Back It Up, Again: What’s Changed Since 2020

Can a blind parishioner find your Christmas Mass times? Dom Bettinelli and Joanne Mercier take on parish website accessibility, from low-contrast text and pictures of schedules to CAPTCHAs and scanned bulletins. Chapters: 0:00:00 Stinger 0:00:18 Intro 0:01:06 Your Parish Website Is the Front Door 0:03:09 A Parishioner Who Can't Get In 0:04:16 Who Actually Visits a Parish Website 0:06:12 How People Use Your Website 0:07:51 Disability by the Numbers 0:08:41 The WebAIM Million: Most of the Web Fails 0:11:00 No Law Requires It; the Church Asks Anyway 0:12:42 The Church's Own Words: USCCB, Francis, Benedict 0:15:26 Low-Contrast Text 0:17:24 Contrast Ratios and Free Checkers 0:18:21 Text Trapped in Images 0:20:10 Alt Text, and Letting AI Write It 0:21:46 What Screen Readers Do with Video 0:23:27 Use Real Headings 0:25:10 Links and Buttons That Say Nothing 0:26:10 The Keyboard Test 0:27:54 Website Vendors and Templates 0:28:30 Registration and Giving Forms 0:29:35 Form Labels 0:31:02 CAPTCHAs 0:32:34 Password Managers and Paste 0:33:46 Ask Vendors for an Accessibility Conformance Report 0:35:12 Captions for Recorded Video 0:40:11 The Bulletin PDF Problem 0:43:16 Publish in HTML, Not PDF 0:44:15 Myths vs. Reality 0:46:56 Practical Takeaways 0:49:29 SQPN.com Has Work to Do Too 0:49:55 Patron Thanks 0:50:37 Picks of the Week 0:50:42 Joanne's Pick: Kasa Outdoor Smart Plug 0:54:20 Dom's Pick: Cotypist 0:58:53 Outro The post Is Your Parish Website Accessible? appeared first on StarQuest Media.

Your sync folder will faithfully copy a mistake to every device. Dom Bettinelli and Pat Scott revisit their 2020 backup advice and update it for ransomware, account lockouts and the tools that changed. The post Back It Up, Again: What’s Changed Since 2020 appeared first on StarQuest Media.

If you died tonight, could your family get into your phone, email and bank accounts? Dom Bettinelli and Tom Grelinger revisit Tech Memento Mori with the legacy tools Apple, Google and Facebook now offer. The post Tech Memento Mori, Revisited appeared first on StarQuest Media.

Can one $299 screen that knows every face in the kitchen serve the whole family? Dom Bettinelli and Joanne Mercier weigh Apple's new HomeView, HomePod mini, $299 Apple TV 4K and Apple Home Collection, and decide what to buy. The post Apple’s Home Strategy Comes into View appeared first on StarQuest Media.

When the cloud goes down, does your stuff still work? Dom Bettinelli, Thomas Sanjurjo, and Leo Devick put notes apps, ebooks, photos, smart homes, and password managers through the outage test and the shutdown test. The post Local-First: Keep Working When the Cloud Doesn’t appeared first on StarQuest Media.

Would you let an AI agent buy a jacket just because you looked at it? Meta's Muse wants to. Dom Bettinelli, Pat Scott, and Fr. Andrew Kinstetter size up Meta's new VR and AI glasses and ask whether Meta deserves that trust. The post Not Amused: Meta Wants Muse on Your Face appeared first on StarQuest Media.

Google built an Android laptop to take on the MacBook Air, but who actually wants one? Dom Bettinelli, Tom Grelinger, and Fr. Joseph Sund weigh the Googlebook's price, Gemini features, and app gap, plus the EU's age check app. The post Google’s Android Laptop Takes Aim at the MacBook Air appeared first on StarQuest Media.

Is waving your card at a register riskier than swiping it? Dom Bettinelli, Thomas Sanjurjo, and Jack Baruzzini explain how NFC and RFID work, where the real weak spots are, and which fears to drop. The post Invisible Radios: NFC and RFID Myths vs. Real Risks appeared first on StarQuest Media.

A $1,999 phone that unfolds into a tablet-sized screen — Apple's foldable is real, and it's the iPhone Duo. Dom Bettinelli and Joanne Mercier react to Apple's September event, from the Duo's three screens to the Watch's new Health Age. The post Apple Unfolds Their New iPhone Future appeared first on StarQuest Media.

Announcing Holy Troublemakers, a new podcast from StarQuest. In this weekly podcast host Dom Bettinelli will introduce you to the difficult people who built the Catholic Church. From mystics who argued with popes to missionaries who walked into places nobody sane would go, every episode tells one of their stories. The post Announcing Holy Troublemakers appeared first on StarQuest Media.