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Hello! I'm Andrew, and I Tweet far too much. I like to talk about all sorts of things, but mostly (though not limited to, or indeed independently):
🧑💻 software engineering
🧠 mental health
♾ neurodiversity
🦾 disability rights
👩👩👦 diversity and inclusion
👴 being a curmudgeon
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Going all in on the atomic commits, I guess. Easier to review your PR and marketing when you do it incrementally.
ALT A screenshot of the Twitter homepage, showing the twitter.com URL and the text "Join Twitter today", but with an unrelated and arbitrary X logo.
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What does it actually mean when an app or website has an option for "screen reader optimisation"? Why is that a choice?
"We cut corners so as not to degrade the overall performance for most people, but we'll happily make things slower so you can have full access if you want."
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*cough*
help.twitter.com/using-twitt…
help.twitter.com/using-twitt…
*cough*
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I'm no pro tennis player, but I'm pretty sure this is cheating. Is it any wonder they're doing well when there's three of them?!
ALT A news headline, beneath a picture of two male tennis players, stating "British trio progress in French Open men's doubles".
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"Hello, we're from St Someone's Catholic church"
"Hello"
"We have some events on Monday – would that be of interest at all?"
"No, this is a Jewish household"
"Oh..." (looking very confused) "Do you go to the synagogue in town?"
"Yes"
"Oh... interesting."
*silence*
🤷♂️
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One of my biggest regrets from the Twitter 2.0 shake-up was not getting to do more work on accessibility education. There was plenty of legitimate criticism about how we pushed alt text, but it truly was supposed to be a small starting step, building on what we already had.
Artificial intelligence could eventually lead to fewer human teachers, but that seems like an acceptable trade-off to the computer scientist Luis von Ahn. Read a Profile of the founder of Duolingo: nyer.cm/JMLhthE
ALT A quote excerpted from “How Much Can Duolingo Teach Us?”, by Carina Chocano.
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Alt text should describe the content of the image. If it's a wall of text, include that text. It's not for footnotes, or disclaimers, or credits. It should provide an alternative way of accessing the same content.
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Unfortunately (regardless of its unfortunate implementation!), I can only imagine that adding formatting like this as a premium feature is just going to drive the abuse of special characters further into the mainstream.
Ho hum. I'm sure @TwitterA11y is on it, though…
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It's been a tough few months since things fell apart in November last year, but I'm really excited to be joining @automattic today, working primarily on @WordPress #accessibility. Looking forward to getting stuck in to some ATAG as well as WCAG!
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Pretty confident that my kid's U9 7-a-side team have a more organised and cohesive defense than #LeicesterCity at the moment.
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If the randomly inserted content – in both my lists and my following feed – is a feature and not a bug, I won't be able to use Twitter any more. The cognitive load of wading through unwanted content is just too much.
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Anyone happen to know of a source for good but not super expensive air filters in the UK? Or am I just SOL?
Planning a Corsi-Rosenthal project with some 5th/6th graders, but what's a fun $65 idea in the US is two or three times that over here.
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The worst thing about running power to the back of the garden is not having to dig a two foot trench 100 feet long, it's knowing every time that shovel goes into the ground that you'll be filling it all in again at the end of the day.
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The tech industry certainly has its issues when it comes to gender diversity, but if we're gonna talk about male dominated spaces, we should really start with the moon.
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What was Scar called, before he got his scar? Would he have been bad without it, or did he get it because he was bad? Perhaps society just persisted in sidelining him and calling him names, to the point where the only way to get attention was to be bad?
theguardian.com/news/2023/ma…
ALT Scar, a lion from the movie The Lion King (Disney, 1994), with narrowed sunken eyes, an unpleasant growling muzzle, and an overall dark appearance. He has a large scar across his left eye.
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"[Unaccompanied children] will be provided with the necessary support in the UK until they reach 18"... at which point, what?
If an 8yo comes here on their own from a war zone, what happens to them a decade later?
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"We must not create incentives for the smugglers to focus on people with particular characteristics by signposting exemptions for removal."
Instead we'll create incentives for smugglers by shutting down all legal routes.
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