Good grief. Just went to check my DM on Bluesky and had to age verify...
On the up-side, apparently I look my age 😂
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My first engagement with ChatGPt Agent...
Me: "What's the next event on my calendar?"
Agent: Thinks
Agent: Thinks more
Me: Goes to make tea.
Time passes.
Agent: "Your next event is daily stand-up today at 9:05AM."
"Also, apologies, but I seem to have deleted the previous event in your calendar. Would you like me to restore it?"
How is it that within 10 minutes of the Online Safety Act, Ofcom is investigating 34 porn sites, yet in 30 years of disability legislation in the UK there hasn't been a single instance of case law for websites or apps because the EHRC has signally failed to support people with disabilities even when there is a strong case to be made? 😩
Does anyone know of a place to find Mastodon accounts for newspapers, media outlets, and also tech related journals/publications? TIA.
The accessibility link is a lie: my adventures in weaponizing corporate virtue signalling, by WeirdWriter@caneandable.social
https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/20250724/
America has withdrawn from UNESCO. Again. Apparently it's not in its "national interests".
I take this to mean that #MAGA thinks that UNESCO World Heritage sites... like the Statue of Liberty, Monticello, the Grand Canyon, Yosemite and Yellowstone National Parks, Independence Hall, the Hawaii Volcanoes, or the Carlsbad Caverns, are not in its best interests.
Understanding the European Accessibility Act (EAA):
https://tetralogical.com/blog/2025/03/19/understanding-the-eaa/
Including the bit no-one talks about, EN 17161 Design for All:
https://tetralogical.com/blog/2025/06/27/understanding-design-for-all/
And a set of FAQ just in case:
https://tetralogical.com/blog/2025/07/18/eaa-faq/
In 1994 the UK voted the widget inside a can of Guinness as Invention of the Year.
The Internet came second.
Yes, yes, I know that far more people were probably drinking Guinness than using the interwebs back in 1994, but c'mon... 😂
The American System of Democracy has Crashed:
https://www.theverge.com/policy/697301/trump-supreme-court-founding-fathers-july-4
Now, with permission, tagging @mia from my "Tag, you're it" post:
https://tink.uk/tag-your-it/
And with that, it's over to Mia, @koalie and @lolaodelola to take it from here 💜
Give me four minutes and I will change how you see social media. Forever."
Italian film-maker @_elena introduces the fediverse: a new era for social media:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRJHIJy5Nno
The more we like and share this video, the more it'll irritate the hell out of Musk, Zuckerberg and co.
You know what to do!
Happily tagging koalie@mastodon.social from my "tag, you're it" blog post 😊
https://tink.uk/tag-your-it/
Did you know that abortion is a crime in the UK? Now you do - and it's time that changed. Please lend your support by signing this petition:
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/decriminalise-abortion-and-make-it-a-protected-human-right
@aardrian tagged me in his "tag, you're it" post in March, and it's taken me until now to get to it:
https://tink.uk/tag-your-it/
And with permission, I've tagged lolaodelola@mastodon.social to take up the baton 😊
In 1997, Mary Schmich published a guide to life in the Chicago Tribune. In 1999, Baz Lurhmann turned it into a chillout anthem called Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen).
It was, and remains, some of the best advice for life I've ever heard...
https://tink.uk/advice-for-life/
We've been turning out and I came across an old newspaper I own, dated 23 November 1963 - the day the UK headlines reported that JFK had been assassinated.
I came across it originally about 30 years ago underneath a pub carpet where it'd been used as underlay, presumably sometime in late 1963.
Also came across a leatherbound journal dated 1895, apparently written by one James Smith and dedicated to someone called Mabel.
It's full of quotes, poems, and excerpts from hymns including one by Charles Wesley.
I have no idea where it came from or who the owner might be. The handwriting is barely legible in places, though there is what I think is a piece of pink blotting paper still tucked in the back.
Just added the recipe for the sticky pork belly slices I made the other day to my website:
https://tink.uk/sticky-pork-belly-slices/
CC Scott@tweesecake.social and mattmay@mstdn.social
Making sticky pork belly slices; cooked in ginger ale, then clarted in a reduction made with maple syrup, lime juice, ketchup, ginger, chilli and garlic.
Notes on the (as yet unsolved) problem with crossing the boundary between the Light DOM and Shadow DOM, for attributes like aria-labelledby, aria-describedby, aria-details and such, by SteveFaulkner@mastodon.social
https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2025/06/07/aria-html-relationship-severence/
Catching up on @TetraLogical blog posts, and this addition to the Foundations series: Keyboard accessibility:
https://tetralogical.com/blog/2025/05/09/foundations-keyboard-accessibility/
I finally got around to jotting down a few notes on using my Ray-Ban Meta Glasses:
https://tink.uk/using-ray-ban-meta-glasses/
PerlBod just hacked back the enormous Rosemary bush in our garden and I now have a huge bunch of it sitting on my desk and making my office smell fabulous!
The @inclusivedesign24 Call For Presenters (CFP) closes on 31 May, so don't hesitate, submit your talk now!
https://inclusivedesign24.org/2025/
#id24 is on 25 September; 24 hours of #free talks about #accessibility #a11y #code #design #inclusion and more
Listening to Ben Loewenstein, Waymo's Head of UK and EU regulation and policy, talk about autonomous car accessibility for blind and low vision people.
Have to acknowledge that Waymo has clearly given it a lot of thought.
It seems that Windows 11 doesn't load the modifier key tables, so even though the shortcuts are exposed in the UI, they don't work. 😩
On the upside, a slightly quicker way to open a folder in Terminal is to type "wt" into the folder address bar, which is a bit less faffing about than going via the context menu at any rate.
If you're curious how AI is redefining #accessibility, why not come to AI and Accessibility Day hosted by We Are Developers on 5 June:
https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/accessibility-ai-day-5-june-2025-online
You can use code A11YDAY_Leonie
for 15% off too.
Dear Fediverse, does anyone know why keyboard shortcuts that use Alt as the modifier in the Windows 11 right click/context menu might not be working?
For example Alt t is supposed to open Terminal on the current folder, and Alt o is supposed to open More options on the context menu, but neither seems to work.
You might not know that migratory birds like Swifts and Starlings are in trouble in the UK because modern houses have nowhere for them to nest.
The solution is to include a single £35 "swift brick" in every new build (a hollow brick that creates a nesting spot).
The Labour Gov is blocking the proposal to mandate this, and I've just signed this petition to encourage them not to:
https://act.38degrees.org.uk/act/swifts-petition
Note: the donation at the end is optional.
Good grief. made a pot of tea that's sticking to even my ribs (and my ribs are quite accustomed to tea you could stand a spoon up in).