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whylo

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    Comment #37598109

    Apparently there were barricades but they'd been removed due to vandalism. No mention of how long they'd been missing though. https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/north-car…

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    Comment #36418645

    But in Google-land, doesn't that mean it's next on the chopping block?

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    Comment #34958188

    > employ a security policy of reporting any security concerns via email You don't have a security.txt, https://infisical.com/docs/security/overview doesn't mention it and it's not …

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    Comment #33521677

    For a prototype, sure, accessibility might not be top of the list. But everything about the way this is advertised makes it sound like a production-ready product ('it's a stable, r…

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    Comment #33520714

    Just being XML doesn't make something accessible - I tested with a screen reader and found a lot of issues: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33520364

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    Comment #33520364

    From the FAQ: > Svija pages are fully-readable by screen readers, and you can add special text for each page in Svija Admin, visible only to screen readers. I tested the accessibil…

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    Comment #32521137

    For Twitter it's Settings and Privacy > Accessibility, display and languages > Display > Web browser > Use in-app browser This is on Android, I'm not sure if it's the same on iOS

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    Comment #32386123

    I think OP means that new hires are receiving actual spearphishing emails from attackers outside of the company, not that they're testing them by sending fake spearphising emails. …

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    Comment #32319819

    > Peanut butter is available now, but not that popular I might be an outlier but my family eats peanut butter all the time, and you wouldn't have any trouble finding it even in sma…

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    Comment #32080128

    DVLA systems seem to be an absolute mess, and many public-facing systems are still using the DirectGov styling (which was replaced by GOV.UK in 2012). A lot of their services are c…

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    Comment #32080099

    PaaS ran on AWS anyway, so it wouldn't be Amazon (I would guess? Unless they think they can charge more/upsell by departments procuring directly from them). Perhaps Google or MS we…

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    Comment #32068011

    GOV.UK PaaS always ran on top of AWS (though in UK and Ireland regions), so it's always been dependent on a US company anyway

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    Comment #31932384

    They have some more on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BatterseaPwrStn/status/15420542726820577... Weird they didn't include them in the article

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    Comment #30877610

    It's on their backlog: https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-design-system-backlog/issu... Would definitely be nice to have

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    Comment #30709820

    The metadata on an output PDF I tested says Skia (though I guess that could be being wrapped by another library)

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    Comment #30335464

    > The computer would randomly wake up from hibernate and drain the battery till it was dead. I had exactly the same thing on my XPS 15. I'd take it out of my bag, it'd be warm and …

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    Comment #30303551

    Sure - that's the approach Google have taken with Docs, which switched to canvas-based rendering last year ( https://thenewstack.io/google-docs-switches-to-canvas-render... ). It's…

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    Comment #30300081

    Hopefully this starts supporting accessibility tools before it gets too much traction and people start shipping inaccessible apps. The WebAssembley output demos on the homepage jus…

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    Comment #29428644

    Measured from the base of the stalk, maybe? Rather than the diameter of the leaves

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    Comment #29316369

    Yeah, I keep coming back to Concrete5 (now Concrete CMS). We don't often do CMS-based projects but when we do I test out all the big names and Concrete wins out every time. It had …

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    Comment #29254088

    I've just checked my copy of the email and you're right, the text/plain part only has my name in. The text/html part has the full message though.

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    Comment #28758239

    Do you ensure that the apps that are generated are compatible with accessibility tools on the target platforms? I tried the Split & Tip example app ( https://www.bravostudio.app/ma…

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    Comment #27183343

    I'm more of a nut ;) but I think anyone selling a service like this, or building any kind of front-end framework, has even more of a responsibility than individual site owners to m…

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    Comment #27182581

    I'd really encourage you to download a screen reader such as NVDA (or use VoiceOver if you're on a Mac), make use of the Lighthouse accessibility audit in Chrome dev tools, and try…

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