Accessibility is not inclusive design or disability rights. It’s a part of it. Eric Eggert explains.

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Accessibility is a part of inclusive design and disability rights · Eric Eggert

Accessibility is mainly a set of practices that allow practitioners to build their product in a way that does not introduce obvious barriers for users.

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The thing I'm most hyped for at GUADEC Berlin is @jimmac live DJ set on Saturday 🧑‍🎤

#GNOME #GUADEC #Berlin

Today I learned: There's a significant difference in mental wellbeing between liberals and conservatives, in favor of conservatives. It's most visible among young liberal Americans in recent years (which shouldn't be a surprise to anybody paying attention), but it has probably existed forever and has been consistently demonstrated in many different countries and age groups.

There's a really good analysis here americanaffairsjournal.org/202…

How to Understand the Well-Being Gap between Liberals and Conservatives - American Affairs Journal

In a recent essay for Social Science & Medicine–Mental Health, epidemiologist Catherine Gimbrone and coauthors identified a significant gap in depressive attitudes between liberal and conservative teens.

^{Julius Krein (American Affairs Journal)}

@Mikromobilita CZ/SK
Postavil jsem raketový #kolo !

Ne, kecám. Potřeboval jsem z Obi přivést žebřík a po cestě potkal Lenku s nákupem. Ale stejně mě baví vozit věci, který by se na kolo asi moc dávat neměly :D

Accessibility is not a loud, one-time event; it's a quiet revolution. It's also isn't about quick fixes or public shaming.

it's about the power of ongoing action like watering a plant – splash it once, and you'll make a mess; nurture it daily, and you'll watch it thrive.

#Disability #HumanRights #a11y #Accessibility #SDGs #Poverty #Technology

Somewhat spicy headline this time, but been thinking about how GitHub's been feeling to me for awhile and seeing a feature I rely heavily on get worse made me realize: it feels like "GitHub", the traditional website, is being treated as a legacy product from corporate's perspective. It exists, lots of people use it, but it doesn't feel like the *future* of the site. Maybe time for me to really learn about other hosts and git clients.

mistys-internet.website/blog/b…

Vážně uvažuju, že bych si založil anonymní parodický účet @x@chaos.social a z něj zhusta trollil ...

#JenomNápad

Oof. Wer seinen Festnetzanschluss bei der Telekom hat, sollte einmal diese Website von @Lilith aufrufen:

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Offensichtlich hat die DTAG offene Schnittstellen, die es jedem ermöglichen, umfangreiche Daten zu einem beliebigen Anschluss abzurufen. Einschließlich einer "Permanent ID" – Vorratsdatenspeicherung willkommen, Richterbeschluss unnötig 🤯

#Datenschutz #dsgvo – beides offensichtlich Schnuppe. Oder bei der DTAG opt-in, weiß ich nich so genau…

#365daysofmylife
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Phoebe

Dnešní post bych chtěl věnovat chlupatici - dneska má tohle roztomilé trdlo 5 let

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Save 20% on an off season #interrail pass!

Sale on from 4-18 July.

Travel valid from September up to 11 months from date of purchase.

E.g.
Adult (28-59), 4-days within 1 month, €288

(Includes 30% discount on base foot passenger fares on ferries from Ireland)

#MastoDaoine

H/t @maartje blahaj.social/@maartje/1127277…

This is a fantastic tool. It really highlights how much damage we're doing by increasing the size of motor vehicles.

It's time to rethink and rebalance things.

roaddamagecalculator.com/

🚴🧑‍🦽🧑‍🦼🚶

#BanSUVs #ActiveTravel

In the wake of a certain ad-funded browser company bundling adtech into its browser yet again, some people have been recommending Ungoogled-Chromium (UGC). I think it’s fine to recommend UGC with caveats, such as the fact that it disables component updates that include:

• Certificate revocation. Chromium uses downloaded CRLSets for revocation; it does not support OCSP.
• Out of band security patches. When browser components have exploits in the wild, they need to be patched ASAP; updating billions of installations within time-frames measured in hours often means restartless out-of-band updates.
• Out of band certificate bundle updates.

If you assume Google uses its component update server logs maliciously, you may wish to consider a fork that still offers component updates provided by a different party’s servers.

UGC disabled mDNS at one point. This exposed local IP addresses over WebRTC for years, but they seem to have shipped a fix in May 2023 to disable non-proxied UDP.

UGC also disables the Chrome Web Store in favor of installing extensions out of band. Make sure you regularly update your extensions installed out-of-band, since UGC won’t do it on its own. Some scripts and a special extension re-implement some of this functionality.

Overall, UGC is still safer than QtWebEngine despite making heavy compromises to security for privacy (though I can’t see how either benefited from disabling mDNS: I’m not aware of threat models under which revealing a local IP to every application is preferable to revealing it to just Google). Running UGC is fine if you understand these trade-offs and have accounted for them. I use it in headless mode to run accessibility and performance tests.

Originally posted on seirdy.one: See Original (POSSE). #Chromium #Chrome

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My personal IndieWeb site. I write about and develop software to promote user autonomy. Topics include accessibility, security, privacy, and software freedom.

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