fredleblanc

Those Boston stencil jerseys are the Boston Marathon ones. Red Sox play a day game on the same day as the marathon each April. It’s a whole day of things for the city. The stencil approach mimics the days of spray painting down the finish line.

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.

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.)

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.

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.

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. :)

The first time I got to 4 green letters, iOS Safari crashed on me. Wasn’t sure if that was the adversarial part, but laughed hoping it was.

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.

Anyway, worth it to me.

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.

And, yeah, it’s solid. I highly recommend.

Nope.

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 don’t have answers, just thoughts. I’m always impressed how some people can take something I thought was either obvious, common knowledge, or nothing interesting and intrigue so many people with it. You might know something that most don’t, and you might be more interesting than you realize to the right people. And hey, you know the internet! That’s where most of the people are!

I believe that everyone has a niche, but they might not realize it, or people might assume it should be bigger than it is. When I started doing web stuff and “making things,” I dreamed of changing the world. That was like 25 years ago. Now I’m making the things that I like, putting it out into the world, and hoping that somehow the right people find it. I don’t want to change the world anymore, I’m just hoping to accidentally change a couple people’s worlds in tiny, beneficial ways.

Small steps. All we hear about and witness are the big leapers. We’re not all big leapers, and that’s so perfectly OK. I’ve come to rather make a single person very happy, even if only for a few minutes, than make 1,000 people kinda happy.

Maybe it feels like staring out at the ocean and feeling completely insignificant. But maybe it’s really that you’re just not meant to do anything with the ocean.

I’d love to hear more about the ins and outs of technical writing. You probably have learned a lot more than you realize about do’s and don’t’s, tips and tricks, etc.

Look small. Don’t expect to make waves. Do things because you enjoy them. If you feel like sharing that with others, do it! Don’t focus on what they want, focus on you enjoying something. Whether that’s learning something in front of people, trying something new, reviewing a YouTube documentary, or whatever.

Or, you know, don’t. :) Just be, and enjoy learning and watching YouTube and know that those things aren’t damaging the world, and that’s a hell of a lot more than many people can say.

An example of this challenge appearing elsewhere: in the US, long-haul effects of COVID have recently moved under the Americans with Disabilities Act umbrella. The problem, however, is there’s not a single easy, testable way to determine if someone has it or not.