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by tdeck 10mo ago
In theory this is certainly true. In practice the most common experience is software where UI elements are completely unreachable from the keyboard, and/or have no label at all. If you talk to tech-savvy Blind people for a while you in
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by tdeck 10mo ago
Stories like this make me wonder if we could build a Chrome extension with a collection of crowd-sourced site-specific accessibility tweaks. Things like removing that bad ARIA tag or bodging in proper labels or tabindexes. It wouldn't
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by tdeck 10mo ago
We have the exact same problem with visual interfaces, and the combination of manual testing for major changes + deterministic UI testing works pretty well. Actually it could be even easier to write tests for the screen reader workflow, sin
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by tdeck 10mo ago
I always wonder why this isn't a bigger part of the discussion. None of us would develop a visual UI flow without trying it manually at least once, but for some reason this idea isn't extended to discussions about accessibility. T
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by tdeck 10mo ago
If you wish to experience more futuristic fever dreams, I present the Dahir Insaat YouTube channel: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc_6wfDYuFU
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by tdeck 10mo ago
This reminds me of the retail chain Service Merchandise which apparently used to operate this way. You'd walk around the store looking at display products, pick things out on a sheet, and then they'd appear on a conveyor belt. ht
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by tdeck 10mo ago
Uber, famously a company that respects existing laws and regulations.
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by tdeck 10mo ago
If you live in Seattle and you find items are rung up for the wrong price, I highly recommend reporting it to the city. I did this once and was shocked that they promptly sent someone out to check the store and issue a citation. The inspect
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by tdeck 10mo ago
> why do they need citizens anymore? People like being served by human beings, rich people especially. So that work will still be around and all the brightest and most diligent people will compete to be the one who brings Jeff Bezos&#x27
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by tdeck 10mo ago
I've never been murdered either. Good to know that doesn't happen at all.
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by tdeck 11mo ago
They're becoming the norm for newer systems written in Python though. So I don't think the language is enough information to go on. This heuristic simply biases against languages that have been around a long time because more of t
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by tdeck 11mo ago
This heavily depends on the particular era of the language and the particular coding practices of the team though. For example, I'm happy to maintain Python codebases with type annotations and type checking enabled. Those without bette
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by tdeck 11mo ago
Pretty telling that you couldn't resist doing apartheid apologia and Zionism in the same comment.
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by tdeck 11mo ago
I think this kind of article is written by a bot these days.
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by tdeck 11mo ago
"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department, says Werner Von Braun."
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by tdeck 11mo ago
I'm slightly ashamed of how many times I boinged this. Great work!
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by tdeck 11mo ago
I remember it crashing a lot but maybe that's because I came of age around the OS 8/9 era. IIUC OS 9 had no memory protection so it's not exactly a surprise it was fragile.
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by tdeck 11mo ago
Because it's cheaper to fill the whole farm with foam and suffocate all the birds to death, then shovel them out.
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by tdeck 11mo ago
> even if you don't believe it, there are other humans out there, with real responsibilities outside of computers. Are those people's lives getting better because the capital class is able to devalue more skilled jobs every yea
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by tdeck 11mo ago
This is completely irrelevant. The point is that the profession is being devalued, i.e. losing value relative to where it was. If, for example, the US dollar loses value, it's not a "counterargument" to point out that it&#x27
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by tdeck 11mo ago
I've been doing this for years, but recently they have nerfed mobile web YouTube and it's limited to 360p (at least it seems to be for me).
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by tdeck 11mo ago
> If you're just tuning in, the company announced that it's moving to make Windows an agentic operating system, which is when AI does most of the decision-making and heavy lifting. They will do anything but let users make decis
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by tdeck 11mo ago
Just checked my local grocery store circular, and as you can see (upper left) they sell American pork, at least. I believe I have bought American steak but it's not on sale at the moment. https://www.seiyu.co.jp/assets&
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by tdeck 11mo ago
> Go to Japan and you can count the American products sold on your hand. I'm living on Japan right now and this is absurd. There are American brands everywhere (although as usual who knows where the products are made). American food
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by tdeck 11mo ago
It's certainly something to be concerned about. Even the building where MOS Technology made the 6502 (in Norristown PA) is still a contaminated EPA superfund site. It's an industry with very nasty chemicals and a long history of l
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by tdeck 11mo ago
It's the lack of 996 grindset holding Europe back.
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by tdeck 11mo ago
Imagine if China built one base in Mexico or the Caribbean. People would be treating it like a declaration of war. Meanwhile the US builds a ring of military bases in countries surrounding China and that's not supposed to be seen as be
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by tdeck 11mo ago
Why are all the comments here so weird? It's like people saw (but didn't read) an article entitled "Man Opens a Taqueria in his Hometown" and the only responses are 1) Why didn't he open it in my hometown? This lo
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by tdeck 11mo ago
They added it in the dev branch. There hasn't been a stable release since 2021 and there has been a lot of ongoing development in the meantime, many people use the development release since it's significantly faster.
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by tdeck 11mo ago
There are a number of comments here that read like "yes, but you have to understand those things benefitted the father". It's like people think if you're doing something that hurts other people, it's OK if that&#x27

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