@opassande Glad midsommar!
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Nytt inlägg på bloggen: Tillgänglig inloggning med QR-kod
Kontakter med myndigheter, banker och företag kräver allt oftare inloggning med QR-kod. Antingen i kombination med BankID eller Freja eID. Det finns många övergripande problem med QR-koder, men jag vill här adressera hur de visas på ett sätt som gör det oerhört svårt för människor med olika grader av synnedsättning att nå viktiga tjänster.
I filmen visar jag problemen och en potentiell lösning. Den som bryr sig om tillgänglighet kan alltså börja förbättra inloggning med QR-kod redan idag. Digit
https://axbom.se/tillganglig-inloggning-med-qr-kod/
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New blog post: How captchas break democracy
A terrible captcha solution making it difficult to vote for many EU citizens.
https://axbom.com/how-captchas-break-democracy/
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After @maloki shared the ongoing European Citizens' Initiative support form for UBI, I couldn't get over the disastrous use of a captcha on an official EU website. And one used for voting/support no less.
Do share the blog post to help more people understand the importance of ending this practice in web development.
How captchas break democracy
https://axbom.com/how-captchas-break-democracy/
+1
But the captcha in that form was awful.
I gave them some feedback: "The current captcha will exclude a lot of people with disabilities and cognitive difficulties. Ironically many people who would benefit hugely from UBI are not able to vote." (Clicked the button for "Poor" experience).
@jerome Wow. Welcome, back. Thank you for sharing! 🙏💚
@SnerkRabbledauber Every action the language model makes is because of another sentient being. :)
But yeah I understand what you mean.
A human thinking that machine code designed to mimic language is sentient, is very much like a cat thinking their reflection in a mirror is another sentient animal.
@opassande Magiskt!
Se upp med falska sms om BankID vänner.
"Just nu förekommer det falska sms-utskick som ser ut att komma ifrån BankID. BankID skickar aldrig ut sms. Klicka inte på länken."
@LeoR1010@mastodon.social Ah, perfekt. Har precis en månad Viaplay för att kolla West Wing.
@LeoR1010@mastodon.social Ah spännande, var går den?
@Downes
This is a relevant concern, but could perhaps be explained by the difference between applied ethics and normative ethics.
While normative ethics develops moral theories about how people should behave, in applied ethics I am of the notion that people don’t need to agree on a moral theory—instead agreeing to solutions to ethical dilemmas by reviewing facts and related harms of a specific situation.
The chart helps identify common situations in digital development.
That said, it would be interesting to pursue a line of thinking where product development teams were to define an ethical pursuit as soon as they decide to make new products and services, that they could use to align their development with.
My concern then would be that there is significant lack of understanding about all the things that the product affects when it comes to human and universal wellbeing. My ambition is to close those gaps in understanding.
I often try to compare with medical ethics, which of course is a more mature category of applied ethics. Avoidance of harm is often the pursuit, and the challenge is to identify ways of acting that reduce potential harm, or help the patients be informed enough to consent in situations where there is a great deal of risk involved.
We have a ways to go before we have anything akin to the Hippocratic Oath for digital designers and software developers however.
Wonderful walkthrough and review of my chart on the elements of digital ethics.
by @chendricks
I'm really happy about the blogging revival that I'm experiencing. Reading and commenting on blogs like it's 2005! 😅
@MrKanuel Thank so much for the shoutout Iñigo. 🙏
@helenaroth Excellent idea. Will steal :)
And congrats! I turned 48 last Friday.
@celareartem Wow 😬
Det roligaste med att ha bloggat så länge är att snubbla över sina egna gamla texter då och då. När jag skrev den här måste jag ju ha varit rejält trött. 😅
Journalistens klagovisa
@fallenhitokiri I've also just realised that from a GDPR perspective this is likely desired, as one doesn't want to risk sending info to numbers/emails that belong to people who have not given consent to receiving messages from that service provider.
@yuliyan Haha, I personally really like this. Very similar to one of my thoughts. I had not thought of the chunking part this clearly, but that is definitely something that would help a lot of people.