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The folks at TPGuy have finally made a Firefox extension for ARC Toolkit:
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef…

I installed it yesterday. Nothing has caught fire. Appears to work as I recall it on Chrome.

#accessibility #a11y


ARC Toolkit – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download ARC Toolkit for Firefox. Accessibility testing tool from TPGi
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#a11y #Accessibility

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Daily Song, Suno, my Lyrics, Brian's Production.

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'It is our day!': Monster-in-law wedding-shames the bride and groom for booking vegetarian meals with catering, claiming guests 'expect luxury food': Planning a wedding is like doing a group project with your parents. You're reminded of the pitfalls, the hierarchal shifts, and the shortcomings of every member involved in the group project and each person's role starts to get jumbled as various members either relinquish responsibility or dig their heels in. For most of us, we work better alone,…

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I was just researching what is the best washing machine cleaning product, and tripped over a delightful five-star review on Amazon, wherein, after describing the olfactory crisis that precipitated the purchase in the first place, the author of the review said with great approval, "My washer stopped smelling like American politics after I used this product."

Source: a.co/d/7Svel4j

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CrowdStrike says the problematic July 19 software update that affected 8.5M Windows devices was deployed into production due to "a bug in the Content Validator" (Simon Sharwood/The Register)

theregister.com/2024/07/24/cro…
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CrowdStrike blames a test software bug for that giant global mess it made

Something called 'Content Validator' did not validate the content, and the rest is history
Simon Sharwood (The Register)

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The 2024 Paris Olympic Games are almost here, and NBCUniversal’s coverage will be more accessible than ever before!

Read the Q&A on accessibility:
acb.org/2024-Olympics

Read NBCUniversal’s press release:
nbcsports.com/pressbox/press-r…

Enjoy the Games!


NBCUNIVERSAL ENHANCES ACCESSIBILITY FOR ITS COVERAGE OF THE OLYMPIC GAMES PARIS 2024 - NBC Sports

NBCU to Offer Closed Captioning, Audio Description, and Web Content Accessibility
NBC Sports
in reply to Jakub Cabal

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Jan Sobotka

Já třeba tady z tohoto účtu na mastodonczech.cz dlouho neviděl profilovou na alt účtu na mamutovo @tensob_@mamutovo.cz

U jiné instance se mi to zatím nedělo a to jsem jich stihnul nasbírat docela dost viz.:
mastodon.arch-linux.cz/@tensob…

@tensob_@mastodon.arch-linux.cz , @tensob_@f.cz , @tensob_@witter.cz , @tensob_@mastodon.social

Jan Sobotka (@tensob_@mastodon.arch-linux.cz)

🇨🇿 Toto je jeden z mých placeholder účtů Mým hlavím Mastodon účtem je @tensob_@mastodonczech.cz Další placeholder účty jsou @tensob_@mamutovo.cz @tensob_@f.cz @tensob_@mastodon.social @tensob_@witter.
Arch Linux CZ
@Jan Sobotka @Jan Sobotka @Jan Sobotka @Jan Sobotka @Jan Sobotka

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N79 band private 5G + Liberty Phone = holistic security for gov/enterprise. Made in USA, custom options available. #5G #Security #Purism
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Private Cellular Networking and Secure Client Devices – Purism

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
Purism SPC
#security #purism #5g

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I mostly agree here. I haven't read the Doctorow piece. But I've been having a similar conversation within my professional circles. Yes Crowdstrike screwed up. But humans are gonna screw up. We know this. So rather than discussing who to blame, the better discussion is how so many companies found themselves exposed with no way of taking control of what was happening to their systems.
hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus…

Jenniferplusplus (@jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io)

Other companies have been gutting their operations and security teams. I don't care what they say, the large majority of jobs they eliminated were actually necessary. They've been outsourcing to vendors to cover the gap. Sometimes bad things happen.
Hachyderm.io

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Forget security – Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit

Web puzzles don't protect against bots, but humans have spent 819 million unpaid hours solving them Google promotes its reCAPTCHA service as a security mechanism for websites, but researchers affiliated with the University of California, Irvine, argue it's harvesting information while extracting human labor worth billi…
#theregister #IT
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Forget security – Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit

Thomas Claburn (The Register)
#IT #theregister

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It's happening again!!! They're trying to put the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) up for a vote:

thehill.com/policy/technology/…

As I've written in the past, KOSA is a censorship nightmare that'll drive LGBTQIA+ folks out of social media spaces and suppress any content that Republicans think is harmful to kids.

Please call your reps NOW, especially your Senators. If you have a Republican senator, tell them you're worried this bill will impose an unfair burden on small businesses.

