In case you were wondering what Antony Blinken is up to these days or just want to know which Bob Dylan song title is getting played with in high-level government.
Must I rail about "The Times They Are A-Changin'" again? I'll just quote something I wrote back in 2018:
[T]he old song... anchors Bob Dylan in his political protest time, from which he changed. But Baby Boomer politicos have always harked back to it, and it serves them — I'm not including me — right to have that song sung in their face now that they are old and not ready to roll over for whatever advancement the young people think is due.
I don't include myself because I've never liked the forefronting of Protest Bob. "The Times They Are a-Changin'" is the song picked out from all the others by people who don't really know and love Bob. I don't like seeing him used this way, restricted to this narrow version.
And the words are to cruel and anti-inclusive to use generally (outside of the literal blocking of doorways in the desegregation era).
Now about those fonts... did you know sans serif fonts are supposed to be easier for sight-impaired people to read? I've been sight-impaired, and I've never chosen a sans serif font for my Kindle, and I'm always searching for what's easiest to see clearly. But according to this WaPo article...
The secretary’s decision was motivated by accessibility issues and not aesthetics, said a senior State Department official familiar with the change.... Many experts agree that serif typefaces — categories of fonts with added strokes — are more difficult to read on computer screens...
Who am I going to believe — experts or my own imperfect eyes?
“Good practice would be the use of a sans serif font,” [said University of Edinburgh’s Disability and Inclusive Learning Service] in an accessibility guide. “Fonts such as Times New Roman are much less accessible.”...
Maybe in Scotland.
In its cable, the State Department said it was choosing to shift to 14-point Calibri font because serif fonts like Times New Roman “can introduce accessibility issues for individuals with disabilities who use Optical Character Recognition technology or screen readers."
Oh! It's not about human eyesight at all. It's about a computer doing the reading.
"It can also cause visual recognition issues for individuals with learning disabilities,” it said.
Again, I presume, it's not about eyesight. This relates to brain function.
While Calibri may improve the experience of readers who use screen readers or OCR — technology that can convert the image of text into editable text — it could make reading more difficult for others, [said Jack Llewellyn, a London-based designer who specializes in typography]....
Exactly, that's my point. So many people have eyesight issues.
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