Garrett LeSage @garrett@mastodon.xyz

Who's your favorite Star War character?

The new #a11y API for #GTK 4 is taking shape in GitLab: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/2239

The new implementation drops the old abstraction layer called ATK, and it's heavily modelled on WAI-ARIA; on Linux, it will talk to ATs using AT-SPI, and on other platforms it will use their native API.

Pixelfed for Android and iOS is in active development.

We'll be looking for beta testers next month!

#pixelfed #ios #android

For those at northerly latitudes, Comet NEOWISE up in the evening now, too
https://earthsky.org/space/how-to-see-comet-c2020-f3-neowise

(submitted by iamben)

Nothing about us without us

#accessibility #disability #activism

Tip: youtube-dl isn't just for YouTube videos

TL;DR: browser extensions are awful for performance. Just awful. Except for adblockers, but only because what they're blocking is so much worse.

"2020 Chrome Extension Performance Report" by DebugBear https://www.debugbear.com/blog/2020-chrome-extension-performance-report

This is a great resource. I'm so glad someone is doing this analysis!

Hands down, this is the best mashup of midcentury furniture, cocktail culture, and robotic age styling. Alleged to have been inspired by the moon landing. Vintage bar by Borghesani, 1969. (Photos by an unknown 1stDibs seller and Kelly Wearstler)

I'll always remember this pandemic as that time companies and organizations proved that they were always completely capable of implementing every single thing disabled people have asked for in the past, but actively chose not to do so.

Bruce Willis's best performance in years.

ghost in the three seashells

Jask: jort mask

Her heart is in the right place

Deleted plums are my favorite.

Google Analytics is the most prevalent tracker in the world. During our last crawl, we found it on 64.2% of web sites:

https://better.fyi/trackers/google-analytics.com/

Developers: every time you add Google Analytics to a site, you are helping build the global panopticon. Stop it!