#so it is easily accessible to anyone who navigates to my blog and clicks 'paper cranes'

[tenspontaneite]

Kind of a dick move for me to ask but are you going to upload ch 24 of paper planes onto ao3? I am only asking cus ch 24 is here on tumblr and not on ao3 as its on ch23 not 24.

See this ask here:

https://tenspontaneite.tumblr.com/post/628896888749441024/hello-i-was-doing-another-re-read-of-paper

I don't plan on putting that chapter up until the day there's a new chapter for Tumblr too.

[android-for-life]

"Using personal experience to make Chromebooks accessible"

David Tseng has dedicated his career to using technology to break down barriers for people with disabilities. At Google, he’s the Technical Lead for Chrome OS accessibility services, which means that his team makes Chromebooks easier to use for people with a wide range of disabilities. In honor of Disability Awareness Month, we sat down with David to hear more about his experiences making Chromebooks more accessible. 

What led you to a career in tech and accessibility?

I happen to be blind myself, so I grew up closely tied to technology. My “pen and paper” consisted of digital braille displays. My textbooks and exams came in digital formats even when my sighted peers used the usual physical variety. My interactions with computers meant listening to computerized text-to-speech. Looking back, all of this nudged me to wonder how these crucial pieces of my daily life worked, and led me to study them in college and beyond.

My interest specifically in Chromebook accessibility stems from this personal passion. In large part, it comes from the fact that I not only use my Chromebook every day to accomplish all sorts of tasks at home and at work, but also that I’m an engineer with expertise in making those very products more helpful. When you work on something like accessibility it can be challenging because the user population has specific and detailed needs that aren’t always obvious or intuitive. It’s these challenges that motivate me. I’ve always thought that opportunities are boundless with software, and I still believe that today.

What does Disability Awareness Month mean to you?

I’ve always been eager to share with people the resources we have available through technology. For me, technology has served as a way to level the playing field. Now that so many of us have devices in our pockets at all times, we can move around more easily with our mobile phones, read our own mail, identify colors, recognize people’s faces and their expressions -- there are so many wonderful and empowering things we can do with technology that can help us all lead fulfilling and independent lives.

What's the best part of your job?

I love getting to lead the creation of features that tangibly make Chromebook better for users with disabilities, and also make Chromebook better for everyone. My team and I have the opportunity to create features for Chromebook like ChromeVox, which enables blind and low vision users to navigate the screen with audio spoken feedback, or with a connected braille display. This feature is personally meaningful to me, since I use it during my day-to-day work. 

My team and I have also developed Dictation on Chromebook, which allows a user to input text into any field on a Chromebook using their voice. This is especially useful not only for people with dexterity impairments, but also for anyone who wants to take a break from using their keyboard on Chromebook to type with their voice.  

Our team is on a journey to make Chromebook as strong as possible for people with disabilities. Over the past couple of months, we dramatically improved the usability of Automatic Clicks, where users can set the cursor to automatically click or take action when the cursor stops moving for a certain amount of time -- something that can be helpful for users with motor or dexterity challenges. 

I believe that accessibility is a mindset that can be integrated into any aspect of technology. Whether you're interested in machine learning, graphics, operating systems, hardware or gaming, there’s probably a pressing need for inclusive design. 

To learn more about how to turn on accessibility features that work best for your needs on Chromebook, check out the Chromebook accessibility help page for more information.

Source : The Official Google Blog via Source information

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[theycallmeshaggyrogers]

A Retrospective of Digital Literature: Part 1 (OR I’m Not Impressed by Lesbians and Postmodern Writing)

This past semester my class and I have been exploring and discussing the attributes and merits of digital literature, works of written fiction that are exclusively hosted by a digital platform. This style of writing is still pretty new and experimental, which is to say it is not nearly as mechanically polished as say, the print medium, which has been around for 500+ years and is simple enough for the average person to get a grasp of. Digital literature on the other hand demands a degree of proficiency in whatever medium the product itself is being hosted on, be it a website or a smartphone app. 

The first book we had to read was Caitlin Fisher’s These Waves of Girls, which from my experience was a giant clusterfuck of the narrator’s inner thoughts and memories connected together by hyperlinks. It definitely hasn’t aged well visually; the UI is an incomprehensible, unfocused mess that only an early 2000s web page could be, the voiceover overlays itself like three times (though my professor insists that this was intentional, hence the title of the book), there’s no way to keep track of all the hyperlinks you went through with each passage that pops up onscreen, and the most egregious of all, none of these issues have been addressed in a future update in the 15+ years the book has been online. Needless to say, I found this interesting take on digital storytelling to be a frustrating endeavor. 

