Seeing people talk about #webrings again and it's bringing tears of joy to my eyes. We need more connections that circumvent big tech and webrings can potentially provide powerful gateways to niche subject areas.
Check out this #accessibility webring started by @eric for an example:
https://a11y-webring.club/
My personal challenge right now is finding a way to join many webrings in a coherent way. Will sit down and have a think about this.
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Hope @ivory, @icecubesapp and others don't forget about those of us not using Mastodon and consider feature sets that stretch beyond Mastodon's limits.
But mostly I hope they put #accessibility front and center, not adding it clumsily as an afterthought.
@mousey @atomicpoet
The #Fediverse #infographic has been updated a few times since this image, The latest version is always here: https://axbom.com/fediverse (now at version 3.0).
Note: There is also an image description at the bottom (linked from the image) that can be used when including the image in posts and web pages.
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@Kolombiken Ha, good point! đ
Thank you.
@Kolombiken Sorry! I was so confident that you were actually following me ;) There are about 25 of you.
Also, I still have plans for a final message đ
@robsodergren @Allinrep AlltsÄ, jag tycker det var en bra beskrivning, men nÀr ni började prata om det sÄ blev solrosfrön, kanel och jordnötssmör intressanta för mig. Och dÄ insÄg jag att om jag inte kunnat se bilden sÄ skulle jag missat dessa indirekta tips om spÀnnande garnityr. SÄ jag la det lite pÄ minnet för att tÀnka pÄ om nÀr jag beskriver mat i framtiden.
Din beskrivning strĂ€mde klockrent med vad jag faktiskt sĂ„g nĂ€r jag blĂ€ddrade förbi. đ
@robsodergren @Allinrep Yes. âTallrik gröt som gĂ„r i fĂ€rgen vit, grĂ„ och brun.â stĂ„r 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 donât 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 youâre not approving their request and you yourself think theyâre 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 Iâm all for it.
@lee I canât remember if we talked about it back on Twitter, Lee, but Iâm 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 youâve done your due diligence :)
@fiaewald Du Ă€r sĂ„ bra Fia! Tack för allt du skriver och delar med dig av. Ville bara fĂ„ det sagt đ
Iâve 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 Iâm now thinking that something along the lines of âstart a blog/podcastâ or âprotect your online accountsâ 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 Iâm writing Iâm 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. đŁ
â ïž re: Rant about accessibility
@peter You are most welcome to. đ
â ïž 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. đ
@Tattooed_mummy This truly made me laugh out loud.