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I was amused by that captions glitch - gnostics for gymnastics

2/2 "We actually have words in the English language that are positive or neutral and start with dis.

Discover, display, Disney. So, language evolves. We can use the word disabled with a sense of pride. It does not need to be something negative." Haben Girma #axecon

"Some people argue that the word disabled is inherently negative, because it has the phrase dis. In English, they say that every word that has dis in front of it, is something negative. But that is not true." Haben Girma #axecon 1/2

"Technology has opened so many doors. Deafblindness is not my barrier. My biggest barrier is ableism. Ableism is the set of beliefs and practices that train us to think disabled people are inferior to nondisabled people."
Haben Girma #axecon #a11y

There are talks now before the keynote

"Legal compliance is the floor, not the ceiling. Great UX is the goal. And good UX includes everyone." @stephaniewalter.bsky.social #axecon #a11y #ux

Screen capture of slide text, "You can't sprinkle eggs on the cupcake after baking it. Fixing accessibility later is messy, slow, ineffective!"

"You can't sprinkle eggs on the cupcake after baking it. Fixing accessibility later is messy, slow, and ineffective!"
@stephaniewalter.bsky.social #axecon

Just be careful with your ears...from someone whose hearing is declining

A calico cat lies on a black, plastic, litter catcher mat as if it is a bed.

Me: I am tired of buying puppy pads to catch scattered litter. (Buys litter mat)
Cat: WTH This is a bed, I won't use my litter with that there!

As it should be.

It is going to be the insane Dictator Trump lying, bragging, blaming, and crying session for the entire world to see and to our shame.

ChatGPT thinks an upside down cup is NOT functional.
www.instagram.com/reel/DUylL79...

"It's not the tool that makes it valuable, it's the knowledge you bring to the tool." Eric Zirlinger #AxeCon #A11y

HTML - Horrible Terrifying Magic Language

#AxeCon #humor

I wasn't expecting such a heavy cognitive load with #AxeCon. Caption, transcript, and sound issues abound.

It was wonderful.

2/2 continued " ... So when we design around that imagined average, we encode bias into our systems, even the concept of an affordance itself reflects that bias." @annaecook.com #axecon

"Many of our designs are built around the idea of a normal or average user, but an average user is a fiction. No human body or mind is an average. " 1/2 @annaecook.com #axecon

"AI doesn't fix accessibility, it depends on accessibility. AI can only work with what your system exposes." @annaecook.com #AxeCon

Introduction slide to the talk How to Convince People to Care and Invest in Accessibility by Stéphanie Walter at axe-con 2026, with an illustration of a woman smiling and watering yellow-leafed plants, one of which is in a pot marked with the universal accessibility symbol. Yellow flowers and purple leaves surround her.

Also, I've prepared a talk to help designers, who are tired of having accessibility pushed later, or ignored.
February 25, 9am ET (3pm CET) I'll open the design track at #axecon with my talk "How to Convince People to Care and Invest in Accessibility" : www.deque.com/axe-con/sess...

If you're not watching @annaecook.com at #AxeCon 2026 you are missing out.

Donald Trump and his Education Secretary are hellbent on illegally abolishing the Education Department and making our public education system worse.

Students and families deserve better.

We need a full investigation into this administration's attempts to sabotage our schools.

I don't know what is the ramen my kid is eating, but my sinuses are burning from him standing a few feet away from me.

Brr

This is what garage door keypads are for where I live

This one hits hard.

You'd said something the other week

I left the house for 3 1/2 hours and my kitty is like "You left me!!!" She has been following me around, reaching for me, and is now in my lap staring at me. They didn't say she had separation anxiety at the shelter... Doesn't matter that my husband was here.

Ah. I thought you were on a break.