Oh yeah, the other glasses-related thing I did today was download the Brazilian voter registration app to check that my polling place for tomorrow hadn't changed, and it required a biometric face scan, which, fine, and asked me to take my glasses off, which...fine...and then gave further instructions on the screen.........???

DO YOU PEOPLE NOT UNDERSTAND THE PROBLEM HERE?!

Every fucking face recognition thing does this. WHY?! πŸ˜‘πŸ€¦β€β™€οΈπŸ’€

My "favorite" was a developer who argued with us because "professional developers only use a two-space indent."

Use a two-space indent on your project. We use four. Tabs are better for #a11y, so I wish we hadn't made that mistake, but with hundreds of thousands of lines of code, with formatting standards going back to 2015, we're not changing it now.

Client: "Well, sometimes we have to break accessibility on our site when it gets in the way of other users."

Me: πŸ€”

If you ever needed a lesson on how _not_ to write alt text… https://x.com/JoeBiden/status/1815080881981190320 (I'm trying hard to write alt text that's useful. If you read my alt texts and have feedback, I'm happy to hear it.)

No working screen reader for nine years* but, hey, you folks want some AI with that?

Let Fedora know what you think in their survey to add generative AI to the operating system:

https://fedoraproject.limequery.com/142117?lang=en

#AI #LLM #GenerativeAI #Fedora #a11y #priorities

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