fredleblanc

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by fredleblanc 2y ago
Those Boston stencil jerseys are the Boston Marathon ones. Red Sox play a day game on the same day as the marathon each April. It’s a whole day of things for the city. The stencil approach mimics the days of spray painting down the finish l
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by fredleblanc 4y ago
I live in New Hampshire, and though I've never voted on a computer where I'm touching a screen, I still feed my paper ballot into a scantron machine that seems to do all the counting. I’ve voted in maybe 20 elections (between loca
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by fredleblanc 4y ago
Oh, right, I do the subscription, so it's $15/mo for 1 audiobook, plus 30% off further purchases. I guess I don't "audio-read" that much, so that's a good deal for me. (I actually have credits saved up, which d
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by fredleblanc 4y ago
I do this with audiobooks, too, but consider libro.fm instead. Same pricing last I looked, and part of my monthly subscription goes towards my local bookseller. That said, a +1 to Prologue from me. Fantastic app.
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by fredleblanc 4y ago
Also worth checking out is the Lexend family: https://www.lexend.com/ I love seeing this push into legibility!
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by fredleblanc 5y ago
1) Not nearly enough. This has become more of a hot topic as of late. 2) IANAL and can’t speak to this. 3) The US lags many places in the world on its legal accessibility requirements. Depending on the country, you’re probably at HIGHER ris
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by fredleblanc 5y ago
I’ve been making mint-tin tabletop games. I’m aiming for a new game every other month. Being a web person for like 20 years now, everything I make disappears in months-to-years. As someone I worked with once described it, we’re digital ice
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by fredleblanc 5y ago
Absolutely! Low literacy and illiteracy effects about 2 billion people in the world, and can include everyone using your primary language as their secondary language. Even if they’re getting by with running your site through Google Translat
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by fredleblanc 5y ago
Absolutely, because not all disabilities are permanent. They can broken into lifelong disabilities, acquired, temporary, situational, and chronic (potentially among others). Just think of how many people who can hear still use captioning on
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by fredleblanc 5y ago
The first time I got to 4 green letters, iOS Safari crashed on me. Wasn’t sure if that was the adversarial part, but laughed hoping it was.
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by fredleblanc 5y ago
I think its much funnier, but also completely different. It’s a sketch show, not a narrative. But I tend to watch it the whole series every month or so. It’s fun to put on in the background. I feel like the brain surgery sketch is very clos
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by fredleblanc 5y ago
I’ll second this. Got one for Christmas last year and have used it twice a week all year. It makes the process feel foolproof, and is the easiest appliance to clean in my kitchen. Never made a bad batch of rice, and have accidentally left r
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by fredleblanc 5y ago
Nope. For preparation, put it on a chicken roasting pan, and "painted" it with melted butter. Sprinkled on some salt, pepper, fresh sage that grows in our yard, rosemary, and some garlic powder. I stuffed lemons and onion pieces i
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by fredleblanc 5y ago
I don’t have answers, just thoughts. I’m always impressed how some people can take something I thought was either obvious, common knowledge, or nothing interesting and intrigue so many people with it. You might know something that most don’
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by fredleblanc 5y ago
An example of this challenge appearing elsewhere: in the US, long-haul effects of COVID have recently moved under the Americans with Disabilities Act umbrella. The problem, however, is there’s not a single easy, testable way to determine if
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by fredleblanc 5y ago
Accessibility can mean two things: affordances that people need to have an equal experience, but also affordance that people would like to have a more pleasurable experience. And in the entertainment business, people experiencing pleasu
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by fredleblanc 5y ago
I mean, that’s one solution to WCAG 1.4.1, but not the only one. Per WebAIM’s recommendations[1] on the matter: - Color is not used as the sole method of conveying content or distinguishing visual elements. - Color alone is not used to di
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by fredleblanc 5y ago
I completely agree. I've had quite a few people ask me "how do I turn that on in Google Meet," to which I then have to explain, "it's waaaaay more complicated than you'd expect." I'm surprised "s
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by fredleblanc 5y ago
As I mentioned in another comment — I used jQuery, and chose not to share anything because I don't need everyone's feedback on how old and dumb that makes me. :) But basically, anything you can render in a browser can happen on th
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by fredleblanc 5y ago
It does it at lunch times too, adds a little fork and knife, dropping the word "LUNCH" underneath. :)
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by fredleblanc 5y ago
My code isn't public because it uses jQuery and I don't need the feedback about how old I am because I like jQuery. :) But generally speaking, if you can get JavaScript to display the current time in a browser, you can pull in tha
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by fredleblanc 5y ago
I’ve got a within-the-last-18-months MacBook Pro, so yeah, your mileage may vary. A dedicated graphics card helps tremendously. I’ve got a gaming PC with a recent NVIDIA card and it does even blink at it.
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by fredleblanc 5y ago
My favorite OBS feature is that you can bring in transparent browser windows all over the place. As such, I have my work conferencing set up so my time appears in the upper-right corner. I’m on the east coast and everyone I work with is on
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by fredleblanc 5y ago
I generally tell people that alt text is one of the few places where accessibility can be as much art as it is science. As other commenters noted, context is important. Images will most likely be consumed with its surrounding context. If th
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by fredleblanc 5y ago
I have a similar story I’ve posted about before. Cut sugar, made myself do 30 minutes of brisk activity each day, lost about 70 pounds. Mind you, it got harder to do brisk activity as it went. What started as walking for 2 miles ended up be
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by fredleblanc 5y ago
It really is “just enough computer: the OS.”
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by fredleblanc 5y ago
Yeah, that part sucks. She started on Loki (not that she knows that) and I upgraded things to Juno and that was enough for me. Luckily, her life on the computer is a printer driver and a browser window, so there wasn't much that needed
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by fredleblanc 5y ago
The thing about her using Elementary is that these things haven’t come up in the years she’s been on it. I’m sure I just jinxed it now though.
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by fredleblanc 5y ago
The printer support really blew me away. Maybe I still have PTSD from trying to get any peripheral to work with anything that required a driver when I was younger, but that you can just plug and play anywhere these days (on Linux or Mac or
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by fredleblanc 5y ago
I know, but “I’ve converted my regular visits to SSH tunnels” doesn’t go over well with moms. :)

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