Nicholas Parsons

Sydney lawyer, avid reader & technophile | interested in Indonesia, accessibility & productivity | lover of history, languages, automation & Apple products

[High Court (Australia) Trivia @HighCourtTrivia]

Collective noun for Senior Counsel. A band of silks? A rustle of silks? A lustre of silks? A smoothness of silks?

[Nicholas Parsons @Parsondang]

@HighCourtTrivia A puff of silks.

[Nicholas Parsons @Parsondang]

@dwoodbridge @kevinrj But this forum post actually has the info I was after, I guess. Particularly the post from aaron ramirez 2 weeks 3 days ago.

https://t.co/XcpEAo2lsa

[Nicholas Parsons @Parsondang]

@dwoodbridge @kevinrj What’s the accessibility like for virtualising Windows on an Apple Silicon Mac using parallels these days? Does anyone know? Would really appreciate some feedback.

[Nicholas Parsons @Parsondang]

@dwoodbridge @kevinrj This forum post and the comments which are all more than 1 year old don’t seem particularly encouraging. Seems like installation is difficult or impossible but once installed it *might* work okay?

https://t.co/Nh41AldwAl

[Nicholas Parsons @Parsondang]

@dwoodbridge Is that macOS or iOS or both? I presume it’s about Ventura or iOS 16?

[Nicholas Parsons @Parsondang]

@RelayFM @marcoarment @_DavidSmith Under the Radar episode 254 should really have been called “From Zero to Bad Idea”. 😉 Such a great line. 😆

[Nicholas Parsons @Parsondang]

Odd, because I use print to pdf all the time and it saves heading, table structure and tags etc.

[Nicholas Parsons @Parsondang]

lol

[High Court (Australia) Trivia @HighCourtTrivia]

There is probably a High Court Rule that only Solicitors-General and former Solicitors-General are allowed to make puns when answering the bench: "this power flows" (i.e. power conferred by statute; case about power poles and electricity distribution, yesterday)
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[Nicholas Parsons @Parsondang]

The chime sounds before the OS has booted, right, so presumably it can’t be an iOS feature? Just guessing.

[Kevin Jones @kevinrj]

The chime is nice, but I would have wished for a specific vibration instead for blind deaf people. Also, why does it only have to be on the new iPhone 14 I would think older hardware could do it.

[Nicholas Parsons @Parsondang]

Awesome! I’ve often been in that situation wondering whether my iPhone has begun turning on or not. This is a simple but great development.

[Steven Aquino (he/him) @steven_aquino]

iPhone 14 accessibility tidbit: Apple has added a Mac-like startup chime when you boot the phone. My understanding is a lot of Blind and low vision people, even inside the company, wished for a concrete way to tell whether their phone restarted.

[Nicholas Parsons @Parsondang]

I like the ability to drill into a page and the corresponding ability to ‘drill out’ and navigate by page. Makes navigating large documents easier. And it’s useful to know what page I’m on to synchronise with sighted colleagues. But I wish VO was better at recognising tables.

[Oliver @OliverKennett]

Why is reading PDFs with VoiceOver on Mac still difficult? We’re in 2022, PDFs aren’t going anywhere and yet, we’re still having to drill down into each individual page and back out of it to read a document. It should be as easy as reading a web page or any document.

[Nicholas Parsons @Parsondang]

@hbomax @binge @dwoodbridge I signed up to Binge through Apple’s TV app which lists some of the content as having audio descriptions. Presumably audio descriptions are available in the original through the HBO MAX app.

Has anyone contacted Binge about making audio descriptions available?

[Nicholas Parsons @Parsondang]

It’s unbelievably backwards and infuriating that @hbomax isn’t available in Australia. 🤬
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[Nicholas Parsons @Parsondang]

@hbomax @binge @binge sucks for discriminating against their users by making a shitty inaccessible app and for blocking access to the audio description content that HBO provides, and @hbomax sucks for selling its #HBOMax content to them.
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[Nicholas Parsons @Parsondang]

@HollyGoDarkly @TPKill Haha, OK, makes sense. It did seem odd as I thought that arc had been wrapped up, but I didn’t recognise the content so I guess my memory just sucks. 😂 Thanks for the explanation! It wasn’t a criticism or complaint – was just worried I might have been missing out on content. 😁

[Nicholas Parsons @Parsondang]

@TPKill @HollyGoDarkly I began listening to the latest ep in the TPK members feed. It was Egglaff’s Angels. I paused, and when I returned it had been replaced with Gameworld.
How did you disappear it? I didn’t know you could do that. Is there any way for me to get that ep back?

[Nicholas Parsons @Parsondang]

This is great for screen reader accessibility.

[Cult of Mac @cultofmac]

Apple’s Automatic Verification will help us escape from annoying CAPTCHAs https://t.co/p2pkv7J1we by @edfromfreelance

[Nicholas Parsons @Parsondang]

It worked out so well for them during the Cold War, why would anyone have doubts this time around.

[Sarah Rainsford @sarahrainsford]

Russian government: sanctions don’t hurt, we’re not isolated, Russia can produce its own x,y,z…

Russian airline official:
“We have started cannibalising some planes, using parts of a few older ones to keep the new ones going”

😬 https://t.co/XjaCV9o6vy