The best way I can explain what happens in this story is that it depicts specific memories of the POV character, many of them related to personal trauma, human sexuality and growing up in an environment with sexually active children. The character herself realizes early on that she does not like boys, and we are continuously reminded of this fact for better or for worse.

The only thing more frustrating about this ordeal was how other students in class were eating it up, specifically the three resident milquetoast white girls who sat in the same column and dominated most (if not all) of the conversations we had in class. One argued that the disconnected appeal of These Waves of Girls is that Fisher is deliberately challenging the binary of storytelling by neither providing a beginning, middle, nor and end to her story. Providing structure, they unanimously asserted, is a means in which the reader has autocratic control over how they consume the literature. From my interpretation of their argument(s), they painted story structure as a bad thing, as an oppressive thing freed only by the postmodern adherence to identifying the old structures of literary narrative and tearing those structures down. What this accomplishes morally and/or creatively I have no idea. I don’t know if These Waves of Girls can be considered a postmodern novel, but considering its conscious lack of literary structure, I wouldn’t be surprised if people considered it as such.

Needless to say, I was not satisfied by this answer at all. As an aspiring screenwriter for broadcast television, I adhere to the three-act structure like a secondary religion. To construct a narrative around a structure itself and label it as an oppressive, restrictive binary by a bunch of students lapping up my professor’s Kool-Aid without hesitation is both frustrating and insulting. Books are created by people. We establish structures for all written narratives because it is convenient, not because we want to actively control how we consume a medium. The best stories have some form of linear narrative because it works. Shakespearean plays have a five-act structure because  it’s something that both the author and the consumers can easily navigate and comprehend for convenience’s sake. Television and movies have three-act structures because, understandably, you only have so much broadcasting time to tell a story. These Waves of Girls, in a strange way, is kind of like an early blog rather than a book. It does not have a linear narrative that displays the POV character’s life but instead is written like a free-flowing stream of thought. This is an interesting concept, but I don’t think These Waves of Girls did a great job in conveying it through the medium in which it is written. Again, I believe the book is in a dire need of an update. It needs some means of keeping track of every link the viewer clicks so they don’t forget what they were reading literally 5 seconds ago. In my experience, since there were so many hyperlinks, I ended up opening each new one in a different tab and reading it that way, just for a single goddamn page of writing that was barely a paragraph long! I also muted it because 12 voiceovers with three overlayed recordings on each page is absolutely intolerable. I don’t think three overlayed recordings are a clever way to shoehorn in the title of the story. I think it’s lazy, inept programming. 

I don’t see the appeal of These Waves of Girls, but I have a hunch that its appeal is exclusively for literary academics, which makes me dislike the book even more. Personally, I operate under the notion that written mediums should be conceptually accessible to anyone who is interested in pursuing them, not deliberately closed off to anyone who is not part of the rigid community of collegiate academics, which in the Anglosphere, mind you, is almost universally composed of upper middle-class social liberals who are, for the most part, conditioned to agree with the progressive culture in which they have been raised into anyway. Reading These Waves of Girls and getting reactions from other students like “this is innovative storytelling” or “this book is an early stage pioneer for digital fiction” or “the lack of binary story structure is deliberate because humans like to have power over everything” made me realize how much I don’t like this book, its message and the academic community as a whole. They were not establishing their own views on These Waves of Girls. Rather, they were just agreeing with what my professor was talking about. Its reception was ultimately mixed, but those who did like it strike me as the kind of people who have plans to remain within insular academic culture, where every new innovation in writing demands thorough examination and praise for whatever it brings to the table, even if that innovation is not realized to its fullest extent.

So yeah, in short, I believe These Waves of Girls needs its UI updated to be better accessible to people to don’t want to write 20-page academic papers about the groundbreaking way in which a fictional twentysomething Lesbian living in cosmopolitan Canada strings all her traumatic thoughts into an interactive webpage. If academics like my professor want digital literature to be pushed into the mainstream, then such an act demands that these kinds of audiovisual mediums are more accessible and visually concise for a culture that has adapted to well-structured visual user interfaces.

You can find These Waves of Girls here. Allow me to reiterate that it has not aged well visually and your mileage may vary in tolerating it:

http://www.yorku.ca/caitlin/waves/