I live in New Hampshire, and though I've never voted on a computer where I'm touching a screen, I still feed my paper ballot into a scantron machine that seems to do all the counting. I’ve voted in maybe 20 elections (between local, state, and federal) in my lifetime, and it's always been done this way around here. Maybe we all forget that that's a computer, too.
All that said, I live in a town of less than 3,000 people. I don't know that the solutions that work for us here would work everywhere.
I do this with audiobooks, too, but consider libro.fm instead. Same pricing last I looked, and part of my monthly subscription goes towards my local bookseller.
That said, a +1 to Prologue from me. Fantastic app.
I'll check that out. Sometimes when I'm moving between an audiobook and my kindle I use the official Audible app (WhisperSync is pretty freaking cool) which is the main reason I've kept my Audible subscription. Though there as some books I have no plan to read+listen so I'll look into libro.fm!
You can get book credits with a monthly subscription, I think when I was doing that it was about as good a deal as audible. libro.fm also has the advantage of being DRM-free from the start
Oh, right, I do the subscription, so it's $15/mo for 1 audiobook, plus 30% off further purchases. I guess I don't "audio-read" that much, so that's a good deal for me. (I actually have credits saved up, which don't expire.)
Yes! I auditioned dozens of fonts for the UI of https://figure.game and chose Lexend for its legibility, even at small sizes. It’s also got lots of understated charm and character (no pun intended) in my opinion. After reading about the project, I was very impressed with the reading fluency improvements reported, especially considering that (to me) it just looks like a very classy contemporary geometric sans.
1) Not nearly enough. This has become more of a hot topic as of late.
2) IANAL and can’t speak to this.
3) The US lags many places in the world on its legal accessibility requirements. Depending on the country, you’re probably at HIGHER risk outside the US. Check out this really useful collection of laws and policies from around the world: https://www.w3.org/WAI/policies/
I’ve been making mint-tin tabletop games. I’m aiming for a new game every other month. Being a web person for like 20 years now, everything I make disappears in months-to-years. As someone I worked with once described it, we’re digital ice sculptors.
So as a change of pace, physical games! I’ve released 2 so far, next one coming in March.
One is a set-collection competition called Come to Call where players are royal PR people. You’re trying to win the favor of rich patrons without seeming too desperate. Your goal is to send the least interest delegate that will still steal the show. It’s a game of kings, queens, fools, and way too many butlers.
The second game is a push-your-luck dice-rolling egg hunt called Egg Roll! You’ve only got time to make 6 stops to find eggs. Roll the dice to find eggs. If you find some, you can move those to safety or roll to find more. Find nothing and score nothing for the round instead. Works well with kids and adults alike! And comes with 6 variants to change the game up.
If you use the coupon codes on my site, I make less than 50¢ per game sold. I’ll never recover what I spent on art. But I dob’t care. As long as someone anywhere has fun with either of them, it’s all worthwhile.
Absolutely, because not all disabilities are permanent. They can broken into lifelong disabilities, acquired, temporary, situational, and chronic (potentially among others). Just think of how many people who can hear still use captioning on their TVs. Or how easy your website is to reading on a phone during a bright, sunny day. Or how usable your stuff is for someone holding a child in one arm. Accessibility (and thus, WCAG’s success criteria) helps everyone.
I don’t think it’s unusual that creators who have thought about accessibility have also thought a lot about UX, etc. So there may be some correlation there. But as others have posted, while there are some criteria more targeted at those using assistive technology (like screen readers), there are just as many things helping everyone else.
Besides all that, none of us are getting younger, and with age comes reduced mobility, dexterity, sight, hearing, etc. You never know what tomorrow brings. Someone who self-identifies as having no disabilities today may have a different experience tomorrow.
