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• Post #4268350

  I really value usability testing with disabled people, but I think sending them into an unmediated hellhole of easy to find issues like unlabeled buttons and losing focus is cruel. It is like sending someone over a street and see if they are hit to test if the traffic lights work. You can determine that on other ways first. #randomMorningA11Ythought

• Post #4137442

  RE: https://norden.social/@SheDrivesMobility/116991126112914052 Und tragt Masken, wenn ihr euch nicht krank fühlt, schließlich sind ein guter Teil der COVID-Infektionen ohne Symptome (können aber trotzdem zu Post und LongCOVID führen!) Schützt euch und andere.

• Post #3928150

  Stop using aria-label when your link/button already has an accessible name, doubly so when the content of the aria-label is just the same as the content of the link/button.

• Post #3834289

  Me: “The ’AI’ added wrong information to the image description. That’s why you can’t fully trust it.” LinkedIn Bro: “Yeah, you have to have a person checking it.” Me: “So how is it better to create a wrong text and then have someone checking it, when checking it takes as much time as creating a good text in the first place?” *sigh

• Post #3531598

  BuReg: “Wir müssen alles von der Rentenkommission so umsetzen wie vorgeschlagen, das sind die Experten.” Auch BuReg: “Wir müssen die Krankschreibung per Telefon, die von allen Experten als nützlich erachtet wird unbedingt abschaffen. Die Experten haben ja keine Ahnung.” #dePol

• Post #2545455

  RE: https://mas.to/@patrickbrosset/116556512460138797 Browser developers will rather invent new APIs instead of leading people to use standard HTML elements. 🤷‍♂️

• Post #2425252

  WTF is it with 40€ e-books that have Adobe DRM? I know the authors are not responsible for it, but it feels like extortion. Why punish the people who want to give you money?

• Post #2425251

  RE: https://yatil.social/@yatil/116545055452758743 It goes without saying: Calibre is wonderful software. https://calibre-ebook.com

• Post #2425250

  Of course people will understand if you say “WCAG compliant” (instead of the correct “WCAG conformant”), the same way you would understand when a mechanic calls your car's brakes “slowy-downies”. It's just silly and unprofessional. 🧌

• Post #2363734

  > Each screen reader interprets your HTML differently. Fun fact: No screen reader interprets HTML these days.

• Post #2095890

  Auf LinkedIn so: Das IAAP-Mini-Zertifikat (Neudeutsch Knowledge Badge, weil kognitive Behinderungen who cares) bedeutet zwar nicht , dass man Expertise hat, aber es geht mittlerweile oft mehr um den Schein. Also her mit den 200 Ocken! #accessibility #a11y

• Post #2059271

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/116489457177711947 Mastodon: let’s talk about the future of this platform so it meets your needs Replies: read it in bad faith and also complain about the word “fall” instead of “autumn” And then you wonder why people don’t contribute. This is a community burning out people who want to help. (That Fall/Autumn 2026 is in this case referring to northern hemisphere autumn only is a valid complaint.)

• Post #2059270

  RE: https://snooker.uk.to/@snookerbot/116507325469639020 What a completely bonkers semi final! Wu Yize is a superstar in the making. Commiserations to Mark Allen. #snooker

• Post #2059269

  “On average, your resting heart rate decreased over the last 7 days.” Apple Health realizing I’m on vacation.

• Post #2059268

  Briefly tooting my own horn here, but I think my suggestions for toggling selectors and the updated visibility for ARIA labels/labelledby/description/describedby in Polypane* will make a massive difference in accessibility testing. Lots of other great updates, too! Affiliate Link: https://polypane.app/blog/polypane-29-new-network-panel-snippet-store-and-chromium-148/?ref=yatil *Proper Fedi-Account when, @Kilian? 😛

• Post #2059267

  People should have brought their Wu-Wu-Zelas today. #snooker #pun

• Post #2059266

  Who lets the pots out? Wu, Wu, Wu, Wu, Wu! #snooker

• Post #2059265

  Decider!!! #snooker

• Post #2059264

  What a great champion! Wu Yize! #snooker

• Post #2059263

  Because it is never mentioned when he is shown: Peter Ebdon is an anti-vaccine covid conspiracist. And a “healer”. https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/snooker/peter-ebdons-coronavirus-conspiracy-theory-22037901 https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/34528048/peter-ebdon-world-snooker-champion-colour-blindness-healer/ #Snooker

• Post #2059262

  RE: https://chaos.social/@dasdom/116523326167587947 I think "hate" is too strong of an emotion for something like "AI" (or really anything). But I understand the sentiment.

• Post #1928795

  People on LinkedIn think they are so morally great because instead of paying the Department of Warmongers' "AI" company, they now pay Palantir's "AI" company. It's all a cult.

• Post #1867486

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@annaecook/116381478470433009 React, Angular, and now “AI” are deskilling generations of developers. It’s all bad.

• Post #1813267

  RE: https://wisskomm.social/@rwthaachenuniversity/116441752423676692 Transkript: Wer profitiert wirklich vom geplanten Tankrabatt der Bundesregierung? Um 17 Cent pro Liter soll die Mineralölsteuer ja ab dem 1. Mai sinken. befristet auf zwei Monate. Eine Studie der RWTH Aachen zeigt nun, nutzen dürfte das vor allem wohlhabenden Haushalten. Denn am meisten sparen diejenigen, die besonders viel verbrauchen. Und das sind in der Regel Menschen, denen mehr Geld zur Verfügung steht. (1/x)

• Post #1678203

  “The emperor does not wear clothes…” “You just hate the emperor!” That’s what we call “AI” discourse.

• Post #1678201

  I’m taking a proper vacation. But when I’m back, we’re going to make a plan to harden accessibility practitioners against the unethical, antithetical, and extortionist practices in the industry. Driven by the “AI” hype and the relentless ableism inside and outside the industry, accessibility is seen as more of a nuisance than ever before instead of the right that it should be. (1/5)

• Post #1678197

  This is the argument, that self-driving cars can’t be bothered and rides in them need to be made convenient at all cost, that @notjustbikes outlined in his video: Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-how-selfdriving-cars-will-destroy-cities/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=040ejWnFkj0&feature=youtu.be @dangillmor https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/116463581068351766

• Post #1678195

  Nothing better than getting your air polluted by your neighbors at 6:40 and then from 9:00 on a Saturday. It’s 2026, it’s not even especially cold, all houses are attached to gas, but no, burning wood it is. #holzofenGate

• Post #1678194

  I installed a smolfedi instance (thanks to the pointer by @roblen), a super reduced web 2.0 interface for the Fediverse/Mastodon by @adele. I hope to make it a little more e-reader friendly through CSS, because that's something that most Mastodon clients are not supporting well.

• Post #1588453

  “A website can meet the success criteria and yet be completely inaccessible for users” is something I see written on LinkedIn. I’m sure there is a way to make it happen in theory, but in practice the WCAG SC give you the fundamental accessibility you need to be accessible. It might not work easy or well, but there won’t be foundational barriers, which is what WCAG is trying to avoid.