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I try to make digital things easier to use for everyone, including people with disabilities. Then I go for walks and watch bunnies destroy everything I grow in my garden. After that I read.
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Mind cleanse

I hope this email finds you unprepared, you may tumble a bit, but you will be okay.

I made a quick video about media literacy and the misleading Wall Street Journal headline I highlighted this weekend TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@molly0xfff/... YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYkR...

Nikki created this reformatted version of "Some Actions that Are Not Protesting or Voting" and it looks great. Feel free to share. Thanks Nikki. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Friendly suggestion that you should wander into your settings and, under "Accessibility," toggle on the alt text reminders. The number of things I'd love to repost, but won't if they don't contain alt text for images. It only takes a minute.

Climbing bloomers

Since it’s National Donut Day, here’s a thing I wrote a while back about donuts. Enjoy. buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...

Designers have disabilities too and design tools should be accessible.

Puffins.

This is a very important public service announcement.

The side yard is looking very no mow may

#WorldOtterDay: Pair of Ceramic #Otters Colima culture, Mexico, 200 BCE–500 CE LACMA M.86.296.161a-b 🆔 These figures likely represent the Neotropical River Otter (Lontra longicaudis), the only species native to the region. collections.lacma.org/node/2268006 collections.lacma.org/node/2268008

Bluesky has a setting that will remind you to add alt text before posting any images. Go to "Settings," then "Accessibility." Select the checkbox for "Require alt text before posting."

Saturday is irises

Also, buttercup.

you know you're in a weird timeline when someone congratulates you for a restraining order set in place by your workplace.

The Night Sky, 1965 Artist: Robert Ayton

When a "related items" component doesn't work - a callout on an article about the recent salmonella outbreak on cucumbers

today is World Bee Day. not to be confused with World Bidet

demmings september peaches, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1913

New arrival in the garden

I know of a handful of accessibility specialists who were impacted by yesterday’s RIF at Microsoft. If you’re looking for amazing accessibility talent (PMs and Engineering Managers), please reach out.

I'm seeing more and more images without alt text lately. Here's a 3 min video by @scopicengineer.bsky.social explaining the importance of alt text and how to use it on Bluesky! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE-i...

Honeysuckle. Wisteria. Sunshine. Seeing beauty in the world as a coping mechanism

My daughter’s speech therapist went out of business because Medicaid reimbursement rates were too low. We do not have Medicaid. I’m going to keep posting this until people understand that when Medicaid gets cut *everyone* loses services.

Hi everyone 👋 - I am approaching the end of my current contract and looking for a new role and would appreciate your support. www.linkedin.com/posts/whitin...

This is so New England

#caturday

eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same

ACM Tech Brief: Advancing Accessibility in the Digital World dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....

My mind horse. What does yours look like? (Mind horse is an exercise to draw a horse without looking at any references. It's fun!)

*Without looking anything up*, what do you know about the federal hiring freeze and what happens with hiring afterward? (Did you know there was a freeze?) No feds or fed-adjacents, please, you'll blow the curve.