Steve Faulkner
@stevefaulkner.eurosky.social
Accessibility is political✊ Working for the web, anywhere and everywhere 🖖🏽
In the video I show a small library which you can play with that makes it very easy and declarative to progressively enhance your apps/sites... We'd love feedback. The main feature is in Canary behind experimental web platform features and it should be in stable in weeks github.com/bkardell/wor...
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Brian Kardell@bkardell.com · 2d ago5 minutes to explain why the web needs our proposal to enhance spell checking on the web... youtu.be/TfFIC4Ookxo?...
Voice user help requested. mastodon.social/@patrick_h_l...
Patrick H. Lauke (@patrick_h_lauke@mastodon.social)
anybody here a regular voice control/voice access/speech recognition user? got a minute to test something that would influence some #WCAG (mis)understanding document that i'd like to tweak to match re...
mastodon.social
"They’ve been dubbed “pervert glasses”. Mark Zuckerberg would prefer you call them Ray-Ban Meta glasses, or AI glasses, but they’re increasingly being associated with creeps who use them to film people without their consent." Everyone say it together: "Pervert glasses." Keep saying it.
Mark Zuckerberg faces ‘pervert’ reckoning with AI smart glasses
The tech company’s AI glasses are a contender for the most impressive consumer hardware of the 2020s, writes Anthony Cuthbertson. But they might also be one of the decade’s biggest failures
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🛐 Anti-DEI DICKHEADs thrive in the UK. “Dicky likes to moan about diversity, equality and inclusion policies while remaining totally oblivious to the fact that were life to be a genuine meritocracy, he wouldn’t even make it to the starting line.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Things get even more tricky for Dicky Tice, the Reform deputy with lots of cash but zero self-awareness
Telling the country to enjoy the heat while it burns, you have to wonder if Tice has lost all sense of reality
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I simply do not understand the mentality of people who prefer oil and gas and "drill baby drill" to the cost of the Earth and our pockets... to those of us who want clean, cheap, renewable energy. How brainwashed by big oil and its (often) paid advocates do you have to be? How gullible.
In a 9-0 ruling, the United States Supreme Court has affirmed that Donald Trump is an adjudicated rapist per his assault on E Jean Carroll.
The PDS is your user agent, in terms of responsibility it's like a browser. It can impersonate you much like a browser can. And yes, if you use a PDS you don't or shouldn't trust, you can end up in a Chrome situation where it does backstabby shady shit behind your back.
Bailey Townsend 🦀@pds.dad · 3d agoCan't reply, so I'm quoting. They're not completely wrong, it is important to have a PDS you trust because that is your gateway to The Atmosphere. It holds the private key that signs your records, the part I always think is missed here though is it's a two-way relationship/validation... context:
Coming to the conclusion that my presentation style is a primitive form of Brechtian Alienation No industry for old men 2024.stateofthebrowser.com/speaker/stev...
Steve Faulkner | State of the Browser
Steve is a Director at TetraLogical. We specialise in all aspects of accessibility, from working with websites and apps to giving teams the skills they need to make accessibility part of everything th...
2024.stateofthebrowser.com
The Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing The World’s Climate This article originally shared by @robin.berjon.com has left a deep impression on my psyche, i found it be confronting www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mas...
The Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing The World’s Climate
Thinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperat...
currentaffairs.org
Steve Faulkner@stevefaulkner.eurosky.social · 4w ago➡️@robin.berjon.com
🤔 Anybody else experiencing the degradation of performance in functionality across big corp provided apps and services upon the injection of #AI helpers? Or perhaps i am deluded by my inherent, irrational bias against the miracle of our time youtu.be/mmOxBd5ah3A
Alan Price, Poor People (from O Lucky Man!, a 1973 movie)
YouTube video by Nikolay Nikiforov
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while some people consider they to be a Birdbrain, i do not agree youtu.be/B_Tgb-H0CcY
Buffalo Tom - Birdbrain HD
YouTube video by Beggars Banquet Records
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The first forensic account of how the Post Office, the British government and a global IT company ruined the lives of thousands of innocent people. Post Mortem by Richard Brooks ➡️ www.private-eye.co.uk/books/post-m...
Coming to the conclusion that my presentation style is a primitive form of Brechtian Alienation No industry for old men 2024.stateofthebrowser.com/speaker/stev...
Steve Faulkner | State of the Browser
Steve is a Director at TetraLogical. We specialise in all aspects of accessibility, from working with websites and apps to giving teams the skills they need to make accessibility part of everything th...