But then again, web accessibility is what I do for a living, so of course I’m a bit biased. :)
(Google keyword: "microsoft inclusive design situational accessibility"; ironically, the canonical image comes from a guideline at https://www.microsoft.com/design/inclusive/ which is a PDF -- nowhere as accessible as web)
> people who can hear still use captioning on their TVs
Something that is rarely mentioned: foreigners who are learning the language. Captions are a turbo booster of learning, without them it can take years to understand what's up in TV when you're learning from zero.
Absolutely! Low literacy and illiteracy effects about 2 billion people in the world, and can include everyone using your primary language as their secondary language. Even if they’re getting by with running your site through Google Translate or whatever, the less you write in complex concepts, jargon, or regional idioms, the more likely they’ll be able to accurately comprehend your message.
And Microsoft’s toolkit is wonderful. My favorite part of working in accessibility for [big company] is that we don’t have business rivals in the a11y space. Everyone is in it to get better together.
Good accessibility is too often a competitive advantage in web products, when it should be the standard.
> Just think of how many people who can hear still use captioning on their TVs.
I've given up on hearing people talk clearly in most shows and movies. Sound mixing is horrible and seems to be getting worse! The music should not be just as load as the speaker!!!!
This might just be the mix (and there might be second-order effects such as the mix changing as the mix engineers and producers get younger), but your ability to differentiate voices from background sound also depreciates as you age. The music can be substantially quieter than the background and still cause issues for people with age-related hearing loss (which is roughly universal), especially as they start to lose the higher harmonics that help us distinguish vocal sounds.
I often use a hypothetical case of a user who’s mouse just ran out of batteries when trying to pitch how important keyboard accessibility is. Most of the time my bosses become empathetic towards that situation.
I think its much funnier, but also completely different. It’s a sketch show, not a narrative.
But I tend to watch it the whole series every month or so. It’s fun to put on in the background.
I feel like the brain surgery sketch is very close to the perfect sketch. It’s a simple joke, you can see where it’s headed before it gets there, but it’s still executed well.
I just watched that one and it looks good enough. I was hesitant because Youtube clips aren't always representative of clip shows. Even WKUK's most popular videos don't line up with the funniest.
I’ll second this. Got one for Christmas last year and have used it twice a week all year. It makes the process feel foolproof, and is the easiest appliance to clean in my kitchen.
Never made a bad batch of rice, and have accidentally left rice on keep warm for hours and hours and everything was perfectly fine.
For preparation, put it on a chicken roasting pan, and "painted" it with melted butter. Sprinkled on some salt, pepper, fresh sage that grows in our yard, rosemary, and some garlic powder. I stuffed lemons and onion pieces in the middle.
I used an always-in thermometer in the thigh. Baked it at 325°F with the foil on until the thigh hit 135°F — about 3 hours for our 13-pound bird — then removed foil, drizzled a bit of an olive oil/garlic powder/salt mix over the top, and then let it continue to bake until the thigh hit 165°F. At that point the breast was 175°F.
Took it out and let it set for about 45 minutes before carving. I think that's the important part. Juices thicken and settle in the meat instead of running everywhere.
I think the two key things was constant temperature monitor (over-cooking means dry) and letting it set (early-cutting loses juices).
I did sous vide but I didn't choose that due to any kind of overthinking. It's just the easiest, most idiot proof way for me. I started our turkey at 2 which meant we could eat anytime after 4:30. If we wanted to eat at 5 or 6 or 7, we could.
Presumably at some point in the past this required you to have had the foresight to acquire a sous-vide cooking system that was large enough to cook a turkey. That doesn’t strike me as the sort of thing one does without putting some thought into it.
Well, first I had to acquire a house so I would have a shipping address that the $100 device could be shipped to.
Sous vide machines are cheap. I've had mine for more than a decade now and use it all the time for the flexibility and ease of getting pretty great results.
If you don't want to buy a dedicated device, you can get buy with a big pot of water on a burner.
If you are a DIY kind of person, you can make one for less than $50.
All that said, I live in a town of less than 3,000 people. I don't know that the solutions that work for us here would work everywhere.