Hyperlink text should make sense when read out of context. Screen reader users can navigate from link to link, and can listen to links in a list. When navigating this way, only the link is read. So "click here" or "read more" won't make sense.

CORSICA.BMF

20,000 words, 150 footnotes, 100+ timeline events = our attempt at documenting and synthesizing all the ways that the federal government has attempted to destroy access to gender-affirming care since January unbreaking.org/issues/trans...

Me at 24: "Work is the most important part of my life, this job is everything to me and I will burn the candle at both ends for years to get ahead" Me at 41: "This fuckin' job, right? Man, having a job is weird and kinda sucks! Ha ha!!! Anyway, what's going on with you"

"Did you see this new website from the federal government? It's a celebration of American design over the years" "Cool, what's the web address?" "Merry Christmas dot gov"

"Did you see this new website from the federal government? It's a celebration of American design over the years" "Cool, what's the web address?" "Merry Christmas dot gov"

Once again, not only is the "America Design System" bloated, inaccessible garbage, but there is ALREADY a full system – US Web Design System/USWDS – built, maintained, and regularly improved by feds, free to use and iterate on. designsystem.digital.gov

This tweet from Big Balls says the new “Tech Force” website is their first using the “America Design System.” Here are just a few reasons why that sucks. 🧵

Yep.

Is this the thing that finally tips me over the edge to proton mail?

The harsh visual design and inattention to accessibility is hostile and intimidating, and it's absolutely not the first time a regime has used visual design like that to exert influence and control. Design has power.

My very tiny LLC paid for a tiny sponsorship for our local public media station and I *immediately* got a new client from it that will likely cover that advertising cost and then some! Support public media however you can!

Happy bday Sinéad. 💕

Wake up, babe. New ugly, inaccessible .gov site just dropped.

Hungry for lunch at 9:43 am: A memoir

New edition of this classic risograph print from Molly Fair! justseeds.org/product/the-...

DAWWWWWWGGSSSS

The reason we love the Star Wars universe is that there is no ubiquitous video surveillance. Ain’t got CCTV, Ring, or Flock on Naboo

Re-upping this thread!

In September, I (and many other accessibility advocates) reviewed the America by Design website, finding sloppy AI-generated code and accessibility bugs. @notus.com wrote on it, and also spoke to many amazing folks from @alt18f.bsky.social and @ethanmarcotte.com www.notus.org/trump-white-...

Today is World AIDS Day and the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ bus stand A lifelong activist, Parks was also a lifelong quilter and contributed her talents to sew squares for the AIDS quilt: www.changethepattern.org/stories/rp?r...

Thank you for this thread! In the US we love tidy narratives about heroes and their bootstraps, stories that don't fundamentally challenge power. The civil rights movement was nonhierarchical, grassroots, distributed. We should celebrate folks who lit the path, and also not flatten their stories.

Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.

Read This When Things Fall Apart is now 25% off when purchased through AK Press. www.akpress.org/read-this-wh...

I cannot remember which one of you recommended Lillian Smith’s 1949 book KILLERS OF THE DREAM but holy shit 🔥 interminablerambling.medium.com/the-importan...

Hi everybody, It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships. Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post. This is, somehow, feasible. So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.

Time for the annual Thanksgiving watch of Addams Family Values: or, the first time we heard a contrary story about Thanksgiving and learned that Malibu Barbie ain’t all that

I'm not on BearBlog but I have *really* loved subscribing to the BearBlog "discover" RSS feed and reading blog posts like this from kind folks across the smallweb. Thanks @tallywinkle.itch.io for the nudge to try Linux again after many years! bearblog.dev/discover/

Meanwhile in fun bike stuff, the 2025 #Coffeeneuring challenge is a wrap! I finished just under the buzzer. erinrwhite.com/coffeeneurin...

"no, hosting a stuff swap is not a lot of work, and I’m gonna share my personal blueprint right in this here free post, so you can start stuff swapping wherever you are." open.substack.com/pub/ashleepi...

And a happy birthday to Dana Scully

Superior Court intern mistakenly targeted by ICE in PVD today, per RI Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul Suttell

In a live demo of new gen-AI feature for [REDACTED] Presenter: Oh, it looks like this isn't working the way I expected. Me: 🌝

I gotta say, I've been enjoying this Ken Burns American Revolution doc. It's trying to *not* do that thing where you center white men's voices, which I appreciate even when it seems kinda tacked on

Question for tech workers: have you successfully refused to use generative AI in your workplace due to your ethical objections and *not* been penalized for it?

Now that our edition of Ursula K. Le Guin's "A Rant About 'Technology'" is (finally!) printed, bound, packed, & with campus mail, on its way to folks, we’re making approximately 60 of the internal poster available separately If you’d like to claim one see the order form at forms.gle/BKJQWSmcnuq8...

If you are in RI or SE MA please share info about this annual Trans Thanksgiving event. Vegan and GF options available! It’s free, open to trans, nb, gd folks and their guests. 🩵🤍🩷 rsvp at Lu.ma/that. Or email questions to [email protected]. RSVP to get the location in Providence.

In my keynote yesterday I made sure to highlight @rude1.blacksky.team & @blackskyweb.xyz , @transrights.northsky.social , @latinsky.social when talking about a just digital community for marginalized people. @clirnews.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/VQ-rH7A...

The incredible, indomitable, inspirational Alice Wong has left us. I'm so grateful to have known her on social media, and so grateful for all the words she shared with us and all the actions she encouraged us into making. May we live up to her example. (so you don't have to go to Instagram)

Learned more about how this tool works from @habengirma.bsky.social's memoir. Accessibility tech is amazing!

Y’all hear that Robyn dropped her first new single in 7 years? youtu.be/pwi-LyNgrD8

After 27 years of coding websites I am giving my first-ever conference talk about web accessibility this Saturday at @nedcamp.bsky.social! Very excited.

Meanwhile on Facebook, a central Alabama food influencer posted photos/videos of a large anti-ICE protest last night in Jemison, AL, about 45 minutes south of Birmingham. Many folks detained there and held in city hall for processing. The local community is OUT

Just porting over some of my favorite one-liners from my Tw*tter archive

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

websites in 2025

A very nice November day for a ride on the East Bay Bike Path. Rhode Island in the fall.

Just thinking about the times my coworkers said, “Nah, I ain’t doing that” in the face of edicts from fascists or folks complying in advance to fascists this year. It gives me so much hope.

This week’s newsletter is about getting out of the boiling pot of water and deciding not to climb back in. buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...