Very Silly Concept: a show called “Accessibility Nightmares” but it’s structured exactly like Kitchen Nightmares. An accessibility specialist goes to different establishments and helps them make their businesses more accessible.
The accessibility specialist asks why the door at the top of the small set of stairs has a wheelchair symbol on it. The owner replies that’s the accessible bathroom. The camera zooms in on the specialist as they process this information.
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A customer with a service dog comes in to a restaurant. The hostess tells them they don’t allow dogs. The accessibly specialist looks over at the hostess like
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And there are web accessibility episodes too. The accessibility specialist stares at the white text on the light pink background of the home page like
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The specialist asks why not a single product picture has alt text, and the business owner says “Well I mean, it’s makeup, why would a blind person be shopping for makeup?” The specialist just
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The specialist asks the web designer how a screen reader user is supposed to complete the captcha portion of the password reset process when there is no audio alternative. The designer admits they don’t know.
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When you left this tag three days ago, I thought “that’s so sweet, but no. No way this concept is even close to that popular.”
[ID: Four pictures of Gordon Ramsay in various states of confusion. /end ID]
This is it. This is my job. This is what I do for a living. I make those faces and then I tell my uncaring monitor exactly what is wrong with this website and what the site owner needs to do to fix it with all the fucks I can’t put in official work documents sprinkled liberally throughout.
And now I will be picturing Gordon Ramsey when I do it.
What’s up, I made a meme that I’m sure is extremely broad-audience and relatable
This has gone far enough that it has now circled back to my dash organically. Love that we all hate pointless wool blends. Hate that we can’t escape them.
1928 Callot Soeurs created this unique evening dress. It has been carefully devised to appear as though it was simply a long silk scarf that has been draped about the frame. In reality the black silk crepe chiffon of the dress has been expertly embroidered in a manner that enhances that illusion. There is a narrow band of black silk panne velvet that borders the chiffon and gives it a bit more structure. The dress also has a silk satin underdress that exists primarily as a support structure. From Attire’s Mind, FB.
Did you hear the scientists have found a way to grow colored cotton? Thoughts?
It’s not a ‘scientists have found’ and much more ‘people have been already doing that for thousands of years and it’s just gaining more attention recently’
Scientists didn’t know. It should be “Scientists just found out”
There’s actually been a load of vitriol leveled against folks who try to raise traditional colored cottons, because a lot of cotton growers don’t want the colored cottons cross-pollinating with their standard white cotton.
But anyway cotton can be grown in lovely natural shades of greens, reddish-brown ochres, and browns, all of which deepen with a good boil in water with a bit of washing soda thrown in.
The color obviously doesn’t fade or run, because it’s not dye. It’s the intrinsic color of the fiber itself.
I….I want clothes made out of those colors. They don’t hurt my brain!
Aren’t they lovely?
I’m biased because I love the natural earth tones of many fibers, of course…browns, blacks, creams, copper-reds, ect…but I think they’re just gorgeous.
If anyone wants to know where you can get yarn or cotton like this!
This is gorgeous. Absolutely astounding.
I grow cotton every year from plants I get at Maryland Sheep and Wool festival, because the flowers are lovely. So far, I’ve grown white, green, brown, and ‘butternut’ (a golden tan).
There is an effort among the colored cotton breeders to improve the fiber length and diversify the colors, but like all plant breeding, it takes a long time and the results are never certain.
Actually, here’s what I’ve picked so far this year – I only had 1 green cotton plant this year, the rest were brown. I’m hoping this warm spell lasts a little long so more of the bolls mature.
Richie trans headcannon where he came out to his parents but gave himself a cringe ass anime first name like goku or whatever and his parents drew the line so hard he backpeddled and settled on Richard
Dreamed that there was a mundane-setting TTRPG I’m going to call “Greg and Maureen” where the players are visiting a non-player character couple their characters are friends with. But the couple is going through a rough spot! The objective was to investigate their relationship and either to help their marriage or hasten their divorce. It’s always small town and you’re always staying at their house. Players could add a little flavor of how they knew Greg and Maureen and even choose some minor traits for them before the game.
I’d played the game with another group before, but I didn’t know there were multiple paths. There’s a note Greg writes confessing to something, but depending on the dice roll it’s a different note. The content of a major plot point depended on a 2d6 dice roll.
In the dream, I’d previously played a version where he confessed to cheating on Maureen with another woman, so I thought Maureen should see the note, but in the game we were playing, my friend Celia found the note, which actually said that Greg was dishonorably discharged from the army for a gay relationship (he’s bisexual) before he met Maureen, and that he had lied about having had an honorable discharge. So for a while I came off as an asshole because I kept saying that Maureen needed to know the contents of the note so that she could confront him about what he did to her, and my friend seemed to me to be unusually blasé about what I thought was an affair.
There were other possible notes. In other timelines he had never had an affair, never been in the army, never even loved her, etc. There was another possible note where you learned he’d lied to her that he was good at track in high school (imagine an impressive mile time, which my dream mind supplied as 6:40, though that won’t even get you into varsity level) when he was actually bad at track in high school (14 minute mile). This was a lie he’d told, like, once, and he and Maureen almost never talked about running or high school sports.
In every possible timeline, Greg was Utterly Wracked with guilt about his secret. Yes, even the high school track universe.
Also, if players had decided that Greg was white before the game, you could unlock a timeline where his secret was that his distant ancestors had been in league with THE Devil from Christianity between like 1830s and 1910s. (The devil was just their accountant. He was ashamed of them for non-devil reasons.) In this timeline, you could actually meet the devil.
You didn’t find a note in every timeline, so sometimes you had to work off other evidence. I had only ever played mainly investigating Greg, but you could also focus on investigating Maureen. I think the other players and I just suspected him of hiding something every time, due to our biases. Sorry Greg! Guess we weren’t real gregheads.
Now that Hatchetfield is trending again, I have to confess that when I invite a friend over to watch tgwdlm I pause the video when Paul and Emma are hugging (just before Inevitable) and ask them what they thought about it.
We talk for a while about their opinion of the musical and all that jazz and then I say “great” and press play again.
For the love of god if your native language is different from the majority language of the country you’re living in don’t raise your baby speaking the local language. Either have each parent speak to them in a different language or only speak your native language at home. The kid will be okay. Get your native language in their head. You may think you’re helping them in the long term giving them the local language but no. When they’re an adult they’ll wonder why you never taught them your language. They can and will learn the local language in school. They’ll be okay. Produce more bilingual children. They are good for society.
And also, being bilingual helps with executive function. Not all kids have to reach the same language development at the same time as everyone else, it’s okay to have your kid speaking in more complex sentences a month or so later than the “normal” kids.
I’ve studied the science linguistically but I’d like to put that aside. PLEASE teach your kid the native language. It can go so much deeper than “wondering why”, it can create a schism-like pain when you know there’s a heritage you have but all access has been cut off. Yes, ALL. If you’re fortunate enough to visit the country of your native language but dont teach your kid, they will be miserable, quiet, and alone, and go through difficult phases of hating that heritage because the ladders were cut for them.
And in the United States, this starts young. I’ve seen teachers tell a Kazakhstani parent that she should tell her kid to speak English INSTEAD. The kid was 2 and a half. A friend’s five year old told him “Dad this is America we dont speak Chinese”. If you don’t teach your kid your native language this country will wrest all pride and heritage from them by force. An occasional visit or two to the home country will not stop the bleeding.
The pain of not speaking the language of my heritage is something I don’t wish on anyone. And that language is one of the most spoken in the world, imagine if your native language is rarer. What happens? What happens?
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