WCAG trash panda, web evangelist, ronin, sour kraut. uninvited expert. vague, but exciting. antifascist. european. #toryScum #a11y #pixelart #pixelfonts #photography he/him [Banner image: the top of a Fisher Price baby laptop, with colourful letters of the alphabet, a cartoon dog, and various cutesy images of a pig, duck, house, sun, lion, wagon]
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Last Notes npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke netanyahu doing solid work making sure israel (the state) is hated worldwide and that jews (the people) will face the actual consequences of antisemitism that result from it... fucking war criminal npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1tvq…l6jk it's ok, legal is all over this, and they say that just adding a small print disclaimer somewhere about "Google doesn't guarantee the safety or accuracy of these results" is all that's needed npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1zyl…t54n i seem to have been spared the generative AI experiment so far ... but good lord npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1grx…uxfe waiting for the next stage: "real men get off on being pissed on" npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1zyl…t54n it's ... a useless bag of shit, in short. npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke random bit of art spotted in #london the other day ... #photography https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/455/252/298/114/491/original/04b95882306ac942.jpeg https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/455/252/423/187/230/original/9a319022050c5452.jpeg npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1zyl…t54n glad it's proving useful. it's stuff that's been bouncing around my bonce for far too long... npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1zyl…t54n such a weird throwawy collection of 3 things (plus focusgroup) to ask about, and the "what AT do you know". like...what's the fucking point? npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke trying to think what use one can actually make of https://2023.stateofhtml.com/en-US/features/accessibility/ (also noting that `focusgroup` doesn't actually exist, so not really a "standard") #a11y #accessibility npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke after a very meh early afternoon of boring non-photogenic locations, managed to get to trellick tower just time for the sun to just briefly poke out #photography #london https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/428/464/050/767/756/original/8f8032a62523780f.jpeg https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/428/464/798/786/741/original/c112469053fb6a42.jpeg https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/428/466/294/158/326/original/7f7747d625f8ede6.jpeg npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke caught Thomas J Price's "Moments Contained" at the V&A courtyard #photography https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/423/564/909/818/229/original/25ac00964f28d3ea.jpeg npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1hqx…944s i'd have gone for a gabion basket approach (big fan of those, used them back in our old house extensively), but that'd obviously give off a different (industrial) vibe npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1zyl…t54n good lord, shades of https://www.webstandards.org/2006/05/11/all-aboard-the-pas-78-gravy-train/index.html npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1zyl…t54n at least they got your hair right in the thumbnail...aeh... npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke PSA: `:only-child`. `:last-child`, `:first-child` in #css ignore text nodes ... so if you have something like `<li>some text <a href="#">and a link</a></li>` but you're trying to only target list items that ONLY contain a link and nothing else, `li > a:only-child` will still apply to the above... https://codepen.io/patrickhlauke/pen/xxeNzvw npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1zyl…t54n "now, with the introduction out of the way, let's dive into this topic..." npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1zyl…t54n 107 slides? that's one of my lightning talks (where i then overrun by 45 minutes) npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1gnz…7t9e fucking hell... npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1gnz…7t9e reminded me of a similar observation i made back in 2015 about playmobil... https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/355/301/615/128/186/original/735793ea30c666c3.png npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke Apple: iPadOS is actually a separate thing from iOS EU: https://social.network.europa.eu/@EU_Commission/112354823391850718 Apple: no, not like that... npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke it must be exhausting chasing after eyeballs and clicks on linkedIn, valiantly posting lukewarm truisms that morons can nod along to #thoughtLeadershipping npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1lwu…6w4j "do you have a flag?" npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub13yh…a5se fwiw i've recreated close to 1300 old arcade/console/computer fonts over the years https://fontstruct.com/fontstructors/145/redux npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke a wild @npub1qwk…8gvk appears (or rather, appeared) https://www.flickr.com/photos/redux/53665721317 #photography npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke a very unflattering shot of @npub13xn…0838 ... sorry ... https://www.flickr.com/photos/redux/53666030126 #photography npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke ... and an old shot of @npub1cux…s9fx https://www.flickr.com/photos/redux/53666020886 #photography npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke old shot of a wild @npub1wle…ragz ... https://www.flickr.com/photos/redux/53663882712/ #photography npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke ZONA MILITARE DIVIETO DI ACCESSO SORVEGLIANZA ARMATA https://www.flickr.com/photos/redux/53656998929/ #photography #verona npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1xxt…f2tp assumes crawlers will use anything other than user agent signatures of regular human web traffic, but sure npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1zyl…t54n https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/254/598/045/466/825/original/9ea849aa122fd3b4.png npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1lwu…6w4j i'm still waiting for some "so, you brother in law actually got a job at Fujitsu shortly after that email, right?" revelations npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke arena di #verona #photography https://www.flickr.com/photos/redux/53646841269 npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke arena di #verona #photography https://www.flickr.com/photos/redux/53645982774 npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke the 5-0 in #verona https://www.flickr.com/photos/redux/53644437496/ #photography npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke the former cinema teatro astra, #verona