Tag: LemonADA
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LemonADA 5
Basic rule for inventions, genomes and languages: The original version starts with all the needed features. Over time as it branches into different subtypes for different purposes, it simplifies and loses features. While grinding through my courseware data files to insert alt-text for screen readers, I’m bumping into a few vestigial leftovers of a MUCH…
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Double significance
Today is Braille Day and also Dimpled Chad Day. Braille is interesting since I’m in the middle of adapting courseware for blind students. After I finish the required but dubious verbal descriptions, I’ll run up a far more useful braille version, making the images directly tactile. There is a (somewhat) standard coding method to feed…
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LemonADA 3
Damn, this is turning out to be fun! Lemon: Last night I was thinking about other pointless expenditures caused by ADA, especially the curb cuts in places where there isn’t a sidewalk. Thought derailed to traffic lights with announcements on the Walk cycle. 20, 19, 18, 17, etc. LemonADA: Well, those lights turned out to…
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More LemonADA
Following on previous LemonADA item. Lemon: Had a moment of panic this morning. While running up ADA alt-texts for the second courseware package I noticed that the source files I’m using aren’t up to date, and I can’t find the latest ones. Back in 2023 the current publisher finally acquired the rights for some better…
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Word we haven’t heard
I’m grinding along with ADA additions to two separate courseware packages. Got one package done, starting on the second. I can move forward a bit faster now, partly because my routine is established and partly because the intro material is similar. In the first few lessons I can just copy the description from the same…
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Year end shit for 2025
I guess I’ll turn this 2014 reprint into the annual Year End Shit. It’s a heartfelt piece expressing how I feel about the world, and has some up-to-date resonance. Normally I try to reprint or link my best tech history piece or my best blog writing. This year I’ve been tired and distracted by external…
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LemonADA
This month I’ve been grinding through the mostly annoying** task of adding ADA alt-text to courseware. It’s annoying (as abovementioned) because there are few if any blind students in speech and hearing, and because this material is intrinsically visual, not amenable to verbal description. The guidelines are vague, contradictory, and mandatory. You must obey but…
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