Many struggle with writing alt text for charts and other other data visualizations. Amy Cesal's "Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization" hammers home the importance of explaining the chart type, the type of data, and the reason for the chart. medium.com/nightingale/...

Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization

How do you write text that conveys the whole meaning of a visualization? You probably can’t. But that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t try

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This is why in UX we don’t generally ask users what they might like or prefer, and if we do, we still pay more attention to what we observe them do while using websites

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · last wk.

When people complain about chronological (Following) versus algorithmic (For You) feeds, it pays to remember that revealed preferences are different from people’s stated preferences. We have overwhelming evidence that actual users prefer For You feeds not feeds limited to people they follow.

The answer to “how do we find out X about our website audience/our donors/our community members” is never “ask AI”. They are humans and you can talk to humans. Talk to humans!!

Learned a new term today « synthetic discrimination ». Because regular ol’ discrimination isn’t enough

Tech Policy Press@techpolicypress.bsky.social · 3w ago

In the latest entry in the Hype Studies series on Tech Policy Press, philosopher of technology and media scholar Eugenia Stamboliev writes that AI hype operates as "a gendered regime of visibility," normalizing synthetic images of women while erasing real women from view.

All hail our true lord and saviour, the Wayback Machine 🫶🏻

Internet Archive@archive.org · 3w ago

🌐 On World Wide Web Day, we’re celebrating the Wayback Machine’s milestone of archiving more than 1 trillion web pages, preserving decades of the web we’ve built. Explore decades of web history with the #WaybackMachine: web.archive.org #Wayback1T #WorldWideWebDay @mark.bsky.social

Ahhh the glorious hour when all the ants get wings and seemingly lose their minds

Hear me out, it’s a cover of Pearl Jam’s Jeremy but… it’s Jimothy

Imagine rearranging an apartment when you’re the kind of person who can tell when something is off by just a few pixels on a screen… I am that person. Things have been nudged by just a few inches more times than I can count. But it might finally be perfect 🥹

This week I learned that you can explicitly set the heading level for a paragraph style when exporting to PDF in InDesign #a11y dequeuniversity.com/assets/html/...

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emily s.@emily.news · 2mo ago

UI means user interface and UX means user exerface

introduce yourself with 10 bands you’ve seen live - The Violent Femmes - The Black Keys - The Von Bondies - Cake - Death Cab for Cutie - The Flaming Lips - Alanis Morissette - The Shins - Modest Mouse - Garbage

I cannot stop watching the « 40 minutes late with an ice cream cone » skit. I would never… and it sounds like absolute chaotic joy

Friendly reminder to all who will listen to

Accessibility Awareness@a11yawareness.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Hyperlink text should make sense when read out of context. Screen reader users can navigate from link to link, and can listen to links in a list. When navigating this way, only the link is read. So "click here" or "read more" won't make sense.

Friends who care about data sovereignty — who are your go-to Canadian hosting companies for WordPress websites that have not only awesome security and performance but also support?!

Hugo nominees! My TBR overfloweth 😍📚 (and The Everlasting is a masterpiece)

alix e. harrow@alixeharrow.bsky.social · 4mo ago

honored, bewildered, and slightly weepy to tell you that The Everlasting is nominated for a hugo, alongside all these incredible novels 🥹

I believe this is even more true for accessibility, especially given accessibility is explicitly about humans (no matter how much shitty LLM-first browsers misrepresent it): “The importance of people who care” rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/202...

For anyone following my broken ankle saga — very happy to report that I’m officially cleared to start physio next week 🎉🎉🎉 just about 2 months post-break and about 5.5 weeks post-op. It almost doesn’t feel real.

WTF are “girly jobs”?! The ones that pay less?? It’s 2026, gendering any job is a wild take. A whole article based on the premise?! Do better, @npr.org

NPR@npr.org · 4mo ago

Over the past year, the vast majority of new jobs have gone to women. One economist says to help men find work, we need to embrace ways to "make girly jobs appeal to manly men."

What if his name was Donald Quixote

Fine, fiiine I am finally reading Piranesi. Seems like I will either love it or hate it, with equal passion, nothing in between … so at least some sort of passion shall be had?

A testament to why sans-serif fonts aren’t great for accessibility. Without the terminal on the lowercase “l” in Al Navarre’s name, one might wonder “what is this artificial intelligent calls Navarre?” when, in fact, Al is a human native of Toledo, Ohio

LogoArchive@logoarchive.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The logos of Al Navarre. See many more at logo-archive.org #logos #branding #design #yugoslavia

I might be missing something here but what’s stopping an EmDash plugin from getting hacked and doing the things it was cleared to do before (let’s say accessing the database) but now doing some nefarious with that?

Had a dream last night where I was in a self-driving car with a bunch of people and somehow this car also spat out a bunch of suggestion for healthcare websites. At this point, a friend turned to me and said: " take note of these and spin them up with Claude" and my visceral "no" reaction woke me up

Then we’ve been mooned by entirely the wrong side of the moon this whole time

Eric Bailey@ericwbailey.website · 5mo ago

what if the Artemis II flyby of the unseen areas of the moon reveal a gigantic buttcrack

An anti-Zionist Jew as the party leader and an anti-Zionist Jew as the party president, couldn’t be more excited for @ndp.ca and all of us ✊🏻 “we can have nice things” — @avilewis.ca

Please celebrate with me: today I’m finally able to put some weight on the ankle that became the victim of Montreal’s thaw/freeze cycle on Wednesday evening. My appreciation for simply walking has skyrocketed. The day when I can take more than a few steps can’t come soon enough!

Every time I see that a band I love is coming to Montreal I hope and pray that they won’t be playing at Place Bell 🫣 yea, the location is convenient enough by metro but the sound there is just terrible… is it me or would y’all also rather see bands at Mtelus or Club Soda?

A fascinating conversation. Public social media, you say?! Do go on. overcast.fm/+AA-asO1CWX0

Is the Internet destroying us? — Sandy and Nora talk politics

In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the dangers of anonymity online, the lack of public infrastructure to allow democratic access to the Internet, and how we need to resist always reaching to o...

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Ah yes, much like saying “we will give more training to the executioners”

alec karakatsanis@equalityalec.bsky.social · 7mo ago

One of many problems with "training" propaganda is that it portrays violence by government as unintentional and accidental. E.g., as something not central to what those in power *want* ICE to be doing. In other words, Democrats pushing "training" are lying to people about the goals:

The wonderful thing about decluttering and organizing art supplies (collecting which is a hobby in it of itself) is realizing that the only real way to declutter them is… to use them already