Gerard K. Cohen

"You is kind. You is smart. You is important." - From the movie, "The Help"

The way I feel prompting AI with "You are a ...."

I wish rideshare services would include the option to not use any Tesla vehicles. I very much resent having to ride in one.

Pet peeve of mine: Accessibility visitors. These are people that treat accessibility documentation like a TripAdvisor review they spent 20 minutes reading, then show up and start telling locals what to do. Or worse, start trashing the place for everyone else.

(It happens, ask me how I know)

I would prefer a new attribute that splits up the literal description of an image (mostly provided by AI) and another to further explain the intent (mostly provided by humans that care)

So that Meta AI ad about Frank the fish... Meta AI was smart enough to tell the guy where the fish was bought and what it looked like, and even reminded him that Zoe's school gets out in 10 minutes...

Would it have been easier to tell him that Zoe took Frank to Show and Tell? Is this your AI king?

Happy birthday @karlgroves.bsky.social! Hopefully you’re catching waves somewhere.

My heart is heavy this week seeing the military used against my people. My heart is heavy for the military being used against their neighbors.

Seen too many examples of people adding ARIA to use as a locator for testing because of this guidance. The idea that using ARIA for attributes for testing will improve accessibility has not been proven considering errors with ARIA are going up (according to webAIM million).

Robust Accessibility and Artificial Intelligence (AI) | Writing | gerardkcohen.me What if there was a way that AI could easily glean relevant controls, expected interactions, and predictable outcomes? What if content was robust enough that it could be interpreted by a wide variety ...

👀 Robust Accessibility and Artificial Intelligence (AI) by @gerardkcohen.me

#AI #agentix #a11y

gerardkcohen.me/writing/2025...

Ugh. Not Dwayne Wiggins!! I got a kick out of seeing him ride around Oakland on his bike with his guitar on his back. #Legend #RIP 😢

I've spent my whole career discussing links vs buttons, over and over again. I never thought it would graduate to links INSIDE buttons. What kind of hell is this? #a11y

Ugh my heart, so sorry to hear. 😢

👁 FYI
#HTML #a11y articles by me
html5accessibility.com/stuff/

KENDRICK JUST NOW

Catches bullets with his teeth???

✊🏼Know your Standards - updated 07/02/2025

"Regularly people link to or quote from some outdated version of a specification. This can be confusing and detrimental to understanding, if the information is no longer correct or relevant."

#ARIA #a11y #HTML

html5accessibility.com/stuff/2020/1...

🎈Always useful: all #HTML attributes, what elements they can be used on, brief description, and allowed values

html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/in...

Do you work in tech and want to rebel against this administration?

Integrate accessibility into your product work, no matter the laws and the bullshit this administration says, no matter what your execs say.

Treat it as a given, don't ask for permission.

MJ was right! All I want to say is that they don’t really care about us.

But who is paying all the people that are taking over government offices and payroll systems? Where is that money coming from?

Twitter's former engineering manager for accessibility warns the same message too.

Americans, don't just ignore and stay silent. As @meryl.bsky.social suggests, contact your reps.

Boycott brands that cancel DEIA programs.

Remember, disability can happen at any time in your life. #uspoli #cdnpoli

WCAG’s “Alternate Version” clause kinda makes thinks a little more complicated doesn’t it? 🤦🏽‍♂️

We’ve been saying it…

He’s a keeper for sure

It is designed to break your your heart: Cultivating a harm reduction mindset as an accessibility practitioner. Axe-con 2025. Bold, stark text placed on a high contrasting neon yellow-green background.

I'll be delivering a talk for @deque.com's axe-con. It's a free, three day virtual conference about digital accessibility. This talk is from the heart, and I hope you can attend. www.deque.com/axe-con/sess...

You do not require permission to create accessible code.

Just going to leave this reminder here...

My superpower is being able to break up hours of quiet and solitude by summoning the world to ping me either by text, phone call, or any type of notification that will buzz my phone/watch simply by lying down and closing my eyes to rest.

My #a11y peeps I know it seems bleak, but keep pushing! Some days you win, some days you lose. It’s a daily grind so take a break if you need to, but KNOW you make a difference to someone, even if you never hear about it. If this is the world with us, I don’t want to know the world without us. ❤️

I already despised Elon for what he did to me, my team, and everyone else at Twitter by killing off such an important platform. But that nazi salute shit is not funny one bit. Please unfollow me and avoid me at all costs if you try to reason around that. Fuck anybody empathetic to the other side.

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