The amazing thing about the whole Microsoft Recall debacle is that presumably not one of the mighty 7-figured salaries Industry Leading brains thought that what they were proposing was a shit idea.
Why do marketing people get so obsessed about time someone spends on a page (with the assumption that longer=better because 'engagement')? Good IA should mean users find what they want quickly; good UX means quick ordering. Good copywriting means quick comprehension, doesn't it?
My modest proposal: Failing water companies should go bankrupt, their investors lose everything, their boards and C-suites be fired, and the gov should buy them for £1 and run them as national utilities. Ditto the railways and privatised energy orgs that price-gouged us last 2 winters. Then every statue of Thatcher & her ideological allies should be melted down and turned into commemorative medals to celebrate the day we free ourselves of the stupidity that saw the nations' utilities and housing stock sold to profiteering wideboys.
If you filled in this PWA Death Survey BEFORE TODAY please RE-DO IT. We realise there was some important supplemental data we need to gather in order to argue our case but were (frankly) too shell-shocked to ask for the first time. Soz: it's for a good cause! (please boost for reach) https://open-web-advocacy.org/apple-attempts-killing-webapps/
I'm having a conversation with a designer about icons. Making a screenreader read "camera" or "microphone" when an icon is shown is trivial with aria-label. But screenreader users are massively outnumbered by sighted users who might be confused by the meaning of a tiny image/ icon. The mighty Paul Annett explains more:
Well, i didn't have "go onstage with the musicians at a Thai classical recital at a temple fair" on my to-do list. But a 7th Dan web standards wanker is prepared for anything and, using all my abilities with the 7 pitch equidistant scale and the fine art of brazening it out, i reckon i have a few converts to accessibility.
In the night market, chomping my deep fried bamboo worns and Durian, and I noticed 3 friends cooking food together: a Thai Muslim lady, a lady in traditional dress and a northern Thai lady.
Tonight I'm eating Amok - a seafood curry with basil, lime leaves and crunchy veg served in a coconut. I've had it often in Cambodia but never Thailand. But I'm not from the Cambodian border and half the staff are Khmer, so it makes sense.
Then I went to the dentist (it's much cheaper than UK and my UK appointment was cancelled 90 mins in advance after a 4 month wait). Then, to reward myself for my bravery, I squandered £10 on a 2 hour full body massage, then valiantly had some more Khao Soi noodles (from a place run by some hill-tribe students who rarher charmingly added edible flowers to the dish) and then a beer. Gruelling day.
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