Michael Connor Buchan @TheFake_VIP@linuxrocks.online
- @blind_comp
A visually impaired kid who’s big into tech, Linux and accessibility.
Joined Jul 2018
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Me and @billswax have just finished and launched beta 1.0 of our new, completely written version of mundistry, an MMO game that simulates being a music artist. Check it out at https://mundistry.com/
I'm finding Mastodon, aside from being a great social network, to also be invaluable as a tool to post longer tweats, with a link to the full thing.
When is Apple going to bring smart invert to the mac? It's getting quite annoying having to change to the light theme, invert the colours, realise your desktop background is black after being completely blinded by all 3 monitors, change the background to white to fix this problem, then have to reverse everything when you're done (in other words every two seconds).
RT @vgcerf@twitter.com
Theory is when you know everything but nothing works.
Practice is when everything works but no one knows why.
In our lab, theory and practice are combined:
nothing works and no one knows why. ... unknown
RT @slooterman@twitter.com
There are a million stair-climbing wheelchair prototypes. They’re all prohibitively expensive.
A regular, correctly-sized wheelchair costs as much as a sports car. How about we address that first? Some people can’t afford to leave the house. https://twitter.com/mashable/status/1120026160572915712
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/slooterman/status/1120106980239126528
RT @JoeRessington@twitter.com
I find it baffling when Americans put a T at the end of across. Can anyone explain why some of them say acrosst?
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/JoeRessington/status/1119968740819513344
RT @yatil@twitter.com
If Article 13 passes, the Internet won’t be the same again. Remember that there are EU elections in May. Vote for people that have your values.
RT @DerekRiemer@twitter.com
can we pretty please just stop trying to make emoji accessible by adding alt text with the english to the emoji??? Just put the emoji character, and let peoples screen reader handle it however the users specify.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DerekRiemer/status/1117840928713117698
Michael Connor Buchan
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Some accessibility lessons:
- Excessive symbols and emojis (e.g. in names) are annoying. Stupid zalgo or math characters or whatever are read one by one.
- Links are spelled out with all those "slash slah colon" stuff.
Michael Connor Buchan
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Michael Connor Buchan
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Creating videos is easy. Creating great videos, not so much. A good production requires talent, time and tools. We can't do much about the first two, but we can recommend some nice tools to help you make snappy videos.
https://t.co/6CLc6HKWsd https://t.co/QXfX5qdNw1 tweeted by @ubuntu
Michael Connor Buchan
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@TheFake_VIP
Here's mine
I will be there are you still looking for a job in your company and the science center and I have to go to the store and get a letter from the bank and get back to you on that one. I don't know if I can help you with that 😔😔😔
I really don't like people who use stacks of emoji in their usernames. It's not so bad when I'm viewing a tweat (or toot) of their's, but when twitter throws something like, user, smiling face, flag of united kingdom, sunglasses, upside-down face liked, user2, tumbler glass, cherries, blood-type A, quoted, user3, face licking lips, "Actual message," ,"user2, tumbler glass, cherries, blood-type A, added "Another bit of message ... really?!
The follies of relying on TTS
When I first got into web dev, I used to think MySQL was called mice equal.
because my screen reader will kill you.
RT @benbrignell@twitter.com
Why spend seconds creating input fields when you can spend days writing some javascript to get some divs and spans to work just like input fields…
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/benbrignell/status/1115989162308579328
RT @fsf@twitter.com
Nifty free software news: the imaging software used by the Event Horizon Telescope, which was able to record the first
picture of a black hole, is licensed under the GPLv3! #blackhole #copyleft https://u.fsf.org/2sm
RT @TatianaTMac@twitter.com
Concise intro to developing accessible sites with code snippets and clear documentation.
#a11y🔗 https://twitter.com/webaxe/status/1116350042556682240
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/TatianaTMac/status/1116351804889952257
RT @usererrorshow@twitter.com
The show has its own Twitter account now so you can send feedback or #AskError questions directly.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/usererrorshow/status/1114296863635771392
RT @robinspinks@twitter.com
16 million people use the #ReadAloud feature in Word every month! #a11y features help every kind of customer @G3ict@twitter.com #MSFTEU @MSFTEnable@twitter.com @RNIB@twitter.com
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/robinspinks/status/1116313631782768641
I'm one of these weird people who genuinely like to help people who just keep being stupid. It never works or benefits me either, but I guess I'll keep on trying.
RT @acidicmushroom@twitter.com
I just acted upon my grade 11 "positive" role-model powers by asking a group of grade 9 students how they could be so harsh toward themselves within the group as well as others.
All I got was an "oof."
I fucking hate society.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/acidicmushroom/status/1116364151297904640
RT @acidicmushroom@twitter.com
Just realized. Discord backwards is pronouncable as "Drocsid." I swear that would be a good name for a medicine.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/acidicmushroom/status/1116363612589891584
- @blind_comp
A visually impaired kid who’s big into tech, Linux and accessibility.
Joined Jul 2018
