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  @tante@tldr.nettime.org If anybody trying to sell me tech says anything about "democratizing [thing]", I assume they have bad intentions. You're not democratising shit. You're trying to build vendor lock-in and pretending you're motivated by altruism

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  @stephaniewalter@front-end.social I have a little bit of sight left. Some websites use this nauseating acceleration curve. I can see a bunch of colors scrolling past on my screen. I don't know how they did it, but it makes me feel briefly motion sick until it stops

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  Oh. I can move all of those muscles with surprising precision. Fuck. Time to relearn how to put one foot in front of the other.

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  corporation: "We care about accessibility". corporation's app: button button clickable clickable blank blank

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  "This page is displayed in , but your browser is set to . Would you like to switch to the version?" button 1: "Switch to" Button 2: "Stay in" Oh you silly little web extension you

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  I do not like habanero. It tastes like cilantro and metal. Give cayenne instead

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  Real fucking tired of voiceover focus jumping as I'm performing an activation gesture. Stop it. Stop moving my focus every time a new screen pops up. I do not need you to baby me around the phone. It's actively hindering my ability to get around the phone.

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  "Dude, this AI is awesome! It makes me want to git rebase -i without looking! Hey, where did all my commits go? Help me, github!"

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  I'm debating whether I want to replace my phone battery and suck it up for another year, but the more I think about it, the more I realize I just absolutely despise voiceover for ios. It would infuriate me even if it wasn't abysmally slow. I need a phone that doesn't insist that there are no other elements on screen or move my focus mid-tap

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  We're really good at building places that hate people. We should stop doing that

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  imagine waking up and thinking to yourself "I could use my enormous wealth to effect positive change upon the world, buuuuuuuuuuut I gotta go put down a unionization effort at one of my stores today"

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  Imagine a world where we collectively put all the effort of building out AI datacenters into making it a kinder, more accessible place for everyone

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  portland update: the chance that you will walk into the park on a sunny day and hear a band playing Bella Ciao is significantly greater than zero

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  You may be wondering how us blind folk got along before AI. We had 3 options: find a sighted person, find a different app, or don't do the thing. Option 3 usually wins out. This is a near-daily occurance. Encounter these barriers for a few decades, and you too may start to get desperate for a better alternative. Again, I hate AI as much as you, but the reality is that blind and disabled people are going to use these until we have a better solution. That better solution is a fundamental chang...

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  Stop criticizing the runners for running around banana peels and start criticizing the motherfucker who's throwing banana peels onto the road.

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  So I pulled out my old Origen G2 amp DAC and I'm now using it since I no longer have a mixer to plug into. It sounds decent, but there's one critical problem: the internals shut off when there's silence and cut off several words of my screen reader. I've tried using those silent audiostream addons with no luck. As far as I can tell, this thing will shut off its internals if there is silence. It doesn't care if there's a silent audiostream. As far a...

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  I expect my iphone's performance to degrade, but my battery is at 75% with 79% health and it's taking multiple seconds to open a menu within the settings app. Either performance drops off way more than I think or something else is up

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  Any blind iOS users know of Telegram clients that are at least somewhat more accessible than the official one? To be blunt, the official telegram app on iphone is the worst chat client that I've ever used that's not just straight up blank to Voiceover. I have a few groups I talk to on Telegram and I'd like to make that experience a little less painful #blind #telegram #ios #iphone #accessibility #a11y #voiceover