Kara Goldfinch

From iOS 27: "Intelligent Image Description can’t describe this image because it may contain sensitive content." wtf Apple.

@ncdominie@mastodon.scot Also in case you didn't know, OCR and flatbed scanners exist because of Ray Kurzweil wanting to make a reading machine for blind people. I love hearing about disability things becoming mainstream.

Before iOS 27, when VoiceOver read text that's a mix of Latin and other scripts, it would read the non-Latin part using a supported voice E.G. Arabic. Now it will just say "Unspeakable text". I don't call that an improvement.

@ifixcoinops@retro.social Brilliant thread. Here's a bit of a take on those days from a screen reader user. Screen reader users like me absolutely couldn't stand flash websites. If it needed flash back in 1999 or so until something like half a decade later it wasn't accessible to us at all. It never was a joy to use but at least they eventually added things to make buttons and whatnot visible to screen readers. Screen readers have had options to ignore tables that were just for layout purposes for decades now. We were probably some of the people emailing you about the crap code, no doubt because the result wasn't accessible, although to be fair I don't think there was any WCAG guidelines in 1998. If there was I absolutely bet Frontpage Express didn't comply with them. At least there's guidelines now, which would make things so much better if folk actually went and followed them. I dabbled with Frontpage Express but I never published anything with it..

Clearly getting past level 18 on Side Party is just one of those things I'm not meant to do. lol

@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt I read this as "from Dune and Bullseye" and wondered when Jim Bowen quoted Frank Herbert". :) Mind you he was an English teacher apparently. Someone who worked at my local library had him as their teacher.

@JoeSondow@dice.camp Agreed. I love that Italian has sorted it out. W is something like "doppia wu", but they shorten it to "wu" when reading web addresses. I remember when I was in Italy on holiday all the ads with a website were like "wu wu wu punto bla punto it"." I wonder if any other languages have done similar.

@DJDarren Well he'd probably hate Concrete Schoolyard so...

@losttourist@social.chatty.monster Yeah that's silly. This keyboard I have was about 40 quid I think. It feels exactly like your regular keyboard from the 90s but USB which is exactly what I wanted.

@losttourist@social.chatty.monster Damn if it had a number pad and was reasonably priced I'd buy one. I love my Perrixx Periboard 106m but wish it had multimedia keys.

@jspc@social.treehouse.systems @jess@blop.social Mine is like that with Abba and so was I. Mum hasn't got over it but I'm glad I have. They wrote brilliantly catchy pop and their drummer is amazing. So tight it's like listening to a machine.

@jess@blop.social Black Bomber is lovely. I hoped you had that on here. :)

@RolloTreadway@beige.party @DJDarren@mendeddrum.org Yep. I was woken up once by a ewe calling for her lamb, or that's what it sounded like, and this was nowhere near a farm.

@WeirdWriter@caneandable.social Turkeys voting for Christmas comes to mind with a lot of this.

@TheBreadmonkey lol the honking of the harmonica and chickens is bloody hilarious.

@TheBreadmonkey Wonderful.

@jess@blop.social The market was teaming with personages so I will negotiate some vending of cheesy comestibles next time I frequent that establishment.

@jess@blop.social It's the strongest one I've had.

@jess@blop.social I don't like goats cheese or blue cheese all that much but I'd give the rest a go I reckon.

@jess@blop.social I've saved this. There's a few I fancy trying.

@charmedlassie@mastodonapp.uk Hugs.

@yatil@yatil.social I'm pretty sure I've said the same fairly recently, forgetting about the DOM, and I use the things. Wonder when they stopped looking at the html. I remember using JAWS 3.2 which had a reformat page command, which did things with the code including inserting the word "link" before each link. Those were the bad old days.

@DJDarren@mendeddrum.org Sod 'em. :)

@TheBreadmonkey @Akki a reply to a post I put up where I found out who the Outhere Brothers were.

@Akki @TheBreadmonkey And I just realised this was a in reply to a completely different post.

@jepyang Well done.

@graham@mastodon.n6.io @cordova5029@dragonscave.space @MutedTrampet@dragonscave.space @bill@mastodon.n6.io Wow. I've heard of him before but haven't come across this. What piano did he use? It's got keys higher than the top c on a regular one. Did someone tune it in a different key?

@MutedTrampet@dragonscave.space @BorrisInABox@fwoof.space Fairly small. It was probably about as big as a jewellery box.

@jess@blop.social I got as far as the one with a furry finish. Furry?

@tspivey@dragonscave.space @jscholes@dragonscave.space @matt@toot.cafe @ricky_enger@mindly.social @alpuzz@mastodon.social Neat. Because I'm tired of eloquence when it's not running in JAWS reading dd/mm/yy dates the same as mm/dd/yy.

@losttourist@social.chatty.monster I wish I could justify the ridiculous cost of one of those New Model Ms.

@Estrella@dragonscave.space hugs.

@graham@mastodon.n6.io @cordova5029@dragonscave.space @MutedTrampet@dragonscave.space @bill@mastodon.n6.io Yeah it must be the speed of the recording because before he goes into the main part, it sounds like he hits something like an e higher than the top c.

@graham@mastodon.n6.io @bill@mastodon.n6.io Yeah I was.

@BorrisInABox@fwoof.space @MutedTrampet@dragonscave.space I knew someone who had one of those. It was quite amazing to hear such low notes coming out of a relatively small thing.

@DJDarren The instromental of Dancing With the Seals without Shane Brady would make a very smooth bed. #ThePlaylistSuggestion

@aaronareed@mastodon.gamedev.place The one I finished had quite a sad ending.

@BorrisInABox@fwoof.space @datajake1999@dragonscave.space There is an emulation of the Pros 2000 in MAME that at least boots up, so the rOMs are there at least.

@zersiax@cupoftea.social Well done. Now try to get to level 19.

@WeirdWriter@caneandable.social Yeah if you like. It's quite a common phrase this side of the pond.

@klittle667@tweesecake.social @simon@procrastodon.net Our Virgin Hub is the same I think.

@jess@blop.social Our local market sells black bomber.

@Estrella@dragonscave.space Hugs.

@jess@blop.social I might see what cheese our local cheese stall has when I'm in town in a bit. Queue the Monty Python sketch.