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Frej 🇩🇰

Been digging through mastodon settings to find a way do disable link previews. It seems like there's no way to turn them off.

Here's a uBlock filter that will do the trick

`!yeet link previews
fosstodon.org##.expanded.status-card
fosstodon.org##.status-card`

#Mastodon#Meta#LinkPreviews
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C.

#Web #usability and #accessibility ...

This is from crimethinc.com, but I'm not trying to pick particularly on them. There are many, many, many sites just as bad or worse.

This is a screenshot from an article on their site today, rendered in Firefox (Linux).

See the hair-thin font? See the fact that it's light grey on a white background? There's virtually no contrast between the text and the background.

This is an accessibility nightmare for those with any sort of vision problem. Picking the colour out of the screenshot (I didn't look at the CSS), it appears the text is basically 45% grey. This is ludicrous.

If the font face had some heft, it might be still be half-assed readable with contrast this low.

But as is... If I were to take my contacts out, I wouldn't even be able to tell that this screenshot *had* any of the normal-sized text in it, much less be able to read any of it.

Web designers, I beg you: please consider more than the appearance of what you're creating when you're making design choices.

Remember that not everyone is a 20- or 30-something with near-perfect vision.

Remember that people have cataracts or other types of eye cloudiness which necessitate high-contrast text to be able to read, even if they scale the fonts up by a huge amount.

Remember that vision degrades naturally in people in many ways other than "just wear glasses" can fix.

A partial screenshot of a browser window open to a web page about tyranny. The text is in an extremely thin/fine font face, and is light grey on a white background. It is difficult to read unless you are a 20- or 30-something young person with excellent vision. It's almost completely lacking in visual contrast. It's an accessibility nightmare.
#WebDesign#WebDesigner#design
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Dan Keck

Two years ago at #CSUN I learned about what became my favorite browser extension, BeeLine Reader. I've been a subscriber ever since.

It's easy to set up on desktop, but has been some struggle to get working on Android. But this week I discovered it works with Microsoft's Edge Canary mobile browser, which has experimental support for extensions. Instructions are here: u.osu.edu/keck.60/2023/03/26/b

A paragraph of text in black, red and blue. Each line ends with a particular color, and the next line starts with that same color, fading into a different color across the line. The paragraph reads: Suffering from screen fatigue? We’re here to help! BeeLine Reader makes reading on-screen easier, faster, and more enjoyable. We use a simple cognitive trick — an eye-guiding color gradient — to pull your eyes through long blocks of text. This helps you read more effectively and maintain your focus better.
#AndroidAccessibility#Accessibility#Readability
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Aral Balkan

When live coding on a Mac, don’t just mirror your screen as no one will be able to see what you’re doing. Use, e.g., SwitchResX to mirror your screen at a larger retina resolution (1280×720 works if presenting on a 1920×1080 projector).

That way, you shouldn’t have to alter the text size in your terminal, browser, etc., and the audience will still be able to read your screen. Also goes for live streams, etc.

madrau.com

Screenshot of SwitchResX system menu (open), showing 1280 × 720 resolution on Color LCD (1) selected (HIDPI, 16:9). The other options in the menu are Detect Displays, PHL 243V7 (2), Display Sets, Turn Video Mirroring Off, and SwitchResX Settings…
#macOS#presenting#switchResX
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