I work in accessibility, yes.
And yet, if someone cannot meaningfully participate in society without their glasses, then yes, they have a disability. Polio paralysis and vision loss are both examples of disability. They do have differences in all…
15% is from the 2011 WHO report on disability: https://www.who.int/teams/noncommunicable-diseases/sensory-f... The more recent WHO's Global report on health equity suggests 16%, as populations age:…
I work in big tech in accessibility. I guarantee you that you are incorrect.
You've got it. Who makes the decisions? Primarily the folks with the most property.
And they decide that you'll pay a percentage of what they pay each other. Which you also have no say in.
This isn't sustainable. You really want every person who is dealing with this bureaucracy to manage negotiating between their insurance and their EMS? After they've just had a significant accident/health issue? That…
Well, here it is often ass AND expensive. I'd take ass and free over ass and expensive.
You know we can have volunteer supported services be very effective, right? I volunteer to give blood. No one is paying me, and yet, someone's life is saved by that. Some folks believe (in fact, this is the thesis…
There's still a few brands, you'll just end up paying through the nose for them.
You don't... heat it? Egg yolks change their role in ice cream when heated, increasing their emulsifying power and creating a richer ice cream.
I think that's extremely ungenerous and misses the point of the article. The article is specific in the mechanisms by which the industry has changed formulae -- adding air, gums, and stabilizers. It also includes…
And furthermore, ~15% of us are permanently disabled. So the percentages for temporary or situational disability rise even higher than that.
Do you use curb cuts? Closed captions? Difficulty sliders in games? An electric toothbrush? Audible crosswalk signals? All of those have significant roots in accessibility for people with disabilities. I guarantee you…
Videogames are generally lagging WAY behind the rest of software. I've worked professionally in accessibility and in AAA game studios. There's a lot of movement in games over the past 5-10 years, so there's a lot more…
This is a great example of the curb cut effect -- a system designed for accessibility needs turns out to be useful in other contexts. Curb cuts were designed for people with disabilities, particularly veterans, and over…
It made a claim, brah. If it's going to claim flowing text, then it shows that? Nah, that ain't it. It can aspire to be whatever it wants to be, don't make claims you can't back up.
Sure, I love a Forza Horizons (I'm not much for mainline Forza), but those games aren't really experiencing the same scope creep as the the rest of the industry. Call of Duty is, but it's also noteworthy that sales of…
This is absolutely a chat UI.
I expected, from the description, it to look like text was being written by hand -- with the letterforms being stroked at roughly human pen speeds. Not just a fancy font over a text box being entered character by…
Holy shit this looks tacky. Response speed is WAY too fast for the effect of feeling like something is writing on the other side. Text is very much written in the style of an LLM. > an answer writes itself back in a…
> Microsoft is never going to figure out gaming. That's the thing -- for a while they had figured out gaming. The xbox and 360 were solid consoles with lots of great internal and external games. Halo was incredible.…
This is purely greed on Microsoft's point. They absolutely have a profitable business with some great games, and they are sad that their management decisions led to this outcome. But it's the rank and file who will pay…
I work in accessibility, yes.
And yet, if someone cannot meaningfully participate in society without their glasses, then yes, they have a disability. Polio paralysis and vision loss are both examples of disability. They do have differences in all…
15% is from the 2011 WHO report on disability: https://www.who.int/teams/noncommunicable-diseases/sensory-f... The more recent WHO's Global report on health equity suggests 16%, as populations age:…
I work in big tech in accessibility. I guarantee you that you are incorrect.
You've got it. Who makes the decisions? Primarily the folks with the most property.
And they decide that you'll pay a percentage of what they pay each other. Which you also have no say in.
This isn't sustainable. You really want every person who is dealing with this bureaucracy to manage negotiating between their insurance and their EMS? After they've just had a significant accident/health issue? That…
Well, here it is often ass AND expensive. I'd take ass and free over ass and expensive.
You know we can have volunteer supported services be very effective, right? I volunteer to give blood. No one is paying me, and yet, someone's life is saved by that. Some folks believe (in fact, this is the thesis…
There's still a few brands, you'll just end up paying through the nose for them.
You don't... heat it? Egg yolks change their role in ice cream when heated, increasing their emulsifying power and creating a richer ice cream.
I think that's extremely ungenerous and misses the point of the article. The article is specific in the mechanisms by which the industry has changed formulae -- adding air, gums, and stabilizers. It also includes…
And furthermore, ~15% of us are permanently disabled. So the percentages for temporary or situational disability rise even higher than that.
Do you use curb cuts? Closed captions? Difficulty sliders in games? An electric toothbrush? Audible crosswalk signals? All of those have significant roots in accessibility for people with disabilities. I guarantee you…
Videogames are generally lagging WAY behind the rest of software. I've worked professionally in accessibility and in AAA game studios. There's a lot of movement in games over the past 5-10 years, so there's a lot more…
This is a great example of the curb cut effect -- a system designed for accessibility needs turns out to be useful in other contexts. Curb cuts were designed for people with disabilities, particularly veterans, and over…
It made a claim, brah. If it's going to claim flowing text, then it shows that? Nah, that ain't it. It can aspire to be whatever it wants to be, don't make claims you can't back up.
Sure, I love a Forza Horizons (I'm not much for mainline Forza), but those games aren't really experiencing the same scope creep as the the rest of the industry. Call of Duty is, but it's also noteworthy that sales of…
This is absolutely a chat UI.
I expected, from the description, it to look like text was being written by hand -- with the letterforms being stroked at roughly human pen speeds. Not just a fancy font over a text box being entered character by…
Holy shit this looks tacky. Response speed is WAY too fast for the effect of feeling like something is writing on the other side. Text is very much written in the style of an LLM. > an answer writes itself back in a…
> Microsoft is never going to figure out gaming. That's the thing -- for a while they had figured out gaming. The xbox and 360 were solid consoles with lots of great internal and external games. Halo was incredible.…
This is purely greed on Microsoft's point. They absolutely have a profitable business with some great games, and they are sad that their management decisions led to this outcome. But it's the rank and file who will pay…