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.

“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.”

my cat is so round and i hope that makes you as happy as it made me

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.com/2023/12/02/why…

#FreeGaza #FreePalestine #CripTheVote #AltTextPalestine #DisabilityRights #IDPwD

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

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.

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.

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

help i made a joke to my friend and then realised that i have the thesis for my next talk

And if your product generates web code? That *really* needs to be accessible or you're compounding the problem. Disabled people and our entire industry deserve better.

The thing about alpha software being inaccessible is that it communicates disabled people aren't important enough to be part of the product's DNA. A lack of action to address it over time will cement that position further. Accessibility is foundational from the very beginning.

my grandma Patty turns 70 today. please join me in honoring her by appreciating some theatre in whatever capacity you can

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!