Calling the one single method of getting businesses to make their products available to disabled people frivolous is a choice.

Yes

Indeed.

[trying to insult someone but I've momentarily forgotten the word "woke"] lol you're aware of societal injustices and prejudices and actively live your life so as to avoid further propagating them

When the Vatican has the moral high ground in a fight with you, you know you've fucked up

But you know you've REALLY fucked up when the dispute pushes the actual living POPE to call YOU "neocolonial"

Thousands of Colorado students have taken over downtown Denver, shutting down streets and demanding ICE OUT. Massive energy, and a message echoing across the city that can't be ignored👏🏼👊🏼

If you are designing an app, don't have it say "tap the + button to get started," and then label that button anything other than + or plus.

Amazing alt text!! And yeah, sounds like she was pretty bad ass as well  

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

Lord of the onion rings! 

Sick of folks adding caveats about Iran.

We also murder our own citizens. We just lie about it. Our government imprisoned/deleted folks to enforce things the people were against. We put people in camps and put people to death.
We have religious zealots.

We're the same, just younger than them.

Oh wow, thank you so much!! 💙

Woot!

The moon is also in earth's orbit. 

As Deadline Looms, Many Public Health-Care Facilities Still Lack Accessible Medical Equipment Federal accessibility guidelines from 2024 are supposed to be in place by August 2026—but advocates say compliance is uneven.

Too-high exam tables and standing weight scales can keep some patients from being able to access the full spectrum of reproductive health care. New federal accessibility guidelines are supposed to be in place by August 2026, but not all clinics have complied.

Do I have to get that mug or can I use the discount code on anything from the shop? 

I am so tired and so angry and so sad. 

And pay them! 

Why you shouldn’t trust the people who built your inaccessible site to fix it Paper wire frame of a generic website You commissioned a website. The agency delivered. The site contains blood, sweat, tears, and no small amount of your...

While I think the title is a clear “well, yeah”, I appreciate Sheri gives reasons regardless:

“Why you shouldn’t trust the people who built your inaccessible site to fix it”
buttondown.com/access-abili...

If WCAG guarantees aren’t built into the contract, find another vendor.

#a11y #accessibility

This is the #overlay company that fabricated clients, testimonials, and ratings:
adrianroselli.com/2025/07/acce...

Its failure to do alt text correctly for this Bluesky post should tell you all you need to know.

#a11y #accessibility #WCAG

Becoming?!
<insert Albee's "The American Dream" meme here<

This is unacceptable: 

Fund the public libraries. Just do it.

Friends, again with respect because this is a complex issue: children born to citizens of tribal governments do not have constitutional birthright citizenship under many, if not most forms of constitutional argument and authority (incl. Supreme Court precedent relied upon in this case)./1

Well, that is an option… 

Rewarding the Flex: What Awards Culture Gets Wrong about Disability, Effort, and Authenticity - Able News at The Viscardi Center Friends and colleagues were recently quoted in Patrick Hosken’s March 11 CITY Magazine article, “The Oscars love disability stories, but it’s complicated.” This got me thinking. Seems like almost ever...

Every awards season, #disability shows up on screen dressed for the occasion. Music swells, the camera lingers, and audiences admire the struggle, the sacrifice, the sheer effort of it all. But are we awarding authenticity or rewarding the flex? My latest for #AbleNews. ablenews.com/rewarding-th...

U.S. Department of Education Initiates Title IX Investigation into New Hampshire School District Over Alleged Use of Girls-Only Spaces by Biological Men Today, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) opened a complaint into the Contoocook Valley School District (the District) in Peterborough, New Hampshire.

The same people who say they want government out of girls’ locker rooms also want to put government into women’s medical exam rooms.

The only through-line between promoting “education freedom” and attacking reproductive freedom is Christian Nationalism.
www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

95.9% of home pages had detected WCAG 2 failures.
webaim.org/projects/mil...

#Accessibility #A11y #stats @webaim.bsky.social

Jesus that's upsetting!  last awful thing I'm reading this morning time to do something else!