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You no longer need a plugin for checking color contrast in Figma! I love how so many tools have these checks integrated. No plugins, extensions or anything else needed! www.linkedin.com/posts/figma_... #accessibility #UXDesign #figma

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

I will simply explain it, and if that doesn’t work I will explain it more and better and more and better and more and

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Week 9 teaching my first #GraphicDesign course: my students are making beautiful, complex vector graphics. They’re using swatches, paragraph styles, dynamic symbols, and all the Illustrator features I wish I knew about as a young designer. And yes: they are naming their layers and artboards!

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

today: desperately trying to catch up on work after a week of sick days & inclement weather 🥲 tomorrow: returning to reality with zero stress because I Finally get to introduce my design students to vector graphics 🤠

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

New on LFLegal: Another small business filed a federal class action lawsuit against a web #accessibility #overlay company. Why was UserWay sued? It believed the hype, licensed the software, and still got sued by a #blind person who couldn't use the site. #disability www.lflegal.com/2025/02/user...

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Literally the one right answer

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

these cabinet announcements are like an advent calendar counting down to the apocalypse

submitted 56 days ago • 374 comments

let us not define ourselves by our tools, but by the things we make with them

submitted 58 days ago • 10 comments

Just an appreciation post for my compassionate, resilient, beautiful wife, Liz. When every day is full of bad news, she reminds me that good things are on the way. Just gotta keep fighting. 💜

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

take it from all of us ex-twitter employees: THEY WON’T PAY YOU

submitted 57 days ago • 19 comments

Gulf of Distraction

submitted 57 days ago • 775 comments

30 years from now we’ll be saying shit like “back in my day we had schools and lunch breaks”

submitted 58 days ago • 15 comments

Wednesday February 12- important free webinar about a lawsuit trying to throw out a 50 year old #Disability Rights law in the United States. The law is section 504, talked about in the wonderful #CripCamp movie. Register here: dredf-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi.... More info in first comment.

submitted 58 days ago • 5 comments

Week 4 teaching my first #GraphicDesign course: my students are reminding each other about keyboard shortcuts, naming their layers, and using nondestructive editing techniques. I think I might cry ??

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

If I won the lottery, I wouldn't tell anyone, but there would be signs

submitted 59 days ago • 5 comments

Accessibility fuckin’ rocks

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

a lil Moon Pie for the skyline 🐯

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Can't believe going to bed earlier makes me feel better. So mad.

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

I don't care how long ago your Hot Topic phase was when Black Parade by My Chemical Romance comes on you WILL be the savior of the broken, the beaten and the damned

submitted 64 days ago • 144 comments

Today was the first project critique in the design class I’m teaching this semester! It went so well and I’m thrilled. High energy, lots of good feedback, 100% participation. Now we’re moving into our final Photoshop project: movie posters. My cat Moon Pie may or may not make an appearance. 🐱

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Chappell Roan to her original label

submitted 67 days ago • 12 comments

The Moon and Venus tonight. 1 February 2025. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

submitted 68 days ago • 16 comments

took a new headshot for work to reflect important changes in my life (I got bangs)

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Next month's forecast: A lot of free online events about accessibility The February event post is live and well: open.substack.com/pub/a11ynews... #A11yNews #accessibility #events

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

hello new pottery friends 🫶 My name is Ashi! I’m an accessibility professional, designer, and interdisciplinary artist. I started doing ceramics in 2023 and fell in love with it. I don’t think I’ve found my style yet, but my favorite thing is making sculptures out of wheel-thrown parts.

submitted 72 days ago • 2 comments

Made it through week 1 teaching my first college course! 🤠 It hasn’t been easy, but I’m enjoying it so much. Working with students reminds me of why I love #GraphicDesign: there are so many things you can accomplish and so many avenues to get there.

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

Boy, things that were "never going to happen" sure do keep happening a lot.

submitted 73 days ago • 14 comments

Moon Pie finally figured out that he can scoot the gate away from the wall to get around it. But hey, this worked for 2 months!

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

I’m not resharing that clickbait NYT opinion piece about AI, but LOL @ “enhance individual empowerment” because how do you measure that? That’s just words! AI optimism is just techbro Goop lmao

submitted 75 days ago • 17 comments