Georgiana Brummell

dandylover1@friendica.world

(Please note. Due to screen reader accessibility problems on Friendica, I have mostly switched to Akkoma. I can now be found here, though I may occasionally still post to Friendica.

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Hello. Georgiana Brummell is not my legal name, but it is what I prefer to be called. I chose it in honour of Beau Brummell. I live in New Jersey and am forty-one years old. Some of my interests include studying dandyism, nineteenth-century grammar, Upper Received Pronunciation, British history, and the Regency. I like coffee, tea, wine, nasal snuff, cooking, hot baths, reading British literature, nature and historical documentaries, old BBC radio shows, gardening, hot weather, and playing cards and dice. I also love cats. In classical music, I enjoy Baroque through a bit of early Romantic, while in popular, I usually prefer 1950's through 1970's. I love theatre (especially English and Viennese operettas, Edwardian musical comedies), and some Regency/Georgian plays. I am starting to learn about opera, with my main focus being singers from the 1940's and earlier, due to the change in singing style that began roughly in the 1950's. I prefer antique menswear and accessories. It's my dream to either buy a genuine Edwardian suit or have one commissioned. I love wit, wordplay, and dry humour without vulgarity. My parents are lesbians, and I am a gay rights supporter. I have been totally blind since I was two months old, due to Retinopathy of Prematurity. I am happily childfree and am not religious. My main goal in life is simply to enjoy it, and have fun learning new things along the way. I am also single and searching. If you are or know a genuine dandy, or at least, a single, childfree, intelligent, well-dressed man, preferably over sixty, please tell him about me.

Please note. I don't write about American politics, race, anticapitalism or world affairs (wars, poverty, oppression, etc.), and will not add those who do, as I don't want it filling my timelines. While I am interested in technology to an extent (particularly website accessibility), I am not a programmer or gamer, do not use Linux,and don't care what social network you use. I tend to get along better with people much older than I, but I will accept friends twenty-one and over. I have no understanding of chronic illness, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, loneliness, etc. so if you need help with that, I'm not the one to ask. I enjoy hearing about cats, cooking or gardening adventures, animals and nature, antiques, and interesting facts and life stories.

You can also find me on Dreamwidth. Anyone can read or comment, whether or not he is a member.

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New Jersey, USA

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(Please note. Due to screen reader accessibility problems on Friendica, I have mostly switched to Akkoma. I can now be found here, though I may occasionally still post to Friendica.

blob.cat/dandylover1

You can also find me on Dreamwidth. Anyone can read or comment, whether or not he is a member.

dreamwidth.org

Georgiana Brummell

1 month ago from TweeseCake •

Georgiana Brummell
1 month ago from TweeseCake •

Yay! I'm on Blob.cat! I am happy to note that almost all of it is accessible, minus one or two minor issues. I have a feeling this is not an instance problem, but an Akkoma problem. Even as a non-programmer, I am also fairly certain that this can be fixed easily. No one needs to rewrite the entire front end, as with Friendica. Basically, in the Profile and Settings, and on the main page, there are some buttons and check boxes that are not labelled properly. The check boxes under Settings, for example, just say "check", without stating if they are checked or unchecked. However, when they are unchecked, there is something labelled simply "button" that appears. There are other buttons for things such as post visibility default, but while they are labelled i.e. "Unlisted", "Public", etc. there is no way to tell which button is checked. In the profile, the Bio section appears blank, even though I filled it out during registration and can read it when I go to my profile without trying to edit it. Finally, on the main page, there are two things labelled simply "button". I think they have

#friendica #fediverse #akkoma #accessibility #blind #nvda #html #screenreaders #WCAG #SemanticHTML #Blob.Cat

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Georgiana Brummell

in reply to Georgiana Brummell • 1 month ago from TweeseCake •

Okay. More fun. I guess I won't be able to follow any hash tags or search for anyone on the main site either. There is a search box with the usual unlabelled "button" and "button" and neither actually performs a search. One sends me back into the box and the other... who knows? It doesn't activate when I try to interact with it.

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Georgiana Brummell

in reply to Georgiana Brummell • 1 month ago from TweeseCake •

I found a work-around for the bit about following tags, at least. If I click on one in a post, I can follow it. So theoretically, if I make a post with all of the tags I want to follow, I can just do it from there. I can make the post private, so that only I see it, or at least make it only for my followers, so that it doesn't spread to the Fediverse. It's convoluted, but at least, it might work. I can also go to the profiles of people and pages and follow them from there, which is another good thing.

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Georgiana Brummell

in reply to Georgiana Brummell • 1 month ago from TweeseCake •

It seems that I can't follow certain people with the work-around. One literally didn't have a follow button (not to mention having two inaccessible buttons and a captcha as an extra insult) and the other one said the user couldn't be found. But I know that Blob.cat doesn't work with every instance, so that didn't surprise me. With friendica, I would just search for a person with the number sign, find him, and follow him directly from Friendica itself.

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