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I know some Microsoft #a11y folks follow me here: the Accessibility Assistant for Word is all well and good, but the absolutely wretched Style mechanics and Word->accessible PDF workflows have been borked for years and are directly responsible for generating enormous quantities of inaccessible content. Detecting contrast errors comes absolutely nowhere close to covering the waterfront. And I wish journalists covering this stuff would be more skeptical. https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/9/23632562/microsoft-accessibility-assistant-365-office-ability-summit

—@blakereid

I’m a huge fan of the many fine folks at the Verge, but covering #a11y press releases with “well, must be better than nothing!” treatments lets companies off the hook for the many (often long-standing) accessibility gaps in their products and fails even to probe whether these incremental improvements actually work as advertised.

—@blakereid

For Throwback Thursday, June 2020 roses blooming in the front yard.
Alt text: three photos showing different angles on rose blossoms that simultaneously display a range of yellow and pink tones on each flower.
#TBT #flowers #roses

—@jrosen707

Lauren Boebèrt proudly announced that she’s about to be a 36 year old grandmother. Not trying to shame anyone, but…😬

As David Pakman points out, she opposes teens transitioning, yet is happy about her son following in her footsteps as a teen parent. I remember how hard it was raising kids in my late 20’s and 30’s. Teens should be making dumb mistakes, not pretending to be grownups.

Just hoping her grandkid is raised better so they at least learn about birth control.

https://youtu.be/gw0hjNC8m-A

—@biobrain

“Every day that lawmakers waste hand wringing about TikTok is another day that we don’t have a national privacy law in the United States.” -@evan_greer #DontBanTiktok https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-ban-us-china-tech-war-distraction-data-privacy-experts-2023-2

—@team