Notices by Eric Eggert (yatil@yatil.social)

@aral I use Cascadea and it works well, however, its last update was 2 years ago and I just hope that it never breaks.

@gvlx @aral #JustBeNice, really? Because we know that people in power always happily change their ways when you are “just nice”. Because nobody asked nicely when the regression happened almost a decade ago? Because people whose human rights are violated are supposed to “just ask nicely”.

In what world does that work? It’s on the OS projects to lobby for the resources they need to make a functioning product.

@soller @thestrangelet @lucasmz This might be shocking, but deprioritizing the needs of disabled users over mainstream features is the definition of ableism. This is not a breaking change in a minor version that is quickly fixed, it’s years of excluding people. It’s the result of a systematic ableist process in an ableist world, carried out by people with (probably, hopefully) unconscious biases of exclusion.

@aral is right to call it out.

Love that we here in Germany are basically prohibited from getting vaccinations, even voluntarily, unless we meet certain condition – mostly age and existing illness.

“You first have to get LongCOVID before we allow you vaccinations to avoid the thing you got” is bad policy. https://zirk.us/@AlexKourvo/112469763159775160

“We should give the abusing party the benefit of the doubt” seems to be a common thought amongst the accessibility community. Which is of course why you would hire a prominent face in accessibility in the first place. “I can make them change” has been uttered in many abusive relationships, but it basically never happens.

#a11y #accessibility

(TL;DR continued: That does not mean I like the current situation, and it is not a good choice to make. But if I had to choose, why put the power over what browsers get required into the company which not only controls the world’s most-used services but also the world’s biggest advertising network? And the world’s most used browser. This might be the end of the web as we know it.)

URGH. Terrible news.

(The TL;DR on my view is that the “Open Web” advocates look at walled gardens from a browser perspective but not from a services perspective. Once Chrome can be required on iOS, Google will likely do it for its services. Combine it with the removal of ad blockers coming up, this can destroy browser diversity for good. OWA assumes browsers are on equal footing, but people prefer service access to browser choice, they will switch in a heartbeat.)

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apple-loses-on-appeal/

Happy CPCAAD!

(That’s “Companies Pretend to Care About Accessibility Day”.)