Warning! If you are motion sensitive and on macOS, have someone else do your upgrade to Sonoma. The initial launch screen is a motion animation behind the password field. I haven't tried re-launching so don't know whether this is a one-time thing or an every-time thing on power up. #accessibility
It's apparently automatically set on upgrade. Apple Accessibility Support walked me through disabling it, but it was their first time with this case and things may change.
1) For Screen Saver, choose one of the Other ones.
2) On the same settings pane, turn off Show on All Spaces
3) For Wallpaper, if it's not your preferred wallpaper then choose that or anything that doesn't have an icon on it.
@822883bb Ah, so it appears to be an alphabet. Interesting that the letter for the "a" sound looks like the Chinese period. And indeed it is an alphabet, according to Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tifinagh
Ah, I see the language drop-down on posts gives a bilingual list, unlike the preferences. There's a contrast violation I need to file, however, when I get the chance. #Mastodon #accessibility #MastodonAccessibility
Hmmm. ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ is one of the language choices for Mastodon. Google Translate takes it as English and a Duck Duck Go search gives random unrelated results. Searching on English Wikipedia reveals it as Moroccan Amazigh. Now I know. #Languages
Ah, I see the language drop-down on posts gives a bilingual list, unlike the preferences. There's a contrast violation I need to file, however, when I get the chance. #Mastodon #accessibility #MastodonAccessibility
Just realized that different software is using the same icon to mean different things. On Mastodon, the eye with a slash through it means hide the media. But in CKEditor5, which is used in Drupal, it means edit the alternative text. This is not a good thing, especially for someone like me who is icon-challenged. #accessibility #UIDesign #Mastodon #CKEditor #Drupal #Icons
@f361e382 Actually, I see that on all four approaches, the car stop line is well behind the crosswalk. The bike boxes on Fulton just happen to be ahead of the stop line.
@df09caad Alternate text: Image of a male and a female actor in a remote town with a post bearing distances to various remote locations.
I thought the series was just okay. My father loved it. On a personal note, there was a subplot with a lesbian couple and that led my father to have some acceptance of my gayness. #lgbtq
¡Arrgh! Switched from Firefox to Safari for Mastodon because of scrolling issues. But Safari doesn't have the Copy text from image feature that Firefox does. #accessibility #browserCompatibility
If four is an unlucky number in Chinese (due to sounding like the word for death) then ¿why do moon cakes come in boxes of four? #MoonFestival #MidAutumnFestival #Superstitions #Culture #Language
A year or so ago there was a chart showing how long masks provided protection from Omicron in various masking scenarios. ¿Is there an updated chart for current COVID versions?
#COVID #masking #masks #CovidMasking
Also earwormed by some other song. Can't remember who it's by, what album, what language it's in (not English), only suspect it's on a various artists album so could take time to track down. Again, no time today.
Earwormed today by some Buck-Tick song but doesn't seem to be on Six-Nine and don't have time to track it down on 97BT99. #earworm #earworms #Japanese #Rock #Music #JapaneseRock #JRock #RockMusic
Also earwormed by some other song. Can't remember who it's by, what album, what language it's in (not English), only suspect it's on a various artists album so could take time to track down. Again, no time today.
I do sometimes put butter on bread that I'm eating by itself but not in a sandwich. I also don't generally use mayo or butter on sandwiches. If I put anything on a sandwich, it's likely mustard, and only for certain sandwiches.
@4388b5ab Aside from the transport, looks very much like a California Street cable car in terms of layout, down to where the destination signs are.
Interesting destination signs. On the front left Southern Pacific Depot and Golden Gate Park. On the front right, O'Farrell, Oak, Page and Divisadero, via 4th, Ellis.
1. My mental cover of The Letter by The Box Tops (that's mental, not metal, I can hear it in my head any time I like)
2. My mental reggae cover of Love You Ten Thousand Years by Wu Bai & China Blue
3. My mental 3/4 time cover of Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin
#3GoodThings @e804ff38
@98042630 (image text continued) "We need to rapidly phase out fossil fuels, dramatically accelerate climate finance, protect nature, and deploy renewable energy both rapidly and equitably. Now is the moment when we must do all that we can to renew one of the key resources necessary for climate action: political will."
@32dc9d2f@6adf5d3d@b7a54951 Wait, ¿red daikon as opposed to carrot? ¿huhng baahk lo baak? Of course, there are also yellow carrots and purple carrots, just to make things even more confusing, although they are typically sold together with the orange carrots as rainbow carrots rather than a bunch of yellow or a bunch of purple.
@7c471175 Thank you for the suggestion. I can actually stream both of their albums, so if it's a song that's not on their albums then I've never heard it or it's by someone else (maybe Fun4 or Ayal Komod, don't think it's Mayday)
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