Me (chronically ill): I’m just going to lie down and put on a quiet video while I try to head off this migraine Also me (ADHD): Now would be a great time to look for live bootlegs of Refused songs from the late 90s

🎮 Thrilled to have joined @royalsociety.org roundtable on Assistive Tech in Gaming—exploring how tech empowers inclusive play! Their report on digital AT is out—check it out & let’s make gaming accessible for all! 👇 royalsociety.org/news-resourc... #GamingForAll #AssistiveTech #a11y

Global disability discussions, with everything from friendship and health to the tightrope of disability community. With @francesryan.bsky.social, @thetattooedjew.com @johnharris1969.bsky.social @inclusioneurope.bsky.social @afropersonnage.ch @devonpersing.bsky.social @blondehistorian.bsky.social

I'm so glad to finally be able to tell you about this book, which I had the privilege of reading early! It's the resource I've always wanted to point to when I get asked questions about doing user research with disabled folks. www.smashingmagazine.com/printed-book...

Something I wish liberals - and, for that matter, a lot of leftists - would internalize: The goal is not to out-argue, disprove, fact-check, debate, or point out the inconsistencies or hypocrisies of fascists. The goal is to defeat them.

When times are bad, help people. When times are good, help people.

As an autistic trans person, this has been clear to me for a long time. These people are extremely uncomfortable with happy, weird little guys existing.

Craft is something they are trying to take from you. Do not let them. Hold it with clawing fingers tightly against your beating heart and do not let it wilt.

If you’re in Seattle, you can find Mask Bloc resources here: linktr.ee/maskblocseat...

I really appreciated this piece on queer cohousing, including the acknowledgement that it's out of reach financially for the majority of people. It sounds like a dream and I wish it was more accessible.

Thanks be to sanitation workers and others who are literally keeping us alive while our infrastructure collapses. 💚

Apple’s ‘liquid glass’ contrast hilarity is now a bullet on my post “I Don’t Care What Google or Apple or Whoever Did” adrianroselli.com/2020/03/i-do... Please please PLEASE do not copy Aero, er, Glass in your Figmas. #accessibility #a11y #UX

I'm so scared of cities. All those buildings so close to each other. You can go to the movie theater and a restaurant and the park while walking, in defiance of God. There are people you haven't met before. Sometimes there's a dog in a jacket

Tech companies will tell you to not bring politics to work. Then do this. Airbnb is spending $1M in ads to attack opponents of Cuomo for not supporting short-term rentals. Whether you're pro or anti-Airbnb, they shouldn't influence elections. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

No one is just their disability. Culture, socioeconomic status, location,etc are a part of the disability experience. This carries over into accessibility. It's important to think about when addressing access barriers. It's important to have voices in the field that aren't the usual seen in tech.

What if for once a product was accessible, not just compliant, but usable by default. For once. As a treat.

Not sure who at the CSS working group was responsible for making Dark Reader in Firefox trigger Nightmare Party Mode?

40 years ago on this date, police dropped a bomb on a West Philadelphia neighborhood

Me: [Reading Bridget Read’s new book about MLMs] My partner: you probably know enough about MLMs to start your own now. Can you make one that just targets MAGA folks? Me: 🤓 Um, actually, MLMs are already designed to funnel cash into right wing politicals

Later this month, A11ySea is hosting a virtual book discussion with yours truly. Come say hi! www.meetup.com/a11ysea/even...

Things that help me self-regulate in the midst of fascism, eugenics, and late-stage capitalism: arts and crafts, mutual aid with neighbors, giving myself rest, wearing what I want, enjoying food.

Shell is dynamite and this #accessibility design course is going to be amazing.

When I opened my email today, I certainly wasn't expecting to discover that @scottohara.me had written a Fight Club-themed article about popovers. www.scottohara.me/blog/2025/03...

Local resources are already being impacted by federal unrest and market instability, so this is the time to make sure you’re working with your local resource distribution group. Give to your food bank, harm reduction groups, volunteer with mutual aid groups in your area.

