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@dankeck@a11y.social
2025-02-04 14:51:09

Today @… was kind enough to share his encounter with an example of clean HTML versus ungainly HTML—for the same action on the same website.
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#Accessibility #HTML

David Goldfield (@DavidGoldfield@tweesecake.social)
After logging into the Facebook desktop site, I see they now have something called an "accessible login button" button.

@rtg2491@academiccloud.social
2025-02-05 09:00:03

Morgen zu Gast um 16:15 im Sitzungszimmer des Mathematischen Instituts für das #RTG2491Kolloquium:
Sachchidanand Prasad von der Jilin University mit
"A tour to the cut locus"
#UniGöttingen

Im Hintergrund das historische Sitzungszimmer des Mathematischen Instituts darüber als Overlay der Text des Toots
@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social
2025-04-01 13:45:58

"The Tax Foundation is a veteran anti-tax campaign organization from the United States. It has been around since 1937 when it was founded by top brass from companies such as Standard Oil and General Motors. Close links to some of the biggest corporations in the US has been a constant feature of the organization, as has its political aim of bringing down taxes"
#lobbying

Opaque US anti-tax foundation to advise EU Commission | Corporate Europe Observatory
A US think tank that recently opened a Brussels office to lobby for aggressively lower taxes is received with open arms by the Commission. But who is behind the organisation, and who funds it? The Transparency Register fails to reveal dark money flows – in the Tax Foundation’s case from US right-wing libertarian sources – and as such clearly needs a make-over. 

@castarco@hachyderm.io
2025-03-31 07:21:14

uspolitics, trump
I keep seeing smart people writing stuff like
> [the US] kept peace through strength balanced with restraint, and wielded influence through culture, values, and diplomacy
I understand that #Trump is terrible and some people feel tempted to idealize what they had before him, but we should be more discerning, or otherwise it becomes impossible to understand how this happened in the first place.
Let's start with some questions:
- peace where? and for who? was it true peace, or "Pax Romana"?
- are we going to take seriously that statement on "restraint"? after all the lies, internal witch hunting, sanctions, coups, wars, invasions, genocides, and last but not least, 2 unnecessary nuclear strikes on Japan?
Now, on "culture, values, and diplomacy". Sure. Why not. Not everything was going to be bad, right?
But the thing is, abusive husbands aren't bad all the time either. From time to time they know how to be sweet and seem to care: one present here, flowers the next day, a little bit of gaslighting, and fake apologies after that "accidental" slap.
Given enough time (if the wife is still alive), at some point the victim decides to leave, and then all hell breaks loose. Trump is the manifestation of that moment. He does not represent a change in #USA's nature, but a hidden side that was "always" there, just waiting to play its role.
Others believe this is because #US citizens have been intentionally dumbed down by a combination of propaganda and a disfunctional education system, and I'm sure it's partly true... But let's see what many of their most brilliant and educated citizens are choosing to do with their lives today: sfstandard.com/2025/03/12/stan
So, all I'm asking is: please drop the act. It was always a clusterfuck.

@akalanka@masto.es
2025-02-04 00:00:50

🚅🚅 Trenitalia France, que recientemente obtuvo permiso para operar sus V3000 #Zefiro en 2⃣ doble composición, recuperarš los servicios París ↔️ Milšn el 1 de Abril
👉 El 15 de Junio, extenderš sus servicios a #Marseille, tal como #Renfe

Trenitalia France sets sights on Marseille in year of expansion
FRANCE: This will be one of the most important years for the Italian national train operator's French open access business, according to Trenitalia France CEO Marco Caposciutti. From February 14, it will be able to double capacity on its busiest services by operating its Frecciarossa trainsets ...

@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social
2025-04-04 15:27:41

"Trofim Lysenko était un scientifique soviétique dont le déni dogmatique de la science a conduit Š une famine de masse lorsque ses idées ont été appliquées Š l'agriculture. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ressemble beaucoup Š Lysenko dans son déni de la science. Ses résultats seront-ils aussi désastreux ?"
#lysenkisme

“Make America Healthy Again”: The new Lysenkoism
Trofim Lysenko was a Soviet scientist whose dogmatic science denialism led to mass famine when his ideas were applied to agriculture. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a lot like Lysenko in his science denial

@dankeck@a11y.social
2025-02-04 02:14:39

I'm not a font expert, but I like #GNOME replacing Cantarell with Adwaita Sans. Cantarell is more distinctive, but I find it distracting. It feels of a time, specifically the 2000s decade, along with Microsoft's Verdana and Tahoma. The new one seems more timeless and utilitarian.

