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@FediTips I used to, about a year or two ago, but not anymore.
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@brandtsteenkamp@mstdn.social
mastodon 4.7.2Blind, hard of hearing, one-handed hemiplegic and some would say may be a little eccentric. Happily married to the best wife a guy can ever ask for, except, she's not on Mastodon yet. All opinions expressed are, or reflect my own and does not have anything to do with my professional life. I am also a ham radio operator, using call sign ZS6DI.
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Verification status is meaningful information, and conveying it by color alone appears to violate basic accessibility principles.
Has anyone found a reliable non-visual way to determine whether a profile link is verified, or is this a gap in the current UI? (2/2)
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Also, WCAG 2.2 AAA, is almost impossible, if you do not control the markup directly. I aim for WCAG 2.2 AAA for my own website. from what I know, I think I might have succeeded. If anybody wants to have a look, feel free.https://bsteenkampwrites.com
I am grabbing a Windows 11 arm ISO. Having to do this, grinds my gears, but let’s not lie to each other; Microsoft Office on macOS, is not the greatest. I will only start the virtual machine, when I absolutely have to
Having fun getting slapped by gmail API rate limits. Pulling my entire gmail to local storage using mbsync. Had to slow mbsync down to PipelineDepth 1. This seems to help, at least a little. Getting the thing configured was a pain though. At least, I can use mutt again. And, yes, you can install using homebrew. Mutt, mbsync, and msmtp works very well. No mutt sending or receiving mail on its own.
I will admit, playing Super Liam on the MacBook was rather weird for me, seeing that I first played the original under Windows XP. Porting across could not have been that easy. Well bloody done.
Quickly doing an update for the HomePod minis I have, not waiting for software to pull it’s thumb out it’s arse.
I have had a look at the mantis Q 40, but it is fundamentally flawed in a very, very specific way. Humanware believe, all blind people use standard QWERTY, or whatever layout for their language. Not true. I, Having rather severe right side hemiparesis, use the left-handed Dvořák keyboard layout. I would believe, there are right hand Dvořák layout users as well out there. I have brought this up with humanware, but no go. It really is not that hard.
Donald Trump explains, why open source is a disaster.
New satire. Read it here.
https://bsteenkampwrites.com/satire/A_Statement_on_Technology_by_Donald_J_Trump
If this made you grin, a boost would be appreciated. #satire
This is getting interesting. My website is up, https://bsteenkampwrites.com/, but for some weird reason the verification on Mastodon is not doing its thing.
Testing Ice Cubes, it seems like it’s working okay
Listening to my Apple Music library shuffled on the stereo pair of HomePod minis in my lounge. Currently playing Patti Page. These things sounds really, really good. And no, they are not that loud, but they don't have to be.
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