Orde Saunders @decadecity@mastodon.technology

I’m really grateful for the work the Accessibility Scotland team put into their event and again in making the talks accessible online. I wrote this talk especially for the event, because these are the things that keep me awake at night.

Accessible unethical technology: https://noti.st/laurakalbag/9GG02Z/accessible-unethical-technology

Legendary Apollo project programmer Margaret Hamilton, next to a printout of the node_modules directory listing for her first Hello World react app

The latest additions to Firefox Dev Tools are maaking me giddy: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/12/firefox-71-a-year-end-arrival/

"Future Accessibility Guidelines—for People Who Can’t Wait to Read Them"

I am up-to-date with my 24 Ways reading! This has never happened before.

https://24ways.org/2019/future-accessibility-guidelines/

@switchingsocial @Stem There's also a good rant about how it's overused a lot and you might not need it here: https://kevv.net/you-probably-dont-need-recaptcha/
(In the off-chance you haven't already seen and considered it. Sorry if this is like the third time or something.)

Confidential mode? Hrm.

"Much like how Google Chrome's Incognito mode doesn't totally prevent third-parties from seeing the websites you visit, Confidential mode doesn't keep the content of your emails from Google itself." https://www.mic.com/p/gmails-confidential-mode-isnt-as-private-as-it-seems-according-to-experts-18136277

Was talking about Mastodon with an old-school sysadmin guy. We reached the realization that defederating from instances with no/bad moderation is essentially the same thing as blocking open relays back when you ran your own email server: open relays always end up getting used for spam, you block 'em to protect your users.

Email was and still is the first federated social network, so it already faced a lot of the same problems; we should study its solutions (and its failures).

Hey, nonbinary german speakers! How do you deal with pronouns in German, given that we are lacking a good neutral options?

Technology is a tool. Use it wisely.