2024.stateofthebrowser.com
Tice is an idiot. One thousand people dead in two months from extreme hot weather and he says - enjoy it. One hundred thousand will die in Europe this summer. Tice says see the positives….. He lives in a bubble disconnected from ordinary people and their reality.
Well, GitHub is down again (day that ends in y), but when it is back up: New Repositories now have a new default Issue label for "Accessibility". This update addresses a longstanding gap and helps to normalize accessibility as a primary consideration.
👉The subject of #ai and knowlege loss came up in a fireside chat I recorded with @wil.to today The Tragedy of the Cognitive Commons: How AI Could Disrupt the Regeneration of Professional Expertise #ethics arxiv.org/pdf/2607.29380 (PDF)
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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Farage and Jenrick’s latest attack on a minority - aiming at autistic and disabled people - is grotesque. A pair of rich & privileged men attacking some of society's poorest and most marginalised people to divert attention from financial sleaze My @theipaper.com column inews.co.uk/opinion/fara...
Farage and his sidekick Jenrick's latest attack on the most vulnerable is grotesque
Ian Birrell: They want to open a fresh front line in the culture wars
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Look forward to the next episode of @stevefaulkner.eurosky.social’s Fireside Chats if you want to hear me advise him to “get chromed out with a new ass.”
The Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing The World’s Climate This article originally shared by @robin.berjon.com has left a deep impression on my psyche, i found it be confronting www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mas...
The Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing The World’s Climate
Thinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperat...
currentaffairs.org
Steve Faulkner@stevefaulkner.eurosky.social · 4w ago➡️@robin.berjon.com
#farage & #reform, are vile human beings. For #Disabled people like myself, PIP & UC disability payments are the only things that allow us to afford to eat, get specialist care/support, get housing, travel to medical appointments & live semi normal lives. www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/nationa...
Reform DWP cuts could see PIP and Universal Credit health benefits scrapped
Reform UK plans to scrap PIP and the Universal Credit health element for working-age adults as part of a proposed £50bn welfare shake-up.
bournemouthecho.co.uk
Reform has said they will save £50billion by changes to the welfare system, mainly by getting rid of PIP payments. In Clacton, where Nigel Farage just won his unnecesary byelection, approximately 21% of the residents currently receive PIP. Maybe they should have voted for Count Binface after all. 🤷♀️
Wayne@wayneepoo.bsky.social · 4d agoLooks like the UK Slime are launching a Trump attack against its citizens. 😳😣😠😡
When a bunch of multi-millionaires with billionaire backers tell you that it's the most vulnerable in society who are the problem. 🤯 Reform might not be coming directly for you, yet, but give them time and they most certainly will.
Mike Taylor@miketaylor9.bsky.social · 3d agoAs Danny Kruger says Reform would slash welfare, presenter on #r4today notes the high numbers of people in Farage's and Tice's constituencies who claim PIP, which they'd scrap. Kruger pretends they'd still get support when the plan is actually that they won't. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Fraser Nelson points out that the number of PIP claimants in Jenrick’s seat is larger than his majority. frasernelson.substack.com/p/six-flaws-...
Is Reform's £50 billion welfare cut credible?
Is Robert Jenrick ready to take on his party's core voter?
frasernelson.substack.com
Headlines: Such-and-such technology may someday be as smart as human brains! Reminder: *We already have human brains.* Billions of them. Most of them living in poverty and being exploited for the obscene benefit of a tiny number of the worst people in the world.
👓Smart glasses controversy sidelines the benefits for disabled people #a11y #disability I am ok with their use by people with disabilities. Its the able male creeps/perves that concer me www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Smart glasses controversy sidelines the benefits for disabled people | Letter
Letters: Guardian readers reflect on the ableism rife in the debate about Ray-Ban Meta eyewear, despite the life-changing difference they can make
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"The vandalism sends an emboldening signal to the public that tech oligarchs are not omnipotent....It’s crass and illegal....But the boost to human self-esteem and the reminder that our squishy bodies still matter more than all the data in the cloud? It’s hard to argue against it."
The Flock uprising is just the beginning - Salon.com
People are sick of tech billionaires trying to control our lives
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50 green groups write to Andy Burnham demanding he be clear that climate change is the cause of the current extreme heat crisis. Greenpeace, WWF, Friends of the Earth and others say "the British public deserves leadership that speaks honestly about the nature of the challenges the country faces"
