibility just says “object object is selected” so you have no idea what you’re doing.
in reply to Pitermach

@pitermach Yep, looks like it came from some library to me as well. Its an estonian site, and all the announcement stuff is obviously not translated.
in reply to Pitermach

Oh, and all of this is going through a live region so if you’re using braille or try to have NVDA/VO/Whatever speak where the focus is it won’t work either.
in reply to Pitermach

@pitermach Oh, good old React-select. That component has caused trouble for literally hundreds if not thousands of users over the years and should be banned from any and all new projects.


New app added to the Accessible Android apps directory: MyTherapy Pill Reminder accessible with minor issues accessibleandroid.com/app/myth… #Android #App


From facebook. Of course you can lose real friendships. Of course you can. Of course you can lose people who really love you. Of course you can lose people who are committed to you. It’s flippant to think you can’t. You treat them like they don’t matter? You can lose them. You consistently put unnecessary strain and strife on the relationship? You can lose them. You don’t show up for them over and over and over again? You can lose them. You prove that you can’t be trusted? You can lose them? Don’t reciprocate over a long period of time? You can lose them. I’m quite frankly over this cultural concept that everything is everyone else’s fault and this refusal to ever look in the mirror and think about how our actions may have lead to their reactions because I want us to grow. I want us to learn and become better humans in general and we will never do that as long as we are blaming everything on everyone else.
So yes, I hope people are loyal to you. I hope they stick around. I hope they forgive and understand when you’ve made a mistake or acted out of character and I hope they talk through it with you.
But I also hope we all realize that of course you can lose real friendships if you aren’t careful with their hearts.
They’re people with needs and wants too. They’re people with very real feelings and their time and energy is precious too.


Following up on my last post: While "Dining in the Dark" uses blindfolds to simulate blindness—a deeply problematic practice—Netflix’s *Love Is Blind* raises a different but related issue: the casual use of "blindness" as a metaphor.

The title refers to the idea that love can transcend physical appearance, but it uses blindness to symbolize ignorance or a lack of perception. This isn’t new—our language is full of metaphors like "turning a blind eye" or "blind ambition" that associate blindness with negative traits like ignorance or inability.

As a blind person, I see how language shapes perceptions. These metaphors may seem harmless, but they perpetuate outdated, ableist notions of blindness as a deficiency. They turn our lived experiences into rhetorical devices, erasing the richness of blind culture and reducing us to symbols of "lack."

No, *Love Is Blind* isn’t offensive in the same way as "Dining in the Dark," which makes a spectacle of our lives. But the metaphorical use of blindness shows how ingrained ableism is in language and culture. Casual metaphors matter—they reinforce unconscious biases that we must challenge.

Blindness isn’t a symbol. It’s a lived reality, full of challenges, skills, and a vibrant community. Let’s think more critically about how we use disability in language and storytelling.

💬 What do you think?

#Disability #Ableism #Blind #LanguageMatters #Inclusion

in reply to Charlotte Joanne

This comes up a lot.
My concern about inclusive language is that one day, we'll go so far that we can't understand each other.

For me, far too many people treat me like blindness is more of a problem than it is. The person I have been dining with has been asked for my meal choices on far too many occasions to count. Nonetheless, if we stop using the word blind in a metaphorical context, this doesn't change their actions. In fact I could make an excellent case to argue that it distances them even more from the idea of blindness, a widening I already struggle with when in some parts of the world, someone can both be legally blind and drive a vehicle. I already feel that the term blind is appropriated by those who have corrective vision. To want the word even less in use seems ridiculous.

I am happy that my love is blind. I love my life partner without considering her visual appearance overmuch, and love being blind encapsulates that perfectly.
I love things being blindingly-obvious. people have blind spots in their vision, and I see no harm in transfering that concept to an emotional one (there are people with whom i cannot discuss certain topics because they have a blind spot about it in an emotive context).
mobile phone companies are being advised to avoid the term blackspot for an area of poor signal coverage because it is offensive. Man hours are no longer applicable to people because they disinclude women. Processes at work have to be unalived because terminated sounds harsh.

