@robsodergren @Allinrep Yes. ”Tallrik gröt som går i färgen vit, grå och brun.” står det för mig. Men du missade kanel och solrosfrön ;)
@dmcgk @natbas
This is super interesting, thank you for tagging me. After my migration last week I had 1,000 followers listed (down from before migration). By my approximation only about 20-25 of those could actually see my posts. It took me a while to figure this out.
All followers were (as expected) listed as following me. But essentially everyone had what natbas is describing, a pending follow request. I also don’t have, and never have had, approval of follows activated.
So when follow requests fail, they get queued, and it tends to look like this. People who follow you think you’re not approving their request and you yourself think they’re following you, because that is what their profile says. Very frustrating.
How long it will take for servers to try and renegotiate will vary but I have heard mention to me that Mastodon servers will stop trying after a week and then be stuck in this state.
@xian If it would mean killing all parallax effects on websites I’m all for it.
@lee I can’t remember if we talked about it back on Twitter, Lee, but I’m a huge fan of your work. Your RSS and Wiki videos of course, but I also really appreciated the Art of Explanation as well as Big Enough. The former is definitely a primary reason I started making more explainer videos for clients which has been a huge success.
My first explainer video, almost 11 years ago now, was just sketches and hands pulling in those sketches (though all digital rather than true CommonCraft style).
That video explained the goal of a project (a national behavioral therapy platform for Sweden) with how people were using and managing this future product.
It took 3 years to develop the tool and when we were done it could do everything in that video and even the rough sketches matched the interface. That blev my mind. It was such a powerful tool for bringing a common vision to the team, where different devs came and went through the years.
When I hear you mention a platform I know you’ve done your due diligence :)
@fiaewald Du är så bra Fia! Tack för allt du skriver och delar med dig av. Ville bara få det sagt 😊
I’ve long thought about making an online course around the topics I teach and work with. But I always hesitate when it comes to topic… and whether or not someone would be willing to spend money on it.
Rather than accessibility, ux or digital ethics I’m now thinking that something along the lines of ”start a blog/podcast” or ”protect your online accounts” would bring the most value.
I imagine something practical that one can get going with right away makes sense as a self-learning tutorial. For theoretical education I want to be more present as guide and coach.
Of course as I’m writing I’m immediately seeing the obvious buzzword as the likely answer to my hesitations… hybrid.
@xian Haha wonderful. My favorite transcription typo for my name is Paradox Bomb. 💣
⚠️ Rant about accessibility
@nickcolley @blindscribe
Had this conversation (yet again, sigh) with a client earlier this morning. This person being someone who understood though:
We won't make any progress if all these projects keep building first and then start thinking about accessibility later on. Accessibility has to be front and center. Otherwise you did not build a usable thing at all, and you likely will have to redo stuff to improve it and you won't because you'll claim resources are depleted by then and you'll start loving the excuse "come on, it works for most people".
And the appeal for help... "we built this thing, can someone help us make it accessible please (for free please)" sounds at first like a friendly voice but also says a lot about how low of a priority accessibility has been up until then and likely will continue to be.
Sorry, just needed to get this out of my system… People could very well be the nicest of persons and have the best of intent, but WCAG 1.0 came out in 1999. That's now 24 years ago. WCAG 2.0 in 2008. If you build stuff for the web, why are you deciding to ignore all this vast amount of knowledge that is available for free?
@krig Hmm, weird.
@janne Ah, nice one. I like it. 👍
@Tattooed_mummy This truly made me laugh out loud.
@Tattooed_mummy Haha, that's what I wanted to hear. They have written 1 paragraph per question. I have written 5-6 😂
@krig Please do :)
Gah. I just finished writing my first "assignment" for my uni course and went into the website discussion board to submit it. It is essentially an introduction of myself, why I chose the course and commentary on an article of my choice.
This one's supposed to be published in the forum so everyone can see it. So I can see everyone else's that have already been submitted. What I've written is about 10 times(!) as long as what everyone else has written.
What do I do? Cut down / Submit anyway / Publish as a blog post and submit just three paragraphs of it?
Did not see this coming… 😬
And no, there is no specification of expected length.
Some great advice in this thread. Thank you. In the end I have now shortened it to about 40% of its original length. It's better. I just want to avoid being "that guy". But I suppose it's inevitable.
@bkhl
I think so. I searched on their website before I posted because I wanted to make sure I wrote the correct one.
Interesting about the number of native speakers left!
@ChrisJKelly Awesome. I attended a jojk-concert last summer and in the right setting it can be absolutely stunning.
@LeoR1010
Tack, måste testa detta!
@ambivalena