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kestrellSo, funny story:
I haven't been able to read this article
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/24/style/disability-accessibility-coronavirus.html
Another person with a disability (but who is sighted) sent an email with the NY Times link in it but, all I can access when I get to the NY Times website is the option to subscribe--maybe it's an overlay?--but I can't find a way to dismiss it or find a link to login with my username and password.
The email also included a link to a pdf download on Apple iCloud, which I did but, when I click on the file in my directory, absolutely nothing happens: the file doesn't open, acrobat doesn't open, Jaws doesn't say anything.
Some days I wonder why I even f***ing bother.
I haven't been able to read this article
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/24/style/disability-accessibility-coronavirus.html
Another person with a disability (but who is sighted) sent an email with the NY Times link in it but, all I can access when I get to the NY Times website is the option to subscribe--maybe it's an overlay?--but I can't find a way to dismiss it or find a link to login with my username and password.
The email also included a link to a pdf download on Apple iCloud, which I did but, when I click on the file in my directory, absolutely nothing happens: the file doesn't open, acrobat doesn't open, Jaws doesn't say anything.
Some days I wonder why I even f***ing bother.
Re: Major ironies ahead!
Date: 2020-09-01 11:46 pm (UTC)1. Alexx is a second-generation formatting snob: we have to negotiate what level of editing he is allowed to do before I allow him to proofread anything I write, and his dad and I just had to agree to disagree about fonts and typefaces, since he went for presentation and I went for accessibility.
2. Okay, okay, the web design instructor said all those whtie space issues would get solved when we got to CSS, but I'm twitchy just looking at the code in my text editor, and no one else is even seeing it yet.
3. We do indeed share a brain: I typically convert my ebooks to plaintext so all the visual formatting gets stripped out, but that's because the fancier characters, such as m hypens and right and left quotatioin marks, get converted to strings of junk characters in my accessible ebook readers.
Btw, why am I still online? Spending all day reading documentation makes me hyper. I need to go read a nice soothing horror book now.
'Night!