Whoa, that is fucked up. They had no empathy for the guy, and the dude was one step away from CEO. Wtf is going on over there? They’ve been making sketchy decisions lately.

Don’t feel too bad lol. It’s structured to feel like a single player game, which they may have done a little too well. You aren’t the only one to not realize.

It’s such a beautiful game! I need to play it again.

Usernameblankface@lemmy.world, there’s !pocketknife@lemmy.world (aka https://lemmy.world/c/pocketknife). It’s not super duper active, but some of the regulars there might have whetstone recommendations for you.

Whatever, go fuck yourself, you fuckin Nazi

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Yes. Truth Social is an unfederated Mastodon instance. Not kidding.

Facepalm oh jeez, I had the user style set to something other than the default, which renders it white. I don’t remember changing that. Oh well, it’s fixed now. Thank you!

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Yeah, it’s bizarre they even focused on TOS when Janeway is the obvious choice. It’s still cool, but it feels like a missed opportunity.

Wow, that’s crazy awesome. Good for her!

This is an excellent resource. I think it’s written really well. I imagine they’d include the new WCAG 2.2 requirements (that dropped last fall) in their 2024 update, but what I’d like to see is instructional content that demonstrates how to test for keyboard and screen reader accessibility. All these accessibility techniques for WCAG compliance are suggested so that keyboard-only and screen reader users can understand the same content and perform the same tasks as sighted users (easily and with minimal confusion), but you can’t know for sure if your implementation works as intended if you don’t test it.

It’s certainly a nice idea for a community, but there’s already content in there that can be used to spread/reinforce climate change denial.

For example, this chart showing the decline of air pollution deaths: https://reddthat.com/post/16771065. That’s exactly the kind of thing that right wingers point to and scream “See? Fewer people are dying, the planet is fine!” Again, the intent is admirable, but this kind of content is ripe for repackaging as anti-climate propaganda. It’s going to do more harm than good if you collect that kind of messaging all in one place like this.

Rowling quote from the article:

Scottish lawmakers seem to have placed higher value on the feelings of men performing their idea of femaleness, however misogynistically or opportunistically, than on the rights and freedoms of actual women and girls.

It’s difficult to accept that someone I used to respect could say such hateful things about people like me. I’m not gonna lie, it hurts to read. What the fuck, Joanne? Is that all I am to you… just a man “performing” my idea of femaleness? Well, fuck you, then. Should I wish for you to feel the same pain you’ve inflicted on others? To be honest, judging by your “performance” in the media the past several years, I don’t think you’re resilient enough to survive it.

That’s awesome, right on Sacramento! 🏳️‍⚧️

AccessiBe’s accessibility overlay^ is hot garbage. The National Federation of the Blind banned accessiBe from their convention a few years ago because their product sucks. It doesn’t actually fix issues in the code and doesn’t make sites that use them WCAG compliant. It also increases page load time and is a major memory hog. No surprise, it’s blocked by default by Ublock Origin.

^not just accessiBe, but all of the accessibility overlay “solutions.” Hot garbage.

This would come in handy for temporary outages or worst-case scenarios where the instance doesn’t come back. Should be interesting to see how it develops

That’s my personal favorite. It’s something I didn’t hear when I was younger, so now I try to recall it when I realize I am being too hard on myself. The fact that it’s a Picard quote makes it more reassuring, if not comforting in a way.

From the article:

The guidelines themselves aren’t a problem—websites want more users, and some of these accessibility techniques could help. Yet, such legislation will make upstart entrepreneurs vulnerable to debilitating lawsuits.

This is the same fear-mongering pro-capitalist garbage that Jakob Nielsen has been peddling. This bill is like 508, it’s about equal access for the disabled and should not be demonized in propaganda pieces like this.

I also hope scenario 1 is adopted more widely. Native html is always ideal due to its inherent semantics without the need for hacks or additional workarounds, though users will have to demand their screen readers support it and devs will have to insist on using it if it’s ever to become widespread.

They never should have deprecated <s> as a strikethrough in the first place, but I digress. The <s> tag makes the most sense because it is an HTML5 standard, and we should all push for semantic html usage and support.

Oh I am aware, I was just venting and pointing out the irony. The academic sector has always lagged behind tech-wise, but its insistence on publishing in a format designed for print rather than one for display is particularly embarrassing. As you can imagine, the PDF is not accessible at all; it looks like SIGCSE didn’t even bother auto-tagging it. They’re a global org that claims to be passionate about the science behind education, but it’s incredibly difficult to teach others if they’re unable to access your content. The situation just really sucks all around.