Rachele DiTullio
@racheled.bsky.social
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Accessibility engineer. I’ve been adopted by four cats. Web:
https://racheleditullio.com/
All the tomatoes are coming in! I’m going to try to make my own tomato sauce this time.
#gardening
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Buttons (Ashley) 🏴☠️#OFMDForLife🏴☠️ 🏳️🌈🤡
4 days ago
Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19
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cait (and adonis)
3 days ago
my coworker came up to me yesterday and said "is that Africa?" ???
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Jeff Sharlet
5 days ago
There are other students who write of being able to imagine how AI could be valuable, or even interesting uses they've encountered in, say, computer science courses. But they express real dismay, to the point of despair, over the corporate complicity & enviro degradation involved.
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It cracks me up that my husband loves playing this song and video from The Beat Little Whorehouse in Texas, which as largely filmed in and around Austin.
youtu.be/AALREbJZEZk?...
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The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982) - Sidestep Scene (8/10) | Movieclips
YouTube video by Movieclips
https://youtu.be/AALREbJZEZk?is=3j4RUj4EcT5LYKQF
8 days ago
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TIL Pokemon Go was a data mining scheme to 3D map physical spaces…and people paid cash dollars to do this labor for big tech.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE
9 days ago
A society with one trillionaire and millions of people in poverty is something to be deeply ashamed of, actually
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Little dude got adopted today. He will go to his new home on Wednesday after his neuter surgery.
#cats
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Stellan and Shadow sitting together, waiting for the rain.
#Caturday
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It’s kitten season! We are picking up this little guy tomorrow for foster. He needs to heal from some abrasions.
#cats
16 days ago
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Kids, make sure you’re maxing out your Roth IRA contributions after getting any employer match on your 401K.
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BOS ✈️ AUS I‘m excited to see my husband and cats this evenin!
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James Talarico
17 days ago
There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.
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Ben Werdmuller
about 1 month ago
For years, people have tried hard to get websites to build accessibility affordances. Now developers are willingly building them for AI.
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Affordances for me, but not for thee
For years, people have tried hard to get websites to build accessibility affordances. Now developers are willingly building them for AI.
https://werd.io/affordances-for-me-but-not-for-thee/
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Happy Pride to all the Aces
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blair
23 days ago
One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?
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Stephanie Kollmann
21 days ago
Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.
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NPR
21 days ago
The San Antonio Spurs celebrated after beating the odds and defeating the defending champions Oklahoma City Thunder, to advance to the NBA Finals
n.pr/49xQPAv
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Wembanyama, Spurs win the West, topple Thunder 111-103 in Game 7 to head to NBA Finals
The San Antonio Spurs celebrated after beating the odds and defeating the defending champions Oklahoma City Thunder, to advance to the NBA Finals
https://n.pr/49xQPAv
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AUS ✈️ BOS *yawn*
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Get practice with semantics by marking up Word documents.
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If your link isn’t in the keyboard focus order, make sure you set an href value. These are the building blocks of the web. Do not just throw a tabindex=“0” on a parent element and move on.
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I haven’t seen or talked to my ex-husband in 20 years, since the day we walked of the courthouse after our pro se divorce. It’s weird how someone you loved just disappears out of your life.
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Part 4 of my series on iPhone mobile
#accessibility
is live: AT for iPhone: Full Keyboard Access I'm going to follow this up with a series on Android.
racheleditullio.com/blog/2026/05...
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AT for iPhone: Full Keyboard Access - Rachele DiTullio
Your iPhone comes with powerful assistive technology (AT) built in—useful for checking how well your mobile app is supporting accessibility. When mobile apps don’t work well with one AT, they often do...
https://racheleditullio.com/blog/2026/05/at-for-iphone-full-keyboard-access/
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It’s Cats’ Birthday today! We celebrate all 4 cats on the same day. Luna: 14 Stellan: 8 Shadow: 8 Brienne: 7
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Mike Elgan
29 days ago
Now you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.)
isaiprofitable.com
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I’ve been having fun doing front-end dev work on my personal website. I added the purple visited state back to most links for usability.
27 days ago
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I’ve switched to the Vivaldi browser on my phone and now my personal laptop. I like it as a Chrome alternative.
28 days ago
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Todd
29 days ago
No stopping now, we are close to the end goal. Shares are always welcomed and thank you to those that have donated and reposted.
gofund.me/ef06d9d56
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Donate to Fundraiser for Paula Johnson's Medical & Recovery Fund, organized by Todd Libby
My name is Todd Libby, and I am starting this on the behalf of my… Todd Libby needs your support for Fundraiser for Paula Johnson's Medical & Recovery Fund
https://gofund.me/ef06d9d56
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We are donating blood today for the 3rd time this year. The promotion is two tickets to the local minor league baseball team.
