Sorry, those with disabilities don’t actually have the right to enjoy art. This article just isn’t for you. /s
I hate how ableism is so prevalent on the web and amongst engineers. This website is a beautiful way to let users explore the data interactively. There’s absolutely no reason it couldn’t also be made accessible so everyone could appreciate it and explore the timeline of the page and the messages communicated therein.
As nice as the page is, the lack of accessibility comes down to laziness and complacency on the side of the author imo.
What type of art can exist for someone who's blind, deaf, unable to taste or smell, and quadriplegic?
(Edit: additionally, does this exclude music as a whole?)
Those with more than one disability don't have the right to enjoy art? The right to force you individually to accomodate them in everything you do regardless of if you know them or how few of them there may be?
By your metric there, might I accuse your own post here? You didn't use language that someone sufficiently mentally disabled could understand, so you've just excluded their "right" to appreciate and understand what you've written. Perhaps a limitation of this platform, but it'd sound like you're enabling that same ableism, not to mention that you could attach links to pictograms and videos to try to enable those who cannot understand language.
What is such an accusation of "Ableism"? A denial of differences in ability? A belief that if even one person somewhere can't achieve something, that nobody anywhere should, however mundane?
It's one thing to discuss designing our public streets to accomodate people on wheelchairs, of whom there are many and the benefits can also aid cyclists and even just people wheeling cargo on a dolly. Or to design public buildings to have small accomodations as such where they are trivially inexpensive and will remain for the life of the building while often providing benefits to everyone. Yet should it apply to all aspects of life everywhere? And what defines the limits? Exclusion of 1% of the population? 0.1%? A single individual?
Whilst reading about notable people who share my surname, I discovered this bizarre article on the Highgate Vampire media sensation of the 1970s.
> There was more publicity about Farrant and Manchester when rumours spread that they would meet in a "magicians' duel" on Parliament Hill on Friday 13 April 1973, which never occurred.
I’ve historically used Shortcuts on iOS to pipe articles through Siri, but the experience isn’t great.
I’m sure services must exist which consume articles and can read them aloud with high quality test-to-speech, tracking of how far through an article you’ve listened, and so on.
I’d love to see some work put in to making this work with React Native. I spent a day trying to get this to work a few weeks ago with no joy, and I couldn’t find any indication that anyone else had managed to make it work either.
My particular use-case is that I'm not a Swift/Objective-C developer, I'm a JavaScript developer.
React Native opened the door to allow me to build apps and, realistically, I'm not going to spend the time battling through trying to get native git working through React Native. If there's a native developer out there that wants to tackle this problem and wrap it up in a nice JS module then I'd be in your debt!
Depends what users, if you're targeting some education format or institution that wants some locking down of their OS git native is kind of a non starter. No one can configure it for you, there's 65 million install options and you're loading a bash shell into windows.
Very different from "this app has packaged tutorials and tools just start at lesson 1"
This would seem like a workaround but it's possible to run node.js on Android and iOS and bundle it with your react native app so that might be a potential way forward: https://code.janeasystems.com/nodejs-mobile/
No plans currently, but the more libraries pop up around Shortcuts the more likely it is that knowledge can be shared between them, and that things may be able to be reconciled in the future. 10 different libraries all working to implement the same thing is needlessly wasteful.
I’ll be honest, I didn’t spend too much time with Workflow before Apple acquired them. I’m hoping that the community that’s grown around Shortcuts, and the ever more interesting things that people are doing with them, will help convince Apple to continue adding more and more powerful features to the app. Full control over system-level features would be incredible for power users.
I agree, it made life significantly easier than just using regular JS. I’d not built anything from scratch with TS before this, but it seemed such a great fit for the project I decided to take the time to familiarise myself with it. No regrets whatsoever.
Developer of Shortcuts JS here, happy to answer any questions!
At the moment the future of Shortcuts JS is uncertain. In the latest (iOS 13) betas of the Shortcuts app Apple have removed the ability to import Shortcuts from a file, only allowing them to be installed from the iCloud Shortcut sharing service. I’m hopeful that this feature will be added back in when the Shortcuts app comes out of beta in a few months. If not, then unfortunately Shortcuts JS may be dead in the water.
Unfortunately it doesn't look like that works. I've been testing periodically as new betas are released, but I'm still seeing this every time I try to AirDrop a .shortcut over.
I mainly came across it while I was printing a QRcode to actually run a shortcut:// and while I see the file -> Airdrop as being useful you could at the end of the process deliver the same thing a QRcode to the shortcut you just developed no? Or am I missing something?
I don’t believe so, unfortunately. Regardless of what you use to trigger the Shortcut (a QR code, NFC, running it manually) the actual .shortcut file needs to be on the device so that it can actually be run. This means that you still need to find a way to import your generated .shortcut file onto your iOS device.
There is an ‘Allow Untrusted Shortcuts’ option in the Shortcuts section of the Settings app, but as far as I can tell this currently has no effect. Hopefully enabling that toggle will, in the future, allow the import of .shortcut files directly into the app.
Besides this particular change in shortcut deployment that do not allow users to import from external sources and that is constraining for your project, can you please share your thoughts on Apple vision regarding shortcuts ? Shortcut being deployed native in ios 13 means a programmatic interactivity with the OS that powers much of digital life of decision makers in Occident.
