“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”

was listening to @mrjamesob.bsky.social yesterday, he did a piece on “Trump Derangement Syndrome” which is a pejorative popular with his colleague @nickferrarilbc.bsky.social

got an #earlyBird seeyou there!

Happy Fenton Day to all who celebrate. Jesus Christ, fourteen years. youtu.be/3GRSbr0EYYU

🇨🇦 Neil Young is turning 80 — and these Canadian musicians are throwing him a party at Massey Hall in Toronto. #NeilYoung🇨🇦 #CanadaSky🍁 www.thestar.com/entertainmen...

Can we just take a minute and acknowledge that our POTUS is right OUT IN THE OPEN lobbying Congressional members to vote against releasing the Epstein files?! Like... what the fuck else does anyone even need to know?

Sitepoint is still advocating for the document outline algorithm: www.sitepoint.com/headings-in-... It was removed from WHATWG HTML in 2022: adrianroselli.com/2016/08/ther... I again encourage people to ignore SitePoint articles on accessibility. Found via @frontenddogma.com #HTML #a11y

🚨Trigger warning: a few swear words and talk of politics

#TPAC2025 is also a great opportunity to run into former colleagues and take serious photos with them. Here's Marie-Clarie of W3C developers

The FT writing a headline that makes it sound like Starmer is going to strip to the waist and have it in the car park with anyone who wants it

This is very "Age of Aquarius" nonsense

🍭 LAST WEEK IN WAI - 3-9th November 2025 Each week I get a ton of mailing list emails and a load of github emails related to issues and discussions going in the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative A few bubble up and pique my interest #a11y #WCAG #WebStandards html5accessibility.com/stuff/2025/1...

🍭 LAST WEEK IN WAI - 3-9th November 2025 Each week I get a ton of mailing list emails and a load of github emails related to issues and discussions going in the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative A few bubble up and pique my interest #a11y #WCAG #WebStandards html5accessibility.com/stuff/2025/1...

Accessibility works best when it is part of the design process, not added later. Our Design Review service helps teams create inclusive designs from the beginning. Find out how a Design Review can strengthen your approach at tetralogical.com/services/design-reviews or email [email protected].

BBC holds a consensus reality space that a lot of people dislike the BBC for a number of reasons and appreciate specific parts of its many services. Without BBC, we lose that space. We shrink our shared cultural commons.

Cognitive disonnence defined: #Trump accusing the #BBC of being fake news

'I don't want people thinking I am racist.' Caller Julie explains why she threw her Union Flag t-shirt in the bin.

The majority of us are a bunch of self taught people with rather spotty knowledge and that's fine! Kilian (also self taught) is here to share some of the computer science fundamentals you probably are missing with the aim to improve your code in the long term. piccalil.li/blog/program...

This Thursday November 13th, I will be joining the OZeWAI (an Australian Web Accessibility initiative) on their Ask The Professionals Webinar to talk all about #ARIA, along with Rafal Charlampowicz and Andrew Downie. The session will be moderated by Russ Weakley. #a11y

Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

This accidentally turned into a short thread. Bit of a rage-thread I'm afraid. Please read to the end if you can. Thanks

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

Michael Bennet: I really am a Bolshevik. I believe we should provide universal healthcare to all Americans as a right. There is no reason not to do it in the richest country in the world, especially if we can do it at half of the cost of care we are providing now.

I have WCAG shirts for sale. One that moves the “Punch Nazis” to the same line (this one’s new), but available in white on whatever and black on whatever. And two variations of the MASH logo (yellow or black text). Get them as weird holiday gifts! aardrian.threadless.com/collections/...

If you think the people throwing Great Gatsby-esque parties for themselves, while millions were denied their food assistance, are all of a sudden going to grow a conscience and save affordable healthcare, you clearly have not been paying attention.

👁️‍🗨️ Reading - JAWS mailing list: Glen Gordon Has Left Vispero #a11y #tech #politics jfw.groups.io/g/main/messa...