29 days ago
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I got inspired to fix the custom focus indicators on my website because we‘re doing it in the design system at work. The black/white double stroke is so much better.
about 1 month ago
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Sara Soueidan
about 1 month ago
I love websites!
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warrior cop
about 1 month ago
I GET LOGGED OUT. BUT I LOG IN AGAIN
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TW: Misogyny TIL about the “husband stitch” and I’m horrified.
about 1 month ago
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Part 3 in this iPhone mobile app
#accessibility
series — AT for iPhone: Voice Control speech input
racheleditullio.com/blog/2026/05...
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AT for iPhone: Voice Control speech input - Rachele DiTullio
Your iPhone comes with powerful assistive technology (AT) built in—useful for checking how well your mobile app is supporting accessibility. When mobile apps don’t work well with one AT, they often do...
https://racheleditullio.com/blog/2026/05/at-for-iphone-voice-control-speech-input/
about 1 month ago
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Cold-canned the first jalapeño harvest
#gardening
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I don’t care what framework or design system you build with, you need to know how components get rendered in the browser, in HTML.
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We have product owners come to us 1 week before go-live asking for an accessibility validation and then being upset when we find high and critical issues. Issues missed by design and missed again by development. But we’re the bad guys for pointing it out 🙃
about 1 month ago
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Ian Boudreau
about 1 month ago
People are weird sometimes if you don't have kids, they're like what about having a legacy, and I just point to my box of various wires and power cables
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I’m tired of my Dem representatives not using alt text in their posts. You are excluding some of your constituents who can’t see images.
@doggett.house.gov
@jamestalarico.bsky.social
#acceasibility
is a human right.
about 1 month ago
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Oliver Lindberg
about 1 month ago
Disabled states are everywhere. But they're not accessible. So why are we still using them? 😵💫 In this article on
@zeroheight.com
, Chela Giraldo unpacks her frustration with disabled states and suggests 7 patterns to use instead in your design system to actually help people:
#designsystems
#a11y
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Rethinking the "disabled norm": 7 patterns to use instead in your design system - zeroheight
Chela Giraldo explains how disabled states harm accessibility and what to do instead to build clearer, more inclusive user interfaces.
https://zeroheight.com/blog/rethinking-the-disabled-norm/
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New blog post in my series on mobile accessibility. AT for iPhone: VoiceOver screen reader
#accessibility
#mobile
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AT for iPhone: VoiceOver screen reader - Rachele DiTullio
Your iPhone comes with powerful assistive technology (AT) built in—useful for checking how well your mobile app is supporting accessibility. When mobile apps don’t work well with one AT, they often do...
https://racheleditullio.com/blog/2026/05/at-for-iphone-voiceover-screen-reader/
about 1 month ago
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First batch of jalapeño peppers
#gardening
about 1 month ago
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This administration lies every day because most people are too tired or checked out to notice.
about 1 month ago
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Zach Leatherman
5 months ago
it clearly needs to be repeated that layoffs are a leadership failure, full stop.
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zeldman
about 2 months ago
Read it for free: Accessibility For Everyone by
@laurakalbag.com
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@sekai.co.uk
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accessibilityforeveryone.site
#a11y
#BooksNeverDie
#ABookApart
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Accessibility For Everyone by Laura Kalbag
Read the book online for free.
https://accessibilityforeveryone.site/
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Still using em-dashes because I like them a lot.
about 1 month ago
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WebDesignMuseum
about 2 months ago
Happy 23rd Birthday CSS Zen Garden! In May 2003 the Canadian web designer Dave Shea launched a community gallery of websites called CSS Zen Garden.
#WebDesignHistory
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Accessibility Awareness
about 2 months ago
PDF tags provide a hidden, structured representation of PDF content that is presented to screen readers. Not all applications support good PDF tag structure, but InDesign, Word, and PowerPoint can. WebAIM has more information on preserving these tags.
webaim.org/techniques/a...
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WebAIM: PDF Accessibility - Converting Documents to PDF
Search:
https://webaim.org/techniques/acrobat/converting
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The anthropomorphing of AI is a trick to make you trust it. It‘s just machine code.
about 2 months ago
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I just had a realization that a11y folks had to create accessibility annotations because wireframes went away. This is so backwards lol
about 2 months ago
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