Terribly stupid idea that will satisfy faux-populist urges to dunk on public servants while simultaneously making the lives of public servants and the service itself so much worse. Goofy stuff.

adding alt text to your photos is like washing your hands after going to the bathroom- both take a little extra time, but theyre the right thing to do, and it’s gross if you don’t.

As a former Canadian Girl Guide, I'd like to welcome all UK Girl Guides into our org, as we remain a trans/GNC-inclusive org, if the UK GG org doesn't do the right thing and fix their hearts: www.girlguides.ca/web/GGC/Pare...

look, auto-craptions have their place as a backstop last resort by the end consumer. but there is no excuse for serving them up earlier in the chain and making people *think* something has high-quality captions, when it doesn't!

How about we worry less, as a society, about whether individuals might be cheating to get a disability accommodation or some help buying food, and more about whether extremely wealthy people and corporations are paying their fair share of taxes?

If you've made it to the end of this thread, my only request is that you share it with others. So many people suffered because of this denialism, and it frankly burns me up that this dark legacy has been made to disappear without a fuss. www.motherjones.com/politics/200...

People that pretend that Defund the Police is a bad slogan, usually turn out to be deeply uncomfortable with the idea that the police don't do what they think the police do, just like you've asked in this thread. But trying to focus on the slogan isn't as honest as just saying what you feel.

"My community sees this teaching as foundational to Indigenous trans identity, and how our worldview ascribes spiritual status to people who have been gifted the ability to change genders and courageous enough to fulfill that responsibility," Mandosking writes.

Which is why one of the things actual, non-biased, non-hack child safety experts say is you should absolutely never punish *the kid* for the actions of a third party, even if the kid broke a rule, by taking away/restricting their devices! Because that makes the kid conclude you can't be trusted!

I repeat: the CEO of Roblox, a service where a little less than half of the users are under the age of 13, thinks his service would make a great dating site.

--because they can't see any other way to force Roblox to stop letting extremist nihilists blackmail 10-year-olds into killing their families and then themselves, because Roblox sure as fuck isn't gonna put a stop to it voluntarily.

They're missing so many product safety features that any site who accepts under-13 signups should have. They sit on reports for weeks or months. They have only extremely reluctantly been pressured into implementing additional systems, and it was only because of *multiple* lawsuits.

Even Discord is better, because Discord is at least trying to handle the child predator problem, even if they're not perfectly successful at it! Roblox didn't even acknowledge the problem until recently. They're *ludicrously* understaffed, moderator-wise, for their size and traffic.

📣 Hear hear! The biggest savings on the Practical Accessibility course start *today*—for a limited time only. Starting today, you can get the course for 30% off — that's $279 instead of $399. The discounted price excludes sales tax that may be applied depending on where you are buying from.

Thanks to @thetyee.ca for republishing my op-ed about Danielle Smith and the Notwithstanding Clause. ✨ Always glad to see outlets beyond LGBTQ2S+ publications platforming and highlighting trans voices on issues like this

It's the other way around: that if the government were responsible for everyone's health and took that seriously, we'd live in healthier environments.

MONTREAL – A rule at WestJet Airlines that bars some power wheelchairs from most of its planes discriminates against people living with a disability, say advocates and travellers.

Men are not inherently violent; some men have learned they can get away with anything because of permissive power structures, and they proceed to do so. The issue is with permissive power structures.

The entire backlash against trans women existing in society was based on the notion that boys would be boys, even if they went through extraordinary pains to NOT be boys in literally every way possible. It was an inherently anti-feminist take.

People behave significantly less abusively when they're posting under a persistent pseudonym (ie, their username is self-chosen, but they always use the same one) than they do when posting under their "real name". The effect has been replicated a bunch of times, too!

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

After almost three decades, Canada has lost its measles elimination status. That means in 2025, this extremely contagious disease spread consistently in our country for the first time since 1998. This was preventable, which makes it embarrassing -- in more ways than you might realize:

@pressprogress.ca needs your solidarity and support right now more than ever We’re raising money to pay our legal bills – and to be blunt, we’re going to need a lot of help If you’re able, please help us out and support our Journalism Defence Fund: pressprogress.ca/journalism-d...

