Eric Eggert
@yatil.net
Accessibility Specialist. Find me on Mastodon: @yatil@yatil.social
When you’re chronically ill, learning to rest is critical It’s also hard Our society rewards productivity We’re taught that rest is weakness. That we should play through the pain Rest is a strength It can help you maintain your baseline If all you did today was rest, be proud of yourself
Healthcare is suicide prevention. Housing is suicide prevention. Childcare is suicide prevention. Universal basic income is suicide prevention. When we ensure people have their basic needs met, mental health improves.
Bear in mind when you ask an LLM to explain why it did what it did (or didn't), you're asking faces on toast to explain faces on toast. It's not explaining. It's plausibly completing. And you fell for it twice.
I’ve been saying that the Trump regime is regressing accessibility both in government and in companies. I’ve provided proof. Here’s more fucking proof. Accessibility is regressing. And once again YOU and everyone you know need this. This is a regression of human rights. Fuck
Federal US domain bot@fed-us-domain-bot.bsky.social · 2w ago❌ NOTICE Federal US website newly deleted. https://accessibility.gov Action taken by the nan (General Services Administration) at or around 2026-08-06 08:40:55.
The last Verity! Podcast has been recorded and this two hour episode with all the Verities will drop Wednesday morning.
Just gonna post this to every article with AI images Your AI slop looks bad and you should feel bad
In a celebration that @wcagwidget.bsky.social is now following me, let me share the link below and say: Overlays are bad. They make your stuff not more accessible. They often introduce additional barriers. They are putting lipstick on a pig. overlayfactsheet.com/en/
Overlay Fact Sheet
An open letter about accessibility overlays.
overlayfactsheet.com
Foodify a Doctor Who title. The Burrito of Ranskoor Av Kolos
Lizbeth Myles@lizbethmyles.bsky.social · 2mo agoFoodify a Doctor Who title. The Eggs of Destruction.
If you read this, you must hire @ashleemboyer.com. I don’t make the rules, I’m just informing you of your legal duty. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Meal delivery is accessibility. Grocery delivery is accessibility. Pre-peel/cut food is accessibility. Single use plastic straws are accessibility. Audiobooks are accessibility. Image, video, & audio descriptions are accessibility. Captions & transcripts are accessibility. Just some examples.
Outsourcing accessibility considerations to “AI” leads to the erasure of disabled people when designing and creating. That’s the goal. It’s digital euthanasia. I’m done mincing my words about this.
RE: https://snooker.uk.to/@snookerbot/116507325469639020 What a completely bonkers semi final! Wu Yize is a superstar in the making. Commiserations to Mark Allen. #snooker
Snooker Results Bot@snookerbot.snooker.uk.to.ap.brid.gy · 4mo agoWorld Championship Semifinals :flag_nir: Mark Allen 16 - 17 Wu Yize 🇨🇳 Congratulations .: Wu Yize :. With 100 minutes and 19 seconds the 14th frame became the longest frame played at the Crucible, and the match was pulled off at 7-7 in second session. Re-racks in frames 28 and 32 […]
What are perma-’90s F1 people going to do next year when the Formula E car is better than the Formula 1 car
Here, @jay.bsky.team says Bluesky is for fascists, too: > I'm wondering, would you welcome by President Trump if he was debating joining Bluesky? > Yeah, Bluesky's for everyone, you know. www.wired.com/video/watch/...
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber On Building A Better Social Ecosystem
wired.com
Hire @ashleemboyer.com. Not because she had a hard year, but because she is damn good at what she does.
Ashlee 🤟🏻@ashleemboyer.com · 8mo agoI've had an execeptionally tough year. I have no income or health insurance, and could really use your help finding my next paid project. 💜 semanticfish.com/2025-year-in... Open to front-end, full-stack, design system, & accessibility projects. 10+ years experience. Many more details in post!
If you’re traveling this holiday season, please wear a mask. Flu and Covid are both surging. No one wants to be sick for the holidays. A well fitted respirator like an N95 protects you and those around you. Give yourself (and others!) the gift of good health this year!
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!
A leaked memo suggests Pam Bondi wants to put a bounty on trans activists. She wants to reward people for turning advocates into the FBI. There’s another group who did this. The Nazis. They went after trans people, gay people, the disabled, immigrants and the Jews. Don’t let history repeat
Pam Bondi wants FBI to put cash bounties on trans activists
Pam Bondi has reportedly ordered the FBI to place cash bounties on trans activists promoting so-called 'radical gender ideology'.
thepinknews.com
“Jiang and colleagues conclude, carefully but clearly, that their findings ‘redefine SARS-CoV-2 infection as a condition of long-lasting immune compromise’ and highlight lymphocyte dysregulation as a key immunological feature of Long Covid, particularly in people with cardiovascular disease.”
SARS-CoV-2 Leaves a Lasting Mark on the Immune System
A landmark new study shows COVID-19 isn’t ‘just a cold’: One infection left people with long-lasting immune damage, and those with heart disease lost up to 70% of key immune cells. Reinfections may wo...
johnsnowproject.org
I’m trying to remember to rest. To remember I did nothing to deserve this. But when things are falling apart it’s very hard to hold on to your baseline. So please remember you’re worth protecting. You’re worth self care. Your value is not determine by your income or your health. You’re loved.
I’m posting this as much for myself as for anyone else who needs to hear it. I’m facing losing my housing and I’m priced out of the market. I’m bedbound and lack the physical ability to move. I’m terrified. And it’s only happening because I’m disabled.
If all you did today was breathe and survive… that’s ok. Surviving a capitalist, eugenicist, ableist system is hard work. Resistance is exhausting. Never forget that rest is resistance. Survival is resistance. You’re not alone. There’s more of us than there are of them.
I don’t really use this. Follow me in the open Fediverse at @yatil@yatil.social or use the bridged account here: @yatil.social
Hell yeah
Stop saying that AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used
I’m tired of this phrase and this simple way of thinking about tools. This blog post is a wandering train of thought on the topic of what tools are and why it matters to be even slightly more mature i...
frank.computer
Pavel@spavel.bsky.social · 10mo agoNo thing is just a tool; all tools construct us as their subjects.
"Again and again, accessibility as a topic in web standards is treated as simultaneously too trivial for specialists' technical opinions to be given weight, but also too difficult to get right without a specialist volunteering to tackle the tricky details." alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-t...
A threat model for accessibility on the web - Alice
A explanation of the primary threat to accessibility on the web, and a call to action for the web standards community
alice.boxhall.au
⭐️ A threat model for accessibility on the web @sundress with an excellent article about accessibility and why and how it is so neglected. https://alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-threat-model-for-accessibility-on-the-web/
A threat model for accessibility on the web - Alice
A explanation of the primary threat to accessibility on the web, and a call to action for the web standards community
alice.boxhall.au
