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Nic Steenhout on ‘AI’ screen reader testing:
https://nicolas-steenhout.com/ai-screen-reader-testing/
I added it to my post about speech viewer logs (with some bonus nuggets from Weston Thayer):

📝 New post: A Beatles reference built for a screen reader
beatles.gatewayy.net puts the Beatles' albums, songs, singles, timeline, live shows, TV and radio, solo careers, Apple Records and more in one place that reads well with VoiceOver.
https://gatewayy.net/a-beatles-referen

A Beatles reference built for a screen reader
beatles.gatewayy.net puts the Beatles' albums, songs, singles, timeline, live shows, TV and radio, solo careers, Apple Records and more in one place that reads well with VoiceOver.

„Wir haben uns Basecaps selber nähen lassen – aus Jeansstoff“
Der Schauspieler #CharlyHübner über seinen neuen #Film „Spaziergang nach Syrakus“, das Reiseverbot in der DDR, Heavy Metal, die Entfremdung zwischen Ost und West und die Frage, wie „Das Leben der Anderen“ zu bewerten ist.
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“Accessibility-first screen reader prediction” is not a solution, folks.
Parsing a DOM and building your _own_ accTree to then *emulate* how desktop screen readers _might_ announce a page as if *maybe* using read-all just ends up putting more burden on human testers.
Never mind missing the bugs, features, heuristics, and more built into a DOM parser and screen reader engine.
Unless your goal is satisfy a dashboard while removing humans from your

Empfehlung des Tages: Pincone.com
#pincone ist ein interessanter (aber wenig bekannter) bookmarking service aus Zagreb. Pincone...
- funktioniert für individuelle User oder kollektiv für Teams
- kann Kategorien und Tags verwalten
- hat gute Funktionen für Suche, Kommentare, Likes
- hat einen integrierten RSS-Reader
- hat eine integrierte Email-Adresse, um Newslett…

📝 New post: A weather site without the clutter
Accessible Weather is a plain, screen-reader-friendly forecast page with current conditions, alerts, hourly and 7-day forecasts, and nothing else.
https://gatewayy.net/a-weather-site-without-the-clutter/

A weather site without the clutter
Accessible Weather is a plain, screen-reader-friendly forecast page with current conditions, alerts, hourly and 7-day forecasts, and nothing else.

#WritersCoffeeClub 10. Do you have a guiding principle as a writer? What is it? (Or why not?)
I don't think I've consciously formulated a guiding principle, but looking at how I write, perhaps it's this: trust the reader.
I don't want to explain everything, tell people what to feel, or insist they interpret a character the way I do. And if I can make them laugh …

📝 New post: A sky site for stargazing and space weather
sky.gatewayy.net puts tonight's stargazing outlook, planets, space station passes, space weather, who's in space and upcoming launches on one screen-reader-friendly page.
https://gatewayy.net/a-sky-site-for-st

A sky site for stargazing and space weather
sky.gatewayy.net puts tonight's stargazing outlook, planets, space station passes, space weather, who's in space and upcoming launches on one screen-reader-friendly page.

Keine #Verpackungssteuer in #BadOeynhausen
In einer Umfrage waren von 2.007 Teilnehmenden 1.829 für die Einführung!
Leider beschloss die CDU mit den Stimmen der AfD genau entgegengesetzt. Schade, wieder eine Chance vertan und gegen das agiert, was die Menschen augensche…

I would rather live next door to an immigrant than a Daily Gammon or the Sun Flagshagger reader
Anyone else or just me?

I must amend my assessment of AGI as a tool to gather intelligence on users, thanks to all the calls for 'safeguards' and 'context' the means now exists to bend that conversation any way its masters wish, tailored to the reader's context.
So it isn't just surveillance they're after. It's behavior modification too, steering the bubbles to the sponsoring agenda. The idea doesn't work of course, Mao proved that, but ad companies, psychologists, and campaign managers have wet dreams about shit like this.

Just finished "Across the Widest Sea" by Jean Cremers. An excellent graphic novel about found family, the open ocean, and the unfairness of life. I really like how there's a lot that the book just refuses to explain and you just have to accept how things are as a reader, which mirrors the dietetic situation pretty closely.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon