Maybe I’m speaking out of line here (that’s heavy sarcasm by the way) but individuals with autism aren’t pawns to be used in political games and shouldn’t continue to be further stigmatized for an agenda. Which is exactly what is happening in the United States.

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/...

Hire @ashleemboyer.com. Not because she had a hard year, but because she is damn good at what she does.

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

“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.”

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 @[email protected] or use the bridged account here: @yatil.social

Vaccines save lives. And no, they do not cause autism.

Hell yeah

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a new mRNA vaccine that has been shown to suppress abnormal blood vessel growth in the retina, offering hope to MILLIONS of patients with age-related vision loss. The vaccine triggered strong antibody responses that REDUCED retinal damage by UP TO 85%.

Our house is officially on the market. www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS

"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 @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/

Mum will be so proud! (@tansyrr.bsky.social, @xanister.bsky.social, @lynnemthomas.com)

Rest assured I report and block anyone on this site who says anything about vaccines causing autism. Not only was the paper that indicated that possibility so far from a credible study as to be laughable, but the claim itself IS eugenicist based. I swear to god people

GOOD NEWS! For the FIRST time ever, and after MORE THAN 30 YEARS of HIV vaccine clinical trials, researchers have developed a vaccine that has SUCCESSFULLY generated TIER 2 broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) against HIV and BLOCKS viral infection in vaccinated PEOPLE.

I wrote a little about “best practice” examples, and how I understood them, which apparently is different than how Craig has seen them in the wild. https://yatil.net/blog/about-best-practices https://a11y.info/@craigabbott/115059612941198326

With more people than ever looking at WCAG 2, the GitHub repository is buzzing with feedback and questions for clarifications. This is really awesome to see. Now it only was an actively developed standard that could be adapted to be better, but no, the new rules are made elsewhere and then […]

To summarize -waves are not seasonal -vaccines are waning -people are getting long covid -it’s still not an endemic disease -very young kids are at increased risk because they didn’t go through the initial vaccine series Oh and it turns out, Covid Cautious people have been right the whole time.

I have published my first 3D model on Maker World. All self-designed. It’s a magnetically held guide for the drip water hose of the Midea Porta Split portable AC unit. That was a fun little weekend project! https://makerworld.com/en/models/1707401-midea-porta-split-drip-hose-guide

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have revealed a synthetic glycosystem -a sugar-coated polymer nanoparticle- that can BLOCK SARS-CoV-2 from infecting human cells, REDUCING infection rates by NEARLY 99%. Acting as a decoy, the molecule BINDS to the spike protein, PREVENTING it from attaching to real cells.

⭐️ Avoiding the word “help” By me, @yatil https://yatil.net/blog/avoiding-the-word-help

If accessibility events did not provide captions, sign language or ramps, we would be rightfully up in arms. But, it seems totally OK to not make any accommodations for people with pre-existing conditions or weakened immune systems (like many, many people who already got Covid in the last […]

New newsletter alert! (Yes, I’m as shocked as you are that this happened!) https://steady.page/en/075ca46e-c27f-49fb-946a-f1aa90a08e0d/posts/a1113fe6-287b-4dfe-a06d-28ff8ec0cc70

This is huge! A human rights tribunal found that employers must accommodate remote work for immunocompromised employees Remote work accommodations are something disabled people have needed for decades Covid showed us it’s possible, but ableism & discrimination took it away We all need this right

I'll buy an eBook copy of Accessible UX Research for the first five folks who are interested! I'll need an email address to send a copy to when it's published (currently in pre-order). If you're into user research and disability, this book is for you. www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/06/acce...

I don’t really use this. Follow me in the open Fediverse at @[email protected] or use the bridged account here: @yatil.social

I blogged, a little less coherent than I hoped, but I hope still understandable :-D https://yatil.net/blog/so-you-screwed-up-your-eaa-compliance-what-now

The cardinal sin of the CSS carousels is not framing the problem correctly. This is done so often in design and development, it’s one of the biggest problem. Don’t ask how to make [carousels] accessible, ask what an accessible experience would look like that has a similar functionality as […]

“My Request to Google on #Accessibility” adrianroselli.com/2025/05/my-r... I’m asking this massive company to stop releasing features & products & ideas that are obvious barriers. And I want them to stop expecting free labor from the community. It’s tiring, frustrating, and disrespectful. #a11y

I had to point out that the CSS Carousel had accessibility issues yesterday at work. I'm sick of being this guy, and I want off this treadmill.

Don’t be ableist and make your sh*t accessible. — Now you’re aware of accessibility. #gaad #globalaccessibilityawarenessday #gaad25 #gaad2025

if a prototype isn't accessible, then it is likely not something that can be tested by people with disabilities. and if that's the case, any UX decisions made based on such a prototype will be biased away from inclusive design / UX decisions.

🏳️‍⚧️ Protect trans kids. 🦾 Protect autistic kids. Trans rights and disability rights are human rights.

If anybody shares the “WCAG in Plain English” or similar site: toot.cafe/@aardrian/11... In short — do not use, do not share. @scottohara.me and @yatil.net already did the free labor of notifying author of issues.

Conférence d’Eric Eggert (@yatil.net) sur les limites des régions ARIA live, et les solutions alternatives : - Propriétés ARIA (ex. aria-pressed) - Repositionner le focus - Utiliser un son bref Détails ici : a42.fr/we-are-aria-... #a11y #ARIA #HTML #WebDev

One of my favorite W3C/WAI resources.

Not being facetious. Not exaggerating. A lot of people have been cheering on or unphased by “they were sick/old anyways” messaging since the start of the *ONGOING* pandemic. They see the lack of solidarity from “left” / “progressive” groups with disabled people. They’ll keep capitalizing on it.

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a dual-antibody treatment that remains effective against ALL SARS-CoV-2 variants by targeting a less-mutable part of the virus. This breakthrough could lead to longer-lasting therapies that OUTPACE viral evolution. 🧪🧵⬇️

Oh, look, @WAI_A_Day now has a (very rudamentary) website: https://wai-a-day.yatil.net

5 years ago I was at CSUN. It was my final conference. Time flies when you’re staying healthy.

Accessibility is anti-fascist. You can do a lot by literally just adding alt text.

I blogged about WAI A Day, my Mastodon account that posts a Web Accessibility Initiative resource every day. (Begrudgingly also available on Bluesky.) https://yatil.net/blog/wai-a-day