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by extra88 4y ago
Sina is great, it's a shame the device output is so much louder than his microphone in the video. I didn't hear him mention the lack of skip links on HN's home page (skip links are more for sighted keyboard users than blind s
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Is that a lifetime of upgrades or is it merely a perpetual license that doesn't stop working simply because your subscription ran out?
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That's fair, the current iMac is only 1.15cm thick but that's much thicker than an iPhone They did put a much better camera in the Studio Display but it's significantly thicker than the iMac; I don't know how thick it is
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The FireWire iSight camera's image looks like ass but it's good enough for my potato face. The camera's bundled FireWire 400 cable connects to a hard drive enclosure that also has a FireWire 800 port (the camera's cable
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As others have mentioned, Microsoft Teams also has an auto-generated Live Captions feature. It supports creating live captions for a number of spoken languages [0]. Zoom also has the feature, they call it Live Transcription [1]. While such
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With a light or reflective surface, a lot of the energy is reflected as light so it's not converted to heat. Relatively little will be absorbed by the air near ground level, heating the air only a little.
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My point is to not replace what is the established standard with something else, even if there’s reason to think that something else is superior. There’s nothing wrong with supplementing it with something else, going beyond meeting WCAG bas
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by extra88 4y ago
Everyone should use color combinations that satisfy WCAG 2.x's contrast algorithms, there are probably legal standards that apply to your business that expect it. If APCA's advice is more conservative for some combinations, fine.
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The iPhone 8 has 2GB RAM and iOS 16 can be installed on it. The cutoff seems to be more complicated than how much RAM phones have.
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4K/month is 45% of 107k/year gross salary, that’s not affordable. Not enough left over to save for the children’s future and for retirement. But she’s not the only income so their household income is probably fine, just lower than
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by extra88 4y ago
It's not supported but apparently it's possible to use a personal domain for Microsoft email without using GoDaddy as your registrar. https://www.reddit.com/r/Office365/comments/ft15pk/use_perso
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by extra88 4y ago
> Not to drag this thread too far off topic, but this concept has been coming up a lot around me in about the past week. Is there something specific that's been coming up lately about it I've missed? I'm not aware of a par
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> the west seems to consider the highest form of self-actualization to be triumph over adversity. What’s an example of a culture that doesn’t lionize triumph over adversity?
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> if you are big enough, or get in someones crosshairs, you face the threat of the DOJ making an example of your company based on a number of standards (beyond this checklist) that are nebulous. Nonsense. This checklist relates all its i
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> The colour contrast of the title section fails all tests. It doesn't. The background color is --color-blue: #3b4bbf and the SVG's fill color is --color-blue-tint: #d4d8f2, a 5.1:1 contrast ratio. Having the top-level page tit
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It's good advice for any abbreviation to define or provide the expanded form the first time it's used; The A11y Project does this in the top heading on its home page, "a11y stands for accessibility." It might be helpfu
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A sighted user with a cursor or touchscreen can be as non-linear as the size of the viewport and the layout allows. All designers should design the linear experience as well as the non-linear experience because the linear is all some users
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No. It is reasonable and expected that some users experience page content linearly so designers and developers have to create experiences that takes that into account. That includes not skipping important content. If it's important, do
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No. Browsers already parse the page to produce an accessibility tree that's provided through the operating system's accessibility API. Screen readers attempting to supplement what's provided through that API by re-parsing the
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Most accessibility problems require human review to identify. Google Lighthouse uses a subset of the checks included in axe-core. axe-core is a good resource for adding accessibility checks to e2e testing. The WAVE extension already mention
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Checklists are not a place for nuance. A search engine landing page is a place where using autofocus in the search field is perfectly appropriate; autofocusing a search field that's in the header of every page is not.
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> 2007 17" MacBook Pro >I have Mac OS 10.13 How? Apple officially supports macOS High Sierra (10.13) on Mid 2010 or newer MacBook Pros. Even this patcher [0] to install it on older machines only supports 2008 and newer Macs. [0]
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> I watched Lecture 1 of Harvard CS50 because everybody said that was the best starting point for people interested in web dev, product development, tech in general. That was not good advice. CS50 is an excellent, introductory, survey CS
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It's true that mobile Safari seems to lack a setting for default font size or what Mac Safari has, a minimum font size setting. It does have a default Page Zoom setting and it will remember Page Zoom changes per-domain (e.g. I have thi
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by extra88 4y ago
It’s basically unusable without a touchscreen but really you need a stylus on the touchscreen to write notes, draw shapes, etc. Even then, if the screen is 12 inches diagonal or less, it can be really cramped and hard to manage the board co
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> Is it really an accurate test when you can look at other results and then score 90+ 5 minutes later? It lets you repeat the test but only the first one is used in the study.
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> used decidedly technical terms like "codec", despite clear instructions not to use technical jargon Words that are too technical are invalid and not used. Either “codec” is not too technical or it was not used in the score ca
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I know the admissions percentages for the College has been consistently over 10% for a while now so a total College enrollment of 9.37% would imply a disturbing dropout/flunk out rate. I don't think that is happening. Instead, I t
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The student population numbers look too high, I think they include the Extension School which offers certificates, undergraduate degrees, and graduate degrees. That also explains how there are so many students over 25 at both the graduate a
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by extra88 4y ago
Where is that student stat from? Is that of all undergrads and grad students combined? The incoming College class is 15.5% African American or Black and the percentage has been like that for a number of years; it’s comparable to the U.S. po

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