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wittjeff

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About wittjeff

accessibility technology consultant and user experience researcher

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    I'm curious if you used a particular tool for this comparison or a LLM. I ask because (layered irony) I'm making a general tool for multi-dimensional item comparisons, using Claude…

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    The existence of non-profits, and the possibility that they might be net-beneficial to society, is counter to the dominant religion of the day. Profit motive = good, other motive =…

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    Comment #47516967

    I'm a big proponent of use of design systems for efficient remediation and maintenance, so I'm also aware of how a small oops bug can have wide repercussions. Let me know if you'd …

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    From your title my immediate thought was "cool, maybe this will move us a bit closer to making components (or the testing thereof) cover accessibility thoroughly by default". See, …

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    Without negating your point I want to add that at some threshold of tediousness, usability issues become accessibility issues. The fact that this threshold varies from individual t…

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    Comment #47366563

    > as opposed to using AI as a total replacement for your thoughts or your writing and therefore removing the personal touch? I'm really having trouble grasping the true breadth of …

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    Let me refer you to my buddy Anton, a software developer in Ukraine. He has CP and it makes typing and communicating by speech very slow and tedious. https://www.youtube.com/shorts…

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    > Listen: every idea you've ever had, every single one, some cocaine-addled sales critter has had too. And they're better than you at SEO. On most days I am resistant to stereotype…

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    Also a lot of contractors consider their vehicle appearance a tax deductible marketing expense.

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    Comment #46637343

    A fully-electric Maverick?

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    I can't read as fast as your demo GIF. Just infuriating.

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    I bought a Dell Precision 7910 2x Xeon E5-2687W v3 (10 cores, 20 threads each) with 32GB RAM and 512GB SSD for $425 including shipping. I found that Windows 11 Pro will recognize o…

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    Right. Now try background color #767676 on the body element and see how much better it is.

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    I'm always happy to see more innovation in this area. It'd be great if you could make your model, weights, and training corpus public (preferably under a permissive license) on Git…

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    Please add a license file. Thanks!

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    https://ai.meta.com/blog/nllb-200-high-quality-machine-trans... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGgzRE3TlvU

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    This is a screen reader design flaw.

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    I am just getting started with my own cross-comparison, would appreciate your list of considered candidates if you have it handy.

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    Just this week I was working on something similar but specifically for users who have disabilities, so they can more easily report issues to site owners. I also combined general an…

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    You managed to make a web app in 2025 that has almost no HTML semantics and almost no keyboard accessibility (so very clearly and deeply not WCAG-conformant). Gosh, I haven't seen …