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A Murderer in the Family (2014)(vice.com)
35 points by jscholes 3y ago|7 comments
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by jscholes 3y ago
> No accessibility, ... you just want something you can run through a user test. As long as those users aren't disabled.
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by jscholes 4y ago
Try launching the instance of Chrome with `--disable-web-security` and `--disable-features=IsolateOrigins,site-per-process` options. I use these when launching Chrome via Playwright, and CAPTCHAs seemed to work fine several months ago.
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by jscholes 4y ago
The live demo[1] is completely unusable for people relying on assistive technology like screen readers and speech recognition, plus anyone using alternative input modalities like the keyboard. Do you have accessibility on your roadmap, to
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New ways for users with disabilities to get the most out of Slack(slack.com)
2 points by jscholes 4y ago|0 comments
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by jscholes 4y ago
Do you know what doesn't matter? Articles about whether commit messages do or don't. What matters is the art of documenting things, somewhere, and that place should be the one that works for your team. If it's commit messa
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by jscholes 4y ago
> nobody wanted to be the first person to leave the office, even on Friday. This doesn't sound like a healthy symptom of a positive workplace culture. I guarantee that for some people, this perspective could be flipped on its head,
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by jscholes 4y ago
> I'm sure they had their reasons They do, accessibility being one of them. Rendering math in the way you describe makes it difficult, or impossible, to understand for all sorts of audiences, including those relying on screen readi
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by jscholes 4y ago
> All4 is one of the buggiest platforms of all of the big channels. Interesting viewpoint. While using the service on iOS, with an active ad-free subscription, I haven't noticed any of the issues you mention. Other than sponsorshi
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by jscholes 4y ago
Thank you for this great summary!
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by jscholes 5y ago
> I will often get a suggestion on how to fix an issue, fix it, and then someone else will test my fix and give me a totally different suggestion on how to fix it. It's infuriating. Polite indication that this is a problem with your
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by jscholes 5y ago
> new screen readers and new web APIs come out and and more. New web APIs, for sure. But the screen reader market is not fast moving, in terms of new software being adopted. The line-up of the most used three screen readers (NVDA, JAWS
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by jscholes 5y ago
> Do you have an example of a website with a comment hierarchy that works well for you? I'm not the original commenter, but I am a screen reader user who works in accessibility. Unfortunately, I don't have too many good example
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by jscholes 5y ago
> I have my gripes with Google, but from working there, I can definitely give them props for how much they cared about accessibility. Accessibility at Google suffers in the same way as most UX-related things suffer at Google. Namely, th
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by jscholes 5y ago
> if there's a link on a website that the screen reader cannot see, a blind person won't report that as an accessibility issue because they won't even know it's there. This is highly variable. As a screen reader user
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by jscholes 5y ago
It grinds my gears that "tamale" is on this list. The singular of tamales, in Spanish, is "tamal". God forbid English speakers have to remember to drop one syllable.
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by jscholes 5y ago
There's no denying that money can go further in Mexico. But there are two aspects of nuance missing from this article. First: there are often options that cost more than $5, in some cases significantly more. Some of these will cater
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by jscholes 5y ago
> Why not just have an image of a menu and a box where you type the order. Because then the menu wouldn't be readable, searchable, or adaptable by many people, including blind, low vision or dyslexic users. Meanwhile, the people wh
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by jscholes 5y ago
> That's only if you want to take advantage of the hydration and client side routing. I feel it would be doable for a framework to determine which links should be client-side routed versus not. Or, failing that (or in conjunction w
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by jscholes 5y ago
This page talks a lot about knowledge that is transferable, e.g.: > We want your experience with Remix to transfer to web development generally. But then, you opened the quickstart tutorial[1], and the first bit of mark-up is: <
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by jscholes 5y ago
Thanks for posting this! I've been exclusively using Powecom KN95s from Bonafidemasks.com; glad to see they get a pass.
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by jscholes 5y ago
> Out of curiosity, what does it look like to not-suck at math? To me, it looks like the rest of your comment, wherein you casually mention constants, theorems, topological homology and other concepts that don't even come to mind fo
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by jscholes 5y ago
This doesn't seem like a very well written article. It initially states: > Oklahoma state law would allow parents to seek up to $10,000 for each day Then later: > The bill goes on to state that the complaining parent "may s
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Full accessibility tree in Chrome DevTools(developer.chrome.com)
3 points by jscholes 5y ago|0 comments
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by jscholes 5y ago
AFAIK, listening in on police radio traffic hasn't been possible in the UK for over a decade for similar encryption-related reasons, following the switch to Airwave[1]. [1] https://www.airwavesolutions.co.uk/the-service
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by jscholes 5y ago
Is it quieter? Serious question.
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by jscholes 5y ago
The latest format for Kindle eBooks, KFX, is based on this.
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by jscholes 5y ago
> Why, how, is it even possible to play music that isn't downloaded when not on WiFi and the option to download over mobile data is deselected?! Are you playing content you've listened to before/recently? If so, the local
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by jscholes 5y ago
I use a Ubiquiti Dream Machine as the main router, connected to my ISP modem which is in bridge mode. I then have a couple of UniFi access points in key places around the house, wired with ethernet back to the Dream Machine, using PoE inje
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by jscholes 5y ago
> What if the two video files are of different durations? There’s a hornet’s nest of potential issues, but I’d take the occasional stings over the status quo any week of the day. It's very easy to say things like this when you'

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