@magicicada@social.sdf.org
2025-03-30 20:16:31

#SilentSunday

A clump of daffodils, with five yellow blooms and several tall green leaves coming out of the ground. They're in an area of brush, surrounded by tall thin dead stems of some plants, fallen autumn leaves, small sticks, and a few patches of green grass or clover or other small plants. In the background is a chain link fence, and behind that a couple dozen tall, thin tree trunks with no leaves visible. The photo looks up a hill, and beyond the trees is a blueish gray sky.
@ELLIOTTCABLE@functional.cafe
2025-03-26 16:28:16

Wow, what a weird rabbit-hole I just ended up down.
So, the “Spread Mastodon" page (tutorial?) recommends a cool-sounding browser extension as an alternative to all those constantly-dead 'fedifinder' / Twitter-person-looker-upper-tools: the ‘Whosum Social Assistant' browser extension.
Sounds cool! Sounds like the correct solution to this problem!

screenshot of a ‘getting started on mastodon’ site, describing a browser extension to find Twitter followers.
@akalanka@masto.es
2025-02-04 00:22:56

🚋 El medio-tranvía de Trieste, 🇮🇹 Italia, recuperarš su servicio este 2025
🤌 El tren circula en modo tranviario por la calle, y se acopla a un funicular cerca de Villa Opicina para remontar la pendiente
🤓 Se recuperarš el servicio progresivamente, hasta 29 trenes/dia en #Marzo

Trieste’s partly funicular tramway reopens
ITALY: The unusual tramway which links Trieste with Villa Opicina via a cable-hauled incline has reopened after being suspended in 2016. Two sections of conventional metre-gauge tramway are linked by an incline from Piazza Scorcola at 17 m above sea level to Vetta Scorcola at 177 ...

@dankeck@a11y.social
2025-02-27 02:44:09

Surely I'm not the only one who hears this in my head anytime someone mentions the AI product "Claude."
#AI #LLM #Claude

The character Peridot from the cartoon Steven Universe on a big screen looking down angrily and pointing at the protagonists
@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social
2025-04-03 05:18:55

"The most effective countermeasure is simple: tariffs for oligarchs. Countries should tie market access for foreign multinationals and billionaires to fair taxation. As soon as Trump follows through with tariffs on Canada and Mexico, those countries should retaliate by taxing US oligarchs."

America’s Oligarchs Are Trump’s Achilles’ Heel
The best thing that countries targeted by Trump's punitive tariffs can do is condition market access for foreign multinationals and billionaires on fair taxation.

@tore@openbiblio.social
2025-02-17 21:18:16

Proudly presenting: The new equipment database of the Hamburg University of Technology: Transparency on a new level.
Hamburg University of Technology has introduced another tool to promote scientific collaboration and transparency: an equipment database integrated into the TORE research information system
#DSpaceCRIS

Device database at Hamburg University of Technology: DSpace-CRIS in the wind tunnel, robots in TORE - University Library TU Hamburg
Hamburg University of Technology's new device database creates a new level of transparency for research information.

@dankeck@a11y.social
2025-04-01 02:12:13

Could anyone spare a "Like" for these kids who are trying to plant some seeds of Open Source in the USA Midwest?
#FOSS

Open Source Club at OSU (@osc_osu@metapixl.com)
Windows and macOS marketing has made it seem like they're your only options when it comes to computer operating systems, but did you know there's more to choose from? If you're interested in getting Big Tech away from the front line of your digital tech use, come learn about what Linux on the consumer desktop looks like!

@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social
2025-05-01 20:16:14

Tu parles d'une décentralisation :
"À l'heure actuelle, les 8 % de portefeuilles cryptographiques les plus importants détiennent un peu moins de 99 % de l'ensemble des bitcoins en circulation. En zoomant encore plus, nous constatons que les 1 % de portefeuilles les plus importants contrôlent plus de 90 % de l'ensemble des bitcoins."
#crypto

Mining Bitcoin Is Now Actively Losing Money
It is now unprofitable for all but the most advanced crypto operations to mine Bitcoin in the United States.

