a passionate guy with lots of issues & opinions, especially about #accessibility
I post whenever my mood suits me which will be rarely
My views are my own
My websites are pretty much for email addresses and test pages
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Found out yesterday from a former accessibility colleague that a mutual former colleague, Aaron Kaminski, passed away in December of last year.
Aaron Kaminski was a great programmer and helped update and improve assistive technology software and accessibility testing software.
His impact will be missed by those that used his software and those that got to meet him. Rest in Peace Aaron and God's speed.
Link to my webpage that has my slides for my season State of Native Mobile Accessibility Standards & Testing. The session is at 11:20am PDT in orange country 3-4. #CSUNATC24
https://joehumbert.com/csun2024/ (all lower case)
I am presenting this year at CSUN conference on the topic of the State of Native Mobile Accessibility Standards & Testing on Friday, March 22, at 11:20am PDT in Orange County 3-4. Feel free to come hear me speak or say hi in the hallway. I will be sporting Steve Faulkner tees or a ZipCaptions tee and most likely my corvette hat. My Slides will be posted on Social media closer to my talk. #CSUNATC24
https://www.csun.edu/cod/conference/sessions/2024/index.php/public/presentations/view/1758
Copied from Reddit, of particular note for screen reader users as YouTube's shorts player is basically trash.
YouTube's "shorts" player removes a significant amount of functionality, especially the ability to jump forward and back in the video. Every video that loads in the "shorts" player is actually a regular video under the hood, and by slightly changing the URL you can get the same video to load in the regular player along with all of the functionality it allows.
To do this, look in the URL bar of a video playing in the "shorts" player, where you should see the text shorts/. (That is, the word "shorts" followed by a single forward slash.) Replace that text with watch?v= and load the new URL. (That is, the word "watch" followed by a question mark, letter v, and equals sign.) The same video should appear in the regular player.
As a concrete example:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SXHMnicI6Pg
becomes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXHMnicI6Pg
Hope this serves you well.
Informed responses to Jakob Nielsen’s less informed article:
• https://jakobnielsenphd.substack.com/p/accessibility-generative-ui/comments (the comments page, not the article itself)
• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sheribyrnehaber_userexperience-artificialintelligence-accessibility-activity-7169454946420011008-Ucee
• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/khallconsultant_in-light-of-jakob-nielsens-fallacy-riddled-activity-7169685050794459137-X0Ns
• https://www.briandeconinck.com/jakob-nielsens-bad-ideas-about-accessibility/
• https://axbom.com/nielsen-generative-ui-failure/
• https://conffab.com/elsewhere/accessibility-has-failed-try-generative-ui-individualized-ux/
Traditional methods for accessibility have been tried for 30 years without substantially improving computer usability for disabled users. It’s time for a change, and AI will soon come to the rescue with the ability to generate a different user interface for every user, optimized for that person’s unique needs.
Docusign just admitted that they use customer data (i.e., all those contracts, affidavits, and other confidential documents we send them) to train AI:
They state that customers "contractually consent" to such use, but good luck finding it in their Terms of Service. There also doesn't appear to be a way to withdraw consent, but I may have missed that.
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