If you'd like to attend this workshop but don't have the cash, I've got the opportunity to sponsor a student! Feel free to DM me and I can get you signed up or share a checkout code. 💚

From @lflegal.bsky.social ’s CSUNATC, a reminder that if you feel like you aren’t able to push back on the illegal actions of this administration: “Staying the accessibility course is resistance right now.” #a11y #accessibility

The unholy alliance between big tech and the conservative legal movement. It’s explicitly pronatalist and regressive

BREAKING: Hundreds of Jews and allies have taken over Trump Tower chanting “We want justice, you say how. Bring Mahmoud home now!” and “Fight Nazis, not students.” The civil disobedience is spawned by the ICE arrest of Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil.

In April I’ll be teaching my two-part #accessibility workshop for the School of Visual Concepts! Join me over Zoom for two half-day sessions about digital standards, accessible UX, and getting your team or org started with inclusive work. www.svcseattle.com/accessibility

If you’re at Tech Access Oklahoma this week, come say hi! I’ve got a few copies of my book to give away and some stickers if you want’em. 💚

This made me tune out significantly and left such a bad taste in my mouth. A keynote talk called The State of Accessibility should not be an advertisement for "100% Automated AI Accessibility Testing".

I gotta be honest. This feels horrible #axecon.

It's 8 pm and I'm crying while harshly critiquing my slides which means I'm presenting tomorrow! Yes, @deque.com axe-con starts tomorrow and I'm presenting at Noon Mountain time. No I'm not gonna convert it to the more popular time zones (Deque's site will do it for you) #axecon #accessibility #a11y

Let this remind you to play the long game, no person or organization is too powerful. Fight like hell!

I think we'll see over the next few months quite a few companies throwing up overlays in a quick and dirty way to comply with the European Accessibility Act. The thing is EAA says that overlays aren't an acceptable solution for compliance.

if you start the Twin Peaks pilot episode at 10:55 a.m. today, Special Agent Dale Cooper will enter the town of Twin Peaks exactly at 11:30 a.m., February 24th

In May I'll be at @uxlx.bsky.social ! Come join me for a half-day accessibility operations workshop or swing by for a talk on #accessible design patterns.

I'm going to be speaking about #accessibility operations at Tech Access Oklahoma next week! In person tickets are sold out, but you can still attend virtually. techaccessok.org

The #Accessibility Operations Guidebook is now available in paperback! This edition ships with a discount code that gives you access to the ebook bundle for free. If you're looking for other formats, check out the info at book.dpersing.com. #a11yops #TAOG-BookClub www.amazon.com/Accessibilit...

Protest isn't always obvious but that doesn't make it less powerful.

Love how Washington and Oregon are not on this list. Y’all sanctuary states or nah?

Free and online: On February 27th I'll be doing a session about the digital #accessibility legal landscape at the Axe-Con Accessibility conference. Session page with link to register: www.deque.com/axe-con/sess... #a11y #disability

25 years later January has finally come to an end. May the odds be in your favor for the decade of February.

The State of Facilitation report. Readings on AI and Ursula Franklin. A plug for improving your online typography and an awkward podcast appearance. New post → Monthly links & notes for January 2025 Read it on Improve Something Today: improvesomething.today/monthly-link...

What are you reading this weekend?

In lieu of an excerpt this week, I want to share a list of books that were important to my Accessibility Operations Guidebook. I recommend you find them through your local library in whatever format you prefer, or order through a resources like bookshop.org. #TAOG-BookClub

Thanks to the kind folks at @assistivlabs.com for allowing me to get on my #accessibility systems soapbox!

For Disabled folks, news coverage of the LA fires, which’ve now killed at least 28 people (many disabled), has been dark. Here’s a Top 4 🧵of (still too rare) skilled disability coverage from LA – so readers can see how climate change, and ableist neglect during disasters, impact Disabled people. 1/

In lieu of an excerpt for #TAOG-BookClub this week, I want to just have an open thread. Tell me about your #A11y and #AccessibilityOperations successes! And then save what you share, put it in a safe place, and get it out to read over when things aren't going so well. 💚