Siilwyn @Siilwyn@mastodon.social

Hey #a11y people!

An interview let me to some questions about allowing the user to customise their own experience. Do some scenarios justify an a11y menu with customisation options?

I have written down some thoughts and open questions I still have.

https://www.petergoes.nl/blog/should-a-website-provide-configurable-accessibility-options-to-users/

i'd rather use software that's kinda rough around the edges but which lets me control updates and improves with every release than software that's better polished but which can forcibly break my machine without my consent

I feel betrayed right now.

"It is considered best practice, however, to always write a semicolon after a statement, even when it is not strictly needed. This practice reduces the chances of bugs getting into the code."
- @MozDevNet@twitter.com

Facebook is the OG cookie monster.

I wrote about the process of how I generate PR's when new #webmentions are received.

Tested with @webmentionrocks@twitter.com
and it works beautifully!

https://www.petergoes.nl/blog/review-webmentions-before-publishing-with-github-actions/

By not taking care of accessibility, a team takes away the self-sustainability of real people.

Thats a lot of power, and an equal amount of responsibility.

#a11y

https://www.petergoes.nl/blog/with-great-power-comes-great-responsibility/

hey all, here's a new computer thing I made! it's called the Nonsense Laboratory, and it's a series of weird little tools for manipulating the spelling and sound of words with machine learning: https://artsexperiments.withgoogle.com/nonsense-laboratory/

it's part of a series of projects launched yesterday showing the outcomes of the Artists + Machine Intelligence grant program, which you can learn more about here: https://experiments.withgoogle.com/ami-grants

Hot new trend: Tech companies that 100% look like a joke but are not

when i was in the fledgeling XR group in san diego (yeah, I know) i brought up that the 5G rollout was going to destroy a lot of fairly old trees in the area and INSTANTLY got a bunch of "yeah and the EVIL DEATH RAYS" back from these 40 yr olds

things that are bad about many 5G rollouts:

- because range is short, it requires use of a LOT of land, some by eminent domain (womp womp)
- that spectrum could be WAY better used for other stuff
- it's a totally pointless technology

My friend mentioned Telegram light/dark switcher has a neat animation, so how could i resist.

Ubuntu 21.04 is here:

https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-21-04-is-here

Like HELLO #emoji support 😭🙏🙇

https://opensource.com/article/19/10/how-type-emoji-linux

lambda functions are more powerful than other functions because they have no name and thus cannot be bent to the will of an evil magician

They say AI is going to revolutionize the world, and yet Google still needs my help identifying fire hydrants on a daily basis.