https://www.flickr.com/photos/redux/53643577346 #photography npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke even though it came out blurry (as i rushed it), love this stitched panorama of #verona's Ponte Pietra from my #photography archive https://www.flickr.com/photos/redux/53643460789 npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke from the #photography archives ... arco dei gavi, #verona https://www.flickr.com/photos/redux/53637385157/ npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1lwu…6w4j coupled with the "return to the office" stuff, it'd be even funnier insisting all your drones be present in your cube farm and then wear their silly headsets npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1dvd…h0ph "piracy isn't theft" is usually the better argument to have npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub10af…lkvw current slew of them under NDA/client work. but it's not the first time i've seen this sort of stuff in the wild npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke approximately 73.2553% of #accesibility issues i've seen recently come from "we decided to keep our UI nice and clean by hiding shit in a tooltip!", followed by the crushing realisation of what it means to have an accessible tooltip #wcag #a11y npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke "lega ladra" #verona #photography https://www.flickr.com/photos/redux/53632695652/ npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke memories of a lovely quick lunch with @npub1zg9…hqe2 https://www.flickr.com/photos/redux/53632834425 #photography npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke and in particular this reshoot looks so much better with some nicer weather and stronger contrast https://www.flickr.com/photos/redux/53632366751/ #verona #photography npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke and here are the reshoots (on the next, sunnier, day) of the #verona shots I posted the other day... https://www.flickr.com/photos/redux/53632331421 #photography npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke an old shot, but only just now got around to it ... a lovely painted electrical junction type thing, with a portrait of Alessandro Volta, in #verona https://www.flickr.com/photos/redux/53622743614/ #photography npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1zyl…t54n it's shit like this that always makes me chuckle when folks wax lyrical about how committed to accessibility Apple is. they make silly mistakes just like all other companies... npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke random shot in #preston a few weeks #latergram #photography https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/166/699/583/474/658/original/00f9b8aedff26c70.jpeg npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke ironic memories of #brexit - almost exactly 7 years ago https://www.flickr.com/photos/redux/53609994081 #photography npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke sleepy little town, but with some striking signage for their fire station... https://www.flickr.com/photos/redux/53601248816 #photography #rodenbach npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke still love the warm otherworldly feel of this shot https://flic.kr/p/2pAS3Nf #photography npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1hqx…944s @npub13xn…0838 "black for the sky, black for the sea, all black..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAERxf4yYaw npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke as nice as https://www.getstark.co/wcag-explained might look ... i'd be careful verifying the advice given there. on a quick skim, found various tiny inaccuracies... #accessibility #a11y npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke perhaps a grumpy controversial opinion, but ... i think lots of folks like the *idea* of a global design system, but this idea seems to live in some kind of quantum state of undefined "high level". as soon as you try to pin it down (what will it look like? is it markup? etc) it's usually "no, it's not that...that's too specific". https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/whats-next-for-a-global-design-system/ npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke #a11y #accessibility #aria https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/096/539/481/097/313/original/5c5b15240f4fcee4.jpg npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1zyl…t54n dicks need saving npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1zyl…t54n was doing a #savedYouAClick without clicking through first :) npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1zyl…t54n "1rem" ? npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke after years of trusty service ... my canon EF 16-35mm f/4L IS USM is looking for a new home https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/335301759605 #photography npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1hqx…944s it's fucking woo-woo magic bullshit, and I get irate every time I come across those videos on youtube where they use weird pseudo-scientific tools on people's backs and then demonstrate how "see how you leg is shorter than the other one, and after 'readjustment' it's now correct" etc. heck, give me a good solid deep tissue massage, why not. don't sell me bullshit "i'm manipulating the liquid in your spine" and such crap npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub19nd…rcpy Gruber has had form for decades with unshakeable Apple apologism. Chief propaganda officer. npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1lzz…jhl3 still oddly quaint about calling the guy "a bully" when he's quite literally going to incarcerate people, deport them, strip them of their rights, etc. we're not talking playground politics... npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1yk6…4zz4 came to say "hey, that's the filming location for Severance" ... but I see i'm late to the game npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1zyl…t54n paranoid (realist) minds think alike npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke can somebody check if jakob nielsen is somehow mysteriously on the payroll of one of those "AI" #a11y overlay companies? npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1zyl…t54n the best thing is though that the Music desktop app from Apple has no such problem, and correctly works out what is and isn't a compilation. just baffling that their iOS version doesn't use the same logic... npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke got to love weird shitty bugs in iOS Music (was wondering why the hell my compilation albums were all over the place on my phone) https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/69234-weird-ios-music-app-compilation-bug/ npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1rfd…ufwh as ever, amazing how browsers can fasttrack development of stuff that they're super horny for, but things that have been problematic for decades just linger for eternity. things like "why can't a `title` tooltip also be shown on keyboard focus?" (the last IE, or Edge even, had that for a while, but that's