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Hi Jonathan - I don't know if this is relevant but I am hitting CAPTCA and related all over .onion that is completly inaccessible and useless! Any suggestions? I'd be most grateful.
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It bothers me too, esthetically. Even in 1993 HTML I was a lower case kid. To be fair, don't think most Web languages evolved as clean linguistics and semantics. We had a lot of get-to-market-yesterday and little self-discipline. Ever motivated to bring linguist strictness back?
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Teodora - curiuos as to whether you have a specific focus to your linguistic studies in mind and what inspired you to read that book? :)
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Free speech, self-governance and compelling but disputed argument that U.S. perception of this crucial First Amendment Right is largely misguided. #FreeSpeech #CivilRights #ThursdayThoughts
The Problem of Free Speech in an Age of Disinformation nytimes.com/2020/10/13/magaz…
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I agree. Also the Technologies we use are dependent on us. We can use Semantic Web techniques today and be successful as many Industries do. It is definitely also how we use a given platform rather than what the platform is. Humans are the Tipping Point in technology. Always! 🙂
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It's interesting to me that it's the Web itself is a vision of interoperability and democracy. Semantic Web as envisioned by Tim Berners-Lee and w3c folks expands that. Technically speaking this means developing semantic ontologies using schema or namespaces in XML applications.
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Haha! Whatever council is summoned, I'm playing the role of cranky elder these days. Still here, practicing a lot of Social Media Distancing (SMDing) 😝 . So many people to add to your list of awesome, Volkan. Thanks for thinking of me among them.
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That's a significant issue for many people with a variety of conditions including myself, increasing in severity which compromises so many enjoyments - playing a musical instrument, keyboard input, even some simple tasks. The last thing folks need are barriers to Civil Rights.
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I have to laugh out loud at that clip regarding the algorithm. As if there is one? I'm pretty sure there isn't or if there are any algorithms purposely applied to information sharing that's engineering. Social media practices are maddening and often unethical if not illegal.
What's up with that I have the same experience. Certain topics that seem important to me often do not reflect what is important to followers. But are followers our audience and why do we do it in the first place? It's a confusing and disturbing issue that I find very difficult.
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The easiest ballot I have ever filled in in my life of voting. Also the only ballot I'd considered attaching an obfuscated geolocation device to just to see where it really ends up. Go and vote people whether it matters or not in the ultimate calculations it matters nevertheless!
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"When making the right thing for the user the easy and obvious thing, you can’t ignore cognitive biases." Bias is part of what I'm studying in Cognitive Science as applied to #a11y. A critical basis for anyone in #UI #UX #webdev or related fields of focus.
kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/de…
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Google is not using the term de facto correctly, dare I say semantically. The implication as I read it is that they create de facto standards by implementing whatever the hell they want. Which they can because there are no web standards. Specs n recs. same story different decade.
Derek you are one of the hallmark memories of my career when you did the accessible crossword puzzle using form inputs and presented it in Sydney Australia. Folks I am not kidding you he got a standing ovation and it was well deserved! I get very emotional remembering such times!
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This is the juicy #a11y legacy from North America, short form. As many folks like @sarahebourne and @redcrew pointed out, it's a warm, welcoming community and indeed world wide. As threads like this demonstrate, it's also an enduring community, strong and hopeful. We all need it!
Start w/John Slatin, Jim Allan, Jim Thatcher, the amazing AIR Judge Bros, circa 1998. @SXSW for recognizing the work at the Dewey awards and letting me invite so many like @cookiecrook @jeffveen @feather @mholzschlag to share #a11y. @knowbility staff, board,1000s of volunteers
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Children (and people who embrace/encourage silly behavior yes I mean you dear Ian...) are part of inclusion too!
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Yes, please. And if you don't know Mike let me reassure you folks that he knows what he speaks. Let us all be born this way because we all are born this way whatever this way is it is and we belong in it if that's what we so choose. #a11y #inclusion
This is how we all ensure that #accessibility is both #pervasive and #ubiquitous! We want #a11y to be transparent and a technology “norm”. Not a feature. Not additive. We want #bornaccessibel
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