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There was no accessibility team before 2020, Twitter hired real accessibility experts to be on the team, and they have been responsible for a number of accessibility improvements.
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Maybe that was once true but it hasn't been. Here's a deafblind user of Twitter (the iPhone app) who had immediate trouble using the main Mastodon app [0]. Twitter only formed an accessibility team in 2020. Accessibility improveme
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That's better UX for some people, or "SUX." https://twitter.com/thebillygregory/status/55246601271378329...
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No one is moving from Twitter to Mastodon because the latter is more accessible to people with disabilities. It's not, definitely not the main Mastodon UI (vs. 3rd party UIs). I think the article mentioned the dismissal of Twitter&#x27
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Your comment seemed to be claiming that, at least in the example of email spam, only technology (filtering) addresses it, that there is no role for regulation. I was disagreeing with that. My understanding of phone spam regulation is there
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Spam is not solely solved by technology, regulation also helps. Regulation also helps with phone and text spam, though there's more to do.
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A screen reader user can read all the information in a decent online menu way faster than having a Domino's employee read it to them. A customer who is deafblind or is blind and has a speech disability would need to use a TTY relay ser
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You are correct that "reasonable accommodations" are, in fact, reasonable and don't have to be exactly what a disabled person asks for (though listening to people when they tell you what they need is important). > Ordering
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I'm puzzled about why each axis label is in a <span> wrapped in a <foreignobject> instead of just a <text>. For the pie and donut examples I checked, <text> elements were used for their labels. There's also
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By caniuse’s measure, being behind a flag is a ‘No’ for the reason I gave. Being available as an experimental feature does not mean its release is imminent, there are ones that have been there for years. Thankfully, it’s not like they’re in
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If a feature is not enabled in a browser by default, it doesn't count as "Yes, supported." Sites can't be designed expecting users will all go into their browser's experimental features list and turn things on. Some
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Every browser has instances of being the holdout on features, Safari does not stand out, especially amongst CSS features. Safari hasn't shipped touch-action, overflow-anchor, media queries range syntax. Chrome hasn't shipped the n
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The reason is probably to avoid the hit to battery life mobile devices would take from playing files using non-hardware accelerated video codecs.
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The “translation” is conversion of the shorthand they type into regular English words and phrases. They’re not listening to a different human language and translating it into English. Doing any live captioning well is challenging, doing it
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Should have taken more than one year so they wouldn't have to haul away sewage by truck. https://inhabitat.com/the-incredible-story-of-how-the-burj-k...
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My guess is as a drop-in replacement for GIF; use the <img> element instead of the more complicated <video> element, an inherent lack of audio, no need to specify looping or lack of video controls, etc. I think Safari already su
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> we're talking about the system browser engine, which is made by the same people who make iOS and is shipped as a core part of iOS The Apple employees who work on WebKit, Safari's open source browser engine, or even those who
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I don't know how long this has been true but all links in tweets are replaced with Twitter's own link-shortener links (t.co). No matter how short your link is, in a tweet it will consume 23 characters. https://help.twit
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Different domains of copyrightable material have different norms. The music industry, in response to sampling, has established that even small, recognizable snippets have marketable value and can therefore be infringed upon (there's it
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> if I copy and paste one page from each of a thousand books it would be. It almost certainly would not be infringement. One page of text out of an entire work is very small. Amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to t
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Okay but you don’t have to handwrite it in cursive.
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The many embedded devices in homes are much scarier than home sysadmins not configuring their boxes correctly.
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Zoom's live and post-meeting transcription happens to be done using licensed Otter.ai code.
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I am all for transitioning away from fossil fuels, the topic at hand is what’s better, adding solar on top of developed land or having it more centralized on undeveloped land (or redeveloped land) dedicated to this one purpose. I wonder how
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Maybe, but underground wires avoids problems caused by storms or people driving into structures.
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You don’t have to do the whole lot at once, it could be done one segment at a time. And many lots are underutilized most of the time, built to accommodate the need at peak times of year.
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Seems like a nitpick, maybe “undeveloped but readily developable” would have been more accurate but doesn’t really change the story. .5 percent of U.S. land would be 12 percent of already developed U.S. land, which is a lot. It’s doubtful t
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> Everything that a semantic tag can do, the role attribute can do, too. <button> does far more than <div role=button> can do. Even if you meant to only refer to landmark roles, why write <div role=main> or <div role
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They're not even good for keeping lawsuits at bay. https://adrianroselli.com/2020/06/accessibe-will-get-you-sue... The ADA lawsuit trolls who are quick to settle for money tend to go after smaller businesses
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It has to be linearized because hearing, and time itself, are one-dimensional. Screen readers can represent nesting of content, going into one element and coming back out, Apple's VoiceOver in particular uses this concept. It may be

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