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Your regular reminder that Windows' text-to-speech pronounces "Skip to content" as in "contented" rather than as in "content producer"

Me too, Windows TTS. me too.

@webmind
Remember to run
ˢᵘᵈᵒ ᵃᵖᵗ⁻ᵍᵉᵗ ᵘᵖᵈᵃᵗᵉ

Or your OS needs more cyber. Please join your local Cyberchurch. We have cybercoffee and cybercookies on Sundays

Have you accepted Cyberpunk Jesus into your life?

It's not too late to upgrade your faith now

Type this into your soul:
ˢᵘᵈᵒ ᵃᵖᵗ⁻ᵍᵉᵗ ᶦⁿˢᵗᵃˡˡ ᶜʸᵇᵉʳᵖᵘⁿᵏ

People seem to think that accessibility is only a consideration for folks with physical disabilities, but there are a lot of different things that can prevent you from accessing or learning something, and many of them are invisible.

ADHD and Autism fundamentally change how you interact and think.

Psychosis fundamentally changes how you see the world and everything in it.

Dyslexia and Dyscalculia are massive concerns for text accessibility.

Color Blindness is an issue that most websites don't even consider.

And these are just getting into the accessibility for people with disabilities - completely disregarding how income and resources factor in.

I feel like Akinator used to be better o.O Or did my go-to characters become more obscure? It used to be reaaally hard to find someone it doesn't guess right. Today I've tried so many, and it could only guess a hand full. (it got Remus Lupin right, of course. And, surprisingly, LaF from Carmilla.)

That's just for screen readers.
put on someone else's glasses and try to go on all those low-contrast sites. Try navigating a site without moving your hands from a fixed position over tab, shift, and enter.

over three hundred and fourteen million people have disabilities which require standard web accessibility

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I remember the irony when everyone on tumblr was adding [image captions] to all their image posts

but the tumblr app was impossible to use with a screen reader and didn't ever read those image captions out to the user. It didn't read out any of the menu buttons.

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And before you think about this as only affecting just a few people

More people on the internet use screen readers than the populations of canada and mexico

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"I don't want to talk about it too much," I say, while talking about it, constantly, because it's all I can think about

Updated OKCupid questions:

Do you think introducing your partner to an open source decentralized microblogging platform could be a romantic activity?

if you die in the so called real world
well
the documentation on that is shoddy, but that does not mean there is not a lot of it, most of it contradictory

would not recommend experimenting, even for dev purposes

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There's been a lot of back and forth on how emoji input should work in the web UI and its emoji picker, I want to gauge public opinion: strawpoll.me/13489129

All the begging I see on Mastodon has convinced me even more that a basic income is necessary.

I've seen several posts mentioning that the user asking for donations doesn't have enough to eat. Many are asking for donations to cover health care. It's 2017, no one should have to beg to cover basics like food and health care.

SO FUCK THIS SHITTY ECONOMIC SYSTEM. PEOPLE MATTER MORE THAN MONEY. WHERE IS THE UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME???

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