I was pleasantly surprised to see how passionate and heartfelt this debate became, and the petitioner was great at explaining why this is so important. So glad this passed!

Meta Staff Engineer Shares Tips on Writing Better Code YouTube video by Jonny K

Dang, these are great suggestions.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ITV...

The Brookline School Committee voted to eliminate the Office of Educational Equity, which provides critical support for underserved students and educators. A coalition is working to restore it and has raised $85K so far. Help them keep this vital work alive:
secure.givelively.org/donate/brook...

Move fast, fix things 🙌

axe-con Digital Accessibility Conference | Deque Join us to learn how to build, test, monitor, and maintain digital accessibility. Hosted on February 25-27, 2025, axe-con is completely free and virtual.

Pumped to learn more about accessibility at #axecon today!
www.deque.com/axe-con/

My team is starting to put serious effort into accessibility – so pumped about this! I've missed doing this kind of work, it's so rewarding.

me: what's a better name for this function?

github copilot: let me just write out the entire file and hide my suggestion somewhere inside

Accessibility fuckin’ rocks

European accessibility act The European accessibility act is a directive that aims to improve the functioning of the internal market for accessible products and services, by removing barriers created by divergent rules in Membe...

In spite of what's happening here, international accessibility laws are still a thing. Companies who serve foreign markets still have to comply or face enforcement. One such is the EAA set to be enforced starting June 28th, 2025.

#a11y #EAA

employment-social-affairs.ec.europa.eu/policies-and...

Community.

Bottom vs top, not left vs right.

It's been eye-opening to see all the cross-cultural communication happening on xiaohongshu. I love it!
看到小红书上发生的跨文化交流真是令人大开眼界。我喜欢它！

Today's a great day to download your data and delete all your meta accounts 💖✨

Deeply uncomfortable with how the Telepathy Tapes frames things: if you’re skeptical of their methods for proving these kids are telepathic, they suggest you must think the kids aren’t intelligent. But intelligence and telepathy aren’t the same thing, and it’s absurd to conflate them.

How to Dehumanize Accessibility with AI | Ashlee M Boyer Hire disabled people, not AI-generated caricatures.

@ashleemboyer.com’s response to an “AI”-enabled “accessibility” product is very good, and worth your time: ashleemboyer.com/blog/how-to-...

Do You Have Insights Into Dental and Health Insurance Denials? Help Us Report on the System. Insurers deny tens of millions of claims every year. ProPublica is investigating why claims are denied, what the consequences are for patients and how the appeal process really works.

We're investigating health insurance denials. If you want to share your insights, here's how:

Telling myself I don’t *have* to work in an attempt to trick myself into working.

I'm really loving that we can hear audience reactions over zoom for #BrooklineTownMeeting. Usually background noise like that is cut out, and it's caused a lot of confusion for me in the past.

I hope Bluesky will eventually have private lists. I follow completely different groups of people and want to be able to filter posts by group, but I don’t particularly want to do that publicly.

Ooooh, excited to see web dev / accessibility activity on here!