Notices by Robert Kingett backup (weirdwriter@tweesecake.social)

To find everybody on #BlueSky you can follow from the Fediverse, go to your instances search and search for Users with, @bsky.brid.gy

#BlueSky #FediTips #Fediverse

Microsoft is basically discontinuing Windows. What will happen, then? https://azhdarchid.com/microsoft-is-basically-discontinuing-windows-what-will-happen-then/ #Microsoft #Windows #Tech #Technology

With the rerelease of Off the Grid coming out in 2025, the publisher’s publicist asked me, can you participate in TikTok? When I said no due to the inaccessibility of the app, she was like, fine, I guess we cam stick to Youtube videos and internally I was like, please do podcasts instead. I know society is all about looks and such but it’s really amazing that she did not mention Podcasts once throughout the whole conversation. #Publishing

Finally! Monetize creators on the Fediverse and this could also work for instance admins too! https://sub.club/ #Mastodon #Fediverse

As a person that went fully blind in my late twenties, I can read raised print and I know many Braille users that can't read raise print, at all. I had a situation where I had to read for other blind people that did not know raised print. In a situation where I had to aid others in reading signs on a wall because they did not know raised print, in your definition anyway, I was truly literate. The fact I can read raised print faster than I can read Braille makes me literate, but to your post, because I don't know contracted Braille, or even uncontracted Braille well enough for speed reading or fluent reading out loud, for that matter, I am still illiterate even though I can, in some cases but not all, spell better than a few Braille readers I know. It is not internalized ableism if I choose to learn my preferred way, which is via audio means. I can still spell, check grammar, correct other Braille user's grammar, edit books, write, and improve spelling. In fact, I read books in raised print format on one day, uncontracted Braille on another day, and audio for the rest of the days. Two things can be true at the same time. Blind people need to learn Braille, and there are other ways to read other than Braille. Sighted people should never take Braille away from us. At the same time, blind people should also never contribute to ableism by insinuating there is a right and wrong way to do things. I think James is getting closer to the crux of the issue than you are at the moment. Also, there are different kinds of readers. Dyslexic people don't contribute to this wave of ableism capriciousness. The bigger issue is Braille access and blindness autonomy and you can advocate for Braille without buying into ableist thoughts yourself. @JonathanMosen @jscholes

Open source: you all should use open source and private services because we’re not a corporation out to exploit you or your data.

Disabled users: hey, your registration edit field is not labeled so I can’t use my adaptive technology to register or even use your platform. Could you fix it, because, right now, the mainstream/corporate offering has taken accessibility more seriously and I’d rather use a tool/service that I won’t need to struggle with in order to operate.

Open source: what exactly do you expect? We can’t be expected to make things accessible for you, so you can either fork it yourself or just not use our software/services. We’re a small team and corporation has more money than we do so they can devote more time and effort to accessibility. You can always fork the project though and make accessibility yourself!

Disabled user: well, I can’t code, so it looks like I don’t have any other choice but to go back to using this corporate offering that at least took the time to label their registration field correctly and actually took my request more seriously. Oh well, maybe open source tools just aren’t for me.

#OpenSource #Accessibility

This update couldn't come at a better time because there appears to be another spam wave today! https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/10/mastodon-4.3/ #Mastodon #Fediverse

@HistoPol @MoiraEve @elan @jamesbritt Not really, no! I hear everything in one long status update anyway so line breaks and paragraphs are more for sighted people. Now if I wanted to explore the post, I would like the line breaks and the paragraphs, but if it comes down to it it makes no difference whatsoever. I wish all apps made all hashtags pascal case! But yeah having hashtags all in lower letters soundslikethisanditisveryhardtohear

@HistoPol @MoiraEve @elan @jamesbritt Here you go https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/sighted

@HistoPol @MoiraEve @elan @jamesbritt I legitimately don’t understand if this is a genuine question or not, so I’m not gonna answer it. You can just look it up on Wikipedia

@MoiraEve @HistoPol @elan @jamesbritt More importantly, don’t you, as a sided person, look at camel case hashtags and think, hey! This is easier to read for me! Maybe if I do this, it’ll be easier to read for others, I just don’t understand why people enjoy making things harder on themselves

Oh got it! I found this, but it appears to not work with the keyboard and I can't tell what's selected from the The style of the subscription plan.
Fixed
Pay what you want

options. Could these be radio buttons or a dropdown menu? @buttondown @buttondownemail

Thank you! Yes! I just read a few books today where the author was like full trigger/content warmings are on my website and I'm always baffled as to why they don't include a URL with that message. @julen

Could a @buttondown expert help? I followed the pay what you want documentation, link at end, but I don't see an option to allow people to pay what they want, monthly! Unless the option is not accessible to my screen reader, I don't see that particular option when I click add a plan. I see an edit box to put in amounts, then cadence. Nothing about giving people the option of paying what they want. I was planning to make like a newsletter that is open for all to read and people pay and support me because I keep every work of mine open and accessible for low income to read but the docs appear to be either missing or not updated. I am very techy, I followed these instructions to a T, and neither Stripe nor Buttondown has a pay what you want monthly option, it seems. Thoughts anyone? I did add sighted people to my team, so if there's something I am missing visually, let me know and they can take a look! https://docs.buttondown.com/paid-subscriptions #ButtonDown #Newsletter #Email @buttondownemail

Need money to sustain me until the end of September. I’m a disabled writer with a form of long Covid, and I am unable to work full-time or part-time job these days. Even so, I do a lot for my community. Tutorials, share off-line mutual aid, and more. https://robertkingett.com/donate/ #MutualAid #DisabilityMutualAid #MutualAidRequest #Disability @mutualaid@a.gup.pe @MutualAidVisibility @MutualAid@universeodon.com @disabilityjustice@a.gup.pe @DisabilityJustice@chirp.social @disability @MutualAidNet @mutualaid@kolektiva.social @mutualaid@a.gup.pe

@chris @ipstenu I think there’s a missing post in this thread. What’s going on?

In this post, I wrote about the sad experience of having a friend use AI to wish me a happy birthday. https://robertkingett.com/posts/6627/ #AI #Blog #Blogging #Blogs @techtakes @fuck_ai

Here is the WIP PR that removes all #AI garbage from this Firefox fork while keeping #Accessibility in tact. https://codeberg.org/librewolf/source/pulls/81 #FireFox #LibreWolf

Hey all! Thanks to you all, I think I finally found a public domain cat image I can use as my profile picture but can I get multiple #Alt4Me again? Thanks all! #CommunityCare

Loving this #NaNoWriMo alternative! https://writingmonth.org/ #WritingMonth