learned this morning about Korean “dopamine sites”—fake shopping sites that allow you to go through the motions of online shopping without actually spending money or purchasing anything. And it has me thinking about grading.

A short wishlist: Accessibility in choose-your-own-adventure games & stories. Accessibility & aesthetics in digital poetry. How to approach conflicting access needs in digital publications. Adapting non-digital formats into accessible digital formats. How digital materiality affects accessibility.

Reminder that John Maxwell and I are seeking submissions for JEP special issue "Accessibility in Digital Publishing". We want scholarly, technical, and industry reports for this issue. "Publishing" broadly defined = books, zines, games, websites, and more. DM/email questions. Abstracts due Oct 1.

Journal of Electronic Publishing@jepub.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New Call for Papers alert! Consider submitting to our forthcoming special issue on "Accessibility in Digital Publishing" edited by Ellen Forget @ellenforget.bsky.social and John W Maxwell. CfP available here: journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/news/253/ Abstracts due October 1 2026.

Im so tired of watching orgs frame accessibility as a hardship we cant afford. If we believe in #VastEarlyAmerica then we should also believe in supporting vast scholars. Every time I think people are listening to disabled scholars like myself I find myself let down. 2/6

Here at the end of Disability Pride Month, I say: not just disability pride. Also disability wrath, disability grief, disability defiance. And moreover: disability ease, disability safety, disability leadership, disability joy, disability creativity, disability liberation, and disability justice.

I felt this in my soul. Not only is Grant right in that reporting on accessibility in the gaming industry is vanishing, even disabled voices like myself are as well. The amount of misinformation and lack of education on what gaming accessibility is was ever apparent even as recent as this past week

Grant Stoner@supercrip1994.bsky.social · last wk.

For seven years, I've had the privilege of reporting on accessibility and the disabled perspective. And now, during my seventh Disability Pride Month in this industry, I'm left wondering if this beat is coming to an end. Read my first @skyboxcritics.com piece here: skyboxcritics.com/2026/07/28/t...

The Researching Information Support and Equity During the Menopause Transition in Canada Study is recruiting participants meeting these criteria to complete a ~20–minute online survey: •live in Canada •is 35–70 years old •was assigned female at birth pwhr.org/can-rise/?rd... #ParticipateInResearch

Does anyone have a physical copy (or digital copy with proper page numbers) of Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's _Care Work_ who can check page numbers for three quotes in one chapter for me? I only have access to an ebook version that, unfortunately, doesn't give me page numbers to cite.

Ok, I have been MIA on this platform because life has been busy, but I want to remind you Digital Humanities Quarterly invites abstracts for a special issue on the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) in relation to digital humanities pedagogy due August 1 dhq.digitalhumanities.org/submissions/...

Call for Chapters: Femininities in Video Games Edited by Dr Stephanie Harkin (RMIT University) & Heather Blakey (University of Western Australia) Palgrave Macmillan femininityinvideogames.my.canva.site

TW: pet death Sunday it will have been one year since Moscato's emergency splenectomy, which we thought had saved his life. It did give us two months to say goodbye, and I'm grateful for that—but they were some of the hardest days. I still miss him so much.

Ellen Forget@ellenforget.bsky.social · last yr.

This account is almost solely dog pictures and updates until Moscato is fully healed from his surgery. Still so, so happy to have him home. ❤️

TW: pet death Sunday it will have been one year since Moscato's emergency splenectomy, which we thought had saved his life. It did give us two months to say goodbye, and I'm grateful for that—but they were some of the hardest days. I still miss him so much.

Ellen Forget@ellenforget.bsky.social · last yr.

