@codeability

Disabled, queer web accessibility specialist. Justice before civility. they/them. https://xitter.cf/t.co/efFqo3yU9n

 California, USA
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Joined June 2016
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A small pocket of joy for you: this video of Thor hopping because my mom gave him his favorite treat.
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Hello. I am probably not going to on this formerly-known-as-bird app very much because I have been dealing with very bad, very draining health issues. Back offline I go. I hope you're all well.
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“This is what disability advocates have said all along…The able and the disabled aren’t two different kinds of people but the same people at different times. Last year, I was healthy; this year, I had a breathing ailment, even if nobody could say exactly what that ailment was.”
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One for the ages, by one of the best writers I've ever had the honor to be edited by. Horrific, but beautifully written. "My Unraveling: I had my health. I had a job. And then, abruptly, I didn’t." By @tomscocca in @NYMag nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…

Tom Scocca: Unraveling My Medical Mystery

The strangest things happen to other people’s bodies. Then they began happening to my own.

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Zach@RevNunnWisdom3 Jan 2024
The other thing I need ALL of my people to embrace is this: you cannot outperform, out accolade, out accomplish, etc., white supremacy. You cannot. It’s not a meritocracy. You’re mad because deep down, you still think it is, even if it’s unbalanced. It’s not.
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my cat is so round and i hope that makes you as happy as it made me
An orange cat sitting on a patterned gray blanket, looking like a sentient orb with eyes.

ALT An orange cat sitting on a patterned gray blanket, looking like a sentient orb with eyes.

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To paraphrase James Baldwin, to be a writer is to witness. I wrote this on why Palestinian liberation is #DisabilityJustice Please read and share disabilityvisibilityproject.… #FreeGaza #FreePalestine #CripTheVote #AltTextPalestine #DisabilityRights #IDPwD
A photo of an Asian American disabled woman in a wheelchair with a tracheostomy attached to a ventilator. She is wearing an olive bomber jacket and red pants. Behind her is a building FREE PALESTINE written in red paint

ALT A photo of an Asian American disabled woman in a wheelchair with a tracheostomy attached to a ventilator. She is wearing an olive bomber jacket and red pants. Behind her is a building FREE PALESTINE written in red paint

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me opening a PR that touches twenty-five (25) files: RIP to the other people who were smitten by the gods for their hubris, but i'm different. perhaps even better than the gods
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Almost every argument against accessibility comes down to the belief that someone's business, product, or service deserves to exist more than disabled people deserve to have access and community. It presupposes that disabled people are burdensome. That's garden-variety ableism.
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I love when people are bold with their ableism. "I would have no problem if [building accessible websites] were only a moral obligation [...]. Legal obligations that require a developer add something frustrate me, because they essentially crush people doing things for fun."
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1. Nobody has ever said you can't build things for fun, actually 2. If the idea of serving your users crushes the fun of web development for you, you're weird and miserable
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hear me out: i don’t think that hiring Disabled people for accessibility work is always the right call. unless they’re prepared for it, i wouldn’t want to put Disabled people into a space where no one has done work on inaccessibility or ableism. that’s a recipe for more harm.
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PSA: Accessibility mappings for <summary> are broken in Safari as of at least version 17 (can't test earlier at the moment). - MacOS: VoiceOver doesn't report changes in state of <summary> when you toggle it - iOS: VoiceOver doesn't report *any* semantics or state changes. 1/2
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Build your own disclosure widgets. Custom-made disclosure widgets seem to work just fine, but always remember to test! The ARIA authoring practices guide has a good pattern for this. Use the platform, they said. HTML is accessible by default, they said. w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/patterns…

Disclosure (Show/Hide) Pattern

Accessibility resources free online from the international standards organization: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

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Who do I have to talk to about getting comboboxes working in Safari? I shouldn’t have to tell a Blind user that they might need to switch browsers because there’s nothing my team and I can do to make their chosen tools (Safari + VoiceOver) work in our app
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help i made a joke to my friend and then realised that i have the thesis for my next talk
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you’re not a “pre-Disabled” or “temporarily abled” person, actually. you are simply not disabled. that’s fine. you don’t need to make disability about you in order to show up for Disabled people
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“anyone can become Disabled at any moment” yes, absolutely. but this is a fact, not a social position. not an identity. everybody suffers under ableism. all of us. that’s enough reason to fight for (and with) Disabled people
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my grandma Patty turns 70 today. please join me in honoring her by appreciating some theatre in whatever capacity you can
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Do I know anyone who's hiring an early-career product designer? One of my friends recently graduated a bootcamp and is looking for his first gig!
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