Aparna Sachdev

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Love books and sunshine and chocolate, not indiscriminately.
Fav #BookQuote: “Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times? As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar."
- Cornelia Funke
Goodreadshttps://www.goodreads.com/user/show/52808871-aparna

In France car parks with space for 80 cars or more are now required by law to be covered with solar panels.

- Parks between 80-400 spaces have 5 years to comply
- Parks with spaces of 400+ have 3 years to comply

This should be required everywhere!

#ClimateCrisis #Electrification

I think alt text should be embedded in the metadata of an image file, automatically carried with it whenever it's downloaded and reposted, and automatically read by software that's displaying the image, as a part of the file and not expected to be a separate thing to be manually copied or reproduced every time the image is posted
Please stop using "blindness" as a lazy synonym for "ignorance" in your writing. If there’s one thing about Blind folks: we survive and thrive by being perceptive, observing patterns and responding to cues. Not only is this use of "blindness" rude — it's uninformed. Mistaken. Obtuse. Naive. Counterfactual. There you go — five better ways to say "ignorant" than "Blind"
#ChatGPT insists there are 2 R's in "strawberry", and one in "blueberry". Do we need more proof it's a stochastic parrot? On a slightly different note, here's Stephen Fry on AI:
https://tinyurl.com/yvkvjc8p
- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

A sonification is the use of sound to convey data, like a cartoon character dropping something on their foot, or an astronomical event mapped to sound. In this 27 min audio described documentary, get introduced to astronomy through sound, fantastic for blind folk, totally cool for anyone! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxWwlwvcQDg
Audio Described - Listen to the Universe

YouTube

Entry-level jobs should not require 3-5 years experience.

Entry-level jobs are to kick-start one’s career.

It should require 0 years of experience.

Not 1 year. Not 2 years. Not 3-5 years.

Spread the word.

When folks ask me “Is this [thing] accessible?” I often respond with questions. To save time in the future and maybe help those folks with their own due diligence, I gathered those questions in a post:
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/08/things-to-do-before-asking-is-this-accessible.html

#a11y #accessibility

Things to Do Before Asking “Is This Accessible?”

It is not uncommon for someone to message, call, email, or carrier pigeon me to ask if something is accessible. They almost invariably want a “yes” or “no.” However, I need to understand what the heck they mean and what the other-heck prompted them to ask. Yes, I would be…

Adrian Roselli

If you have an Apple device and have installed the Patreon app, delete it now. Use the mobile web or desktop version.

Why? Because Apple is forcing Patreon to force the creators on the platform to give an additional 30% to Apple.

This is unconscionable, but then again we're talking about Apple.

https://news.patreon.com/articles/understanding-apple-requirements-for-patreon

Apple’s requirements to hit creators and fans on Patreon

Apple requires that Patreon switch to their iOS in-app purchase system, or risk being removed from the App Store. Here’s what’s creators need to know.

Apple’s requirements to hit creators and fans on Patreon

ME: Hello computer! Please show me what I was doing recently

COMPUTER IN THE 1980's: l cease to exist when I am powered off. Please start whatever you were doing from scratch

COMPUTER IN THE 2000's: Yep here you go champ

COMPUTER IN THE 2020's: I stored 10,000 identical copies of what you were doing in 500 different global datacentres at a carbon footprint equivalent to leaving a semi-trailer idling 24/7 and also sent a copy to the FBI just to be safe. Let me know which one you want and I'll do my best to figure it out. By the way here are 10 things which are similar to what you were doing and 9 of them are ads. Do you like this? Please select "I love this very much" or "I'll be in love with this later" to continue

My semi-anual reminder to turn on braille mode in Google Docs/sheets/slides if you are a screenreader user. You can do this by pressing ctrl+alt+h, or by enabling braille mode from tools > accessibility settings.

Do this even if you are not a braille user. It does far more than enable support for braille displays. What it actually does is place the document in an off-screen content editable. This allows you to use normal screenreader commands to access things, E.G. insert+down arrow for say all. With braille mode off, the content is in a black box that communicates state changes via live regions, relying 100% on the browser to do so correctly. Despite it being the default, this mode is considered legacy and is no longer developed,.

This has been the case for 8+ years but Google is bad at branding, leaving it to me to inform the good people of Mastodon.

You’re welcome!