Well, we’re not backing down @pressprogress.ca understands what's at stake here If we backed down, what message would that send? Who else would we embolden? The only ones who gain anything are wealthy and powerful people who want to silence your voices and protect their own secrets

You’ve seen what’s happening in the USA You’ve seen Donald Trump and his wealthy allies using lawsuits to harass and silence journalists You’ve seen how groundless, billion dollar lawsuits are being weaponized against journalists, civil society groups and other democratic voices

Hi Bluesky 👋 Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

2/2 If we want an accessible city, emerging power centres have to be accessible via public transit. If there’s no public transit service, there’s a big swath of talent (potential employees with developmental disabilities, most of whom would be commuting via public transit) on the outside looking in.

Good thread, and I will add that men DO NOT LIKE IT when women say "hey, you fucked up," and to the extent that women tend to soften the blow with indirectness, it's because men feel like their honor is insulted if they have to take feedback from women.

Can't stop thinking about the fact that the government is literally slashing public service jobs while bringing in AI for use in the public service. They are literally doing, as a government, what we scream at tech bros for doing to their employees. Pretty gross!

First Nations women who’ve spent a lifetime fighting for the right to belong in their own communities have been again travelling to Parliament Hill this fall, repeating their calls for change. My latest on the second-generation cut off (no paywall!) ⬇️ www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

So excited to be heading to Montreal next year to talk about accessibility at #Confoo! (And not just because Winnipeg in February is, well, Winnipeg in February…) And what an amazing list of speakers and topics - check out this lineup: confoo.ca/en/2026/sess...

Aaron Gustafson highlights accessibility gaps in AI-generated code, showing the need for better training to ensure inclusive digital experiences. www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/ide... #AIandAccessibility #WebDevelopment #CodeGen #MachineLearning #DigitalAccessibility #AIethics #A11y

We keep seeing startups who want to replace something valuable (therapy, counseling, tutoring, artistic expression) with some tech bullshit under the banner of democratization. But why do we need to invest so much in bad tech that doesn't work instead of just giving people access to what they need?

The federal government is currently making an announcement about new funding for women and 2SLGBTQIA+ organizations. This pre-budget announcement (and the new funding) is happening *entirely* because of all the public outcry and pressure we've mounted over the last few months re: cutting WAGE by 81%

Food insecurity is ALWAYS a political choice. Famine is ALWAYS manmade. People go hungry because of other people’s decisions. We have more than enough food for everyone, and enormous amounts of it are wasted—literally thrown in the garbage—on purpose.

This is exactly why its horrific that individuals in tech and companies get millions to build disability dongles like "AI-aided braille gloves," or wheelchairs that can climb stairs--they do not care about users and their needs. And what happens when companies just get bought up/fold/lose interest?

People went around for yrs screaming as if someone losing TV show or film was tantamount to murder. Really tired of this dynamic: You try to just POINT OUT ongoing bad behavior of a male public figure = you’re the worst monster in history & you just KILLED that guy by having standards. Sorry, my bad

Today's AWS outage is causing many sites to load slower than usual. That means images might not be loading as fast as they normally do. But if you've remembered to add alt text to your images, your users will still be able to get the context and content of your images on your site.

The same photo could appear on three different pages and require different alt text for each instance. The alt text for an image can vary, depending on the context of the image, its role on the page, and the intended message.

“Restore merit, end DEI” says man who could only get elected in Canada’s safest Conservative stronghold

"Medical gaslighting as a service" is not a use case I anticipated! Doctors seem to enjoy that part of the job so much, why would they outsource it to an app?

Facial expressions common to all humans! 🙃

And, again, maybe the immediate answer here isn't "train on more disabled users' faces!" but rather perhaps stopping and thinking "hey maybe a sociotechnical paradigm that is literally predicated on and made of unending surveillance and a demand for certain 'right kinds' of bodies is bad actually 🤔"

Them: need help doing things? Me: yes Them: we have a doing things medication Me: ooh Them: hahahahaha guess what you have to do to get it? Me: oh no Them: things.

her laugh???? damn she sucks

*heavy, commiserating sigh*

A reminder for struggling autistic and disabled folks: “If you’re saying to yourself ‘Why haven’t I done this easy thing?!,’ the thing is probably not actually easy.” from Real Social Skills: tinyurl.com/HardThingsArentEasy #autism #disability #neurodiversity

we are seeing it right here on bluesky, where it's deemed perfectly okay to shelter demonstrable bad actors because "they haven't done anything wrong *here*". the nazi bar analogy continues to ring. deafeningly. the people don't want a nazi bar. what will you do if all the good people leave?

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military. If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

People love to come on here and accuse me of carceral feminism but all I'm seeing are 50+ men that are literally on camera sexually assaulting an unconscious woman and yet literally telling the courts that they are the actual victims. They are clearly not safe to be out in the world right now.