now lost to history) npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke Tired: passive income Wired: passive-aggressive income npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1zyl…t54n Breaking Bad (Words) npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke forgot that i even preordered it...so that was a nice surprise: Ikumi Nakamura's "Project UrbEx - Collected Case Studies 2007-2022" limited edition from Read-Only Memory https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/975/988/678/475/414/original/dc72adc78328da8e.jpeg https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/975/988/828/900/067/original/7d804f042f951bda.jpeg https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/975/989/000/692/904/original/0a175df9112d6d9e.jpeg npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1zyl…t54n id24ewwards cross promotion activity in full swing... npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1zyl…t54n too busy to talk, registering id24awards dot com as we speak... npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke not wanting to take anything away from the winners, but ... am i the only one finding it strange when a single vendor and organiser of its own conference also hands out what are made to appear like "industry" awards? or am i missing something here? it seems quite opaque how voting/decisions on the awards were actually made...a cynic might think it's "choose our biggest clients, plus people we're trying to get as future clients" #accessibility npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1zyl…t54n when you have a css hammer, everything looks like a css nail npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke re-adding explicit `role` that matches the implicit role of an element, as the new `sudo yes announce this as marked up` for AT ... #a11y #accessibility npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke when your proposals to expand HTML's capabilities are just not ambitious enough... https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/936/403/701/704/247/original/630c8ec4782810cc.png npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke a timely reminder to put things into context: annoyed that a particular #WCAG success criterion, glossary definition, technique etc doesn't cover your specific situation you're facing? keep in mind that the majority of WCAG 2.x was written almost 25 years ago (!) you're trying to apply thinking and rules to your work today that were dreamt up a quarter of a century ago... (damn, i feel old) #a11y #accessibility npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub188q…3jlx ah, so you're a waffle man! https://youtu.be/LRq_SAuQDec?si=cMYYbk_F2rUGDicl npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1zyl…t54n https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/844/787/787/974/146/original/7228d88b9d7d59d7.jpg npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1zyl…t54n @npub1zcj…w4y6 for once, it would just be nice to see a new (or well, in this case, resurrected old) feature being pushed to prod by multimillion companies with accessibility considered from the start, rather than hearing that "you should have joined the discussion" or "help us fix it retrospectively/post-launch" ... but yes, in the end muggins here will of course do just that. just...would be nice if it wasn't always the same story with these things... npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke so... what's the #accessibility story here regarding these horizontal rules? it's nice that the article https://webkit.org/blog/14933/bringing-back-horizontal-rules-in-select-elements/ acknowledges that these separators are only visual ... but that's not enough. "yes, this new quick feature we squirted out in record time has no #a11y considerations" is honest, but still points to a flawed approach. so stop patting yourselves on the back about how quick you managed to push this change to market ... @npub1zcj…w4y6 npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1zyl…t54n partly, it also has this foundational idea that some elements just magically convey MOAR meaning to screen reader users, when really they don't...but that's par for the course npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1zyl…t54n i started putting something together when i first saw this, but couldn't be arsed as it descended into a "why do you think there's ONE TRUE WAY(tm) to mark things up?" rant... npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1zyl…t54n @npub1e6z…g0aa imagining engineers at a control panel behind him frantically trying to shut him down, ED-209 style... npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub19lt…qfjk yes :) npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub19lt…qfjk Miriam Cates guest article? npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1cgr…9uq7 @npub1zyl…t54n and in march we're going to discuss "isn't it ironic how #a11y as an acronym is quite inaccessible?" npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1zyl…t54n https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLhoDB-ORLQ npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1lwu…6w4j but the implants will come with one month complimentary X subscription, to channel clickbait right-wing culture-war nonsense straight to your amygdala... npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1zyl…t54n not sure if intentional or some fluke... https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/617/703/024/231/278/original/1ab35d7d0b50149d.png npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1zyl…t54n starting a "Bring back 'Until user agents...'" retro campaign #wcag1 #a11y npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1xed…yg9w you going to pay for, and guarantee, hosting and domain registration costs in perpetuity? :p npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke "first, they came for the influencers, and I said nothing...because fuck those guys" https://mastodonapp.uk/@bbcnewsfeed/111526694261761971 npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke oh good, we're back to reading the fucking tealeaves of what a stinking rich but politically powerless monarch thinks based on the clothes that no doubt their servants picked out for them https://mastodonapp.uk/@bbcnewsfeed/111506581264993987 npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1zyl…t54n expect angry emails from those people, complaining that you've messed up their entire publication schedule... npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub19lt…qfjk you pipe the yarn through the npm flugelhorn package manager and brew it in chocolatey. obviously. npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1dvd…h0ph brundle-bread npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1xed…yg9w the problem, as ever, is capitalism... npub16uxtdywqarmtmwncjtewnv2uppf9wsaemyhckrmud7734uzl7agsy76zay Patrick H. Lauke @npub1lwu…6w4j what shits me is if you report an account for spam, all you get is a "the repo owner can block an account" reply. even if that account is clearly just spam, they don't seem to ever tackle the problem at its root and delete the account...