Alexandra Klepper
@alexandrascript.com
Tech Writer for @chromium.social. Accessibility nerd.
I'm a humans-first, humans-forever girly 💖
Write the Docs@writethedocs.bsky.social · 6d ago💬 "Accessibility for AI" sounds like a win-win, but accessibility is a practice for people that AI just happens to benefit from. Alexandra Klepper shares guidelines for inclusive content that keeps human needs ahead of machine needs. Read more: buff.ly/RTcJHUD
Last night, I emailed @nycferry.bsky.social's merch distributor to find out when on earth it would actually go on sale. The answer is NOW. Obsessed. Take all of my money. nymag.com/strategist/a...
The NYC Ferry Is Launching Merch for the First Time Ever
The summer of NYC continues.
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Unrelated. Multiple NYC friends have wondered if it's safe to run air conditioning while there's wildfire smoke outside. EPA guidance says yes. I triple checked, as federal guidance cannot be trusted at this time. Good news, you can and you should run it. www.epa.gov/emergencies-...
Wildfires and Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) | US EPA
This collection of pages provides helpful information to reduce your exposure to wildfire smoke inside your home.
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Many folks (incl. colleagues) are frozen in discovery, hoping to find it in delivery. We aren't identifying problems to solve, while offering tools we call "solutions." There's mass decision paralysis as everyone fights to be first to "win AI," but the end goal isn't clearly based in human needs.
Stef Walter@stephaniewalter.bsky.social · 3w agoAI can be useful for the delivery part of the design process, the part where you rapidly iterate different solutions. It’s useful also if you don’t need a deep discovery phase, and the “good enough” solution will work.
If you saw Marjorie Prime, then you know the answer to this question. No. You can find a reflection of your memories and a reflection of you. And it's cruel to imply otherwise.
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How revisiting a favorite play forced me to reckon with my memory and myself.
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The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 4w ago“Speaking to the replica, I felt stuck in a loop of nostalgia and, at the same time, connected to memories that I had buried.” Can A.I. “death bots” help us feel connected to our deceased loved ones? www.newyorker.com/news/as-told...
In the end, if we let AI "solve" accessibility as a side effect, we're basically saying that disabled people's needs were never enough on their own. Accessibility is a civil right, not a byproduct. #Accessibility #AI
Last week, at the @developer.chrome.com panel on the evolution of the web and web development, an audience member asked about built-in AI. I was in the front row and I had the answer, so I responded from the audience. Following a second question, our stage manager asked me to get mic'd up and join.
I am *so excited* to return to this conference that I love so much, and talk about how important it is that our language values people above all else.
Plaindocs@plaindocs.bsky.social · 2mo agoVery excited about these talks! www.writethedocs.org/conf/berlin/... #writethedocs #berlin
The problem with being a person who is good at something like content operations, is that if I do my job well, everything runs smoothly and my work is invisible. I'm not particularly career-minded, and just like things to be good, but I wish for this type of impact was more valued.
This is the biggest problem, too, in internal requirements to use AI tools. We actually need to effectively and efficiently do our jobs, and requiring a tool to do that isn't the answer. Trust the employee to do what's best for their own work. Force slows us down.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2mo agoBroken record here, but so many of these uses start with “how can we get people to use a chatbot” rather than “how do we solve a problem” or “how do we fill a need.” The “problem” according to the companies is that people aren’t using chatbots enough.
I think this is what NYC must have felt like during the events seen in the documentary Ghostbusters
I've gotta say, I've never felt so excited by sports. The energy and joy in the city is palpable.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2mo agoSPEECHLESS. LFGK
🛠️ We in Chrome wrote security guidance for WebMCP: For Agent Developers: developer.chrome.com/docs/agents/... For Site Developers: developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/webm... Written by @JuliaPagnucco, a wonderful Sr. Security Eng, and @alexandrascript.com, great tech writer. Important guidance!
Agent security considerations for WebMCP | AI on Chrome | Chrome for Developers
Agent developers must design protections against malicious text from untrusted content. We identify some security techniques relevant to agents using WebMCP.