@isoclive@mastodon.nycmesh.net
2025-02-09 07:21:51

EDIT – FEB 5 DIGITALREACH PANEL:The Future of Content Moderation in Southeast Asia
SPEAKERS
Associate Professor Dr. Aim Sinpeng - Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney
Ellen Tordesillas - Co-Founder and President, VERA Files
Septiaji Eko Nugroho - Chairperson, MAFINDO
MODERATOR
Ploy Chanprasert - Founder, DigitalReach

EDIT - FEB 5 DIGITALREACH PANEL:The Future of Content Moderation in Southeast Asia - ISOC LIVE NOTICEBOARD
On February 5 2025 DigitalReach hosted a panel ‘The Future of Content Moderation in Southeast Asia‘. Experts discussed the human rights implications of recent changes in the content policies of major social media platforms, in particular, Facebook, for users and governments in the region. SPEAKERS Associate Professor Dr. Aim Sinpeng – Department of Government and […]

@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social
2025-04-29 19:24:15

Paul Krugman : "Trump est un Parrain Š l'envers, faisant des offres que les autres pays ne peuvent pas accepter."
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/tru

Trump is the Godfather in Reverse
He’s making offers countries can’t accept

@magicicada@social.sdf.org
2025-04-01 11:49:34

Tar Hollow State Park
Taken 8 May 2024
#ThickTrunkTuesday #FallenTree #Ohio #StatePark

A fallen tree with a thick trunk runs horizontally over a dirt trail through the forest. It is high enough in the air that it looks like many people could walk underneath without ducking. To the left of the trail is another fallen tree trunk of similar size, but it has been sawed off to make room for the trail. The forest is lush with deciduous leaves. This part of the forest is open to the sun, and the fallen branch casts a parallel shadow across the trail. In the distance, another fallen tru…
@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social
2025-04-28 19:27:32

Le DOGE a le soutien des Américains. Arrêtez de vous faire des illusions, les gens.
Source : nytimes.com/2025/04/22/polls/d

What Polls Say About DOGE and Elon Musk
People like the idea of cutting government waste. But they dislike Mr. Musk, and they’re down on the Department of Government Efficiency.

@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social
2025-03-31 16:30:54

"Trofim Lysenko était un scientifique soviétique dont le déni dogmatique de la science a conduit Š une famine de masse lorsque ses idées ont été appliquées Š l'agriculture. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ressemble beaucoup Š Lysenko dans son déni de la science. Ses résultats seront-ils aussi désastreux ?"
#lysenkisme

“Make America Healthy Again”: The new Lysenkoism
Trofim Lysenko was a Soviet scientist whose dogmatic science denialism led to mass famine when his ideas were applied to agriculture. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a lot like Lysenko in his science denial

@dankeck@a11y.social
2025-03-18 15:38:43

@… is wondering how much trouble a skipped heading level is for screen reader users. Three users have replied but it'd be great to see more feedback. Anyone else willing to reply to Manuel's post? Here is the link:

Manuel Matuzović (@matuzo@front-end.social)
I need your help to understand if I'm wrong. If you find a blog overview page with the following document outline, do you believe the skipped h2 poses a problem for screen reader users? (Imagine the headings are all descriptive) h1 blog h3 title of first article h3 title of second article ... It's not ideal, but it's not a WCAG violation. Are the consequences for the user bad or is it okay to be pragmatic here and give it a pass? edit: it's not a site I'm building but one I'm auditing.

@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social
2025-04-30 07:03:55

"Malgré des semaines de couverture médiatique négative, des déportations très médiatisées de migrants et d'étudiants munis de visas, et une décision négative de la Cour suprême, l'immigration reste le dossier le plus populaire de M. Trump : 47 % l'approuvent, tandis que 51 % le désapprouvent, selon un sondage New York Times/Siena College réalisé ce mois-ci."
#Trump

The most surprising things from Trump’s first 100 days
The first 6.8 percent of Trump 2.0, briefly explained.

@magicicada@social.sdf.org
2025-03-28 17:03:32

Defunct railroad building.
Taken 4 August 2024.
#WindowFriday #FensterFreitag #Abandoned #Ohio

A window in the wall of a dilapidated one-story building, seen from the inside. The window is a two by four grid of panes, but all the glass appears to be missing. A small line of glass shards can still be seen clinging to the bottom of the window. Outside is a lot of green trees and brush, with a dull gray sky behind them. There's a wood frame around the window, although for some reason the top of the frame is lower than the top of the window, so it covers part of the window. The wood is bump…
@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social
2025-03-24 16:23:55

#F35 #killswitch
« Bien sûr, il y a un bouton d'arrêt. Tout ce qui est équipé d'un logiciel ou d'une connectivité internet est doté d'un kill switch. C'est comme ça que ça marche - bienvenue dans la société moderne ».

