Eric Eggert / is on Nostr

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Accessibility Advocado

http://yatil.net

Outline Consulting · Axess Lab
formerly: Knowbility, W3C/WAI

Views are my own.

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#accessibility #a11y #humanrights #germany #ebiking #webdev #design #typography #fedi22

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2024-11-05 10:33:15

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WEBVORGARTENPFLEGENDE

2024-09-03 07:05:47

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FWIW, that ID shit is illegal here, too. There was wiggle room in the law until 2010 says my quick research, but since then it’s just outlawed. Surrendering your keys as Pfand is probably also illegal, at least without an alternative, like depositing a monetary Pfand.
https://www.ldi.nrw.de/datenschutz/wirtschaft/personalausweis-und-datenschutz#paragraph_text_2528

2024-08-31 11:10:00

Follow my colleague @npub1sez…5apv 😃 https://a11y.info/@emmaDawsonDev/113055912388607410

2024-08-30 12:26:54

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The original says “bereikbaarheid” which is probably equivalent with the German “Erreichbarkeit“ and the better translation seems to be “The best way to reach us is by car…”. Nothing to do with accessibility.

2024-08-29 07:56:43

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With our roof window, nothing helps against the heat. We have the windows open all night and on warm days, when the whole house is heated up, the room never gets cold. Even if it’s much colder outside and with fans running. The only thing that can lower the temperature is an AC unit, so I bought this split unit one (so that the heat is actually exchanged outside, not inside and then pumped out through a hot hose): https://www.globus-baumarkt.de/p/midea-mobiles-klimasplitgeraet-portasplit-12000-btu-0694600235/
Non-permanent renter friendly 💰

2024-08-24 16:27:49

New blog post: WCAG’s A and AA distinction is mostly academic
https://yatil.net/blog/wcags-a-and-aa-distinction-is-mostly-academic

2024-08-16 11:55:10

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That Merchants of Record are needed is really a failure on EU legislation. This should all be easy and handled by the financial institutions of the countries, instead of by individual merchants.

2024-08-15 10:58:42

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I mean, the unprocessed photo also loses about 90% of the leafs at the top due to no HDR available and the bright light shining over it.

2024-08-04 20:22:57

COVID is over unless you’re old or have preexisting conditions, or apparently if you’re a highly trained and fit Olympic athlete.
😒
#COVIDisNotOver

2024-08-02 15:46:20

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Good luck and a quick recovery! 💜

2024-06-20 06:40:10

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#JustBeNice, really? Because we know that people in power always happily change their ways when you are “just nice”. Because nobody asked nicely when the regression happened almost a decade ago? Because people whose human rights are violated are supposed to “just ask nicely”.
In what world does that work? It’s on the OS projects to lobby for the resources they need to make a functioning product.

2024-06-20 06:13:06

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This might be shocking, but deprioritizing the needs of disabled users over mainstream features is the definition of ableism. This is not a breaking change in a minor version that is quickly fixed, it’s years of excluding people. It’s the result of a systematic ableist process in an ableist world, carried out by people with (probably, hopefully) unconscious biases of exclusion.
@npub1p09…m5vl is right to call it out.

2024-05-28 15:09:28

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I agree. And we should be working on owning domains outright instead of renting them, so that they can be archived and inherited.

2024-04-23 08:14:24

NASA programmers: ”We distributed the program from the broken chip into different parts of Voyager and changed all the references to ensure that it all keeps working. We had one attempt at this.”
Web developers: “How am I supposed to remember to label my buttons and style focus states?? It’s just too hard!”
(Sorry, could not resist. 😂 I recognize the systematic problems around the education of web developers that are often trained to be one-trick ponies where the trick is a framework.)

2024-04-10 13:24:27

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We need to tax companies and distribute their wealth among the people in the society. Otherwise “AI” and other automation are defunding social systems.