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@dankeck@a11y.social
2025-01-07 17:31:46

Today I learned the English word "access" has been a noun for centuries, but seems to have only become commonly used as a verb in the mid-20th century with the advent of computers.
#Access #Accessibility #English

EditorMark (@EditorMark@mstdn.social)
"Access" as a verb meaning to gain entry is widely accepted despite its short life (the Oxford English Dictionary’s earliest reference is 1953). Some still consider it jargony, but the alternatives can be clumsy. #words #usage #OED

@dankeck@a11y.social
2024-12-16 02:40:29

Have you remediated a PDF file with Acrobat? Have you ever accidentally clicked "Autotag document" and wiped out your manual tagging?
If so, please consider voting to remove this action from the context menu.
#Acrobat #PDF

In Adobe Acrobat, the context menu when right clicking on a tag in the tags pane. The menu item named "Autotag document" is highlighted.

Remove Autotag document from right click menu in accessibility
1. Right click menu rework for tagging. 2. I work primarily in tagging documents for accessibility, and I frequently use right click action menu to create a new tag. Sometimes over 100 individual uses on a document. There have been countless times where I accidentally click "auto-tag document" instead of "New Tag". I don't believe anyone auto tags a document from this right click menu and I believe it would be good to either remove it from the menu, or create some distance from regularly used …

@dankeck@a11y.social
2024-11-21 02:45:39

#A11y #Accessibility

An old advertisement for Coca Cola. A hand holds a glass bottle surrounded by the words "I'd like to buy the world a Coke." However, some of the words have been crudely superimposed by new text. Now it reads "I'd like to take away the world's mouse so they have to test their own website with a keyboard."