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> APCA models how human eyes actually perceive contrast, factoring in font weight, spatial frequency, and ambient light — a genuine improvement over the WCAG 2.x formula. […] The r…

Corrected version: A wealth tax of 1% is equivalent to an income tax of 20% on capital gains .

Are there any recommendations for testing accessibility for TUI applications? The article mentions speakup, but as far as I understand, you need a hardware synthesizer to use that.…

I am not sure it is helpful to shoehorn terminals into being a second web. The terminal's strength is its simplicity. For example, I really dislike mouse support in TUIs. 100% of t…

My experience as a developer (with a preference for simplicity): - CLI by default - if I need a GUI, but no access to the local system: web - if I need a (restricted) GUI with acce…

My experience is that often when I think "I wish my email / browser / calendar / … did X" it turns out be a limitation of the underlying protocol. So even if you build all software…

Is the text on this page really #bbbdc3 on #ffffff? How is anyone supposed to be able to read that?

Looks like a helpful honeypot! Any tool that will public announce support for this spec is a tool I know to avoid because it collects telemetry without explicit opt-in in the first…

I was working on something similar a while back ( https://github.com/xi/spreadsheet ) but ended up not using it. I just didn't end up being the first tool that came to mind when I …

Firefox supports webRequestBlocking with MV3, so even if they fully remove support for MV2, ad blocking is still available.

I am working on https://github.com/xi/xiio , a minimal async runtime for python. It is mostly feature complete with a fraction of the code of asyncio or trio. It is great fun to ge…

I am still confused what exactly this tool is doing. I clicked on "examples" in the hope of finding an example of a generated policy. But it only gives examples of the configuratio…

I don't get the frustration with wayland (the protocol) in the comments. This project shows that having a separate window manager was always possible. First we got wlroots as a lib…

I also find building apps for the web is much easier than any of the native frameworks. You can start by writing plain text in a file and then progressively add HTML, CSS, and JS. …

The README talks a lot about crypto. But the interesting bit is how you can access the passwords. Is there an API? If yes, how does it protect your passwords from malicious softwar…

I absolutely hate this argument. Everything in CSS is public (as in: can interface with HTML), not global. Think of writing CSS as designing an API.

It is a Maneki-neko (beckoning cat / Winkekatze). The video team started putting them on podiums so they could see when a stream was frozen. So it became kind of a mascot.

This is probably a Linux issue. Mac OS and Windows implement the FIDO2 Platform API, which allows them to act as authenticators themselves. Linux does not. See https://github.com/l…

I also think these are very similar. The main difference in my view is that the state parameter is checked by the client, while PKCE is checked by the server. I run an authenticati…

> For coders, visual aesthetics don’t matter. For lawyers, they are a technical requirement. While this difference may seem arbitrary on the surface, it is downstream of a critical…

100% this. When I reached the end of that page I felt pranked because the obvious question was never answered. How are these cases resolved? Is it possible to fix some inputs and o…

Last time I checked hyprland was pretty much despised in the wider linux developer community. See for example https://drewdevault.com/2023/09/17/Hyprland-toxicity.html . Has anythi…

There is no real difference between ratio and difference. It is just scaled with a logarithm. See https://blog.ce9e.org/posts/2022-09-10-contrast-algorithms/ for details.

Any reference to APCA has been removed from the WCAG 3 drafts in 2023 (see https://github.com/w3c/silver/commit/d5b364de1004d76caa7ddc4... ). I am not sure what the status is.