Aujourd'hui, certains pourraient tourner le dos au F-35 suite à des craintes persistantes que l'avion soit équipé d'un « kill switch » (interrupteur d'arrêt) qui pourrait les clouer au sol. Le Bureau du programme conjoint (JPO) du F-35 nie catégoriquement l'existence d'un tel dispositif, affirmant qu'il « repose sur des partenariats solides avec les alliés et les nations partenaires des États-Unis » et qu'il a toujours été un « effort de collaboration » qui « répond aux besoins opérationnels d…

How F-35s became the new Tesla
Allies now ask if they can still trust America and state-of-the-art fighter jet could be caught in the crossfire

@dankeck@a11y.social
2025-03-13 12:50:34

Two years ago at #CSUN I learned about what became my favorite browser extension, BeeLine Reader. I've been a subscriber ever since.
It's easy to set up on desktop, but has been some struggle to get working on Android. But this week I discovered it works with Microsoft's Edge Canary mobile browser, which has experimental support for extensions. Instructions are here:

A paragraph of text in black, red and blue. Each line ends with a particular color, and the next line starts with that same color, fading into a different color across the line. The paragraph reads: Suffering from screen fatigue? We’re here to help! BeeLine Reader makes reading on-screen easier, faster, and more enjoyable. We use a simple cognitive trick — an eye-guiding color gradient — to pull your eyes through long blocks of text. This helps you read more effectively and maintain your focu…
@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social
2025-04-29 19:36:43

Un avion Š 60 millions de dollars tombe du porte-avions Harry S. Truman
#jaiglissechef #7èmecompagnie

US Navy loses $60 million jet at sea after it fell overboard from aircraft carrier
A US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet has been “lost” at sea after it fell overboard from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier while it was being towed on board, the Navy said in a statement on Monday.

@magicicada@social.sdf.org
2025-03-29 15:37:40

A lost cupcake couple
Taken 28 March 2025
#Urban #Street #Ground #Cupcake

Two cupcakes sit on an asphalt street in front of the curb. The left cupcake is intact but upside-down. It has a red wrapper and white icing with red flecks. The cake itself is hard to see but it looks light colored. The right cupcake has been squished. Its white wrapper is sprawled out and underneath, brown cake is spread out on the road. The photo is taken at ground level and the vertical side of the curb takes up most of the view. Above the curb can be seen two multistory buildings, one of r…
@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social
2025-03-24 13:50:42

Steven Levitsky: "Nous assistons actuellement Š l'effondrement de notre démocratie. Sous Donald Trump, les États-Unis glissent vers une forme d'autoritarisme. Cela ne sera sans doute pas irréversible. Mais le fait est lŠ : en ce moment même, les États-Unis cessent d'être une démocratie."
#USA

Harvard Professor Steven Levitsky: "Right Now, the U.S. Is Ceasing to Be a Democracy"
Donald Trump is currently transforming the U.S. into an authoritarian state, argues Harvard Professor Steven Levitsky, author of "How Democracies Die." And he is using an unexpected twist in the authoritarian playbook to do so.

@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social
2025-03-31 16:27:11

Les colibris mâles peuvent être des gros lourds:
"Les colibris femelles imitent les mâles pour éviter le harcèlement."
futurity.org/female-hummingbir

Female hummingbirds mimic males to avoid harassment
A new study supports the theory that some colorful female hummingbirds are mimicking males to avoid aggression.

@dankeck@a11y.social
2025-03-17 22:09:15

I know #Pixelfed doesn't support muting hashtags on the server side.
Are there any clients that support muting in the client?

@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social
2025-03-23 08:29:27

Dernières nouvelles du paradis du capitalisme: faire ses courses Š crédit.
futurism.com/doordash-klarna-l

Image d'hamburger divisé en quatre quarts par des lignes en pointillé, chaque quart correspondant à une tranche de paiement.

Dystopia Intensifies as Startup Lets You Take Out a Micro-Loan to Get Fast Food
A new partnership between two startups will soon offer Americans the choice to pay for their delivered food in four easy payments.

@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social
2025-04-29 06:44:07

Ah ben bravo:
"Les émissions de l'aviation européenne ont presque rebondi sur les niveaux de 2019, les vols en Europe les dépassant même, selon une nouvelle étude de T&E."
#climat #aviation

Airline emissions soar to pre-COVID levels as Europe fails to price…
Emissions from European aviation have almost bounced back to 2019 levels, with flights within Europe even exceeding these, a new T&E study shows. The EU’s…

@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social
2025-03-23 08:32:24

#taxesoda #malbouffe
"une nouvelle étude de l'Université de Washington a montré que les femmes qui
qui boivent au moins une boisson gazeuse pleine de sucre par jour sont environ cinq fois plus de risques de développer un cancer de la cavité buccale que le…

Scientists Find Strong Link Between Drinking Sugary Soda and Getting Cancer
Scientists have found a link between sugary soda and oral cavity cancer, which kills a large percentage of the people who get it.