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Question for pixelfed ppl. How to you see alt txt? I tried pixelfed app and in a browser but can't see it. As soon as I view pixelfed via a mastodon app (megalodon in this case) the alt txt button shows up on everyone's photos.

Экзеки. Эпизод 3. Тим Кук. Архитектор современной Apple.

Друзья и бывшие коллеги Тимоти Дональда Кука крутили у виска, когда он перешел на работу в Apple в марте 1998 года. Компания, у руля которой стоял только что вернувшийся Стив Джобс…

apfelschorle.blog/execs-ep3-co

Tech companies think that, if they make products *look* futuristic, you will think that they are actually innovating. In reality what we get is not "Star Trek communicators inspired cell phones" but "every experience with your computer is going to be like begging HAL to open the pod bay doors" except less evil and more frustrating.

productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/im

Tech companies are only pretending to innovate, through copying futuristic aesthetics from science fiction without understanding their purpose.
The Product PicnicImitating the future, breaking the presentTech companies are only pretending to innovate, through copying futuristic aesthetics from science fiction without understanding their purpose.

New rule: All dialog boxes asking an either/or question must include a third choice: “No, and fuck you for even asking. Let us never speak of it again.”

When you change longstanding placements of navigational links, esp a social media site, it really can screw up people that rely on #a11y #UI #GUI, like moving Notifications, probably the second most clicked link in #Mastodon from under Home to other placements down on the list.

I hope they reconsider this in the final V4.4.0 release. Keep Notifications in the number two spot.

#MastoAdmin

I'm reading GitHub #34910, #34987, #35017, #34986, #35029, #35065, #35067 and #35072 to see reasoning

Here’s a question for front-end developers about accessibility.

If you hide an element with “aria-hidden,” the element and all of its children are hidden from screen readers. If one of those child elements is an image, the alt text is moot because a screen reader will ignore it.

Example:

<button aria-hidden="true">
<img src="/img/icon.svg">
</button>

Do you:

In Microsoft Office 97–2003, if a menu item had an icon, it meant “it’s possible to have a toolbar button for this, but I’m not going to tell you whether that button is in any of your toolbars right now”. Most items didn’t have an icon, and many of the icons were barely guessable unless you read the text first.

In Office 2007 and later, if a menu item has an icon, it means “a designer has had the time and imagination to make an icon for this”. Many items don’t have an icon, and many of the icons are barely guessable unless you read the text first.

In early versions of Ubuntu (2004–2009), if a menu item had an icon, it meant “a designer has had the time and imagination to make an icon for this”. Many items didn’t have an icon, and many of the icons were barely guessable unless you read the text first. One small achievement of the Ubuntu design team was that we cleared out all the icons except for changeable lists of things: bookmarks, devices, user accounts, folders, and so on.

In iOS 13 and later, and now in macOS Tahoe, if a menu item has an icon, it means “a designer has had the time and imagination to choose an icon for this”. The same icon often means very different things in different apps, and many of the icons are barely guessable unless you read the text first.

#ui #ux
mastodon.social/@lapcatsoftwar

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MastodonJeff Johnson (@lapcatsoftware@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image The Tahoe menu item icons are a distraction. They hurt rather than help, because now you have to look at two different types of things—words and icons—rather than just one. Which should you focus on? It just slows you down. And some of those icons are meaningless, not to mention too small to parse. Compress? The Rename icon actually signifies “edit”. The distinction between the Open and Make Alias icons are never going to make sense to the user. Not to mention Copy and Duplicate.

UX designers (which includes nearly anyone developing front-end code, whether it's in your job title or not), remember that real people will have to use your interface. It will affect them. It can have a serious impact on their quality of daily life.

Don't drive your users to this: mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/11

#UI#UX#UIUX

The side arrow in Mastodon nightly is a bit distracting visually. Could we make "Lists" as a button instead, with an item "Show all lists" underneath? Since we're accessing lists directly, that might make the interface cleaner.

I'm not sure who to ping for this quick thought, so I'll just ping @renchap for now.

#UI#UX#MastoAdmin

Gavin Strange - "Be productive, not precious"

An awesome talk from the @btconf from Gavin Strange @jamfactory about you being the person to help you be creative. And finding pockets of time to strive for it.

Someday i'll be at the conference: In the crowd..
youtube.com/watch?v=YmTNxGwdnIo

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