This account is almost solely dog pictures and updates until Moscato is fully healed from his surgery. Still so, so happy to have him home. ❤️

Delighted to share that Binding Media has won the 2026 N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature! So honored to received this particular award because Hayles' work taught me to think about the weird literary works I've always been interested in. @stanfordpress.bsky.social

Report: Digitizing Antiquities: A 3D Photogrammetry Placement at the Institute of Classical Studies

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Digitizing Antiquities: A 3D Photogrammetry Placement at the Institute of Classical Studies by Kiwa Chen and Kei Dai During a two-week placement in the Senate House MakerSpace, University of London, in April and May 2026, my partner Kei and I … Continue reading →

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I had a comment yesterday that has stuck with me for hours. If you see a new game, a movie, or a new addition to your favourite thing and it doesn't hit for you, remember this: "It may not be for everyone, but it may be everything for someone." Don't ridicule someone because they may like that thing

This looks really cool! I will definitely try printing this and see how it works. Potentially a great solution to save time versus embossing cards by hand.

Stacy Kess: the revolution will be accessible.@stacykess.bsky.social · 3w ago

I am not a 3D printing person, but I know some of my fellow nerd-travelers here are. I just came across this on another social media, and well, here: 3D print the embosser to add braille to your business cards.

I've got another starter pack for you, friends! ✨This one's for disabled editors ✨ Everyone who is in this identifies as disabled and asked to be part of it. If you want in too, just let me know! #Disability #DisabilityPride #EditorSky #AmEditing #WritingCommunity 🌈📚 go.bsky.app/JBMJNE3

As the one responsible for all tech in a state library/archive that's about the size & with the same remit as some national libraries, let me amplify: libraries need more funding. Tell your politicians & administrators. We are getting crushed by the fact that "digital" is more expensive than books.

James Elder@jameselder.bsky.social · 4w ago

Good news, but the fact that this is only happening now, nearly three years after the cyber attack shows 1) what a huge job BL staff have had rebuilding services, 2) that the BL is underfunded, and 3) the impact this has had on academic research, especially in the humanities.

New call for proposals for zines to be published in a special issue of the Journal of Library Outreach and Engagement, aiming to reimagine scholarly publishing through the format of #zines. 📚 See the full call for proposals at www.facebook.com/TheRealJLOE & forms.cloud.microsoft/r/tvBkuugFpJ

Can anyone suggest funding I could apply for with Dutch and Indonesian colleagues to work on a historical commemoration project about the Dutch internment camp in Papua, for the 100th anniversary of its opening next year? we found some likely partial NL funding but not sure where else to look.🤔

I'm sad to learn that the Master of Publishing degree at Simon Fraser University—the master's degree program that I took—has accepted its final cohort and will cease operations as of 2028. It was a wonderful program, and I recommended it often to students interested in publishing.

You too can have an accessible conference! Accessibility makes things better for everyone! Open access guidelines, compiled by Alexandra R. A. Lee & me, here 👉 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... #MedievalSky #IMC2026 🗃️

Good morning, friends. I'm starting a new deep dive and would appreciate and interdisciplinary assist. Can you recommend any academic books (or articles) about: 1) The history & development of typography (not current practice) 2) The history and development of printing technology

Is that a speck of dirt on my screen, or is it a stray polygon?: A 3D modelling horror story.

What makes me sad RE: “comics v academia” framing is that my next book is about a comic/TRPG that does a beautiful job giving citational credit AND inviting readers/players into the sources that were used. It never claims to have done primary research, even when it DOES (via interviews, etc)

Question for my American friends. Is a one-hour layover at Washington Dulles airport doable? Or is that asking for trouble? Note that I'm disabled and can't sprint across an airport to meet my connecting flight. I'd be arriving from Canada and then going to Germany, on United both ways.

If youre canadian, please sign this shit. Its a petition against AI data centers, something the current Carney govt has a massive boaner for

Ticky🏳️‍🌈@drac.at · last mo.

Canadian residents & citizens; I would highly recommend signing this one

I have a seizure alert dog. He has likely saved my life and definitely saved me from injury and concussion and all that follows multiple times. But sometimes when I give him watermelon, he seems to not realize that he has to swallow it and chews on it to "extract" the juices v messily instead