Playing with Green PT - an AI with sustainability and privacy, plus European data sovereignty and a remarkably screen reader accessible website too:
https://greenpt.com/
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Léonie Watson
@tink@w3c.social
mastodon 4.7.2Accessibility engineer, Director of TetraLogical, Chair of the W3C Board of Directors, W3C WebApps co-Chair, writer and speaker, screen reader user, tequila drinker and crime fiction junkie.
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Joined June 19, 2017
Today I was introduced to the traditional Yorkshire apple pie made with Wensleydale cheese. Oh. My. Goodness. I need to lie down and not eat again until Thursday 😊 😋
Spent the afternoon sitting in the garden in the sunshine. There might have been a G&T involved. It was glorious!
Spent the afternoon creating IFTTT applets and a Windows script to detect when I'm in a Zoom/Teams call and toggle my old radio style "On air" lamp on my desk on/off accordingly, so PerlBod knows when I'm in a meeting or not 🎤 😊
That moment when the idea for a talk just clicks into place and you know you're going to have fun with it ❇️
Do Androids Dream of Accessible webs?
We can find out together at #AllDayHey! by @heypresents@mastodon.world on 7 May:
https://heypresents.com/conferences/2026
Things I have learned whilst in China... the Surf Shark Windows application is largely inaccessible with a screen reader, the Mozilla VPN application isn't much better, but the Tunnel Bear application is really very good indeed. #accessibility #privacy #security
We're looking for an experienced Account Executive to join the @TetraLogical@indieweb.social team and own new business growth for our consultancy and traininng services.
Closing date is 24 May. More info about the role and how to apply, here:
https://misc.tetralogical.com/careers/2026-05-account-executive/
Must be resident in the UK.
Please help us find the right person! 💜
Take Action: Defend the Internet Archive
https://blog.archive.org/2025/04/17/take-action-defend-the-internet-archive/
"At a time when digital information is disappearing, being rewritten, or erased entirely, the tools to preserve history must be defended—not dismantled."
I've signed the petition.
As a T1 Diabetic who's unable to use an insulin pump (because there are no #accessible ones available), the possibility of a gene therapy injection once every few years instead of an insulin injection once every couple of hours, is mighty interesting.
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/gene-therapy-be-studied-treating-type-1-diabetes-2026a10009xh?st=fpf&icd=login_success_gg_match_fpf&scode=msp&socialSite=google&form=fpf
So, skinny jeans are a thing? Again? Did we learn nothing the first time?
In November the UK Government promised to remove certain levies and obligations from fuel bills and this comes into effect on 1 April, saving the average household about £120 a year.
Octopus Energy has a good explaination here:
https://octopus.energy/blog/april-2026-price-cap-updates/
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@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk @robert@irrelevant.me.uk
Done. A heap of bee stickers are on their way 😊
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@shanselman @gumnos Interesting. If I'm reading about the right device, it looks like this is a patch pump as opposed to a tethered pump. Definitely looks promising and is apparently available on the NHS too, which it wasn't when I last chatted with my GP.
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@matuzo It took me a minute to understand your post, because I thought it said you were in "Amsterdam and Hungary" 😂 #ScreenReaders
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@gumnos @shanselman I haven't but very glad to learn about the podcast. My Doc actually suggested exploring some of the biohack communities active in this area, but I haven't managed to find enough time to really dig in. Conversations and connections welcome though!
It's been quite the weekend... the oven stopped working, the new exercise bike turned up, there are now Basil and Thyme seeds in the hydroponics thingy in the kitchen, PerlBod excavated several layers of his tShirt drawer, Sunday lunch with family (including the aforementioned Yorkshire apple pie with Wensleydale cheese), and a good chunk of my next conference talk (for All Day Hey!) is in much better shape than it was a few days ago! Oh, and the sun's out 😎
It seems that GAIN (formerly Nomensa) and TPGi have decided to remove all the posts I wrote on their respective blogs, going back to 2002.
The Internet Archive Way Back Machine is not the most accessible thing to use, so if anyone has any bright ideas about how I could retreve the contents so I can republish, I'd be glad to hear them.
Use this link to try #Smol planet friendly essentials (laundry capsules, dishwasher tabs, multipurpose spray, and handwash) for £3, and the £6 referral for PerlBod and me will go to Suds In Schools to help them tackle hygiene poverty in schools:
http://smol.refr.cc/suds-in-schools/u/danhopkins
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@SteveFaulkner Not sure if the web counts as an isolated system exactly, but I suspect accessibility will continue to flow towards high entropy (as it's been doing since the early days of the web), per the Second Law of Thermodynamics 😊
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@SteveFaulkner In and of itself though, I'd be surprised if AI models didn't use entropy as part of their word probability distributions, so the answer is almost certainly yes I should think.
#Naqi neural earbuds will let you control things using brainwaves and/or micro-gestures. If so, they could be revolutionary for anyone unable to use their voice or body to control their tech, smart home, and such:
https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/i-just-tried-earbuds-that-let-me-control-things-with-my-mind-and-it-could-be-a-game-changer-for-accessibility
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@si_judge@fosstodon.org I did think the article over-sold the neural/brain waves bit, since the description seemed to suggest that muscle movement was the driving factor. Not a field I know much about, but if the technology can/does work as advertised, the potential seems encouraging to me.
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@vasilis I need to get one for PerlBod who is incapable of giving an accurate answer when asked what time it is. The answer "9:15AM) could mean anything from 9:05AM to 9:25AM 😎
Inclusive user research: vulnerable people, from the @TetraLogical@indieweb.social blog
https://tetralogical.com/blog/2026/04/09/inclusive-user-research-vulnerable-people/
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@kleinfreund@mastodon.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr It is, and always has been, a CapEx accounting move.