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🚗🌍 Oh look, History Today is taking us on a thrilling ride down the Swahili highway! 🤓 Apparently, Swahili didn't just trip and fall into being East Africa's lingua franca—who knew languages didn't grow on trees? 😂 Stay tuned for more groundbreaking revelations only 2 years too late! 📅🎉
historytoday.com/archive/behin #HistoryToday #SwahiliLanguage #EastAfrica #Linguistics #ThrillingRide #HackerNews #ngated

www.historytoday.comSwahili on the Road | History Today

Always fun to read #hackerNews and their rather ... let's call it ... qualitatively exceedingly disappointing mentality towards #accessibility (stroopwafel to the dutchies who see what i did there). But some points do make me think to what degree, say, #screenReaders could be innovating more.
One thing that stuck by me was a comment on an article regarding the use of "click here" that basically suggested some kind of heuristic for, say, reading the entire line of text when that's encountered, rather than the link text. Another one could be including the previous sibling's accessible name on unlabeled form fields which I ...think? JAWS might already be doing?
Like obviously these should be toggleable to not screw up audits but I think after 30 years we can safely say people often can't be forked to learn #HTML basics and it might make some things smoother?

🌍🤡 "Ransomware's Kryptonite: A Russian Keyboard!" Because, clearly, the secret to global #cybersecurity was hiding under your language settings all along. Who knew the world's most notorious hackers have a soft spot for Cyrillic characters? 😂🔑
krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/tr #Ransomware #RussianKeyboard #HackerHumor #LanguageSettings #HackerNews #ngated

krebsonsecurity.comTry This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate – Krebs on Security