It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life

The only adult wearing cat ears on Halloween during our European train travels today, but I regret nothing. Also, some cool Paris street art! 😺🦇

Why is it important to make your website more accessible? - Disabled people need access - The legal situation in the EU - Build better software as an outcome - Accessibility design and engineering is cool! @marcysutton.com at #perfnow

Just like web performance work, accessibility winds up being less expensive the earlier you implement it. Build accessibility in from the start, rather than bolting it on - make it part of the process. @marcysutton.com #webperf #PerfNow #a11y

“We should treat accessibility as something that is structural or baked in or part of the DNA, if we want to be successful” — says @marcysutton.com at #perfnow “Don’t treat it like trying to put chocolate chips into a cookie after it is baked” I love this framing!

So fun to spend the week in Amsterdam with my family ahead of @perfnow.nl! Now working on my talk, a reimagined version of a topic I first spoke on a decade ago: Accessibility and Performance. Very excited to share! 🤗

Virtual #NoKings rally TODAY at 2:30 Pacific Time. Zoom: us06web.zoom.us/j/8467741742... YouTube livestream if the zoom overflows: youtube.com/@COVIDLongHa... Official listing: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.

Happy #Caturday!

I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.

I regret reading about the Friday night massacre before going to sleep. For f’s sake, we’re cooked as a country.

I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵 Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.

I like my job but I'll be _very_ glad to be done with lead frontend support rotation at the end of this sprint. Whewww.

📣 Just Scheduled When porting a site to Astro, how do you handle images? @marcysutton.com and @jason.energy pair program to set it up on Marcy’s site. Details: www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3Q8...

Capitalism 🤝 Authoritarianism

"Since this new administration took office, the unemployment rate for people with disabilities has increased at triple the normal rate of unemployment."

Listen to marginalized people who raise the smokes and flags. It’s for good reason. Lesson of the day. Sometimes people warn cause they know patterns.

“A threat model for accessibility on the web” alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-t... A deep, well-researched & cited piece detailing systemic failures down the web stack (standards bodies, browsers vendors, etc) which marginalize #accessibility and its voices — but with proposed solutions. #a11y

Moving my Gatsby site to @astro.build has been pretty smooth so far, except for one thing: blog images! So I asked my buddy @jason.energy for help, since we worked together when I built the original site. We're going to stream a work session next Thursday, 10/9 on @codetv.dev at 9:30am Pacific!

I’ve been at my job at @khanacademy.org for a whole year as of today! Wow, how time flies. 🫶🏻

I know it is the least sexy thing in the world, but yet again I am asking the youngs to educate themselves about high blood pressure. If it can take out one of the world's greatest dancers like Tina Turner, it can also take you out. www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/hea...

I’m writing a talk for @perfnow and realizing I could use new professional headshots. How about in Amsterdam while we’re there for my talk, so we can get family photos taken at the same time? If anyone has photographer recommendations for the end of October, I’d super appreciate it!

Saw a beaver on my bike ride yesterday, it felt like some kind of blessing.

Haha fun times moderating a tech community where people ever love AI or hate it, and I “get” to referee

It dawned on me that I should be be sharing out the accessibility articles I link to at work on social media. Here's a good one from today's RSS feed: www.a11y-collective.com/blog/nvda-ke...

Autism does not need to be cured Ableism does The end

Finally replatforming my website to Astro after all this time... it's a prerequisite to creating a blog post, since I don't have the old site running on a computer anymore! A good kick in the butt to get this thing updated. ✔️

Wrapping up a week in Vancouver, BC with the frontend infrastructure team from @khanacademy.org. Lots of getting to know each other, eating amazing food, and pedaling around on my bike. So glad I went! I love this town.

🚨 **Security alert** 🚨 Today, malicious versions of [`chalk` and several other packages](www.aikido.dev/blog/npm-deb...) were published to npm. We've assessed the impact to our users and believe the threat from Storybook specifically is minimal. Sharing for visibility. Stay safe out there folks!

performance.now() is coming! @marcysutton.com explains how designing for accessibility contributes to better experiences, and why subtle choices — like which elements receive focus — lead to better products. She’ll also talk about the legal context in Europe. perfnow.nl/speakers.htm...

Sesame Street will be putting a huge collection of episodes on YouTube starting in January 2026 This is a fantastic way to educate children It’s a form of resistance. Shows like Sesame Street teach love, tolerance, acceptance & more. These lessons are crucial for the long fight ahead.

This is the only kind of design I want to see from you all tomorrow

I'm presenting tonight at our local Bellingham.Codes meetup on my work in accessibility engineering, titled "From Breakpoints to Burnout and Back Again." I dug through my entire photo album to tell some career stories. Should be a fun time! www.meetup.com/bellinghamco...

It's been a pretty bad summer for me here in Washington, but you know what's been great? WORK. I have the opportunity to bring you EIGHT count em EIGHT glorious financial literacy videos. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMrA... In this one, Darnell and I play scammers who teach you the ropes.

I mean it, fellow Americans: call your reps about this. It seems small in the short run, but this is going to fuck up businesses, especially small ones, big time.

Pure chaos in the USA, self-inflicted. It’s absolutely absurd

In word and in action, the United States must continue to stand with Ukraine. I don’t care what President Trump says – Putin started this war and yesterday's meeting was not in the U.S. national interest. Trump is rewarding Putin for the war he started and his continued attacks on civilians.

Pretty annoying how Cursor likes to delete pre-existing, unrelated code comments and tests. Slow your roll, bro 🛑

Senior dog Sunday. Loving getting time to hang on the beach with this sweet dude! He moves pretty slowly on the rocks and sand these days. #RainierMcCheddarton

We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.

This should be a good event! "How to fix A11y debt without burning out" webinar coming up on Thursday with some all-time greats: @ericwbailey.website and @a11ymel.bsky.social 💜

@unbreaking.org has put together a timeline of things that has happened around data security (of your personal data that the federal government has) since January and you may need a break or two to get through it 😭

Feeling some kind of smug satisfaction when Cursor introduces a browser bug. The overconfidence of it all 😒😏

My kind of patriotism

Bleak indeed.

I don’t know why I’m getting daily bunnies in my feed but I’m here for it.

Ya know I want to say it’s disability pride month and then make a cute remark about web accessibility. But instead I need to say it’s disability pride month, every elected official voting to take away healthcare needs to be removed from office. Web accessibility is a drop in an ocean of needs.

Happy "European Accessibility Act goes into effect" week to all who celebrate

We have @marcysutton.com to explain the relation between a11y and performance because faster is more accessible, while @michael-hladky.bsky.social will share from his wealth of experience as a practical performance worker. perfnow.nl/speakers.html