The W3C is calling for speakers for the W3C Workshop on Smart Voice Agents, an online conference from February 25 to 27, 2026. They’re looking for contributions on voice interaction, smart devices, and related standards. Read the full details at: w3.org/2025/10/smartagents-workshop

Market research! How often do you use one of those "what is my browser" websites (personally or sent to someone)? Would you use one that isn't littered with ads or has a design from 1995? What features should it have? What if you could also use it to collect info to emulate devices in Polypane?

Incredible to see the renewed vitality and activity on @servo.org : servo.org/blog/2025/10... Independent browser engines like Servo and github.com/LadybirdBrow... are strategic investments in a more inclusive and democratic future of tech.

I have missed Ruby’s interactive debugger 😭 `console.log` is just not the same.

I really love coding in ruby, mostly bc I have so much experience with it I don’t need to think about much except how to do the thing I want.

Damn; Rest in peace 🕊️

Do not love that exercising more creates a relentless flywheel of being hungry all the time and constant laundry.

Surprise paperback reveal!!! And if you pre-order it online TODAY, you can get it for 25% off! Offer closes midnight FRIDAY. Exclusive to Waterstones. Use code OCTOBER25 at checkout! #booksky www.waterstones.com/book/the-rea...

John Green on Success. youtu.be/H4Cgx4EY8zs

Sometimes, the right use of ARIA can improve your UI for end users. 🎥 Watch @hidde.blog's excellent talk on both the good parts and common pitfalls of ARIA, delivered at Pixel Pioneers Bristol 2025: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuTh... #throwbackthursday #tbthursday #a11y #accessibility

I got to talk to the @inclusivedesign24.bsky.social audience about why accessibility testing on the web is so hard. Buckle in for this one, we go through the accessibility tree & specs to various APIs before we get to screen readers. It's a good one! www.youtube.com/live/idSl4JD...

Summary of a segment: Ezra Klein: What does the line mean to you? Coates: Well if someone refuses my humanity that’s a line. Ezra: What do you do if most of America is beyond that line? Coates: Welcome to Black America Lmfao

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Discord confirms that government IDs used for age-verification were compromised in a hack with a vendor. Who could have predicted? Oh, right.

Took a family member for a needs assessment the other day & it really opened my eyes to the tools available to my disposal that could help me work better. Now looking at Genio, some kind of diction & speech-to-text software.

Day 14? of my “preworkout as ADHD meds bc I can’t afford ADHD meds” & the effect of the caffeine is almost non-existent. It was good while it lasted but now 250mg does only very little for me now, my body is used to it, despite taking a 3 week break.

May she rest in eternal freedom & peace. ❤️🕊️

Just in case you missed in among all the digital ID talk today - Tony Blair in discussions to run transitional Gaza authority Blair was spotted outside Trump Tower this week, as was Rishi Sunak www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Wow, incredible. Huge win for the No Azure for Apartheid organizers.

@sarasoueidan.com I just realised I’m not sure I andwered your question. We know what platform APIs a screenreader uses based on the platform their available on. So JAWS = inaccessible2 or UIA bc JAWS is available on Windows.

I'm going to be talking about why we have very little by way of accessibility interoperability data on the web platform in under 30mins!! I'll be exploring what gaps exists in the resources we have now & how ACD plans to address them. You can watch the livestream here: youtube.com/live/idSl4JD...

Whoah. We’re halfway there. Whoah. We’re living on a … video stream: inclusivedesign24.org/2025/schedule/ Twelve sessions to go, I’m tech hosting the next eight. #id24

@inclusivedesign24.bsky.social is back tomorrow! It’s a free 24-hour event sharing knowledge and celebrating inclusive design. 🗓️ Check the schedule: inclusivedesign24.org/2025/schedule/ ▶️ Subscribe to the YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/inclusivedes... #A11y #AccessibilityConference #id24

This is tomorrow! @inclusivedesign24.bsky.social is a 24 hour online conference with loads of amazing speakers across timezones. You're bound to find an interesting talk or 2 in your TZ but checkout the schedule here: inclusivedesign24.org/2025/schedule/ I'm up at 4pm BST 😆

I am re-entering the world of speaking after a 3(!) year long break! If you're interested You can catch me at: - "Audiom: Building inclusive maps as the token sighted developer" - Inclusive Design 24 at 4:00am UTC, 25 Sep(inclusivedesign24.org/2025/schedule/) apologies to the euro buddies! (cont.)