When was the last time anyone at the BBC had to resign for misrepresenting a leftwinger?

Weekly reading list from Ricky Onsman serves up sharp insights on digital accessibility & inclusive design. Dive in, find your takeaway & share which idea challenged your thinking or sparked fresh action. buff.ly/Iefs0WB #DigitalAccessibility #InclusiveDesign #WebAccessibility #WCAG #UX #A11y

Tonight’s Senate vote on the federal government shutdown should have been a time for strength. Instead we saw capitulation and a betrayal of working Americans. The American people need more from their leaders.

A lot of yall think that we can just vote our way back to pre Nov 2016, and we are so far gone beyond that point...

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

A conversation with @patrickhlauke.bsky.social on Wokeness, AI, disability, @w3c.bsky.social, WCAG and other stuff

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

📺 Watching the next American Revolution 🇺🇸 unfold from a distance, it’s still up close enough for it to feel visceral & a sure sign that it will have a major effect on many lives, including mine. I don’t have the foresight to see likely outcomes, but i don’t have a good feeling about any of them.

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Rambling Fireside with Pat - @patrickhlauke.bsky.social #a11y #WCAG #W3C #AI #disability #woke #TPAC2025 html5accessibility.com/stuff/2025/1...

Glen Gordon’s departure is a loss for JAWS (and Freedom Scientific / Vispero): www.linkedin.com/posts/glen-g... I have a great deal of respect for someone who leaves an employer when their values no longer align. #accessibility #a11y #JAWS

One of the unacknowledged advantages of this awful era is that it's revealing for all to see the putrid connections between great wealth and great power. The intentions of the oligarchs are fully exposed and more blatant than ever. But remember: We outnumber the oligarchs.

Someone put this "blue plaque" on a London Tesla showroom to mark his becoming the world's first trillionaire. “World’s first trillionaire Elon Musk. Could have solved world hunger but funded fascists instead. Bellend.” www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/everyon...

I understand why we shut down American airspace for a few days after 9-11 to avoid a repeat attack but imagine shutting down American airspace to avoid releasing the Epstein files.

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

One problem with the web platform I’m thinking about how to solve: keyboard shortcuts. I’ve written what I see as the requirements here: github.com/openui/open-... I want to hear from devs who’ve worked on big apps/sites with shortcuts and see what I’m missing, and how they’ve solved this.

Why are ICE agents being paid during the shutdown, but not air traffic controllers? 🤨

Meta told staff responsible for vetting questionable ads that they weren’t allowed to take action if it would cost Meta more than $135 million. Meta *policy* explicitly blocks staff from doing anything about the biggest scammers. They are too big to fail at Meta. Zuck is a craven piece of shit.

Whether you’re beginning your accessibility journey or scaling across a large organisation, getting the strategic foundations right makes a difference. Henny Swan explores how leadership, accountability and governance turn good intentions into long-term change. tetralogical.com/blog/2025/11...

False choice (with a value judgment in its wording). You can, & should, continue to raise demonstrable & valid concerns about the accessibility of LLM output and _also_ consider if (or how) you can improve it (he offers options). But no free labor from me. www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/ide...

Situations like this really highlight how so many tech companies and tech we take for granted have flourished on the backs of thousands of hours of free labour, which is bad enough, but they also have absolute contempt for that free labour and those that gave it.

Sheri Byrne‑Haber reminds us that reducing UX friction, like adding type‑ahead to long dropdowns or avoiding auto‑erasing error messages too early, can simultaneously close access gaps. buttondown.com/access-abili... #DigitalAccessibility #UXDesign #InclusiveDesign #UX #A11y

Great, so www.britishairways.com 🎉 Displays in geo language rather than user language 🎉 The language picker is at the bottom of a long page 🎉 The language picker is in the current language, so in order to select "United Kingdom", I need to know what that is in German

Hi @beyondtellerrand.com I have #a11y and stateofthebrowser.com stickers come find me #btconf