Raindrop.io Bookmarks 01/05/2025

2025年1月5日 著

• FTC Order Requires Online Marketer to Pay $1 Million for Deceptive Claims that its AI Product Could Make Websites Compliant with Accessibility Guidelines | Federal Trade Commission

  "The Federal Trade Commission will require software provider accessiBe to pay $1 million to settle allegations that it misrepresented the ability of its AI-powered web accessibility tool to make any website compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) for people with disabilities."

• FTC Catches up to #accessiBe -- Adrian Roselli

  "The FTC considers accessiBe to be deceptive. Anybody considering accessiBe as a vendor should know about this and, with this reasonably visible ruling, hopefully will."

• Please keep your HTML tables clean and lean, if you really need to use them - Bogdan on Digital Accessibility (A11y)

  "Simplification, under-engineering, breaking complexity is currently the best way (and probably will still be even if the semantics is well supported)."

• Visual testing and review platform | Percy by BrowserStack

  "Percy helps teams automate visual testing. It captures screenshots, compares them against the baseline, and highlights visual changes. With increased visual coverage, teams can deploy code changes with confidence in every commit."

• Government Internet Shutdowns Cost $7.69B in 2024

  "Pakistan: the single most affected nation ($1.62 billion), followed by Myanmar ($1.58 billion) and Sudan ($1.12 billion). Iraq: the nation with most internet shutdowns (61) for second successive year, all prompted by school exams. Myanmar and Azerbaijan: the longest shutdowns imposed this year, totaling over 8,784 hours each in 2024."

• Apple opts everyone into having their Photos analyzed by AI • The Register

  "Apple last year deployed a mechanism for identifying landmarks and places of interest in images stored in the Photos application on its customers iOS and macOS devices and enabled it by default, seemingly without explicit consent."

• Siri "unintentionally" recorded private convos; Apple agrees to pay $95M - Ars Technica

  "Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that its voice assistant Siri routinely recorded private conversations that were then shared with third parties and used for targeted ads."