You read ONE Homeric epic and suddenly your charts’ axes are forever skewed.

this is a catastrophe and he will do harm, and only harm, to those living with disabilities

Julia Métraux@juliametraux.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In bad news, with disability education oversight being moved to the Department of Health and Human Services from the Department of Education, that means Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will have power over disability policy positions. New from me at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

> The function of a system is its output, and no matter what utility individuals find in the tech, the widespread adoption and deployment should be considered and regarded firstly as a threat to the labor force. henry.codes/writing/it-d...

It doesn’t matter if it works | Henry From Online

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why… is my ~5-years-old <dl> article #1 on hackernews?

View transitions, anchor positioning, ​@scope, focusgroup, invokers, popovers, container queries, grid, relative colors, style-able selects, and more. The web feels like it’s getting so good at exactly the moment our collective worst practices are getting calcified as the default.

📝 Wishcessibility What do recycling and accessibility have in common? www.nicchan.me/blog/wishces...

Wishcessibility - Nic Chan

No recycling was contaminated in the creation of this post.

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While this absolutely sucks, we are going to see a lot more places implementing universal global age verification over this next year, because the number of states and countries legally requiring it has gotten to the point no one can keep up anymore.

The Verge@theverge.com · 6mo ago

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

My contract is ending at the end of February and so I’d like to find a new role ASAP. I am a senior-level design systems developer / design technologist / front-of-the-frontend developer that specializes in web accessibility. I work remotely from my home in Winnipeg, Canada. 🇨🇦 Shares appreciated!

Today is the last day for ACA open enrollment. Senate Republicans had every chance this week to extend ACA tax credits and chose not to — while families are stretching every dollar just to make ends meet. Healthcare should never be a luxury in America.

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

Jay Hulme@jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

I've set up a small monthly newsletter called Focus State. With accessibility support shrinking in a lot of orgs, I wanted to create something that divides that gap, builds community, and makes the internet a bit more fun. If you dig digital accessibility give it a look: annaecook.com/newsletter

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Focus state is a newsletter about building better products through accessibility and systems thinking.

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*new role has a script called `test:turbo`* *runs it* Time elapsed: 1303 seconds (21 minutes) Dead.

Hey! @lflegal.bsky.social, @rejinae.bsky.social, and @chanceyfleet.bsky.social gathered 36 authors to write about ethics in digital accessibility. Chapters, authors (I’m one of them), pre-order: www.routledge.com/Digital-Acce... Out 26 March 2026. #DigitalAccessibilityEthics #accessibility #a11y

It’s my liiiife It’s Nerf or nothin’.

If you’ve been waiting to get the audio version of my book Black Disability Politics (narrated by @imanibarbarin.bsky.social), it’s currently deeply discounted on @libro.fm! libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

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In Black Disability Politics Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to the present. Schalk shows how Black people have long...

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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Gotta love how quickly pull request best practices get abandoned the moment accessibility work is involved.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Jonathan M. Katz@katz.theracket.news · 10mo ago

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states. Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

I think this is a common kind of scammy rhetorical construction that makes people mad, because it sets up a world in which the thing cannot fail, it can only be failed. I actually associate this most with diets, but it also appears a lot for Agile.

Justin Wolfers@justinwolfers.bsky.social · 10mo ago

There are basically only two positions in the debate about AI. 1. I’ve barely invested any time in learning how to use it effectively. AI sucks. 2. I’ve invested in learning how to use this tool. Holy cow, it’s transformational. Position #1 has lower barriers to entry.

when im captioning someone's words, i caption all of their words, aside from most speech disfluencies such as uhs and ums. for example, i dont change "gonna" to "going to" or whatever else to "fix" their speech. it's racist, ableist, and classist to do so. i side-eye captioners who do that.

Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

TIL: The Japanese Blind ICT Network (JBICT) runs AT surveys (kind of like WebAIM’s). dragonscave.space/@Piciok/1153... #accessibility #a11y

Tell me, why does Musk get to tell Microsoft how to manage employees? Far right extremism isn’t just threatening media, it’s threatening every single one of us. If we continue to bend to their demands we will all be forced into silence. www.theverge.com/news/777664/...

Elon Musk is trying to silence Microsoft employees who criticize Charlie Kirk

Musk’s direct question to Nadella follows a broader censorship crackdown from Republicans following Kirk’s death.

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For anyone who pays attention to high contrast / forced colors mode styles: I wrote up an explanation of why forced-color-adjust: none is nearly unavoidable and how it sets up your codebase for downstream bugs: sarahmhigley.com/writing/forc...

forced-color-adjust: none is an unavoidable foot gun | Sarah Higley

A very long treatise on why text backplates were a bad idea. Most of the time.

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Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

I heard a rumour that they're releasing HTML6 next week, which deprecates semantics and introduces 3 new types of div. Can't wait!

Using images with alt text to show code is not very helpful. • A typical user would need to know about the alt text to copy it. • A low-vis user cannot scale it, and it won’t honor text prefs. • A blind user has to parse a wall of text they cannot pause. Paste code. Maybe a URL to longer code.

Time to submit comments to oppose a republic plan to rollback rules that help people with #disabilities get hired by federal contractors. Comments (they can be short!) due this Tuesday Sept. 2. All the info you need is here: www.lflegal.com/2025/08/comm... Thx @dredf.bsky.social

Comments Needed to Stop republican Attack on Section 503

Comments are due on September 2d to stop a republican attack on a longstanding rule in the United States called Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act. Section 503 helps disabled people get hired by fe...

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My cat: *screaming* Me: I understand