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Einstweiliger Rechtsschutz gegen #Tracking-Cookies erfolgreich. #Microsoft verliert in zweiter Instanz. § 25 TTDSG/TDDDG zeigt Zähne. Glückwunsch an meine coolen Kolleg:innen bei Spirit Legal. Dieses Urteil ist ein Meilenstein.
#TeamDatenschutz #PrivacyLitigation

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Cookies ohne Zustimmung: Microsoft-Dienst haftet selbst

Das OLG Frankfurt am Main hat die Verantwortung für Cookies Microsoft zugewiesen, auch wenn sie - für eine Microsoft-Dienstleistung - auf Kunden-Webseiten gesetzt wurden.
Aktuell
#microsoft #tracking #teamdatenschutz #PrivacyLitigation

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#BVerfG #Rechtsstaat #Demokratie #noAfD

Zwei Aspekte scheinen mir bei dem Projekt zur Absicherung der #Unabhängigkeit des BVerfG besonders bemerkenswert:

- die demokratischen Kräfte haben sich in einer sehr komplexen Problematik auf sachliche Kompromisse geeinigt + treten gemeinsam dafür ein

- alle haben darauf verzichtet, "Pakete" mit Themen zu schnüren, die nix damit zu tun haben.

So geht Demokratie.

Hier die Zusammenfassung der geplanten Regelungen :

lto.de/recht/hintergruende/h/b…


So wollen Ampel und Union das BVerfG stärker schützen

Das BVerfG soll vor politischen Kräften geschützt werden, die lieber ohne seine Kontrolle regieren wollen. Eine zentrale Regelung wird nicht abgesichert.
Legal Tribune Online
#noafd #demokratie #bverfg #Rechtsstaat #unabhangigkeit

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Here’s what parenting can look like.

When I told my dad I was trans, my dad’s response was, “Oh! I can send you jewelry now!” (He was retired and made jewelry as a hobby).

Two days latter, I had a letter in the mail addressed to Joelle, the first time “Joelle” ever got mail, with a necklace in it. Later he made me this one. He told me, “I hope I got the colors right, I looked it up online.”

You don’t have to mourn a child transitioning. You can be the first to do so many affirming things.

A triangular rainbow necklace, with the colors of the rainbow in it.

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Long form - on transphobia and trans women as basilisks

That thing transphobes do, where something trips in their brains and they end up doing nothing but obsessing about trans women, while probably in a darkened room with no clean underwear surrounded by empty pot noodles and bags of their own urine.

There is a pop-psychology concept amongst tech geeks of a "basilisk". This is something that, once you become aware of it, it breaks you. You cannot come back once you have experienced the basilisk. It's a one way ticket to, usually, madness, or perhaps total system shutdown. It's generalised from the idea from antiquity of the basilisk as a creature that turns you to stone.

There's a fun story called Blit - linked here, infinityplus.co.uk/stories/bli… about a visual basilisk. Another example is something called Roko's Basilisk which is basically Pascal's wager for atheists who spend too long in Silicon Valley (it's stupid, but some of the terrible people with more money than sense, like Musk and Thiel, actually appear to believe it, and are therefore broken by it, and I reiterate, it's really, really stupid).

Anyway, in the latter case, Roko's Basilisk breaks you by becoming aware of it, BUT, here's the thing: it only works on certain people. They have to be susceptible, and in the case of Roko, the susceptibility lies around a particular weak spot in the ability of otherwise intelligent people to think critically and realise, "this is fucking stupid".

But, here's the thing, TO THOSE WHO ARE SUSCEPTIBLE, I've realised that trans women are a basilisk.

Look at people like Graham Lineman, J K Rowling, and a load of less famous people who have ended up in the same state. They all reached a point where SOMETHING relating to the fact that trans women exist tripped them into some downward doom spiral that has basically pushed their brain into a self-reinforcing state of insanity that they can't recover from.

There are probably several psychology PhDs for the taking on the subject of this.

But it seems I, and many women like me, are basilisks. This is a public post. Some of the people hate reading it have already passed the trigger condition. If you're one of them, you should probably empty some of those bags of your own wee and eat a fresh vegetable, if you can. Good luck!

My name is Sarah, and I am a basilisk. Fear me.

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24px? 44px ? Wait, 48dp on Android, hu? What is the size of an accessible button exactly?
Well, it depends (haha). @eric clarifies a lot of miss conceptions around the minimum WCAG-conformant interactive element size.

Short answer:
- For 2.5.5 (AA), your target must be 24px, you can use padding (extend the size) or margin (add spacing) to achieve it. This doesn’t apply to link in blocks of text.
- Same for 2.5.8 (AAA) except you need to achieve 44px.

Examples of a 16px target that doesn't pass AA conformity, while 24 passes for the AA 24px rule. Examples of a 24px target that doesn't pass AAA conformity, while 44 passes for the AAA 44px rule. Example of achieving conformity with spacing, by adding 4px to a 16 px square (which makes 24px in total) for the AA one, and 10 px spacing to a 24px square (which makes 44 px) for the AAA one. And en abstract wireframe of a small blue link in a paragraph of text that is WCAG conformant because of the inline exception, and a bigger button at the bottom of another paragraph that passes too for AA.
@Eric

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Hanna sat down with Henry from @techlore for an in-depth talk about #privacy, #encryption, and #email!

You can watch the full interview here 👉 youtu.be/0wgpuiIoG_g

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Who Runs Your Email? Revealing Tuta's Security with Hanna Bozakov

In this interview, we chat with Hanna Bozakov, press officer at Tuta (formerly Tutanota), a leading secure email service provider. Dive deep into the world o...
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#email #privacy #encryption @Techlore
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