Just last month, DoorDash couldn’t seem to find the money to pay their deliveristas — until our administration forced them to give back $131M+ in stolen wages and penalties. This week, they’ve managed to find $17 billion to acquire one of their main competitors.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 3d ago

BREAKING: DoorDash just agreed to buy Instacart for $17 billion. Here's what that means for customers and shoppers.

For anyone who thinks AI is new, *MY MOM* wrote a bibliography of the literature on AI in 1959. Yes, MY 93-YEAR-OLD MOM. Yes, I'm proud of her. www.google.com/books/editio...

A Concise Bibliography of the Literature on Artificial Intelligence

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New newsletter issue will be hitting your inboxes shortly. It's a while since I last checked in, but you can start expecting more frequent emails (but too many) starting today. ✨

Rough day, will send tomorrow! #TheAccessibilityPond

Ashlee 🤟🏻@ashleemboyer.com · last wk.

Hey it’s Wednesday! That means the next issue of #TheAccessibilityPond is going out when? Tomorrow! If you’d like to sign up or check out the latest issue, you can do it here: buttondown.com/the-accessib.... Last week, I outlined my 90-day plan for the pond and my first 6 months in AGWG.

Just a girl paying her Gerber premium that her Grandma purchased 2 weeks after she was born because her Grandma isn't here to pay it anymore

Hey it’s Wednesday! That means the next issue of #TheAccessibilityPond is going out when? Tomorrow! If you’d like to sign up or check out the latest issue, you can do it here: buttondown.com/the-accessib.... Last week, I outlined my 90-day plan for the pond and my first 6 months in AGWG.

The Accessibility Pond

More than a newsletter. Find community, support, resources, and co-conspirators. From Ashlee at Semantic Fish Creative Group.

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Accessibility Guidelines Working Group minutes for October 20, 2026: www.w3.org/2026/10/20-a.... #a11y #accessibility #wcag

WCAG 3 Guidance Documents Task Force minutes for October 19, 2026: www.w3.org/2026/10/19-a.... #a11y #accessibility #wcag

Ooooooooo I'm adding this to the top of my reading list. Sociolinguistic Pathways in Sign Languages: Studies in Honor of Ceil Lucas. Published September 2026 gupress.gallaudet.edu/Books/S/Soci...

Sociolinguistic Pathways in Sign Languages

Sociolinguistic Pathways in Sign Languages honors the remarkable career of Ceil Lucas, a pioneering sociolinguist whose research, teaching, and mentoring profoundly influenced the study of sign langua...

gupress.gallaudet.edu

This is EXCELLENT reporting

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2w ago

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

If October 2025 Ashlee could see where October 2026 Ashlee is 🥹

Tomorrow, October 16th, marks Practical Accessibility's third birthday. 🎂 To celebrate, I am gifting everybody 25% off for the next 48 hours 🎁 Individual and team licenses alike! The discount is automatically applied during checkout—no code is needed. 👉🏻 practical-accessibility.today Enjoy! #a11y

The Practical Accessibility Course

A get-right-down-to-it online course for Web designers and developers who want to start creating more accessible Web user interfaces and digital products today

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Braille maps for all the bathrooms, even the dog bathrooms! The Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport is the first US airport to install tactile maps by every restroom. Which airport should be next? #AccessibleTravel #a11y youtube.com/shorts/7piRe...

The Airport Dog Bathroom has a Braille Map

YouTube video by Haben Girma

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Ashlee @ SFCG@ashlee.semanticfish.com · 2w ago

Issue #3 of #TheAccessibilityPond is out! What's in store this week: - The Pond’s first 90 days - My first 6 months as a W3C Invited Expert - My week in AGWG buttondown.com/the-accessib...

Issue #3 of #TheAccessibilityPond is out! What's in store this week: - The Pond’s first 90 days - My first 6 months as a W3C Invited Expert - My week in AGWG buttondown.com/the-accessib...

[The Accessibility Pond] Issue #3: October 14, 2026

It’s been a while. Issue #2 went out January 28, 2025. Why has it been so long? The short answer: 2025 was the hardest year of my life. For the medium...

