Mat Harris

Pete, I love you! Please include alt text for these posts, esp ones that are only text! I want to share your posts but doing so will be excluding folks who rely on assistive tech. Thank you!

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Today is Amazon Prime Day, so I ordered a couple of audiobooks…
From Libro.fm to support my indie bookshop.

a screenshot of the Accessibility settings in bluesky. The options shown are: Alt text: - Require alt text before posting - Display larger alt text badges

today's a great day to make sure "require alt text before posting" is enabled in your settings and to continue to make bluesky more accessible and inclusive bsky.app/settings/acc...

How The New York Times is (still) getting gamed by the right And blowing its credibility in the process.

I guess it is the "failing new york times" after all www.theverge.com/culture/7000...

It's official, we're homeowners (again)! Happy to call Portland, OR home again. This time I think we're going to stay put for a while!

That is a very good feeling. Also I will always find this GIF hilarious, this is a great use of it!

Fellow Trekkies, where can we go to get our Star Trek fix if we're cancelling our Paramount subscription??

Episode 106: The Accessible Stall Interviews Ann Magill, Disability Pride Flag Creator - The Accessible Stall We’re so thrilled about this episode! In celebration of Disability Pride Month, we had the honor of getting to interview Ann Magill, the creator of the Disability Pride flag. Tune to learn more about ...

As you scroll this month, I hope you come across images of the Disability Pride flag.

In 2022, The Accessible Stall (the podcast I co-host) got the scoop from its inventor, Ann Magill.

Learn more about the flag and the evolution of its design.

🩶❤️💛🤍🩵💚

www.theaccessiblestall.com/episode-106-...

It’s kinda crazy that “freedom of speech” now means it’s OK to be racist but not OK to say things or take positions the government doesn’t like.

My all-time favorite instance of this was when she saw a tree stump on a walk, realized it was because the tree was now gone and started to sing a sad song about it quietly, saw that I was watching her and looks at me and goes "Stop looking at me!" and then goes back to waxing poetic. Such emotions!

Ah yes, the good ol 'threenager' stage, know this one well!

Literally everything is possible if we show up.

Cautiously optimistic!

Why is it that this country always has endless money for war but not for housing? Bombs but not books? Missiles but not Medicaid? Our priorities are not just backward — they're being driven by wealthy war hawks hellbent on padding their pockets.

Just to be crystal clear: bombing Iran is completely illegal.

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.

This is one resource I always start my engineers off with when starting them in on their accessibility journey! It's just so good!

The number of times that I've pulled up the docs, got a setup rolling locally, and then... overwhelmed. Gotta push through and get to that feeling! Thank you for the reminder!

GAAD Thursday, May 15, 2025, help us celebrate the 14th Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD)! The purpose of GAAD is to get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access and inclusion, ...

This Thursday, May 15th, is Global Accessibility Awareness Day. As the website states, the "purpose of GAAD is to get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access and inclusion," specifically for people with disabilities.

#GAAD #GAAD2025

MOVE bombing 40 years later: A day of reflection and remembrance Forty years ago today, city officials made the unconscionable decision to bomb its own people.

40 years ago on this date, police dropped a bomb on a West Philadelphia neighborhood

A heads up if you are looking for resources on .gov sites at least when it comes to accessibility. Many of them still exist but their original urls are broken due to the administration erasing certain words from use and having no redirects to the new URL.

Ohhhh thank you for finding this, I had hoped it was spared in some way but wasn't sure exactly where to find it! I was so disheartened when I hit that 404. You made my day!

A screenshot of the 404 page at accessibility.digital.gov. It reads "404 Not Found: Requested route ('accessibility.digital.gov') does not exist.

I was putting together a few resources for my PMs and pulled up the list of role-based trainings I had collected over the years. Went to accessibility.digital.gov and was met with a 404. I am immensely sad.

Same goes for "No right on red" or "Share the road" signs...

Federal cuts to National Institutes of Health could threaten medical progress Former National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins, who abruptly left his NIH research lab in February, fears aggressive downsizing could impact Americans’ health.

Watch all of this. www.cbsnews.com/video/nih-cu...

This. So much this.

Trying out this new Surf thing! Hello world!

This is your regular reminder that executive orders are not royal decrees. Because America has no king.