Language is an ever-evolving system of expression. I worry that being militant about a word like blind will, if we are not careful, see us using so many tortuous tautologies that we are divorced from richness in language full-stop.

in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo Put blind spots means a spot where you can’t see it doesn’t mean being blind means or less of anything than if you were not blind does it?
in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo It is perfectly acceptable to turn a blind eye to something Nelson did it! Or maybe he didn’t but everybody thinks he did.🤷‍♀️
in reply to The Blind AI

@Lottie@caneandable.social there you go, another good example. A blind eye is a fantastic teaching tool.
Tell a child that you'll turn a blind eye to their unflattering drawing of their dad one day, they'll understand that an adult with real blind eyes can't see. Boom. Life lesson.


Nutzt StreetComplete. Die App ist gut. Warum, hab ich hier beschrieben: openstreetmap.org/user/Inklusi…
in reply to FediVerseExplorer

@fexplorer @cantences Ja, das stimmt gewissermaßen. Wenn ich etwas mit der APP bewirken will, muss ich einen Account haben. Aber ich kann sie öffnen und die Aufgaben eingeben, ohne dass sie hochgeladen werden. Für mich war diese Möglichkeit eine Phase des Lernens. Bei OSM an sich muss ich angemeldet sein, wenn ich die Funktionen ausprobieren will.
Ist das richtig?


The song “Breathe Out” from my self produced album “Echoes of Tomorrow” will be released on all streaming platforms on November 20th. distrokid.com/hyperfollow/ales…

#music #rock #90sMusic



Слазил в сорсы #mastodon .
Удивился.
Товарищи, кто в #js #javascript и #ruby рубит, возможно, вы меня просветите.
Отсутствие комментариев в коде и жопное именование переменных/флагов - это нормально для этих языков?
in reply to Aliaksandr, the last Dzik

Соглашусь, но в защиту могу сказать, что его, как я понимаю, пилил один чувак долго, причём, если не ошибаюсь, откуда-то из наших краёв. А культура называть переменные, как по мне, приходит только с опытом командной работы.
in reply to André Polykanine

@menelion , похоже на то. Причём, после интенсивного применения черенка от лопаты сокомандниками.
Мне попадались пару раз проекты по геймерской части от, без преувеличения, гениев JS'а.
Но они были одиночками.
И код у них - даже не смотря на потуги выставить проекты на опенсорс - был просто буэээээээээээээээ...
Это при том, что JS сам по себе особо не располагает к адекватному дебагу на ходу, особенно в гоняемых через Electron проектах. И, казалось бы, уж комментами то можно было присыпать...


Some folks who are interested in being more prepared for disaster or emergency situations are interested in using HAM/amateur radio as a communication tool you can use when cell & internet networks are down.

I did some research on getting licensed (in the US) & learning to operate HAM radios this summer and finally got the notes I sent as an email to some local friends typed up for easier reference on my blog.

cassey.dev/ham-radio/

#YearOfTheBlog #preparedness #hamradio



Cosas que no se deben extinguir: los murciélagos, los pangolines, los capibaras...

Cosas que se deben extinguir: MUFACE.



Man it's sad to see how many things on Steam are clickables and how there are like no headings. I figured it out in several minutes as an AT Instructor and advanced screen reader user. I know I'm preaching to the choir when I post this kind of thing, but literally it'd be so fuckin' easy. The least they can do is aria role = button or something. I guess they're another vendor I refuse to buy from knowing that none of my money goes toward giving a shit about accessibility.


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Yo me haría un blue sky, pero vivo en miña terra galega, onde o ceo é sempre gris.


Based in the EU?

Looking for a role as Engineering Manager, Admin Team-Lead or Cloud Engineering Lead, ping me if you want to work in a really awesome company.



#AltTxt
#alttext

Hi visually impaired people 👋 Does your screen reader read out text in bitmaps for you?

I.e. if I post a jpg of text, does your speech thing decode and read it out to you?

Please boost for reach...

  • yes it reads out text in images (0%, 0 votes)
  • No, give me alt text if you can (8%, 7 votes)
  • it does, but its wonky so alt-text still helps (2%, 2 votes)
  • not visually impaired but want to know (89%, 76 votes)
85 voters. Poll end: 3 days ago

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Two questions about the Servo project, as it exists today:

1) Can I use it as a web browser on windows right now?
2) Does it have accessibility support?