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Indianapolis feels kinda inaccurate tbh 😭

Ben Raderstorf@raders.bsky.social · 3w ago

Sacramento is, by these metrics, the best value and some of the highest quality of life anywhere in the west. California incomes and sunshine with Portland’s prices and Denver’s access to nature is I guess a ranking-friendly combo?

Dang! Wrote the next issue of #TheAccessibilityPond. I’m sending it out either tomorrow or Thursday! Where to sign up if you want it in your inbox: buttondown.com/the-accessib...

The Accessibility Pond

More than a newsletter. Find community, support, resources, and co-conspirators. From Ashlee at Semantic Fish Creative Group.

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Ashlee 🤟🏻@ashleemboyer.com · 3w ago

I think I'd completely forgotten how to blog for a couple years there but the feeling might finally be coming back to me?? I hope, because if so that's a lovely sign from the executive function part of my brain!

Is "we're just getting started" a gen-AI signal now?

I think I'd completely forgotten how to blog for a couple years there but the feeling might finally be coming back to me?? I hope, because if so that's a lovely sign from the executive function part of my brain!

Before we totally abolish DHS, let’s outline accessibility impacts that’d have if not mitigated: The DHS Trusted Tester Process is one approach to testing accessibility to Section 508 (legally required in US edu and gov). DHS offers training & certification for identifying trusted testers.

Truthout@truthout.org · 3w ago

Rep. Delia C. Ramirez has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the DHS altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.

Text literacy isn’t a sign of intelligence. It’s a sign of fluency in a written language. You can be very intelligent and lower fluency in a written language. Fluency is a skill & there are many ways to grow it. 1/2

Nearly 400,000 people in Indiana have paid to have their license plates easier for flock cameras to read. 👍🏻 www.wfyi.org/statewide/20...

Indiana makes nearly $13M from blackout license plates, plans to reinvest

Indiana has sold nearly 400,000 blackout license plates since 2025. Gov. Mike Braun says it will bring nearly $13 million back to the BMV.

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Is there a database of book cover descriptions somewhere? Sometimes book covers are too niche for me to describe on my own. (For alt text accessibility.)

Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent

Miss her terribly 💔

Ashlee 🤟🏻@ashleemboyer.com · last yr.

She is my first and last thoughts every single day. Every single day, such heavy thoughts. I love to picture her smile and laugh, even though those images quickly remind me of the cold permanence of her absence.

Think I’ll have to make photo essays be part of my first book. This strip of Franklin Road has so many memories. Like this specific DQ where I got countless medium vanilla cones dipped in chocolate. Across the street I got foil-wrapped Hershey bars and Extra gum. And tiger tails at Village Pantry.

Ashlee 🤟🏻@ashleemboyer.com · 6mo ago

Some days you just gotta drive through your childhood streets, taking pictures of the places you grew up, pick up a few of Audre Lorde’s books at the library, have dessert before dinner, and treat yourself to Yats drunken chicken. First really great day I’ve had in many months. 🩷

I have so much I want to write about my Grandma that doesn't feel within reach because her estate isn't closed. Please send all the good vibes, prayers, whatever you believe in... because I need this chapter to end so I can move to the next chapter of my healing.

The final days my Grandma was in the cardiac ICU, I was so grateful the nurses didn't seem to care a bit about visiting hours. They saw me in pain and let me sleep in her room. On her last night, I'd driven back after being at the hospital most of the day. One nurse said I must've felt pulled back.

In the first year of my big grief, markings of time passed were painful because they marked “firsts.” First fall. First Thanksgiving. First birthday. First Christmas. In the second year of my big grief, it all still hurts, but I also find myself hurting for the people going through their first.

Update: I joined the new WCAG 3 Guidance Documents Task Force! We had our inaugural meeting yesterday (6 October 2026). www.w3.org/groups/tf/wc...

WCAG 3 Guidance Documents Task Force

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.

w3.org

Ashlee 🤟🏻@ashleemboyer.com · 7mo ago

Guess who's a new W3C Invited Expert?? www.w3.org/groups/wg/ag... I'm participating in the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AGWG) and the Sign Language subgroup for WCAG 3! 🥰