Chad Haefele

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Library UX person. Dad. Amateur Theme Park Enthusiast. Hoarder of posters. He/Him.

Formerly known as HiddenPeanuts on the bird site.

LocationNC, USA
Axons Online: An ILB Vicennial Celebration

Listen to seek the truth, behold the truth, reveal the truth's Axons Online: An ILB Vicennial Celebration podcast on Apple Podcasts.

Apple Podcasts

A little podcast tribute to the 20th anniversary of I Love Bees - the first episode is up, the rest will come in real-time from 2004:

https://axons.online

RSS for your podcast app of choice: https://www.hiddenpeanuts.com/feed/podcast/axons-online-ilb/

I love bees

My site about bees

@clayfoot Yeah, the main one I used was gone when I last visited - 2010 maybe? 2004 was so close to the end of when a game like that was possible.

Fellow Beekeepers: It's been 20 years since we played I Love Bees.

I built a small tribute site & will re-release the original audio & some extras as a podcast. I'd love to hear from you!

https://axons.online/
https://axons.online/helloworld.html

I love bees

My site about bees

@cavorter I'm ok with imperfect if it's fast to set up and free :) It's a great idea, the kind of tool I wouldn't ever have thought of.
@cavorter I hadn't considered that - thanks! I haven't used it in-depth, but I'll bet I can figure it out.

Is there a free or low-cost service where I can put a bunch (500+) of text files online with a basic search UI?

It's for a hobby, and I don't have the capacity to run my own anything for it.

@cwilcox808 I agree completely, I'm working to build defenses for when people ask me why we still need people in this loop. Writing good descriptive/alt text is more art than science.

I'm also interested in the tradeoffs of deploying AI/ML to build image descriptions in certain situations. Like massive piles of archival images that no human will ever have time to go through and write descriptive text for.

My wish for 2024 is that every story that starts with "A new study from the [name of institution] found that" includes the name(s) of the author, the study's title, and a link to the actual study.

Pondering machine learning / AI's impact on digital accessibility.

Auto-captions on my phone are already better than the live closed captioning on local news.

When will AI-generated image captions hit parity w/alt text?

When will algorithms describe page structure well enough that H tag nesting isn't important anymore?

What impact does this all have on the future of WCAG standards & compliance?

Do you know anyone who's thinking/writing/doing in this area?

#ux #accessibility