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Things are Getting Weird

Why I have half a dozen drafts and haven't released a thing, at the End of the World

A Social Filesystem — overreacted

Formats over apps.

Ubiquitous Accessibility for People with Visual Impairments: Are We There Yet?

Ubiquitous access is an increasingly common vision of computing, wherein users can interact with any computing device or service from anywhere, at any time. In the era of personal computing, users with visual impairments required special-purpose, assistive technologies, such as screen readers, to interact with computers. This paper investigates whether technologies like screen readers have kept pace with, or have created a barrier to, the trend toward ubiquitous access, with a specific focus on desktop computing as this is still the primary way computers are used in education and employment. Towards that, the paper presents a user study with 21 visually-impaired participants, specifically involving the switching of screen readers within and across different computing platforms, and the use of screen readers in remote access scenarios. Among the findings, the study shows that, even for remote desktop access—an early forerunner of true ubiquitous access—screen readers are too limited, if not unusable. The study also identifies several accessibility needs, such as uniformity of navigational experience across devices, and recommends potential solutions. In summary, assistive technologies have not made the jump into the era of ubiquitous access, and multiple, inconsistent screen readers create new practical problems for users with visual impairments.

Usability/UX/Accessability Research? · Issue #819 · w3c-fedid/FedCM

I'm curious if this work has any usability, UX, or accessibility research that supports the designs here? Are there non-goals, or handling of failure case scenarios that have been envisioned an...

What we think is a decline in literacy is a design problem | Aeon Essays

Your inability to focus isn’t a failing. It’s a design problem, and the answer isn’t getting rid of our screen time

social-app/src/screens/Settings/components/AlgoVisibilityOptOut.tsx at 59082016e9dfb999d13bfafd2145f0edc0ee3b91 · bluesky-social/social-app

The Bluesky Social application for Web, iOS, and Android - bluesky-social/social-app

Dangerous Writing App

Dangerous Writing App. If you stop typing, all progress will be lost. Now with over 500+ writing prompts to choose from.

social-app/src/screens/Settings/components/AlgoVisibilityOptOut.tsx at a197340bce3b038179ed2444110c4bcfef98b28e · bluesky-social/social-app

The Bluesky Social application for Web, iOS, and Android - bluesky-social/social-app

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The @bulleted.app outline.

Augmented Text Tools. Minimalist writing, powerful tools

Augmented Text tools offer a new ecosystem for writing, reading and interacting with text. Author is a writing app for Mac which makes citations and concept mapping easier than ever before. Reader is a free minimalist PDF viewer with powerful interactions.

Rethinking the human-readability infrastructure

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Lies I was Told About Collaborative Editing, Part 2: Why we don't use Yjs / Moment devlog

In part 1 of this series, we found that users generally view the most popular collaborative text editing algorithms (including the most popular library, Yjs) as silently corrupting their documents when the algorithms resolve direct editing conflicts. We argued that, while this is potentially ok for live collaborative editing (since presence cursors help users to avoid direct editing conflicts), this property makes them generally wholly inappropriate for the offline case, as users will have no ability to avoid such conflicts.

leaflet.pub/leaflet

a tool for shared writing and social publishing