Watch Alice Wong's keynote from Axe-con 2025 youtu.be/GgwCNHVzg4k

"Here’s the sticker: I actually enjoy researching and writing component accessibility guidance." — @gerireid.com gerireid.com/blog/can-ai-...

lord knows i try not to be a bitter person, but after spending my career writing about surveillance i truly can’t help feeling contempt for everyone gaslighting me saying stuff like this would never happen

Here is an obituary for Alice Wong from The Sick Times, a publication aligned with disability rights and disability activism, if you are looking for an alternative to reading the nyt one: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...

An absolute tragic loss in the disability community. Alice was one of the strongest voices we've had, and this world will not be the same without her guidance, especially during these times.

‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’ —Alice Wong

Honored to be featured on the freshly-relaunched @aftermath.site with this new piece! It's about AI and Fascism, and also the beloved Y2K-era teen comedy Mean Girls.

Eugenics. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

every large institution and public sector organisation needs to do this

Just going to drop this link for no particular reason, other than the Safety team here is staffed by utter clowns www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/...

I'm happy to share that I've written a chapter for a book called Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech, to be published on 26 March 2026: www.routledge.com/Digital-Acce... #DigitalAccessibilityEthics

New: a judge has ruled that Flock surveillance images are public records that can be requested by anyone. Shows that at least in some cases, police cannot withhold the data collected by its surveillance systems. www.404media.co/judge-rules-...

This is exactly what we ended up doing on Direct File to protect taxpayer privacy while remaining focused on accessibility. Like any UX solution, you also have options with accessibility, each with their own tradeoffs. How do you learn about those trade-offs? Learn to use assistive technology.

I really do think The Sick Times is doing some of the most important journalism of our generation. And I can tell you firsthand that Miles and Betsy are the real deal. They care so, so much about getting it right. They’re incredible humans in addition to being such good journalists.

Bad news for human rights and national security, no matter how you spin it NSO Group has a new executive chairman, David Friedman, who's a former U.S. ambassador to Israel and onetime bankruptcy lawyer for President Trump. www.wsj.com/tech/israeli... via @WSJ

RIP James Watson, co-discoverer of Rosalind Franklin's notes

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.

Alt text is about accessibility, intended for people who use screenreaders. If you use it for other things, like image credits, that's like parking construction equipment in an accessible parking space. Sure, that is a convenient space for that, but it's not what it's for.

you can watch Dracula’s Ex-Girlfriend and The Prince AND the next two episodes of Philosophy Tube for free this weekend if you want go.nebula.tv/philosophytube

NEW: A federal judge said the decision by Trump WH to end sign language interpretation at briefings by Trump and Leavitt likely violated the Rehabilitation Act and harmed deaf people who communicate in ASL. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

posted this four months ago but tonight as buckaroos like mamdani sweep elections i will post again. hope this is sign to all establishment goofs that trotting to the center is not the move. protect the buckaroos who are in perilous circumstances and do not give an inch

Not often you see someone beat their opponent twice in the same election.

BREAKING: OpenAI to invest $1trn in new compute so as to be able to calculate accurately how much money it’s losing

As a toolmaker, and someone soon to be (hopefully) conferred with a Philosophia Doctorae specifically on tool-making, I thought I'd offer my perspective on this seemingly simple phrase and how it misguides the conversation on AI. (spoiler: nothing is "just" a tool - only a tool would think that!)

this entire article is excellent, but I was especially struck by this insight: for many, faith in technology has supplanted faith in our own human abilities

Just donated! Happy to support a publication also doing disability journalism.

When I say "I have a conflict with this meeting" I do not mean that I have another meeting at the same time. What I mean is, I take ubmrage against it. I have a feud with it on a historic scale.

New from 404 Media: you can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's new facial recognition app, according to internal DHS document I obtained. Photos captured by the app are stored for 15 years, including U.S. citizens. We've seen officers scanning faces w/ phones on streets www.404media.co/you-cant-ref...

GrapheneOS is great and I recommend it all the time for Android users who are concerned about spying by governments and law enforcement.

Thank you, @cidrap.bsky.social, for covering our new @nejm.org review of Covid-19, RSV, and influenza immunizations. Check it out: cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/meta-analysis-covid-rsv-flu-vaccines-fall-provides-sea-data-showing-efficacy-safety

wrote about the return of the Glasshole and luxury surveillance in the age of fascism for @theverge.com ft. @hypervisible.blacksky.app and @esquiring.bsky.social 👓🚫

"Can't miss the boat" "Embrace it or be left behind" "You'll be replaced by someone using AI" These are all marketing slogans that prey on FOMO rather than value propositions. Anyone making decisions based on this kind of shaky logic is just another layer in the pyramid scheme.

Honestly, if you value content you've created always make sure it has a home outside of a single company. Always.

NEW: A series of studies have shown that the diabetes drug metformin may help reduce the risk of #LongCOVID. So why isn't the information being translated into guidelines for providers? @sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social reports for @thesicktimes.org! thesicktimes.org/2025/10/28/m...

Cool how one of the most prevalent tech stories now is “here’s how to be a creep and/or convincing fraud.”

At this point I feel like there's a strong possibility that the people who run Plex are just intentionally trying to destroy the service and company so they can take up fly fishing or something.

If you're still here, today is a great day to sign off for good.

“Let them go a month without meals. Maybe they will get a job” First, many SNAP recipients have jobs. They’re just living below the poverty line because of tremendous wealth inequality. Second, many are disabled and children and can’t work. Third, no one should starve to death.

OK, having heard a report on some AI bracelet which is always recording audio with the idea that you could go back and audit your day's interactions or ask it questions about what you did that day... look if you actually want this I think you're forgetting what it means to be human.

Never have a group of people worked so hard to build the technology that will replace them.

At some point it has to become clear that this tech exists is to create a more toxic society and enrich its owners. These uses are not aberrations but rather the entire purpose.

Ada Lovelace, first AI denigrator

i would kindly request that the people trying to kill the web stop making browsers

If you’re generating an image for your article with AI, you didn’t need one in the first place

A lot of people seem to think there will be a cure for them if they get Long COVID. There will not be. Mask up.

I fear that even if AI does compel some devs to (finally) take accessibility seriously, a web that is full of AI-generated content becomes a web that’s less accessible for everyone

The TetraLogical team really are a canonical, trusted and ever-helpful resource for accessibility education. tetralogical.com/blog/2025/10...

Heard about the Louvre jewel heist and my first thought was “finally, some good old fashioned normal crime”

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist