🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

Thanks! I’m happy with what I hacked up for our Lemmy, but if it ever stops working I’ll probably move. Although, using something that’s not the number one most popular solution might actually be an advantage, I guess.

Unfortunately, economics are working against you. Most of the smaller clients are just using one of the big website builders, or using AI themselves. So the days when someone could run a small business with maybe fifteen or twenty little clients and make a living are almost over. Today, you have to get a good four figure contract, or work for an agency.

Does your local university have a job board? That might be your best bet. Folks working towards a degree are often looking for jobs that won’t be full-time, as they want to focus on their studies. So if you’re a small organization of doctors, who remember what the university grind is like and are willing to work yourselves around exam season, that might be your best bet. Compsci students are also looking for work experience, and as with many young people are often more interested in advocacy than their elders. And if you get a third or fourth year student, you know they’re at least getting some sort of education in the craft, rather than just being a guy off the street with no knowledge, but an AI and a desire to make money.

Yes, that’s what I meant. I have the experience to do it. I just see no point because of the issues with the standards.

The issue is that if you don’t give people imbedded images, they re-invent them with inaccessible ASCII art. If you don’t give them the ability to change fonts, they reinvent it using those awful Unicode hacks. Etc etc etc. From my experience working in the industry, you have to give people a standard way to do all of the things they want to do. Otherwise they’ll invent nine different ways of doing them, and not a single one will be accessible. When I looked via a proxy, like half the pages I encountered in gemspace had ASCII art. An accessible browser would take maybe a day or two. I just can’t think of any reason to bother.

Ah, good to know. Based on the level of fury from the people complaining, I’d assumed it was pornographic.

Oh, as long as it never displays a page that requires user interaction, it works. If you go to rblind.com directly, you’ll find I’m doing something similar. I didn’t use anubis because of some controversy about the logo, and the logo has no alt text for me to judge if I care about whatever upsets people. So I just decided not to use it.

No. Anubis displays captchas with no audio or text alternative. https://anubis.zehuti.com/docs/captcha

{cries in screenreader} try not being able to solve any of the checks. Half of the modern web is now just blocked off for blind folks.

It’s useful for sharing links over the phone, in person, or on a powerpoint or whatever, though. Or putting links on a business card. I use one for all of the above.

All responsible server admins have them defederated. Hate speech and genocide denial, that is almost certainly against the law in Canada, Germany, and other places. We defederated lemmygrad for the same reason.