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by nailer 5mo ago
> I'm glad that a large proportion of web developers are happy to boil the ocean then. That’s not how that expression works. The ocean is every website. An individual developer cannot modify every website. More to the point, most we
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by nailer 5mo ago
People post both articles and comments to HN. My comment pointed out that ARIA can't help with anything as ARIA is a boil the ocean approach.
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by nailer 5mo ago
> Clients can't automatically fix all existing web pages, because the semantic information just isn't there Yes it is. Webpages semantically provide information on the purpose of onscreen elements by their appearance. Vast quan
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by nailer 5mo ago
> You also said that ARIA can't help with custom controls in that post I didn't write the post. The author believes in ARIA, I believe ARIA is fundamentally broken.
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by nailer 5mo ago
> Don't expect visitors to run AI... Why not? That's a more reasonable expectation than asking every website to change.
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by nailer 5mo ago
I didn't ask for resources on ARIA, are you replying to another comment?
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by nailer 5mo ago
> Your advice to "avoid aria tags" would make that a self-fulfilling prophecy. As mentioned ARIA has had 20 years to succeed before my Hacker News post. ARIA will continue to fail with or without me.
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by nailer 5mo ago
> rather than directly interact with one that's specifically designed to accommodate them? Because a world where that happens consistently doesn't exist, it hasn't existed for the last 20 years we've been using ARIA t
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by nailer 5mo ago
> Respectfully screw making users rely on AI for accessibility. Why? It's the right tool for the job. > Just make the damn page accessible already. Oh so just modify every website and expect the disabled people to wait while this
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by nailer 5mo ago
> What document? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237159 > Do you have any sources to back these claims up? Yes, asides from the article, check the prices of browsers from the disability industry and consider fo
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by nailer 5mo ago
> it really isn't that hard to get right. Yes you just need every website to use it, rather than fixing the client. Which is the 'boil the ocean' strategy mentioned in the comment you're replying to. > ARIA can hel
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by nailer 5mo ago
Avoid aria tags. The spec is unworkable (see this document) the browsers made by the disability industry extract vast quantities of money from disabled people with little effectiveness because they try and boil the ocean which unsurprisingl
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by nailer 5mo ago
That’s like saying Ubuntu isn’t a distro as it’s “just Debian”. Yes but also: no.
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by nailer 5mo ago
(thinking emoji) they could merge. Seriously, they're both Rust now. They share goals.
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by nailer 5mo ago
> If you need individual files, you can make a donation on the [Donate page](/donate) and then use [our API](/faq#api). LLMs can just pay for things themselves. The API should respond with an HTTP 402 Payment Required with X402
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by nailer 5mo ago
I can get an LLM to spit out an exact copy of my python-docx library.
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by nailer 5mo ago
There's one near the Houses of Parliament, tourists often shoot photos there, and are surprised when the inside is filled with stickers advertising prostitutes. https://maps.app.goo.gl/zLRxTFUXErcsrkCi7
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by nailer 5mo ago
> An American spent the better part of a year in a max security prison there for the high crime of making a video mocking youth culture: Here's the video - parent is right this is incredibly mild: https://www.youtube.com&
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by nailer 5mo ago
Facebook acquiscing to dictatorships that block human rights organizations is immoral.
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by nailer 5mo ago
Saudi could - I think people accept Saudi is a religious oligarchy - but the UAE is a playground of international people avoiding tax and ostensibly a first world country, Facebook being banned would highlight how ridiculous the government
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by nailer 5mo ago
> Maybe the bias just aligns with your personal one now? No. I’m an Obama era left leaning person, the same positions Obama had (illegal immigration is bad, if you don’t feel like a man don’t cut your penis off) are now considered right
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by nailer 5mo ago
There’s been a substantial removal of political bias and community notes was released under his watch.
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by nailer 5mo ago
Presumably reducing the entire company to a set of core engineers.
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by nailer 5mo ago
All those things happened. The false narrative is pretending they didn’t.
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by nailer 5mo ago
They hit a police officer in the spine with a sledgehammer. That seems like inspiring terror through attacking unrelated innocent victims.
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by nailer 5mo ago
So odd this is flagged. Not complaining about moderation, but why would I bother submitting stimulating articles in future? dang it would to use the flags as a way to prune recent HN users.
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What happens when you post a real Monet and say it's AI?(twitter.com)
85 points by nailer 5mo ago|74 comments
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by nailer 5mo ago
What isn't clear? Throwing your mouse to the top of screen to access your app's menus doesn't work when your app's menus aren't at the top of the screen.
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by nailer 5mo ago
Read the sentence before the fragment you quoted: > in macos it is menu bar that host app menus but that concept doesn't exists in these other desktops and yet they have a top panel
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by nailer 5mo ago
This person made self driving cars work years after they’d been written off, made reusable rockets and has people with locked-in syndrome speaking to their families. Why do you think he wouldn’t be sane?

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