There's a masive lack of decent up-to-date Android emulation options. Google doesn't have a Pixel 10 emulator in the official Android studio, let alone anything non-Google like Samsung or Xiaomi If you have an Android device running Chrome 140 & want to help me out adding yours to Polypane, DM me!

"Limit children's doomscrolling to two hours," say Lib Dems, while their grandparents spend six hours a day on social media spreading racist bile and AI slop. But they're untouchable, because they're ~pensioners~.

I need to befriend someone in South Korea/Japan/China who can send me skincare, my skin loves asian skincare but the prices over here are diabolical 😭

BBC staff and union representatives warned journalists against attending a union-organized vigil for Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza, despite staff previously attending a pro-Israel march.

Took 18hrs of travel door to door. The tiredness I feel is deeply spiritual, I don’t know if sleep alone is enough to energise me.

Hey just saw that the SVG Working Group is back together! Congrats! Note: The MathML Working Group is still going! We meet once a month, and would love to have all the browser vendors join and participate in our discussions.

I have a CSS workshop coming up soon at @smashingconf.com in NY, where we'll talk more about units & layouts & naming conventions – using Poetic CSS: smashingconf.com/ny-2025 I'm also working on a video course, and happy to send you updates if you're interested: www.oddbird.net/courses/desi...

The WebDX Community Group is hosting an AMA on the r/webdev subreddit tomorrow. This is the group behind the "State of ..." surveys and Baseline, so if you have questions about those initiatives—or anything else around developer experience, join us! web.dev/blog/baselin...

Just seen a Toys’R’Us in Hong Kong.

Not to be pedantic but lowest level of ethnic violence doesn’t equate to multiculturalism working. Not sure what “working” means here but this rise of the far right, specifically in LDN, isn’t even the first in my lifetime (I’m 33). British (& LDN) racism had never died.

i'm imagining sisyphus happy and i'm rotating him in my mind

Common Side Effects was right?! Might be time to chomp 5g and go sit in a dark closet like Terrance McKenna said

Tramell Tillman wins Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series at the #EMMYs for ‘SEVERANCE’ He makes history as the first Black actor to win the category.

Save the date! Inclusive Design 24 returns on 25 September 2025 for 24 hours of talks about #accessibility and #InclusiveDesign. All streamed for free, no log in required. Here's our schedule for this year: inclusivedesign24.org/2025/schedule/ #id24

I’m working on a talk for #ID24 this year about why testing accessible web features is so hard. I’m exploring how the accessibility tree is created, the various APIs it needs to talk to & the current testing landscape & where ACD fits in. This is less WCAG-level stuff and more browser level stuff.

I think the problem is people are looking at the world today, how everything is playing out, & still thinking that far-right talking points are theoretical & don’t have a material impact on people’s lives. Stop watching the jubilee debate bro videos & pick up a book!

Trying out Keynote since my other presenting app is glitching on me. Who decided to force a second screen just so you can present *and* see presenter notes at the same time?????? There's literally no way to present and see notes without a second screen.

I made an appointment to get my SCV2 and flu boosters. I'm uninsured at present and even IF I can get the retail pharmacy to take a voucher I'm still looking at between $200-300 for protection I'd really like to have as a healthcare gig worker. Now is a FANTASTIC time to support my Ko-fi!

whatever self you bring is your authentic self. adapting to environments differently is not inauthentic—it's fundamental to survival and that's the realest thing imaginable.

some racist lady threatened to punch me in the mouth last week. Her punk ass is still here. So let's be so serious about who gets protected by these "no violence" decrees and who Bluesky tells to get fucked

people feel so emboldened to talk down to Black and brown people but are like uwu in the face of white supremacists. embarrassing shit.

Anyway, there are planned facist race “protests” in London on Saturday. Ethnic minority folk, be careful. Everyone who wants to, join one of the antifa protests happening in response. Being black in white supremacy is truly so exhausting.

I’m gonna be so for real rn (& I think many black women may agree with me), my biggest career ops have been white women*. Whitness in general makes being a black woman in tech hard, but ww seem to have a particular issue… *Obvs not all white women, I have worked with some wonderful white women.