Anyone knows, and, preferably has tried this?



If anyone has managed to get an accessibility cookie from h-captcha (hell-captcha), how?

I am trying desperately to get one, and I cannot seem to get past the ability to enter my email. It keeps giving me an error every time I go to submit. Please, please help.

in reply to Estelle

You have to do everything on one browser, must enable cross cookie some thingy I don't know. They have text challenges for some regions.


I kinda wanna continue learning languages but I stopped using Duolingo
Is there a good alternative?
Mostly wanna continue with Japanese, maybe french and Dutch as well :3
:ReplyOK: :BoostOK:


Greatest #astronomy #space headline ever

futurism.com/the-byte/hard-to-…



Last week we said goodbye to #electronicaFair 2024. Big thanks to the organizers and to everyone who came by our booth to talk to us! We'll be around in the next edition in 2026. See you there! 👋

in reply to Sean Randall

Mobile devices require a text editor app. At least, I can't edit text files on my iPhone without an app, unless I am missing something! But as for desktops? Yes, all desktops have text editors, at least! @cachondo


I learned of a JAWS shortcut today that I didn't know before.
1. Launch a web page.
2. Press JAWS Key+6 to move into Settings Centre.
3. Now to the shortcut. Press Control+Shift+W. This allows you to customise settings for a specific domain.
Of course I've got a lot of customisations for various domains for my own use, but I've been getting at this feature another way. I didn't know about that Control+Shift+W shortcut to take you there directly. #SharkVember @freedomscientific

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If you harbored any doubts regarding #Bluesky and their claims of decentralization, you HAVE TO read this brilliant, insightful toot by @jonny about the impossibility of multiple relays and what would happen if one tried to split off from #Bsky the corporation: neuromatch.social/@jonny/11336…

I actually recommend you read the whole thread - and follow Jonny! (Thank you for the recommendation @oblomov!)

#socialmedia #ATProto


in reply to David Goldfield

Hi. Thanks for this. I'm wondering if this would be a good thing for me to have because I have a lot of files created by my QBraille who's default is BRL files. Then it causes an issue when I try to read those same files on my Brailliant BI40X. There are a lot of weird symbols and things that are not interpreted properly. I'll have to give this a try.



Sharkvember Shortcuts Weekly Roundup – Freedom Scientific Blog blog.freedomscientific.com/sha…


Tak to vypadá, že po žních jdu zpátky do Čech 😀😀
novinky.cz/clanek/domaci-fiala…
in reply to Archos

Fiala je komik. Nevyšla Nutella, tak populismus zkouší jinak.
in reply to Archos

"Premiér Petr Fiala uvedl, že považuje svoji vládu za nejúspěšnější v české historii."

Byl jeden světový politik, jmenoval se Biden a ten taky tvrdil, že jeho vláda je velmi úspěšná. A ona objektivně v mnoha ohledech úspěšná je, ale když se tváříš, že je vše "nadmíru výtečné", a nepřiznáš, že i tak můžou mít lidi problémy, i když za ně tvoje vláda ani přímo nemůže, prohraješ volby.



Trump will likely get angry and take it out on Elon if he hears about us all referring to Musk as the real President — the one with the brains. So, don’t post that everywhere


Für meine lieben Leseratten gingen gerade weitere 23 #eBooks bei ebooks.qumran.org/ live. Insgesamt stehen Euch damit nun 12.960 Bücher dort bereit. Viel Spaß beim Stöbern & Schmökern :awesome:


I was doing so good there for about a week. Now I'm back to this thing where I sleep for no more than two hours, then I'm up for the rest of the day.
I've gotten about 8 hours or so of sleep in the last four days.

I guess it's better than being awake for many days straight, which I've also done somewhat recently.

In related news, stress sucks.

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in reply to Patrick Perdue

Aww. Well, I started doing meditation a year or so ago, and it has really helped me with a lot of issues, but mostly stressful situations.


