If you got this far and are a software engineer who wants to get involved in making the web just a tiny bit more accessible, I’ll provide you one tip. Do not immediately reach for some form of automation. Every dev I’ve met who wants to learn about accessibility, squirrels away and comes back to me with a goal to fully automate accessibility testing through some automated tool or a whole new suite of cypress tests. Instead, talk to people. Understand their barriers. I don’t want you to disaapear for a week and come back having written a post about how you realised how bad the web was after using a screen reader for forty eight hours. It’s a good insight, but you’re not a screen reader power user, and it’s just one more “wow, being disabled is hard???” blog post to add to the pile.

I'm at the point where people complaining about projects that are underfunded & consequently understaffed not moving "fast enough" is just going to start resulting in blocks. I'm not gonna waste my time arguing with you because thing's didn't happen at your pace. Seriously, these projects take an absolute tonne of work. You want stuff to move faster, start throwing money at it so people can dedicate full time towards doing things.

been a busy weekend preparing for LincolnHack https://2024.lincolnhack.org .. I easily forgot how so good for my sense of belonging being deep in the tech community (behind the scenes or otherwise) is ❤️ #techcommunity

I've just been accused of missing the "nuance" of what's happening in Gaza. Can anyone explain to me the nuance of killing tens of thousands of people, most of them children?

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heard today in a tiktok: "who is profiting off the anger that I have for others?" and I'm going to save that question in my back pocket for sure

Reminder using an ad blocker is self care, ads are mental abuse and no one will convince me otherwise

Attached: 4 images After god knows how many years of work, the people behind the #StarWars 4K project have released the final installment. For those who don't know: a group of dedicated restorers, unhappy with the reworked Special Editions, hunted down, scanned and restored the original 35mm theatrical prints of the first Star Wars trilogy in Ultra High Definition. They're better than the official blurays. Incredible work, not only in terms of authentic content but even the picture quality is superior.

@changelog did you know @www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me has a website?!

🕺 It’s a new Changelog & Friends! @www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me (who has a website) joins @jerod & @adam to discuss the indie web, living with ADHD, sharing his salary history with the world & building DMD – a dynamite open source tool to help you better understand the use of dependencies across your org. 🎧 https://changelog.com/friends/31 #indieweb #adhd #dependencies #podcast

oh: you've heard of github actions, but are you ready for github consequences?

The electricity and water use required by data centres is becoming cause for concern. Iowa and Ireland are calling for moratoriums on new development projects. Microsoft’s global water consumption ...

Where do Reply Guys get their water? From the well, actually.

Attached: 1 image I feel powerless in the face of the rampant adoption of A.I. with little to no societal safeguarding or legal protection, so I make jokes while the driverless steamroller slowly crushes us all to death.

phone calls are all spam. emails are all spam. text messages are all spam. if you want to reach me, pin a note to my door with a jeweled dagger or don't waste my time.

I love owning a house now it's like should we do preventative maintenance on (a million things) or should we put motorized blinds in to the family room for when we watch tv and films. This also explains why all software is bad.

Shower thought: With all the data breaches, no matter how private you may be, somewhere in the world exists a hacker that knows exactly what kinks you're into, but is too shy to say hello.

Would you like three months FREE Trade Union membership? Join Prospect between 12-18 February - https://prospect.org.uk/join/ I'm a member and they've been very useful to me in my professional life. If you're kind enough to mention my name when joining, I get a tenner. Happy to answer any questions. #JoinAUnion #TradeUnions

To the people who are like “What did you expect to happen when you picked a .af domain, are you idiots?”Yes, we were aware of the possibility of suspension from the startYes, we were aware that pol...

@shockwaver@strangeobject.space I really like the term "temporarily-abled" for describing abled people for this reason. All abled people are only temporarily abled, unless they die suddenly while their bodies are still intact. The more people recognize the ephemeral nature of ability, the more compassionate we become as a society, I hope.

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“We believe that open source should be sustainable and open source maintainers should get paid!” Maintainer: *introduces commercial features* “Not like that” Maintainer: *works for a large tech co* “Not like that” Maintainer: *takes investment* “Not like that”

Vanity top-level domains are all fun and games until the Taliban seizes your domain.

Lots of men in tech see women in tech either as sexual tensions for their own enjoyment or as mentoring opportunities, but never as their equals. This needs to stop. #WomenInTech

There's this course called the Missing Semester (https://missing.csail.mit.edu/) that teaches you the practical stuff like using the CLI, shell scripting, Git, Vim, etc. It was created for CS students who apparently don't learn these things in class. But as a biochemistry/microbiology major turned bioinformatician, I need the CS course instead!

I've got a lot of web dev content in my feed reader and that's cool but every once in a while someone posts something completely unrelated to tech and I AM HERE FOR IT! Don't be afraid to write about your hobbies, music, movies, life. I love to read that. 💜

ADHD is like 50% not working, 50% working frantically to make up for the not working part, 50% thinking about the work I should be doing (but not actually working), and 50% not sleeping (but trying to).

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