@simon Yes I have.

@fireborn @molytov @ity Very fair. But while I support a team's right to defend themselves or correct misunderstandings, they'd also do well to consider who's running the social media accounts with the project's name on it and how, with an eye to creating more proportionate responses to the actions of a single person.

@fireborn @molytov @ity TBH, what leaves more of a bitter taste in my mouth is the repeated assertion that if disabled users express any degree of frustration, those users will be the catalyst for any subsequent reduction in accessibility efforts because of how "demotivating" it is for the team. Holding one person responsible for deprioritisation affecting a wider group isn't what inclusion looks like.

i've worked with teams before that insist on playing the victim through walls of text designed to batter the opposition into guilt ridden submission. It very rarely ends well.

@masonasons I'm so sick of VoiceOver bugs related to scrolling. I use an app on a regular basis that behaves similarly to how you're describing, with the added unpleasant characteristic that if you manually scroll it with focus in the wrong place, it will jump to the very first or last page of the list containing thousands of items.

@alexhall More brands need a demo mode in their apps. I've seen a couple of apps for high-end product lines that let you interact with a completely virtual device before you purchase, which doesn't help you understand the accessibility of the physical interface but is excellent for gauging VoiceOver support. Without it, we're left doing things like buying a new coffee machine based on the fact that the account registration process in the app was accessible and the existence of a compatible Python library on GitHub (literally me last week).

@anon_opin But it ends in S.

@GrapheneOS @fluchtkapsel This is a fundamentally inequitable and illogical stance. If blind users cannot install the OS without help, there will be fewer of them to benefit from a robust accessibility implementation, and what blind users do exist today are the subjects of survivorship bias.

It also continues to perpetuate the exclusionary belief that disabled people should need to "plan" (your word) to carry out tasks that others can do on a whim. They do not have an army of helpers available on demand to pick up the work that a project isn't prioritising.

@menelion @JesseF8693 Oh. So she needs to wear them because of society's complete inability to tolerate human diversity, rather than because of the closed eyes specifically. Understandable but depressing.

@menelion @JesseF8693 I don't follow the connection between closing one's eyes and needing to wear dark glasses.

The variety of content on Radio 4 never ceases to amaze.

github actions have github consequences

Lovely how (former) Google engineers now blame accessibility people for their sub-optimal CSS carousel invention. Build “shining demos” they say so they can improve their stuff. Of course unpaid in free time at half the earnings of developers who came up with that shit.

Gas lighting and victim blaming is high. My reply on the Butterfly site: https://bsky.app/profile/yatil.net/post/3lpvdvuvjuk2d

@alexhall Undoubtedly vomited out by some large language model, because not being worth writing manually is no longer a barrier. Yuck.

@Pawpower What does it smell like?

@JesseF8693 Sure. But in my experience, once it breaks in one place, it's broken everywhere.

@JesseF8693 Do you use Dropbox? I'm pretty convinced Dropbox causes this to happen, and I have to restart Explorer.

@fireborn Right. But if I open the NVDA settings or configuration profiles dialogs, the profile is still active because they've explicitly implemented a workaround. The elements list doesn't follow that pattern, which is what happens when workarounds are implemented on a case by case basis instead of for all NVDA dialogs with an exceptions list.

Sigh. When I create an #NVDA configuration profile for Microsoft Word, then open the elements list with NVDA+F7, the config profile gets deactivated.

@AiraVI Are you saying that every single AI interaction someone has with your platform is being watched by a human, in real time? @FreakyFwoof @CallumStoneman