Mastodawn

I kept seeing a blank live activity at the top of my iPhone's notification center, VoiceOver's feedback being limited to, "activate to expand". I figured it was some third-party app that just hadn't added proper labeling. Today I finally "activated to expand", instead of just clearing it.
It was the clock app after multiple alarns got stuck.
I spent a lot of time in Linux terminals today. Open-source free software continues to infuriate me less than my 2000-dollar iPhone.

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Jamie Teh Mar 16

@simon I feel like this about REAPER too. It isn't free or open source, but it's cheap, has a total of 2 full time devs, and mostly just gets out of my way and let's me do the job without friction or fighting, which is more than I can say for the vast majority of other things I use on a daily basis largely made by big companies with huge budgets. Firefox and NVDA mostly fall into that "actually nice category for me too, though there are a few bugs I need to squash related to both of those to make that fully true.

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Simon Jaeger

@jcsteh Reaper was still built for users, not for money. That distinction seems to be more defined as time goes on. There are exceptions (which seem to include every single privacy focused messaging app for some reason), but overall, it just seems like the big companies are abandoning UX and accessibility beyond the bare minimum.