CIRCLE WITH A DOT

Oh hey, I was in a podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsST89meulk

Fun #language deep dive.The Dutch word "aardig" conventionally means "friendly" or "kind". However, if we look at this through cognates, it could be translated as "earthy". Aard-, that first syllable, can mean earth, but also one's nature, and in some words, one's orientation, which synonymizes with being grounded, as in an electrical system.Aard can also mean "descent", which is where we get even deeper into the weeds. For one, this is likely where our friend "aardig" came from; aardig = of high/noble descent became friendly/kind. In the word "eigenaardig", which now means "odd" or "strange", we see influences of this meaning as well, meaning as much as "having a character of one's own", which is amusing if we compare it to similar words in other languages, most notably "idiot" which comes from ancient Greek "idiotes", which means "private person". Moral of the story: Being your own person and going against what is expected of you has been made to feel bad. Do it anyway!

It's such an interesting phenomenon to me to see learners, of any discipline, gatekeep that knowledge, or diminish somebody else's pursuits in acquiring said knowledge if they somehow didn't put in the same amount of effort/money/pain and suffering.There's this course called Piano in 21 days that promises learners to get them playing, teach them some cords and focus on practical over theory, and if you do a bit of googling you find so many snooty "proper(tm)" piano players that deride people spending their time and money on this even though they clearly state it helped them reach their goals of just playing some piano and singing along.The course never promises to turn you into a Bach player, and yet, that's what these people compare it to only to tear it down based on that criterion. 1/2

@zersiax Indeed. I think one concern is AI access being provided instead of inclusive by design or human access e.g. AI ALT text or audio description which could be non contextualised or outright hallucinated in parts. That's what scares me for my students, what they might be missing if something is AI-accessibility with no clear accountability or standards. Or if they use tools e.g. summarisers which cause errors in their academic work which they're liable for.

During this year's "Games for blind gamers" jam on #itchIO, a #game was submitted that tried to accurately portray a #blind protagonist. This game was developed by a developer who is not blind, but believed to have done adequate research into this. Some people did not agree and came down on them rather hard, but I saw an opportunity.In this video I break down what was represented well, what wasn't, and we get into some really interesting #blindness and #disability topics along the way. Hopefully it might teach a thing or two https://youtu.be/qE81d4Pcw9E#disability #disabilities #blindness #representation #indieGames #gaming #youtube #selfPromo

Given this is now released, I'm happy to report that the third-party control client for the Elgato Streamdeck, called OpenDeck, is now a lot more accessible for #screenReader and keyboard-only users.These devices have always had a huge #accessibility barrier in that the only way to assign an action to a key was through a drag-and-drop interface. Elgato has been notified about this, but proved ... let's say ... less than ehtusiastic to fix it. So, I did.While I can't claim 100% accessibility, primarily because that isn't a thing, I can say I made sure everything I could find was labeled, and that there's now a keyboard-only way of associating buttons, knobs, and touch controls with actions, something the official client does not, and probably will not, support.I'll be making a video on the ViewpointUnseen youtube channel with all the details soon.https://github.com/nekename/opendeck

RE: https://mastodon.nl/@NunlRSS/116341492165056981En maar zeuren dat het zo slecht gaat en men niet genoeg verdient ... SMH

@zersiax yeah, it's tabbing past the end of the UI that crashes from what I'm observing here. Worthy of note is that this doesn't happen with other tauri apps I tried