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OF COURSE IT DOES, EVERY MODEL WAS BUILT BY HUMANS *screams into void*
Ashlee 🤟🏻@ashleemboyer.com · 3mo agoClaude admits bias against accessibility and look at that! It’s the same bias that a whole lot of humans have against accessibility. “Claude treats accessibility fixes as optional trade-offs rather than requirements, even when the project's own rules say otherwise.” github.com/anthropics/c...
I participate in the "AI as a catch-all" language problem. For example, this series focuses building tests for subjective outputs, a primary creation of generative AI. It's a terrific series (as @maudnals.bsky.social is a brilliant teacher) that matters because of the different of types of AI.
Chrome for Developers@developer.chrome.com · 4mo agoLearn the science of AI evaluation with our new online series featuring @maudnals.bsky.social → goo.gle/4tOVshb We're sharing a scientific approach to building eval pipelines that ensure your app actually works for users 🧪
People don't understand what AI is--that's unintentional and intentional consequences of marketing. Tech companies have used traditional machine learning for decades. Generative AI is a specific beast that should be named to help people understand the difference.
Rose 🌹@rose.bsky.team · 4mo agoReese Witherspoon posted an Instagram story yesterday listing the AI influencers she’s learning from and there was clear pushback. She then asked her users if they knew that IG uses AI and people were shocked. They had no idea…
I went to the ER for the first time while in Athens. While I haven't been in NY, I *know* that being in-and-out in 3 hours having seen the literal specialist who needed to see me and actions for care would just never happen. And don't get me started on the cost.
This is an incredible, highly specific to Baltimore metaphor, and I am here for it.
GoalieLax@goalielax.bsky.social · 5mo agoWBAL in Baltimore helping viewers understand the difference between watches and warnings
It is difficult, as a Jew whose family was massacred in the Holocaust, to watch people come to this realization. Millions of us died because of people like this. The Holocaust was not that long ago! People have not evolved out of racism and bigotry. Folks like this will always live among us.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 6mo agoi've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time
I'm *so proud* of Learn AI. We worked so hard on this course, for 10+ months. Web development is changing. Learn how to design features that benefit from AI (rather than adding it to everything, everywhere, all at once)
Chrome for Developers@developer.chrome.com · 6mo ago🤖 The web is shifting. Are you ready? We launched an AI course built for web devs. From choosing your AI system to prompt engineering and testing, start a wholistic approach to AI → goo.gle/3O2pRJi
"If you have already run OpenClaw on a work device, treat it as a potential incident and engage your security team immediately." - @jmeller.bsky.social Many security folks and devs are talking about potential problems, so this is unsurprising and yet jaw dropping. 1password.com/blog/from-ma...
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@anildash.com clearly identifies this dissonance between the billions spent on AI and the mass chaos in tech. I'm exhausted, as are many friends and colleagues. All we can do is take control of what we can, acknowledging that our power may be limited, but we can do *something*.
Diversify Tech@diversifytech.com · 7mo agoAnil Dash offers career advice for tech workers navigating layoffs and a tough job market. He covers understanding workplace power, finding tech roles outside the industry, and building long-term resilience. Useful for anyone feeling uncertain about their tech career. buff.ly/CZ3vKfS
This feels like fears of voter fraud. People are furious about a threat of others taking advantage of a system, when in reality, the threat only exists so those in power can build hateful, racist policies. Since COVID, the number of people with disabilities has grown an amount we cannot understand.
Mina Markham@minamarkh.am · 8mo agoI’m pretty sure people think this about me. I can walk, but walking long distances and standing for extended periods is painful. So I get a wheelchair escort at airports. Imma need able-bodied people to stop assuming they know what disability looks like.
Today marks 7 years at Google. I was shocked to get a response to my application, shocked they wanted an interview, then devastated I was offered a position requiring me to take a 20% salary cut. It took 4 more months to get a new offer, another 4 to start. In total, the process was 13 months. (1/2)
"Our first point of contact with most information is rarely the information itself but some lossily compressed derivative that’s already been processed and strained through a dozen layers of reinterpretation." from Lane Brown at @nymag.com. A great Monday morning read. nymag.com/intelligence...
A Theory of Dumb
What if the cause of Americans’ collective cognitive decline is, simply, each other?
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Imagine the screams 10x louder. And the joy 100x. It’s a beautiful night to be a New Yorker.
