2019 (p. 1/3)

A view back at the 9th A11Y Meetup Berlin ...and ahead to the A11Y Club Summit 2019

I much enjoyed one of the Berlin Accessibility Meetup talks this week. Besides, this is the perfect time to remind about our A11Y Club Summit on 16/17 Nov - sign-ups are still open!
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2019

Note, published 28 Oct 2019

The A11YClub Summit Berlin Nov 16/17 being featured by Radimir Bitsov at the A11Y Berlin meetup - sign up for barcamp and workshops now at a11y.club
2019

Reply to a Tweet by Eric Eggert

twitter.com

"Periodic reminder that not everyone has a 'first name' and a 'last name'" ..and that not all names consist of six or more characters
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2019

Office onboard the X2000

Today's "co-working space" onboard the X2000 from Malmö to Stockholm beats flying not just in terms of the carbon footprint, but seat comfort, legroom, flawless WiFi, gastronomy service, staff attentiveness and window views. Even it weren't for #flygskam, I'd have a hard time to justify taking the plane instead.
2019

The week in quotes (2019W38)

Just two topics: Snowden's memoirs, and the climate crisis
2019

The week in quotes (2019W37)

User research myths, privacy dark patterns, responsibilities, social cohesion, innocence lost, and climate injustice
2019

Shops on strike for the climate

So great to see ever more shops and companies announcing they will be closed to participate in the Global Climate Strike demonstrations on 20 September!
2019

Two more means to put your website on climate strike

While my own solution is specific to Kirby CMS, two new alternatives for self-hosted “website strike” banners have been shared - both great options to join the #globalclimatestrike with privacy-friendly solutions.
2019

Faxbook

faxbook.org

This piece of critical media art is just down my alley:
Tired of wasting your entire day on Facebook? Tired of apps and wish you could return to 1986? Faxbook can help. Delete your Facebook account, dust off that old fax machine, and get […]
2019

The week in quotes (2019W36)

Manipulative ad tracking, the "perfect user" bias, the right to log off, barcodes as mobile media, and climate refugees
2019

Closing my website for the Global Climate Strike - a Kirby plugin

I wrote a small Kirby 3 plugin for temporarily shutting down my website on 20 Sep.
2019

The week in quotes (2019W34)

Google's privacy charades, regulation of the web, legal education for developers, cash as a human right, negligence as malice, and eco-friendly wellbeing.
2019

Think-About! – a tech conference unique in concept and execution

A tech conference focusing not only on technology and design, but on social impact and responsibility – when I first heard about the new Think-About! conference, the ticket was an almost instant purchase. And the event turned out to even exceed my already high expectations. This is hands down my new favourite conference.
2019

IACCM Contract Design & Pattern Library

contract-design.iaccm.com

The Contract Design Pattern Library is an open and growing reference of design patterns for creating usable contracts in the “legal design” spirit.
This Library, curated by World Commerce & Contracting, is an ongoing collection of […]
2019

Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites

webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu

In addition to quantifying the depressing amount of manipulative and deceptive dark patters on the web, this paper describes an interesting methodology, using a bot that is able to detect dark patterns. The key theoretical contribution is an empirically […]
2019

Reply to a post by Greg McVerry

quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com

The ping section needs to be added to the blueprint of the content that contains the links. E.g. if you are using a template article for blog posts, add the YML snippet to the blueprint blueprints/pages/article.yml - if you also have a template notes for […]
2019

Note, published 24 May 2019

On the train to Berlin, mind utterly blown by the stellar Think-About! conference...
2019

Co-learning at Accessibility Club #8 - some notes and thoughts

The day started with two presentations. No invited speakers or keynotes, just two community members who had stepped up to prepare a talk. Given the varied background of the audience, this provided a good intro, giving everybody something common to talk about […]
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2019

Selected a11y insights from my past year

Designing accessible technology is a continuous learning process. These are some insights from the past year I wrote about on this blog.
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2019

The week in quotes (2019W19)

Opt-out as luxury, digital privacy reckoning, terminology ambiguity, harmful patterns, loss of deniability, personal websites and the destructive impact of cheap flights.
2019

Sendmentions and Commentions - webmention plugins for Kirby 3

Designing and creating my personal Kirby 3 webmentions solution.
2019

Data Patterns Catalogue

catalogue.projectsbyif.com

Privacy-related pattern libraries are a neat tool for designers. While not necessarily ready to use in a “plug-and-play” matter (the list of Pros and Cons commonly is just too complex to re-use patterns 1:1), they provide valuable pointers to […]
2019

The week in quotes (2019W13)

An Art 14 GDPR precedent, adtech on gov websites, data security in self-hosting, guerilla a11y, Cuban internet proxies, and ecocide.
2019

Note, published 25 Mar 2019

Great Sep’18 IxDA Berlin talks by Eriol Fox and Quinn Keast now on video: https://vimeo.com/ixdab  …updated my summary with links as well. By the way, Eriol is speaking at the Think About! Cologne conference in May! And tickets for […]
2019

The week in quotes (2019W12)

Growth hacking, white supremacy in tech, edge cases, persistence, digital resignation, and strangershots.
2019