HerGaiety @hergaiety@computerfairi.es

Accessibility isn’t something you add to your product. It is your product.

I think 90% of my job is trying to convey this. If the button isn’t labeled, if the text cannot be seen, if the action cannot be performed, then it may as well not be there for some subset of users. #accessibility #a11y

SQL is really difficult at first, but once you use it regularly and learn more about it, it's even worse.

I’ve written an open letter asking organisations that engage online with the blind community to come to Mastodon in light of the significant #accessibility regressions at Twitter.
If you agree, please sign it and share it as widely as you can. This is one occasion where if we can show how many of us care about this issue, it will make it clear that it’s worth companies putting in the effort to be here.
I would also be very grateful for the support of our sighted friends.
Thank you.
https://bit.ly/BlindMastodon

Incredibly, Twitter has now made it impossible for public safety bulletins to be posted automatically by weather services, tsunami warnings, the MTA etc. This is consistent with Musk’s particular lack of interest in public service. But it also highlights the general problem of building networks on private property - precisely why we need Mastodon and other open source apps to take their proper place at the center of our online communities

Imagine if people asked the silly “How do you make money?” question about other hobbies.

“You play chess. How do you make money from it?”

“You eat cheese. How do you make money from it?”

“You own a cat. How do you make money from it?”

Maybe I do these things for their own sake—because they give me joy.