Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

CIRA is the Canadian Internet Registration Authority.

Its CRM system is Salesforce. Its email is hosted by Microsoft. Its website is fronted by Cloudflare on AWS infrastructure.

So much for "digital sovereignty". When organizations such as CIRA don't even make the effort, how do they expect others to do so? Very shameful.

Lest you think that union-busting is strictly a private sector activity, my best friend works for one of the University of California’s libraries. She is paid way less to work for their library than a normal person in her job would be, by policy, just because it’s the library. About 40% less. The university told her that’s just how they do things and that was policy.

The library unionised. The school tried to bust the union. Correspondence about it “mysteriously” disappeared. They stated their official position was that a union was not needed. They tried to pressure the employees involved to stop. They cried “budget” and blah blah. Usual nonsense.

They voted to unionise anyway.

The school is being dragged to the negotiating table.

Just in case you thought that this shit didn’t happen in the public realm.

RE: https://scicomm.xyz/@JohnBarentine/117027711546764224

This is hideously depressing (here come the megabright satellites, screw you AST Spacemobile). But I am delighted that these authors (none of whom I've ever worked with before) use the word "megaconstellation" with no qualifiers!

Did you know that satellite companies HATE the word megaconstellation and keep requesting astronomers not use that word?

Did I mention that a significant fraction of my recently published papers have the word "megaconstellation" in the title?

Interesting catch by @zackwhittaker - although we don't know the number of people impacted by the Adform breach has they haven't commented, Adform say they serve 1.5 billion adverts a day, and the breach lasted at least 5 days.

Pretty compelling reason to use an adblocker.

Multiple links below.

I'm tired, and I don’t want to do free accessibility consulting for this website owner, so I'll outline only one way this won’t work for screen reader users out of many.

Aside from the fact an LLM made the website, and the font as well, the reason it doesn’t work for screen reader users because, even on that demo page, a timer has to be activated. A button must be pushed. A timer activates, and a screen reader user must find the fixed bit of text again. The website makes it sound as if it should be just automatically accessible/visible to the screen reader, and that fails.

Aside from the screen reader issues, that's not the only one, but I don’t want to do free accessibility consulting for this website, some of the other issues include but are not limited to…

It doesn’t prevent scraping.

It doesn’t prevent taking a snapshot and then doing OCR on that screenshot.

It breaks custom fonts anybody has disabled or enabled.

It breaks copy and paste.

It breaks for people without JavaScript enabled.

It breaks for anybody using a good ad blocker.

It prevents search from working on the website.

And many, many, more things that are in my replies.

If you want to learn about me and my screen reader, my FAQ page is below the website I'm talking about.

If you use this font to protect your text from AI, it also blocks *me, a human* because I use a screen reader. I did try the demo. If you want me to remove your RSS feed, this is the best font to prevent blind people from reading your blog/words. That timer is an inaccessible solution and that isn't it's only screen reader failure. https://shieldfont.org/#hero

My FAQ page https://sightlessscribbles.com/faq/

#AI #LLM #Accessibility #A11y

I've been touching too much grass. *cracks knuckles* It's time to log on.

I know I've said several times that I don't want to make more social accounts but if MySpace comes back I will 1,000% re-learn HTML and spend all my time over there filling out surveys and changing my profile song every hour.