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   Robert Kingett (weirdwriter@caneandable.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Aug-2025 14:28:21 JST Robert Kingett

   Maybe I don't quite hate it all, but I do hate talking with managers, marketing people, people not in web development about accessibility issues on websites because, usually, the conversations always go something like this.

   Me. This complaint checks out. You need to do this and that and this to make it accessible.

   Manager. But why isn't our accessible AI tool working?

   Me. Because AI doesn’t understand your website and it won’t work anyway if someone is on a shit connection and the javascript won’t load.

   Marketer. But then maybe the person needs to upgrade their internet.

   Manager. Maybe the screen reader’s broken. Have they added AI to screen readers yet? That will fix everything. why doesn’t NVDA have AI yet? If NVDA had AI, we wouldn't need to worry about this.

   Marketer. Did you try tabbing? I noticed you weren't tabbing at all, did you try that?

   Me, internally. That's fucking it! You all deserve to be sued.

   Today was the first day I thought about turning to the accessibility dark side and actually just becoming a plaintif in all these ADA lawsuits, because this level of, our website isn't the problem, when it clearly is, is getting on my last fucking nerves.

   It's always managers and marketing people that are the first to ask, well, why doesn’t JAWS have AI yet? Why doesn’t NVDA just compensate for our shit web design?

   Oh don't get me wrong, developers and I have had our share of, why do I need to use HTML? That's so 1980! Battles. You know, HTML can label a button, you don't need to use ARIA for that. Developer. But ARIA is richer! HTML is boomer technology!

   Me, screaming internally. I hate you all!

   But I'm getting more and more of these kinds of clients and so, like, I can fully understand why you'd join these law firms as a plaintiff and just going to town with demand letters and such, because this shit is maddening!

   The best accessibility conversations I've had have been with developers. Not all the time, but more than not, they get it more than the dipshits in marketing and management.

   My other alternative is I think everyone in marketing needs to take a mandatory web development class, and pass, and have a certificate.

   #Accessibility #Rant #A11y

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   hugovangalen 🤖 🕹️ 😼 (hvangalen@mastodon.nl)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 06:43:58 JST hugovangalen 🤖 🕹️ 😼

   This weekend, talking to a guy who does IT at a Dutch bank.

   Me: So everything runs on Azure or AWS these days?

   He: Yes

   Me: So they can see all the data.

   He: No it's on separate servers, on EU soil. That was a thing before we decided to go ahead with this.

   Me: So... They can see all the data.

   He: No it's encrypted and threw some acronyms at me.

   Me: So, you download the data, decrypt it, and work on it?

   He: No that's done on the servers.

   Me: So... They can see all the data.

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   Summer Dawn and Company (randomfire@fwoof.space)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 10:48:37 JST Summer Dawn and Company

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   @pixelate @Blobsta @Pawpower @Fragglemuppet Just don't get to the embarrassing point I did in college. Toward the end of my senior year, because I ordered so much it went like this.

   Me: I'd like to place an order.
   CS Rep: Is your address, (insert address and residence hall here?)
   Me: Yes.
   CS rep: And you want the thing crust with pepperoni?
   Me: Yes.
   CS Rep: (insert price here.) It'll be there in 20 minutes.
   Me: Thank you.

   And that was the call.

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   LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 02:45:20 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

   > Talking about suicide
   > This is a hard topic to talk about, because some people listening have experienced this.

   Me: :pepeLaugh3: somehow, I don''t believe you

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   Marco Rogers (polotek@social.polotek.net)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 11:46:15 JST Marco Rogers

   I keep having a specific kind of exchange about this mastodon/bluesky thing. It goes something like this.

   Me: I have a bunch of concerns around what actions people are taking if they care about their privacy on here. Yelling at one guy is not sufficient.

   Them: Of course he's wrong! You must be saying you don't care about privacy at all!

   It's pretty frustrating.

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   mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 14:35:38 JST mcc

   in reply to

   Me, 2019, building LLVM: This is AWFUL. NOTHING could ever be worse than this.

   Me, 2023: Oh no