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Matthew Hallonbacka

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Accessibility specialist - backgrounds in disability rights and software engineering (until they collided).

Dog person, outdoors enthusiast, maker, autistic […]

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@mallonbacka.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyOct 12, 2026, 3:33 PM

I’m pretty sure this is AI, mostly for the weird choices of words, inconsistent repetition and (perhaps most significantly) the two steps that are both labeled 6. I miss when people cared about the quality of their work.

Poster of self-checkout instructions in Prisma, though it doesn’t contain the store name or logo anywhere. The poster is extremely busy, filling every bit of white space with something. There is too much text to transcribe every word. There is excessive repetition (“adults only” appears beside a few items, a payment card symbol, a check mark in a circle), two steps are labeled 6 and most text appear in Finnish and English, except for a couple of items which appear only in Finnish (though they appear multiple times). The poster does not use the chain’s brand colors or fonts (but the colors are close).
@mallonbacka.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyOct 9, 2026, 3:40 AM

This article came into the accessibility hashtag, because it suggests accessibility scanning tools will help ensure LLMs can crawl your web page. (That’s not a priority for me, but I don’t judge people that do want that). It says “the underlying question is the same one: Can a non-human reader […]

@mallonbacka.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyOct 7, 2026, 12:09 PM

I had a pretty minor complaint to HUS (the hospital district) resolved in my favor on the third attempt. It is so frustrating that the system feels designed to wear you down so you give up before they actually investigate anything. Exercising your own rights should be made as easy as possible […]

@mallonbacka.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyOct 6, 2026, 6:57 AM

They accepted my correction request: “Oikaisu 6.10. kello 9.14. Muutettu mielipidekirjoituksen aihesanan Autismikirjo tilalle Adhd” (Corrected 6.10 at 9.14. Changed opinion article’s topic from Autism spectrum to ADHD”)

@mallonbacka.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gyOct 5, 2026, 5:03 PM

Me: it’s important to give both Autism and ADHD the attention they deserve, without conflating the two. A literal national newspaper: (I’m not commenting on the content of the opinion piece, just the choice of category)

Screenshot of an opinion article with the headline “Lisääntyvä adhd-lääkkeiden käyttö lapsilla huolestuttaa” (the increasing use of ADHD medication in children is a concern), with the lede “Olisi tärkeää nostaa nykyistä näkyvämmin esiin myös lääkkeettömiä hoitomuotoja ja tukikeinoja kuten uni ja liikunta” (it’s also important to highlight non-pharmalogical treatments like sleep and exercise). 
The category is “Autismikirjo” (the autism spectrum).
@mallonbacka.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gySep 30, 2026, 11:53 AM

HUS (Helsinki region public sector specialist healthcare) are seeking an AI-powered interpretation service to “enable real-time speech translation between different languages in healthcare settings” - https://www.hankintailmoitukset.fi/fi/public/procedure/37786/enotice/58043/
What could possibly […]

@mallonbacka.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gySep 27, 2026, 4:25 AM

As has been pointed out, the broken aria-label in the demo seems more likely a mistake, rather than the intended main problem. IMO, this is still the wrong solution, and avoiding the separate version of the information would be preferable. Even when it was done as an unintentional mistake, this […]

@mallonbacka.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gySep 26, 2026, 12:09 PM

This looks like a damning admission from Google: https://googlechromelabs.github.io/webmcp-tools/demos/explainer/#compare
The problem: In the example, “Agent must scrape”, the aria-label doesn’t match the actual details (says May, calendar shows September). Much of the problem seems to be the […]

@mallonbacka.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gySep 16, 2026, 1:10 PM

We simultaneously seem to have one news cycle around “home births are so dangerous that everyone should be forced to give birth in hospital” and a second one of “woops, we had a TB outbreak in the maternity unit”. You couldn’t make this stuff up.

@mallonbacka.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gySep 15, 2026, 11:32 AM

There’s a lot of terrible things in this story, but there’s a small detail I’d missed until now: in the picture, the Border Guard (Rajavartiolaitos) officer is wearing a face covering. A branded one, which I assume means it is an officially sanctioned part of the uniform. While carrying out a […]

@mallonbacka.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gySep 15, 2026, 10:44 AM

I am absolutely terrified by the proportion of people, whether on (other) social media, in the newspaper comment sections or holding public office, who believe that giant data centers are unequivocally a positive thing for Finland.

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