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Let's say I want to access my car in order to drive it to the store but I have no key, no glass to break, no way into the car at all. The car is now unavailable to use and thereby is also inaccessible. So I cannot have a user experience of the car if it is literally unavailable.
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Thank you this looks wonderful! Perhaps I am not making myself clear let's take user experience out of the concept and just go with access and accessibility as words not as our technology of discussion. It's a thought challenge not a web specific one now I'll follow up next tweet
I do like the idea that should we get fired there's something much better to follow stop it may not be how or when we might imagine. I cannot prove but believe it is true for you it happens to me more than less these days and that is something for which I am grateful!
Hello dear Elie I hope you are well and I have a little bit of a conceptual challenge for you. Accessibility is not just technical for the web it is synonymous with that content or experience being available. In this instance it's not #a11y alone there is exactly no availability!
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There is no worse problem in accessing the Web for me right now than multiple devices with uninteroperable browsers and OSs due to multi factor authentication using only email or SMS. It's a nightmare. I PROTEST IN THE NAME of #a11y
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Controversial and scary stuff. Not me, I've had a lot of decades to think about it. I get minimal oversight, some treatment of treatable non-invasive things (Infections, blood xfusions) at home. It's a slippery slope legally, but no kids, widowed and mostly understanding friends.
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Palliative now is leaning in meaning to quality of life, not quantity per se and hospice when death is imminent and more care is needed. And then, there's palliative death, or "terminal" death. AKA, a means of an individual being given meds in legal states they take alone to die.
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Yes, that's a good description, and it is expanding to include people who are not end stage per se but may be still receiving treatment for very serious illnesses. It's a very fascinating abstraction that leaves a profit of 3 trillion in the last months of life per year here.
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you're welcome for making life even worse than Verizon and tracfone. I now have more handsets, shitty notebooks and STILL NO FUCKING VERIFICATION yet you sure take my money just fine. SCAMFUCKS.
Each day that passes, each device, each "web" app, native app, that my hands can't reach and voice can't articulate without being seen as insane (ok, maybe that) or illiterate (i'm not that) and this is not the Web I loved. It's not the Web at all. Open, free, a force for good.
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I agree, especially those of us who did not come to write software but humanity in search of information and documents meaningful, useful, important to society, searchable and available to all comers no matter condition, language, literacy, machine or browser much less humans.
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I'm honored Nick. And I still can taste the chocolate cake baked for me that night. Wowsa! I'm honored by your words and have admired your work and successes always. You also, as I like to do, honor your colleagues always, as I shall now honor you.
awful, not humane, shame and blame tactics. Again, really great leadership there. We see how well it's working, this week is a great example. It's been a downhill ride for a while but Musk slammed it into the wall of who cares about these people not people who he harms.
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I really hate these stories. It's why I mostly kept independent as a contractor. When I didn't, it usually did not go well. I love working WITH people. I am highly probably not capable of working FOR people however. Flat hierarchies? What does that really mean FFS?
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I'm getting there myself, voice to text is not meeting my needs, too many form factors, too many mobile apps, browser apps and it's lucky if you find an actual web site with real languages rather than duct tape and gorilla glue.
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Back in the publishing days, the editorial teams at Wrox/Glasshaus showed up for work to find the building locked and a note on the door. Real leadership? That's pure cowardice.
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Christian blogs about his layoff this week with comfort and wisdom despite his own situation. His prolific work across the years proves he's one of the greats as does the dignity in his blog post: Things to do and not to do during a wave of tech layoffs: christianheilmann.com/2023/0…
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I have a slightly viewpoints I think they're sadists to begin with to sit and lie and describe drugs that are more harmful than the diseases they know nothing about and try to explain away as this that and brain chemistry bullshit has the name already it's called sadism.
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