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Live long and prosper, divas 🖖🌈💕 Star Trek: Celebrations is coming out this May, and you can catch my art on one of the variant covers!!

Come up here to Washington and we'll run away into the woods with Sasquatch and never return.

Sighted users often use bold or large fonts to create the appearance of headings in documents. People using screen readers have no way of understanding these visual cues. Use heading styles from the styles menu to correctly format headings.

painted tarot card of lady josephine montilyet, in a fancy dress version of her original inquisition outfit, hair down and tumbling past her shoulders. she is standing poised and smiling, one hand wearing a hawker's glove and lifted up so that a messenger raven can perch on it with a small message in its beak. the other is lowered to cup a bundle of grapes. she is stood surrounded by the grapes of her family's vineyard, the montilyet estate far in the distance behind her. a circle of flowery golden detail frames her head, similar to her in-game tarot card, and the sky is gold with golden clouds. [end id]

josephine montilyet as the nine of pentacles - 2/3 of my postcards for @dragonageannual.art 💛🍇✨ #dragonage #josephinemontilyet #dragonageannual

We do Bones 💀
Gideon the Ninth mockup dust cover, front.

Audio descriptions are necessary for making videos accessible. They narrate the crucial visual elements that would be necessary for understanding the plot without the ability to see the screen. They describe non-verbal cues like gestures, facial expressions, or eye contact.

Storm, a Black woman with shock-white hair commands a winding tunnel of wind

Whooooosh

I've gotten to the point where I feel physically sick every single day because of the immense dread I have about going to work. This is my new forever.

Digital art in a colored pencil style of the Captain Janeway and Tom Paris salamander babies from Star Trek Voyager's infamous "Threshold" episode, in front of a lace-trimmed valentine heart that reads "Happy Threshold Day."

It's Threshold Day! Don't be afraid to make that weird thing you've been thinking about making because this actually aired!

Vancouver library board removes ‘equitable access’ from strategic plan One library board trustee resigned in protest at the end of Monday night’s meeting.

"The Fort Vancouver Regional Libraries board removed references to equity from the district’s strategic plan at a contentious meeting Monday night."

This is Washington state. A board member quit in disapproval.

www.opb.org/article/2026...

Libraries need to be more vocal about the digital pricing problem. I only buy for Sora (the school version of Libby) when specifically requested by a patron. I talk a lot about why I don't buy on the regular and patrons are always shocked at the price difference. I have to pay $75 not $1.99!

Poster for Whistles as ICE alert tool. Text says: WHISTLES! instant alert system Simple, effective, faster than social media Together we keep our community safe HOW WHISTLES WORK -wear a whistle - if you spot ICE, blow your whistle -when you hear a whistle, either: - get to safety - follow the sound, form a crowd, stay loud WHISTLE CODE 1: ice nearby If ice is driving or lurking: blow in short blasts. pre—pre—pre—pre WHISTLE CODE 2: abduction If ice is abducting someone: blow continuously. Preeeeeeeeee-preeeeeee

Whistles! Let’s organize to give everyone whistles and teach the ICE alert codes!

Whistles are helping Chicago resist. Let’s learn from their experience

Folks, the cops were the ones arresting the clergy, not ICE. They are not on our side. I'm going to hold your hand while I say this: they're all the baddies.

If you share images of what to do during a weather-related emergency, share that advice with blind and low-vision users, too. Add alt text. The alt text should include the text in the image, rather than just a vague description, so people aren't missing out on vital information.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

Reupping this from last night.

If you're a library advocate or worker, you should be pissed. You should also be pissed if you're a taxpayer. MILLIONS of dollars have been stolen from you and from public libraries and museums to develop these propaganda trucks.

The administration brags on social.

I sit here waiting,
waiting for the news
that as bad as things are
they have just become
catastrophically worse,
and as I sit here waiting,
waiting for the news
that as bad as things are
they have just become
catastrophically worse
there are so many
emails I must respond to.

St Paul schools are closed for two days because of ICE and the need to switch to virtual.

ICE agents dined at a Mexican restaurant in Willmar, MN, and then arrested workers.

ICE is up in Duluth, kidnapping people off the streets.

This isn't just Minneapolis. Stop saying that.

-A Mpls Resident

Library workers are burned out, and they're clear on what's creating some of the worst mental health conditions both inside and outside the library.

Here's what they had to say, as well as ways and means by which library worker mental health can be improved. This is a call to action.

Send this to secondary school educators who insist we have to have genAI edtech because they need to be prepared for the workforce.

Jade and Letha back to back, the specter of Tad looming behind, menace and gloom permeating, but the way Jade has her hips cocked, you can read her attitude: if she goes down this time, she’s not going down alone …

La biblioteca de Carfax’s beautiful cover for The Angel of Indian Lake

Do not rely on the A.I.-generated alt text in Facebook or Instagram. The result is vague and useless, like "may be an image of food and text," and "may be an image of outdoors." These do nothing to give users the context and content of an image.

I'm thrilled so many cis women are getting into MM romance after Heated Rivalry. Welcome! It's fun over here! But also, MM isn't the "fix" for romance fiction. I need you to go pick up Rebekah Weatherspoon, Alyssa Cole, Talia Hibbert, Courtney Milan, Kit Rocha, etc. Go talk to a librarian!

Knew this was coming. Something I've been noticing happening slowly for a while now. It's also happening in conjunction with the aging up of YA and the influx of romantasies that tend to feature cisallohet relationships and dabble in fascism-adjacent storytelling themes.

YouTube video by UCSF Documents & Media Photography Screen Reader Demo for Digital Accessibility

For people who don't use screen readers, it can be difficult to understand how screen readers work. If you're interested in learning how people use screen readers, check out this demo from Marc Sutton and The University of California San Francisco.

youtu.be/dEbl5jvLKGQ

I use leftover jars, like ball jars and thoroughly cleaned out sauce jars.

Achilles and Patroclos, standing next to each other in front of a raging fire. Achilles is outfitted for battle and looks wistfully into the distance, while Patroclos ties some laces of his armor, also looking sad. Behind them and above there's the mosaic of a warrior in his chariot.

My assignment for Winona Nelson's SmArtschool class: Choose a favorite book and illustrate a cover for it.

I picked "The Song of Achilles" by Madeline Miller, and my goal was to capture a similar bittersweet tone as the novel has.

An infographic titled “How To Write Alt Text” featuring a photo of a capybara. Parts of alt text are divided by color, including identify who, expression, description, colour, and interesting features. The finished description reads “A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara’s head.” Credit to Puzzle agency, original information from Veronica With Four Eyes and veroniiiica dot com

I’m glad so many people have found my “capybara method” for how to write alt text and image descriptions helpful! However, I know conflicting access needs exist and not everyone can write their own #AltText, so here’s an ongoing thread of tools that can help. Inclusion in thread ≠ endorsement