Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

Zohran Mamdani becomes one of the first mayors in the US (and among a small handful of prominent US officials generally) to recognize the Nakba — the mass expulsion and forced displacement of 700,000+ Palestinians. Connected directly with a Nakba survivor:

May 31st marks one year since theast day my Grandma saw and I’m absolutely not fucking ready for it. It’ll probably be the 2nd hardest anniversary. The 1st hardest the anniversary of her death. Writing those words still doesn’t feel real.

My Grandma called me Sunshine Girl because our song was You Are My Sunshine. I have the 30-year-old sheet music where she labeled it our song. I miss the messages she started with “How’s my Sunshine Girl?” The “I miss my Sunshine Girl.” I miss her. I miss her. I miss her.

I just sent an email newsletter out 📬 announcing a soft-launch of this year's Global Accessibility Awareness Day #GAAD promotion: For the next two weeks, the Practical Accessibility course is going on sale! 25% off ($299 instead of $399) 🎁 Sale ends on June 1st ⏳ practical-accessibility.today

As a deafie that works in accessibility I really, really love this 🥰

I want to get back into doing accessibility talks. Requirements: • Virtual • Free • CART captioning • ASL interpretation • No AI

Claude admits bias against accessibility and look at that! It’s the same bias that a whole lot of humans have against accessibility. “Claude treats accessibility fixes as optional trade-offs rather than requirements, even when the project's own rules say otherwise.” github.com/anthropics/c...

HA I just learned about the watermelon challenge for women’s heart health that’s been going around on Insta tiltify.com/@thoren-brad...

Keep an eye out for more info next week! 👀

THIS is how you do alt text my friends

Well this is fucking horrifying

The “AI Hater” label on my account is hilarious bc if AI is allowed to overtly hate me—a deaf, neurodivergent, and multiply disabled person—why can’t I hate AI back? 🤔🤔🤔

JAIL IMMEDIATELY

you are all disgusting. you know those are made by mutilating these guys right?

If you're looking for help figuring out how to do alt text for social media, I put together this collection of basic info:

Claude admits bias against accessibility and look at that! It’s the same bias that a whole lot of humans have against accessibility. “Claude treats accessibility fixes as optional trade-offs rather than requirements, even when the project's own rules say otherwise.” github.com/anthropics/c...

Trying to figure out how to migrate one of my tools to a new server and the only docs I can find are bash scripts… I do not copy bash scripts 😅

This is actually true, imo. And also, COVID reminded people of their own vulnerability, the porosity of their own skins and bodies, their mortality and they HATED it. They still hate it. Thats why they scream about masks, about COVID and any reminder of that vulnerability.

We’ve struggled. Since starting, we’ve never exceeded $1000 budget. We solely depend on small donors because foundations have turned away. That’s why we need you more than ever. equalaccesspublicmedia.org/support-us/

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My husband says I glow when I talk about accessibility 🥹

Extremely worth noting - the Black Zine Fair was a masks-required event! And hundreds of folks came and wore masks and had a great time! This is a doable thing, y'all!

80s movies are a special genre of chaos and i absolutely love it. ghostbusters is the current watch

Chat with these hands 🖕🏻🖕🏻

I DO NOT WANT TO 'CHAT WITH MY FILES'

Thank you to Pleiades for publishing my snarky little CDC hate poem 🖤

This is despicable and also not unique in anyway. Eugenics language around COVID has been pervasive since the start. It was very literally the Biden CDC position. No party is exempt from societal loathing of disabled and chronically ill people and the celebration of our deaths.

Hot off the press. A well referenced high quality statement from the International Hantavirus Society. High level: - Andes strain is different - some spread will occur - pandemic potential is tremendously low - lots to learn - what happens next is up to us zenodo.org/records/2007...

Every time Canvas is in the news I'm reminded of this excited statement about its massive stores of "data assets" from its ceo in 2019 eliterate.us/instructure-...

Ok yep! Local storage key is BSKY_STORAGE, and there's a property within called 'requireAltTextEnabled' that's true/false value. Not a fan. Can be useful for quick development to test beta features, but should be moved to account-level settings after validation. bsky.app/profile/ashl...

As a software engineer, my assumption is that the functionality currently works based on cookies or local storage. In my professional opinion, it's not great user experience and it can also be brittle for a number of reasons. bsky.app/profile/ashl...

Unfortunately this setting is per-device, so you have to enable the reminder in a lot of places if you have many devices or accounts 🥲 I recommend giving the Bluesky team feedback about this! It should be an account-level setting so you don’t have to set it so many times.

Also if you’re someone who wants to be good at doing ALT but sometimes forgets to add it, there’s a setting in accessibility that stops you from posting an image without ALT so you *can’t* forget! 🥰

You can use the hashtag # Alt4Me and somebody will come in and write the ALT for you when you’re having a day like that.

I rarely fill out these forms. I’ll read the HTML for links to the actual content if it means I don’t have to subscribe to YET ANOTHER suffocating sales email list.

Ew to this 😅 "Sometimes, the automatic captions are pretty good. Other times, the automatic captions aren't great. But, if you're hearing impaired or don't speak the language, they are still better than nothing." — Google, November 2009, 'Automatic Captions in YouTube Demo'

Found this video referenced in a disability studies book so that makes it educational. Go watch it! For science, knowledge, and learning of course. 😉 youtu.be/hVNrkXM3TTI

I take 2 for a range of issues. Sleep, migraines, chronic pain, anxiety. If I’m paying for it why do they give a shit? And still if someone isn’t paying for it, it’s between them and their doctor! Just let people exist!

I’m 5’8” and my husband is 6’5” and the other day I beat him at a game and sarcastically wanted a high five. He raised his hand so far above me I couldn’t reach it even when jumping. I’ve never really felt short until then. 😂

I dunno man, if I had to do this much work to get someone to be honest with me I'd just talk to someone else

Today marks the 1st day I've ever connected the lines of hereditary hearing & vision loss in my maternal line. They follow the same branches of the family tree. Like... we might actually have a type of Usher syndrome?? Upcoming doc appointments can't come soon enough!

This is my first time hearing of Accessibility Firewall. I think it has noble intentions, but to me it's mostly hype marketing. That is: extremely bold claims that crumble when you start looking just below the surface. This is common for AI/LLM tech in my experience, accessibility tech in general.

"Stop buying audits" is a red flag to me. In WebAIM's Web Accessibility Practitioners Survey #3 (Jan 2021), there were 746 responses to "Do you consider yourself to have a disability?" 29.1% said Yes. This space has A LOT of disabled practitioners! "Stop buying audits" is actually bad for us.