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So I just read the new Twitter policy on promotion of other social media platforms for free, mostly because I've seen a lot of discussion and wanted to read the entire thing. The following things are true: Elon has the right to do whatever he wants on his private platform, and, this is incredibly dumb and I kind of hope the other socials start blocking Twitter links. And finally, some of the stuff people are doing to get around this is hilarious and I hope Elon has fun playing whackamole.

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Accessibility overlay article out the door for editing. And good thing there are editors because I said bad words in the final paragraphs. No, not the usual four-letter ones. The one that begins with w. And some five-letter ones. Like learn. And basic. I'm probably going to have to write a nicer version but well I read through that whole overlayfacts.org response to the original Overlay Fact Sheet and sort of blew my stack.

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So I'm writing an article on accessibility overlays and why they can't make your site accessible, and I know I shouldn't, but I can't help but wonder why anyone would possibly think that something like making sure your website complies with various pieces of accessibility legislation would be as simple as a single line of code. Overlay vendors are mostly at fault for creating this illusion, but the fact is there's a market for it. The businesses eagerly buying it share culpability. 1/n