Not done with....Holiday appreciations?

In appreciation of
the plants' service to holiday spirit

In connection with one of RantWoman's Twitter hobbies.

Praise God!

No firearms!#MerryChristmas

And joy and peaces for #Hanukkah #Kwanzaa #Solstice #Festivus .... https://t.co/npaiElwOfO

— Amb. Thwack Vaxxed & Masked (@AmbassadorThwa1) December 26, 2022

Eccentric song references in honor of the next impending deluges

Here Comes the Rain again: Eurhtyhmics, remastered 2018

Here comes the Rain: Darry Hall
 

And in the world of software and accessibility #a11y

Special holiday forced smiles for both a recent Zoom update and whatever Mac-based checkbook manager RantWoman's friend GrandMaFF uses. RantWoman will read the Zoom update notes. Really. Really. RantWoman WILL also venture further into the world of Microsoft Edge than she has ever done so far. Someday. 

GrandmaFF has been using the same software for over 10 years. She resents a different look and feel every time she opens the software. Some of the time she reports lovely customer support experiences. Some of the time, not so much. Occasional and unpredictable effects of strokes a few years ago probably do not help.

Next we come to meditations on two bumpy onramps to the new digital frontier. 

One involves laundry, hope that coin payment which attracts vandals can be replaced by either debit cards or phone payment, no actual audio cues about whether one's efforts work and heaven help anyone if the phone owner gets sick and needs someone else to to their laundry.

The other involves a medical device currently under recall and replacement. Customers get to help by learning how to pair the device with Bluetooth. The Android app has accessibility glitches. A downloadable set of directions has lots of moments that read through screen reader as "unlabelled image." Since RantWoman can't read the directions, RantWoman can't tell whether the instructions include something like "Please ensure that Bluetooth is turned on for both devices you are trying to pair." RantWoman figured that out on her own and then hit another glitch that caused RantWoman to interact with an associated secure email portal and hopefully soon with a human by phone. .

In both of the latter cases, RantWoman is wavering somewhere between "Please Fix it. Make it so" and "RantWoman will be very happy to help you fix this at the hourly rate of..."

Special holiday shoutout both to the new #ChiefTwit and to migration of people away from the #ChiefTwit's domains. RantWoman had a conversation with one sight-dependent friend RantWoman has previously tried to interact with about accessibility lacunae. Friend commented "I don't know anything about accessibility." RantWoman was seized by some kind of holiday spirit because she did not just blurt out "no, you still don't and that's the point. Just because you are retired from any WORK obligation possibly to interact does not mean the topic is not going to stalk you in other realms."

How is everyone else doing about holiday cheer?

To be fair, RantWoman has had MANY fine moments and more will happen when Little Sister GETS RID OF #Covid.