It is my forever belief that all the people that hate email have zero clue on how to use email. For instance, for me? I stopped subscribing to newsletters and moved everything to RSS feeds. I now use email strictly for communication. I move things into folders based on what kind of email it is. if I wanna keep something in the message, I copy it to a plain text file, with a note at the top when I got the email, who the sender was, and more. I copy full signatures when I want to save an email to a text file because then I'll never have to remember contact information again. Lastly, I stopped reading email in HTML view. It's all plain text for me. No crap tables anymore, no nothing. I made email great again! #Email #PlainText

I was reading #AI output because people can’t help themselves I guess, and I suddenly thought Jesus fuck, this sounds like a man. And then, it hit me. Every large language model I’ve encountered sounded like a cis hetero man on the internet.

Maybe I don't quite hate it all, but I do hate talking with managers, marketing people, people not in web development about accessibility issues on websites because, usually, the conversations always go something like this. Me. This complaint checks out. You need to do this and that and this to make it accessible. Manager. But why isn't our accessible AI tool working? Me. Because AI doesn’t understand your website and it won’t work anyway if someone is on a shit connection and the javascript won’t load. Marketer. But then maybe the person needs to upgrade their internet. Manager. Maybe the screen reader’s broken. Have they added AI to screen readers yet? That will fix everything. why doesn’t NVDA have AI yet? If NVDA had AI, we wouldn't need to worry about this. Marketer. Did you try tabbing? I noticed you weren't tabbing at all, did you try that? Me, internally. That's fucking it! You all deserve to be sued. Today was the first day I thought about turning to the accessibility dark side and actually just becoming a plaintif in all these ADA lawsuits, because this level of, our website isn't the problem, when it clearly is, is getting on my last fucking nerves. It's always managers and marketing people that are the first to ask, well, why doesn’t JAWS have AI yet? Why doesn’t NVDA just compensate for our shit web design? Oh don't get me wrong, developers and I have had our share of, why do I need to use HTML? That's so 1980! Battles. You know, HTML can label a button, you don't need to use ARIA for that. Developer. But ARIA is richer! HTML is boomer technology! Me, screaming internally. I hate you all! But I'm getting more and more of these kinds of clients and so, like, I can fully understand why you'd join these law firms as a plaintiff and just going to town with demand letters and such, because this shit is maddening! The best accessibility conversations I've had have been with developers. Not all the time, but more than not, they get it more than the dipshits in marketing and management. My other alternative is I think everyone in marketing needs to take a mandatory web development class, and pass, and have a certificate. #Accessibility #Rant #A11y

Contact link at end. Hey Fediverse artists, could anyone assist in creating like a little placeholder image for my narrated blog posts? It's for my sightless scribbles blog. I have a few narrated blog posts I'd like to sell/put up somewhere. I can't pay, quite frankly. I'm a broke blogger that lives off donations and other state and government assistance. I am fully anti-AI, so if you mention use AI to do it, I will block you, but if you could help make something for me, DM me or contact me.

Contact and book, Sightless Scribbles

A fabulously gay blind author.

#Art #Artists #Fediverse

I’m helping someone with a résumé platform and I don’t know how you all do job hunting today because this is an absolute nightmare. The particular portal wants the user to upload a resume but then the portal is absolute trash at extracting from the résumé and synthesizing from the résumé so the portal wants the user to type in everything manually. the portal doesn’t even accept markdown or plain text resumes. Only PDF. This kind of nonsense makes me even more #AntiWork my friend is just applying for a job, not to interview the President of the USA. This is absolutely ridiculous, and people genuinely do think that corporate jobs are actually important and instead of a means for survival. If I ever go back into the workforce again, my interview answers will be the most honest anybody’s ever heard. I actually really don’t like your company, but I need money because of capitalism so I don’t care what the corporation does, if it flops, if it wins, Your only obligation is to pay me money so that I can have food. I would never join your corporate mingle fest And on and on and on