Found a new way #WebDesigners are blocking #Accessibility.
Because I am legally #Blind, with less than 10 degrees of vision, I cannot visually solve #Captchas
Because I am mostly #Deaf, I cannot solve vocal Captchas.
Therefore, I added block and solve Captchas extensions to my browser.
On three major sites - I could no longer access, as they had added Captchas that bypassed the blockers!
FaceBook, Amazon, and Submittable do not allow Captcha blockers.
So, I had not been able to access those sites at all for a while.
When I found Submittable blocking me today, for the first time, I decided to turn off the Captcha blockers, as they obviously aren't working.
Instantly, Amazon and Submittable are working.
I haven't tried FaceBook.
#CaptchaBlockers are and #Accessibility need for blind, deaf, #DeafBlind, and multiple other disabilities. It is Disability Discrimination for sites to block Accessibility Access helpers.
I shouldn't need a sighted and hearing person, likely a stranger, to be given my login information, username and password, to log me into every site I need to go to every day!
#Tech people, please respect people with disabilities. Disable and Remove Captchas. Disable and Remove Block the Block Captchas extensions.
I wasted a lot of hours trying to figure out why suddenly I could not login to sites.
Hours because some tech people decided to break and block accessibility for a DeafBlind #Author!
Ich finde den neuen Eingabebereich der Weboberfläche für Mastodon 4.3.0 nur so semi … ich habe den Zoom der Seite auf 125% stehen, und wenn ich dann einen längeren Text tippe, gibt es einen doppelten Scrollbalken.
Schade, dass es mal wieder für die Barrierefreheit und die Usbabilty außerhalb der Geräte der Entwickelnden nicht gerreicht hat.
Liebe Falschparker, ihr müsst jetzt sehr tapfer sein. Das Bundesverwaltungsgericht hat höchstrichterlich festgestellt: "Das Interesse der parkenden Verkehrsteilnehmer an einer ungehinderten Fortsetzung ihres rechtswidrigen Verhaltens ist nicht schutzwürdig."
Auch euer gerne angeführtes "Gewohnheitsrecht" gibt es weiterhin nicht: "ein ‚Gewohnheitsrecht‘ auf Gehwegparken wird dadurch nicht begründet"
Danke an die Klägerinnen und Kläger aus Bremen!
taz.de/Bundesgericht-zum-Parke…
Bundesgericht zum Parken auf dem Gehweg: Kein Recht auf Falschparken
Das Bundesverwaltungsgericht gibt Klägern recht, die gegen zugeparkte Gehwege klagten. Die Behörde kündigt Konkretes an – und lässt wenig folgen.taz.de
What are your weekend plans?
We'll be celebrating the launch of the Tuta Calendar app 😉
#Tuta #Calendarlaunch #HappyFriday
The internet is very silent about this year's #LibreOffice and #OpenSource Conference 2024. Are there any slides, video recordings, interviews, press releases?
Thanks for the great Yes! This sounds excellent.
Regarding the slides, it seems - as of now - no speaker has uploaded slides yet. Could you please remind the speakers to upload the slides. Thanks a lot!
My daughter is trying to convince me that the phrase "social butterfly" implies the existence of a "social caterpiller", which justifies her wrapping herself in a quilt, her "social cocoon", and refusing to get up today.
I have to admit it's a pretty good argument. Solid wordplay, reasonable-sounding if ridiculous conclusions, ticks all the boxes. Kinda dad-proud right now, gotta say.
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What was I even doing?
To challenge the notion that the Mastodon has a strong tradition of #accessibility…
5 years since I tried to improve the accessibility of Mastodon and, despite overwhelming support, the project owner refused to merge my commit, then closed and locked the issue because he thought it was ugly.
github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p…
Compared to Threads, Mastodon is very good. But compared to Threads, getting kicked in the shin is also pretty good.
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If you don't know what the best comic/standup/comedian performance is, this is the one:
I have seen people running MacOS on Intel Mac Pros booting ESXi, for EULA reasons.
iirc the problem is that you'd be without graphics, as the MacOS guest only supports Metal or talking directly to the Hardware. For Metal you'd have to reverse engineer and reimplement all their APIs, kinda unrealistic. And for hardware pass-through you'd have to give up the whole GPU, which would make it useless, if even possible.
There better be a way to tell Mastodon I never want to be notified of quotes. How hard is this for others to understand? I don’t want to be notified if anybody quotes me, at all! To me, quotes are seen as a passive aggressive form of interaction and if you can’t message me directly/mention me directly, I simply just don’t want to interact with you if you’re going to quote me.
With the 4.3 release complete, we’re turning our focus to 4.4, which will include:
Quote Posts: We are resuming work on this long-awaited feature, and it will be our main focus for the rest of the year.
Block list improvements: We are evaluating several improvements, including subscribing to external blocklists and offering an optional default “worst of the worst” blocklist for new Mastodon installs. We’re also exploring ways for operators to approve blocks from external lists.
Post Parsing: We’re experimenting with potentially changing to a new parser for posts, which will be more modular and enable features like basic text formatting.
One irony of letting companies like Google run their spyware through our websites for "analytics" is how useless most of the information is to small/medium website owners.
Oh, 3% of my visitors are from Poland, and 8% use Firefox? Uh, OK, great insights … I guess. 🤷♂️
OTOH, that information is valuable to Google, because they can aggregate it with lots of other surveillance data for digital fingerprinting, etc.
We've been duped.
Renewing my open invitation, any former colleagues (or anyone, really) looking for a new role and would like to chat. Hit me up!
Sometimes just having someone there to listen for a bit does a world of good, especially someone that's been there before. I'm also in technology-centric spaces where design/dev/ops opportunities are posted fairly regularly, so I can help keep an eye out for you.
I know first hand how transformative it is to have that kind of support and want to pay it forward.
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doing the last prep for next week's Design Systems Week!
There are a few online talks in English, free to join for all: nldesignsystem.nl/events/desig… (the awesome @gerireid, @stevenjmesser, @mgifford, Amy Cole and Gert Hengeveld)
Also if you're in NL and want to hang out with the NL Design System community, there's an in person social event on Friday afternoon, let me know if you need the signup link for that. :bitterbal:
Reading "A Deepness in the Sky" by Vernor Vinge. It's pretty good, but is a little over excited about the magical power of markets and trade. (He gets a little preachy on this point and it's tiresome, without ever being so wrong that I felt the need to put it down.)
Like Asimov, Vinge seems to subscribe to the notion that a science like psychohistory ought to be possible. He shows us humans thousands of years in the future with choices informed by thousands of years of human history.
That's good to know. My joy in reading it was starting to flag a little since it has been feeling a little like Ayn Rand for smart people with souls.
Why do servers even receive passwords in plain text? Wouldn't it be safer to use a challenge-response mechanism for users to proof they know the password without actually submitting it to the server?
Does any service do this?
Sean Randall
in reply to James Scholes • • •I modified insert+f12 when I started at a school office to know if I was in lesson time or not as well as the actual time so I didn't inconvenience teachers.
I kept it there right up until I was a teacher for some reason an upgrade lost it and I never put it back.
Something weird about that key.
Patrick Perdue
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