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by jscholes 6y ago
> I actually don't recall ever seeing a human do dishes that way except on TV. I have an unusual interest in this topic. I grew up in the UK, and that's just how people do the dishes. Or at least, the people in my orbit. So
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by jscholes 6y ago
> Where else but in this nation could one freeze processed whitefish into a brick, ... Probably plenty of places. E.g. UK has the fish finger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_finger
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by jscholes 6y ago
> Can any English speaker remember the name of the interpreter of their favourite audiobook? I can, but that's probably because I partially rely on audiobooks (in addition to eBooks with text-to-speech) because of blindness. > Th
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by jscholes 6y ago
> it just that you don't want that to be a substitute for testing using a screen reader and a mainstream browser. Do I have that right? For sure. If your website does work in edbrowse, it may imply that you have a decent chance of
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by jscholes 6y ago
> I'd argue that the figcaption can't contain an adequate description in pretty much every case. Completely agree with this (and your other comments re: interpretation). In the real world, it's rare for content and data t
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by jscholes 6y ago
> But I’m going to put that link to the full diagram in the figcaption, because I want it to be there for sighted users also. Now what? We're now entering the realm of what represents a caption and what doesn't. Given my earli
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by jscholes 6y ago
> For a concrete case, let’s say you have a bar chart in a <figure> with the figcaption “Figure 3: results of Benchmark Q, showing X to be 40% faster than Y.” What alt attribute would you give the <img src=benchmark-results.svg&
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by jscholes 6y ago
> I test my own creations on Linux with Orca Thank you for carrying out testing. I should note that, unlike the probable majority of HN readers, MacOS and Linux are nowhere near as popular among blind users as Windows. MacOS has a dece
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by jscholes 6y ago
> What is the most used/popular desktop (web) screen reader out there? On Windows, JAWS[1] and NVDA[2] are the most popular, the latter of which is open source. On MacOS, the only choice for GUIs is VoiceOver[3]. [1] https:/&
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by jscholes 6y ago
> If I were blind, I would try to do as much of my interaction with the web as possible in "edbrowse", a browser designed and written by a blind programmer: I beg you, please don't test your website for accessibility by us
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by jscholes 6y ago
> Or potentially aria-role="presentation" There is no such attribute as "aria-role", only the single word "role". > aria-hidden="true" will make the element completely invisible to the screen re
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by jscholes 6y ago
> Hiding the image in this way because it has been fully described is thus perfectly reasonable. I disagree as a screen reader user. To be clear, I completely support your assertions around describing complex imagery, e.g. the alt text
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by jscholes 6y ago
> I would prefer to add role="presentation" instead. This doesn't always do what you think it does. The presentation role is for negating any accessible role implied by the use of a particular HTML element, not for hiding
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by jscholes 6y ago
> What we need in web pages is a way to mark an image as purely decorative Setting the alt attribute to an empty string already accomplishes this task. If you find there are cases where it shouldn't, as well as reporting it as a bu
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by jscholes 6y ago
> Of course a stock image in an article is not really important and may not add much value Not sure if anybody has mentioned this, but a super common case is that stock and other images (photos especially) require attribution. Working i
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by jscholes 6y ago
> "The dam burst on Saturday, inundating the local town. Photo of burst dam with rubble and uprooted trees at the side. The mayor said that they were lucky nobody was injured..." In your example, the "rubble and uprooted t
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by jscholes 6y ago
> But in any case, provide some alt text! If it just says "divider", "logo" or "decoration", that is still better than nothing for someone who can't see it at all. This is a generalisation and one that
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Ask HN: Why have the newsyc20/newsyc50 Twitter bots stopped tweeting?
1 points by jscholes 6y ago|1 comments
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by jscholes 6y ago
> It seems faster/easier just to pirate from the get go. Others have pointed out that authors won't get paid that way. But I also disagree that it is faster or easier to pirate. First you have to have a decent source (or mult
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by jscholes 6y ago
You can use this to get your activation bytes from Audible servers: https://github.com/inAudible-NG/audible-activator Or this, to crack the activation bytes in an existing .aax file, offline: https://github.
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by jscholes 6y ago
Could you provide more details on this (Spanish sources are fine)? I'm living in Mexico and not aware of it.
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by jscholes 6y ago
> I think the problem here is that they installed it without user consent. That depends. The post doesn't clarify whether Edge was already installed in its legacy incarnation. If so, and they received an update, that's not &q
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by jscholes 6y ago
I feel like there was probably a way to publish this. Maybe the author couldn't brand it with their name, logo and other identifying information, and clearly that's a compromise they weren't comfortable with. That is, of co
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by jscholes 7y ago
For only 100GB, DigitalOcean Spaces has 250GB for $5 per month AFAIK. Includes some bandwidth also. It's S3-compatible and I can vouch that it does work with rclone as I use the two together several times per week.
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by jscholes 7y ago
> even recommended it to some customers for data migration purposes when I worked at Dropbox Hah, I love this. I was having Dropbox sync issues a while back which support couldn't help with, and used rclone to prod and poke the sta
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by jscholes 7y ago
> exec(Path('config.py').read_text(), config) I'm guessing that this is in place of just importing the config module, because of this line: > You can even import the very package you're configuring. Which sounds li
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by jscholes 7y ago
April Fool's was yesterday...
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Zoom Lets Attackers Steal Windows Credentials, Run Programs via UNC Links(bleepingcomputer.com)
7 points by jscholes 7y ago|1 comments
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by jscholes 7y ago
Yeah, really weird statement for the author to make, particularly given that at the top of the very same section they list a bunch of cloud-based MS products.
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by jscholes 7y ago
Oh absolutely. I'm not trying to downplay the serious nature of the vulnerability, particularly because it also lead to the possibility of remote code execution. Just want to keep the record straight that at no point did this vulnera

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