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Diana Thompson

@dianathompson.bsky.social

Developer of accessible WordPress websites at Resourceful Digital. WordCamp and WordPress Meetup speaker. Interested in process, product, and the place where one thing becomes another. She/her. DianaThompson.org

42 Followers  |  36 Following  |  17 Posts  |  Joined: 12.11.2023  |  1.8181

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Restore our Historic Mural at 2751 21st St., SF, Mission District The Historic Mission District is home to over 690 murals. It's the largest out door public gallery in the country.  These murals represent our history, past and current, speaking to our challenge...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/re...

28.06.2025 17:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The Gutenberg G logo in white on a blue background

The Gutenberg G logo in white on a blue background

One of the most powerful things you can do to improve accessibility in WordPress is removing a third-party page builder and using the native Gutenberg editor instead. In one current projects, this alone resolved 2/3 of the issues. #WordPress #Accessibility #a11y #Gutenberg #PageBuilders

13.06.2025 19:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
We're not done yet | 18F

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org

01.03.2025 22:38 β€” πŸ‘ 93527    πŸ” 31189    πŸ’¬ 3208    πŸ“Œ 1413

Absolutely! More power to you. There is no reason not to do both accessibility and engineering. Although accessibility are separate disciplines software engineering, accessibility is an essential part of creating websites and software.

27.02.2025 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Bright red rabbit illustration with the text reading "economic boycott, don't buy stuff, Friday, February 28, we have power, no Amazon, Walmart, Target, fast food, gas, ok to small businesses, use cash

Bright red rabbit illustration with the text reading "economic boycott, don't buy stuff, Friday, February 28, we have power, no Amazon, Walmart, Target, fast food, gas, ok to small businesses, use cash

Tomorrow is the day, my dear humans. Buy nothing 2/28.

27.02.2025 18:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Disability Community Briefing: What You Can Do to Stop the Attack on Section 504 - DREDF Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund

Here is recording + transcript of this week’s webinar about court case attacking section 504 in the US. Section 504 is a core disability rights law that is more than 50 years old. Link in 1st comment with more info about how advocates can help. dredf.org/disability-c... #accessibility #disability

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The VetsinTech Invasion 2025 Conference is taking place virtually on March 27, 2025, providing military veterans, active-duty service members, and military spouses with opportunities to connect with industry leaders, attend workshops, and explore tech career paths. Register at: zip2.it/invasion2025

13.02.2025 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Undercover Mercedes Benz #mercedesbenz #mercedes #benz #modifiedcars #volkswagen #vw

08.02.2025 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions A public resource tracking the legal challenges to the Trump administration's executive orders and actions.

Useful: This website tracks court cases challenging trump administration actions. #Resistance www.justsecurity.org/107087/track...

05.02.2025 16:29 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Proud Boys Lose Control of Their Name to a Black Church They Vandalized A judge awarded the trademarked name and symbols to a Washington church to help satisfy a $2.8 million judgment against the far-right group.

I'm not mad. They fecked around and found out. #ProudBoys #FAFO

04.02.2025 18:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump Administration to Remove 4 Major News Outlets From Pentagon Office Space The New York Times, NBC News, NPR and Politico will be replaced by outlets including the right-wing site Breitbart News as part of a β€œnew annual media rotation,” a spokesman said.

In this new administration, NY Times is out. NY Post is in. NPR is out. Breitbart is in. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/b...

03.02.2025 19:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

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Home - Goods Unite Us At Goods Unite Us, we run political background checks on thousands of brands and companies so you can put your money where your vote is.

Check out the breakdown of brand’s political donations at Goods Unite Us and buy accordingly. https://buff.ly/3mCPmOu

01.02.2025 20:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Download GitHub Desktop Simple collaboration from your desktop

If you customize the child theme directly, do your future self a favor and put it in version control. If you are unfamiliar with command line, GitHub has a lovely visual app. https://buff.ly/4gsYocw #WordPress #WordPressThemes #ChildThemes 3/3

31.01.2025 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Within the WordPress admin, you can keep your CSS customizations in Customizer. CSS and JS can be stored in a code plugin. #WordPress #WordPressThemes #ChildThemes 2/3

31.01.2025 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If you are using or planning to use a child theme made by the parent theme maker, plan for the maker’s updates. While it is technically possible to make a grandchild theme, it is not recommended. There are options to preserve your customizations. #WordPress #WordPressThemes #ChildThemes 1/3

31.01.2025 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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&udm=14 | the disenshittification Konami code A quick way to get an AI-free search without any extra work.

Interested in Google search results without AI? https://udm14.com/ has you. #search #searchengine #AI

30.01.2025 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hello, @islandvocalist.bsky.social, glad you are here.

27.01.2025 22:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

27.01.2025 10:00 β€” πŸ‘ 53371    πŸ” 22691    πŸ’¬ 1070    πŸ“Œ 1740
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#WordPress #BlueSky #Plugin

I’m excited to share that I’ve finalized my WP plugin, which allows automatic posting of WP posts to multiple BlueSky accounts. It simplifies posting, and easier to share your content seamlessly across the BlueSky platform.

Link: about.tomdings.com/finalizing-a...

24.01.2025 00:16 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cast It Talent

ASAP!!! Open casting call for "RADICAL" – a feature film about Judy Heumann – disabled actors of all experience levels (or none!) are encouraged to audition – videos are due by January 31!

Get info here: app.castittalent.com/Radical

22.01.2025 01:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Accessibility Statement | The White House This commitment to accessibility for all begins with this site and our efforts to ensure all functionality and all content is accessible to all Americans.

Well, the new administration already took down the White House #Accessibility Statement. Original page from the WayBack Machine here: web.archive.org/web/20250118185419/https://www.whitehouse.gov/accessibility/ Broken link: whitehouse [dot] gov [slash] accessibility #a11y #Accessibility #disability

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A stylized collagelike representation of a figure, seen from behind - a representation of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. - arms outspreadd, between two groups of silhouetted figures at left and right. A hilly landscape is in the background, with the sun and some clouds in the sky above

A stylized collagelike representation of a figure, seen from behind - a representation of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. - arms outspreadd, between two groups of silhouetted figures at left and right. A hilly landscape is in the background, with the sun and some clouds in the sky above

Romare Bearden, Martin Luther King Jr.β€”Mountain Top, color screenprint, 1968

20.01.2025 14:02 β€” πŸ‘ 7068    πŸ” 941    πŸ’¬ 62    πŸ“Œ 36

How about hashtags but instead of filtering platform content for the tag, excluding the tag from your feed? Call them gnashtags. #SocialMediaDev #WebDev #UIUX

20.01.2025 03:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In most if not all situations though, files can have improved accessibility without permission.

18.01.2025 19:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ideally, you don’t need permission. Sometimes what the client wants directly conflicts with accessibility. I find that’s easier to resolve when I am running the project and talking directly with the client.

18.01.2025 19:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes! There is so much tech that can be used for good, like #acessibility. Tech doesn’t have to be evil.

18.01.2025 19:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Frequently forget alt text? This app has reminders!

1. Go to Settings
2. Select Accessibility
3. Check "Require alt text before posting"

Or follow this link! Works on desktop & mobile.
bsky.app/settings/acc...

14.01.2025 21:15 β€” πŸ‘ 65    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

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