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Fox News Host Throws Hissy Fit Over 'Woke' Legos
The toy company has apparently "gone woke" because of its new figures representing people with disabilities.

Another data point for the theory that the term “woke” now mostly operates to let bad people be publicly mad about things that even they would find embarrassing if they had to just directly say what they were upset about.

This time, it’s another instance of not pretending people with disabilities don’t exist, and by extension, disability rights and accessibility, once again being declared woke. So can we quit pretending that there’s some sort of bipartisan agreement on the belief that people with disabilities should be able to fully participate in society and working towards actualizing that goal now?

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FL Bill Makes Transphobia Accusations Defamation, $35k Penalty
Every day, a new bill is released that targets the transgender community in new and cruel ways. HB991 in Florida is the newest example, which could charge people $35k for transphobia accusations.

Oh look! Another instance of “Free speech for me but not for thee”! I’m sure the champions of free speech on these here internets will be all over this.

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How Shadow DOM and accessibility are in conflict by ALICE BOXHALL
Shadow DOM allows web developers to create and use components which encapsulate their internals. Like encapsulation in any other programming context, being able to hide the implementation details of an HTML component has many benefits to both developers using the component in their web pages, and the developers who author and maintain the component. However, there is one major way that, to date, Shadow DOM's encapsulation mechanism is in conflict with techniques authors use to provide an accessible user experience.