Někdo šanci využil ke změně k lepšímu, podobně jako PP, jiný zůstal šmejdem stejně jako AB. bird.makeup/users/prezidentpav…



Well, Microsoft Edge is kind of a pile now. It's pretty easy to accidentally get stuck in the address bar / toolbar region and no amount of f6ing will get you out of it. So, if we want Chromium, we choose between that nonsense, Chrome and its evilness, or Brave and its problematicness. I'm sure happy Firefox works for me 99.99% of the time.
in reply to Simon Jaeger (Procrastodon)

HAhyaha yep. Well, sadly it doesn't have enough market share to test with, so that kind of sucks. But can I really blame people? At least I have two browsers that I do completely different things with. LOL. Also Safari isn't that bad. It works for work.
But only FF on Windows, nothing else. Although, I do have Chrome installed for these 1% of the time when some app decides it's going to say it doesn't support FF.


Holy crap Samsung Health on my watch is abysmal. I'm sick of trying to make it work properly.

Back to Google fit, even if it can't find me on my walks.

Will avoid both these brands for my next watch.

in reply to Christian Biggins

I've found Samsung health to be considerably better than Google fit. What are your issues with it?
in reply to aaron

@fireborn the GPS is terrible. I'm constantly walking through buildings or stumbling around like a drunk. I can deal with that but the constant checking that I'm still on my walks despite the elevated heart rate and (drink) GPS activity is infuriating. Sometimes 10+ "are you still walking?" Prompts per 30 mins.

Today it just paused the workout for no apparent reason. I didn't notice for 10 mins even though I have to check it every minute or two for that above-mentioned prompt.

So bad.

in reply to aaron

@fireborn it's also my second one cause the first was even worse with the GPS! 😂
in reply to Christian Biggins

Interesting! I’ve not had that issue personally but that sounds super frustrating. Have you tried Strava or some other third-party app?
in reply to aaron

@fireborn to be honest I kinda wanted to stick with these. I have so many fitness app accounts created over the years. If I could I would just use Fit.
Interestingly, I have a Huawei GT3 which is fantastic with fitness stuff but it doesn't play nicely when synchronising the date over health sync. I might try it again, it's been long enough for an update 🤣.
in reply to Christian Biggins

Fair enough. I just thought that something truly third-party might work better than something from Google that have their own watches to support. And push.
in reply to aaron

@fireborn yeah that's a good point and worth investigating. The new Health Connect service looks promising for using third parties. Health Sync has been great for a long time!
in reply to aaron

Used Strava on my walk yesterday. No problems at all, GPS looks good and the app on my watch just ticked along without drama. Might be my new go-to. :) Thanks.
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FediMeta, shitpost

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FediMeta, Actually serious response

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I submitted the manuscript for my next book!

It's a collection of folktales about misunderstood / underappreciated animals. Bats, sharks, wolves, rats, spiders, etc. I managed to find cool stories for each, and in every one of them the animal is portrayed in a positive light.

It was one heck of a research project, and I really enjoyed it 😄

#nature #animals #bookstodon #books #AmWriting



i'm going to make a radical claim:

the "phone" has basically ceased to exist.

these devices we call phones? they're pocket computers that just happen to have cellular connectivity. they should be treated as such - which means open specs, unlockable booting, replaceable operating systems.

if you need to blob the cellular bit for regulatory approval, fine, do that, but agree a standard interface to it (like AT commands for old modems, or the interface to the Pi's GPU capabilities) that all OSes can use on all cellular devices. but there's no excuse for locking down any of the rest of the device, is there?

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¿Soy la única a la que le da exactamente igual que la gente se vaya a una red u otra? Nu sé, que hagan lo que quieran, si total, al final todos vivimos en el mismo sistema [capitalista de mierda] y ya es bastante difícil todo... No me parece ni un fracaso ni una derrota, sino gente que busca tener lo mismo que tenían antes y de la forma más sencilla posible. 🤷
in reply to alemanita

Yo con tal de que por aquí haya gente guay con quien hablar, me llega. Si hay quien no quiere estar, sus razones tendrán. Sí es verdad que me gustaría que instituciones e información pública fuesen accesibles por aquí.