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When the sound of thunder, and the rain on the roof above my head, means I can no longer hear my screen reader... BRB.
Earlier this year, someone bought me some gorgeous bath bombs from Lush, and having decided to by myself some more, I've discovered that in January they renamed three of their bath bombs to "Diversity", "Equity", and "Inclusion", in protest against Trump's Executive Order.
"Accessible recruitment is more than a policy - it’s a way to ensure that every candidate can perform at their best, and each role is filled by the person
most capable of doing it."
https://tetralogical.com/blog/2025/08/19/accessible-recruitment/
The UK will test its emergency alerts system at around 3PM on Sunday 7 September.
If you have a phone that you need to keep hidden to protect yourself, here's how to opt out of the emergency alerts:
https://www.gov.uk/alerts/opting-out
#Tesla board proposes $1 billion package for #Musk if he meets several ambitious targets over the next 10 years:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdx29qv4nvvo
Sounds like a challenge to me. Ready everyone?
Someone has just made my day by calling me "one of the accessibility OG" 😂
📢 there will be a test of the UK national emergency alert system at 3PM on Sunday 7 September. More here:
https://www.gov.uk/alerts/public-testing
@inclusivedesign24 is on 25 September. 24 hours of #free talks about all things accessibility and inclusive design. No registration needed, just check out the schedule for all the talks (adjusted automatically to your local time zone):
https://inclusivedesign24.org/2025/schedule/
Is it me, or is DuckDuckGo increasingly returning nothing but YouTube/Tick Tocks in its search results these days?
With thanks to several people on Masto, my personal email (with custom domain), contacts, calendar, and file storage have all been moved from Google Workspace to Mailbox.org, and the monthly cost has consequently dropped by about 50% 🥳
Although I'd used computers before, including an Apple IIe and an Atari ST, it was the arrival of "Wintel" computers that changed everything for me, so this NYTimes piece on the downfall of Intel is both interesting and a little nostalgic:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/technology/intel-computer-chips-tech-ai-trump.html
Hello @mailbox_org, I'm unable to connect my Mailbox drive to Windows. I've tried everything on this help page, using a browser, Windows GUI and the command line.
https://kb.mailbox.org/en/private/drive-article/webdav-for-windows/
It authenticates OK, but then returns nothing. Browser message is "There's nothing here", Windows and CL variations on "cannot find location".
Unable to open support ticket, possibly because it's a trial account. Hope you can help? Thank you.
Can anyone recommend an accessible email provider in the EU, with custom domain capability, contacts, and document storage with file access via the OS? TIA
If the methodology is robust, then kudos to #Google for developing a way to calculate #AI energy and water consumption more comprehensively than has been typical so far:
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/how-much-energy-do-your-ai-prompts-consume-google-just-shared-its-gemini-numbers/
The worst part about a visit to the Dentist for treatment is the amount of time afterwards where it isn't possible to drink tea.
Slow hand clap for #Linkedin who've locked me out of my account until I can prove who I am, except I can't because their third party face recog provider is unusable if you can't look directly at the camera - and all because I changed my password and disabled a bunch more of the personal data leaching settings I found when I went looking.
It's been a while since I wrote any purposeful code, so I'm feeling good about having written a private Alexa skill that opens the gate onto our drive automatically, so I don't have to send an SMS from my phone.
@inclusivedesign24 is a non-profit organisation, and we’re able to keep the spirit of Inclusive Design 24 alive because of the generosity of our supporters.
If you'd like to join them, there's more info here:
https://inclusivedesign24.org/2025/supporters/
With agentic AI contributing to the AI hype-cycle, I've been giving it some thought from the point of view of a disabled person, and also as an accessibility specialist who's already witnessing the arrival of the agentic web first-hand:
https://tetralogical.com/blog/2025/08/08/accessibility-and-the-agentic-web/
Marking 80 years since the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I remember visiting the Peace Museum in Hiroshima and hearing the voices of survivors and the families of those who did not.
I remember the mark burned into steps where someone was sitting when the bomb exploded, the items of clothing left behind, and the photos of such terrible destruction.
I will never forget the helpless rage I felt, caused by people two generations and a continent away from me.
It's #HTML day, so why not bookmark these screen reader HTML support tables for future reference:
https://github.com/TetraLogical/screen-reader-HTML-support
Good grief. Just went to check my DM on Bluesky and had to age verify...
On the up-side, apparently I look my age 😂
My first engagement with ChatGPt Agent...
Me: "What's the next event on my calendar?"
Agent: Thinks
Agent: Thinks more
Me: Goes to make tea.
Time passes.
Agent: "Your next event is daily stand-up today at 9:05AM."
"Also, apologies, but I seem to have deleted the previous event in your calendar. Would you like me to restore it?"
How is it that within 10 minutes of the Online Safety Act, Ofcom is investigating 34 porn sites, yet in 30 years of disability legislation in the UK there hasn't been a single instance of case law for websites or apps because the EHRC has signally failed to support people with disabilities even when there is a strong case to be made? 😩
Does anyone know of a place to find Mastodon accounts for newspapers, media outlets, and also tech related journals/publications? TIA.
The accessibility link is a lie: my adventures in weaponizing corporate virtue signalling, by WeirdWriter@caneandable.social
https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/20250724/
America has withdrawn from UNESCO. Again. Apparently it's not in its "national interests".
I take this to mean that #MAGA thinks that UNESCO World Heritage sites... like the Statue of Liberty, Monticello, the Grand Canyon, Yosemite and Yellowstone National Parks, Independence Hall, the Hawaii Volcanoes, or the Carlsbad Caverns, are not in its best interests.
Understanding the European Accessibility Act (EAA):
https://tetralogical.com/blog/2025/03/19/understanding-the-eaa/
Including the bit no-one talks about, EN 17161 Design for All:
https://tetralogical.com/blog/2025/06/27/understanding-design-for-all/
And a set of FAQ just in case:
https://tetralogical.com/blog/2025/07/18/eaa-faq/
In 1994 the UK voted the widget inside a can of Guinness as Invention of the Year.
The Internet came second.
Yes, yes, I know that far more people were probably drinking Guinness than using the interwebs back in 1994, but c'mon... 😂