Everyone who works on a website has a role to ensure the site and its content are accessible. This resource from Vox Media breaks down some accessibility tasks by job role, including content creators, designers, developers, project managers, and testers.
accessibility.voxmedia.com
Dear god, the double whammy of a diabolical captcha followed by ads taking up half the screen makes trying to read this on a phone a truly miserable experience.
The longer I spend in digital humanities, the more I am obsessively drawn to analog technologies and convinced we must actively and intently teach them or the digital world loses its color, texture, and depth.
The Strait of Hormuz bottleneck may be about to reopen – but damage to oil infrastructure will mean lingering pain in Australia – and worldwide.
Screen reader users can navigate from heading to heading. If HTML headings are used correctly, this allows users to get a basic outline of content and find the information they’re looking for. The highest heading level is <h1> and <h6> is the lowest.
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...
The difference between "full verbatim" and "clean verbatim" transcripts: Full verbatim captures spoken word exactly as stated, including filler words, stutters and false starts. Clean verbatim has words exactly as stated, but edits the filler words, repeated words and stutters.
This is what social media is meant to be about.
Bro should be worrying about his car getting stolen again
For beginners, it can be difficult to know what to put in alt text, as well as when alt text is needed and when it isn't. This decision tree from W3C helps you determine what to do, based on specific situations.
www.w3.org/WAI/tutorial...
You can (and should) add alt text to other documents besides HTML, including Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, and more. Microsoft has put together a resource on how to add alt text to files made using Microsoft products.
support.microsoft.com/en-us/office...
Minis are the honest Pringle
The difference between "full verbatim" and "clean verbatim" transcripts: Full verbatim captures spoken word exactly as stated, including filler words, stutters and false starts. Clean verbatim has words exactly as stated, but edits the filler words, repeated words and stutters.
Misconceptions about open access models persist even after two decades - interview with Tracy Creagh, Open Journals Manager at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Library
openinterview.org/2026/03/30/t...
#OA #OpenAccess #ScholarlyPublishing #QUTLibrary #OpenJournals
“The university still has an opportunity to speak out against genocide and apartheid. It should do so.”
@jeffsparrow1.bsky.social responds to the call for feedback on the right to protest and the “iSurveillance Policy” at the University of Melbourne.
Sighted users often use bold or large fonts to create the appearance of headings in documents. People using screen readers have no way of understanding these visual cues. Use heading styles from the styles menu to correctly format headings.
If you're using generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Perplexity, don't miss our new page of reference examples!
🔗 AI references: apastyle.apa.org/style-gramma...
#AcWri #CitingAI
That’s a long episode.
The free "DIY Web Archiving" zine by me, @ilya.webrecorder.net @bitarchivist.net @akijas.bsky.social @quinnanya.me covers a friendly (even for kids!) intro to using Webrecord (+other methods) to preserve things you care about on the web: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin...
This response seems pretty human to me
Interesting for archiving into the future, though it does require specialised hardware to access the data currently.
Internet Archive Adds Searchable Access to Archived Pages From the #CIA World Factbook www.infodocket.com/2026/02/08/i... #webarchives #govdocs #ciaworldfactbook @archive.org
Alexa Heinrich's Accessible Social is a free resource for digital marketers, communication professionals, content creators, everyday social media users, and anyone who wants to learn how to make their content accessible for people with disabilities.
www.accessible-social.com
sabrina carpenter singing islands in the stream w the muppets has healed me in ways i did not know i needed
This is eternal
Wooo 🙌 I just started lifting weights to address my secret noodle arms
Odd that he doesn’t like Philip Glass considering how much he likes repeating himself.
Customers are advised to delay software updates on affected devices and find alternative ways to communicate if needed.
There was a homeless person resting in a train station bathroom in Melbourne today, presumably because it was so hot outside. I just left them alone, and I hope everyone else did too.
