Ethan Marcotte🦊
I’ve decided it’s past time I start describing “artificial intelligence” as a failed technology, and I’d like to invite you to join me.
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Sarah Higley
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Web developer and cat herder, working on digital accessibility.
For anyone who pays attention to high contrast / forced colors mode styles:
I wrote up an explanation of why forced-color-adjust: none is nearly unavoidable and how it sets up your codebase for downstream bugs:
Adrian Roselli, pH0I added Devon Persing’s book “The Accessibility Operations Guidebook” to StoryGraph:
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/824fe66a-53cb-44ee-86f8-30510e739069
What’s that? You don’t have a copy?
https://payhip.com/b/OSyLt
Anyway, I find reading stuff to be a lovely distraction.
Nate Cull (.social)Protip:
When designing a user interface, imagine some old woman using it, say Margaret Hamilton, and she's clicking your app's buttons and saying to you, as old people do,
"Young whippersnapper, when I was your age, I sent 24 people to the ACTUAL MOON with my software in 4K of RAM and here I am clicking your button and it takes ten seconds to load a 50 megabyte video ad and then it crashes
I'm not even ANGRY with you, I'm just disappointed."
Andy P
Wrote a new thing! https://sarahmhigley.com/writing/activedescendant/
About what to do if two focus outlines in a trenchcoat approach you in a dark alley and offer you a combobox.
Happy Friday!
#AudioEye is suing me
https://adrianroselli.com/2023/05/audioeye-is-suing-me.html
I am not taking questions.
#AudioEye Is Suing Me
On Wednesday March 8, 2023, a man who turned out to be a process server came to my house and delivered a stack of papers — a 30 page lawsuit from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP along with Buffalo-area firm Phillips Lytle LLP, both representing AudioEye, Inc. The…
Scott O'HaraToday the search element landed in the HTML spec
(and subsequently the ARIA in HTML and HTML AAM specs too)
but hey, maybe reading/keeping track of specs is not how you spend your time.
Good for you, btw.
So here's a quick intro to the search element
https://www.scottohara.me/blog/2023/03/24/search-element.html
Eric BaileyI wrote about the presence of censorship in automatic captions and voice control software. https://ericwbailey.website/published/swearing-and-automatic-captions/
Professional networking evolution:
2011-2015: Here’s a business card with my email.
2015-2022: Find me on Twitter!
2022-??: Message me on Mastodon, I guess?
????: Summon me by whispering “tooltips” three times into a darkened room, surrounded by blood sigils
2011-2015: Here’s a business card with my email.
2015-2022: Find me on Twitter!
2022-??: Message me on Mastodon, I guess?
????: Summon me by whispering “tooltips” three times into a darkened room, surrounded by blood sigils