Eric Eggert

I don’t really use this. Follow me in the open Fediverse at @yatil@yatil.social or use the bridged account here: @yatil.social

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I am concerned about the existence and amount of non-required requirements there are in WCAG 3. My answer is like always: Modules. But read my latest blog post yourself: https://yatil.net/blog/wcag-3-road-to-hell-paved-with-supplemental-requirements

Nic again with a banger article thinking about how metadata (no pun intended) needs to be closely regulated to not allow for (mis)interpretation of independence. Thought provoking as always, and if you’re not subscribed, you should change that right now […]

18 months ago, my mom almost died. When I went to do a wellness check on her, a reckless driver almost killed me. We’re both alive and safe, but also both in danger of eviction. Anything helps, including just sharing the story. buttondown.com/officehours/...

When you’re chronically ill, learning to rest is critical It’s also hard Our society rewards productivity We’re taught that rest is weakness. That we should play through the pain Rest is a strength It can help you maintain your baseline If all you did today was rest, be proud of yourself

Healthcare is suicide prevention. Housing is suicide prevention. Childcare is suicide prevention. Universal basic income is suicide prevention. When we ensure people have their basic needs met, mental health improves.

The last Verity! Podcast has been recorded and this two hour episode with all the Verities will drop Wednesday morning.

Foodify a Doctor Who title. The Burrito of Ranskoor Av Kolos

If you read this, you must hire @ashleemboyer.com. I don’t make the rules, I’m just informing you of your legal duty. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Meal delivery is accessibility. Grocery delivery is accessibility. Pre-peel/cut food is accessibility. Single use plastic straws are accessibility. Audiobooks are accessibility. Image, video, & audio descriptions are accessibility. Captions & transcripts are accessibility. Just some examples.

Outsourcing accessibility considerations to “AI” leads to the erasure of disabled people when designing and creating. That’s the goal. It’s digital euthanasia. I’m done mincing my words about this.

RE: https://snooker.uk.to/@snookerbot/116507325469639020 What a completely bonkers semi final! Wu Yize is a superstar in the making. Commiserations to Mark Allen. #snooker

What are perma-’90s F1 people going to do next year when the Formula E car is better than the Formula 1 car

Here, @jay.bsky.team says Bluesky is for fascists, too: > I'm wondering, would you welcome by President Trump if he was debating joining Bluesky? > Yeah, Bluesky's for everyone, you know. www.wired.com/video/watch/...

Hire @ashleemboyer.com. Not because she had a hard year, but because she is damn good at what she does.

If you’re traveling this holiday season, please wear a mask. Flu and Covid are both surging. No one wants to be sick for the holidays. A well fitted respirator like an N95 protects you and those around you. Give yourself (and others!) the gift of good health this year!

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

A leaked memo suggests Pam Bondi wants to put a bounty on trans activists. She wants to reward people for turning advocates into the FBI. There’s another group who did this. The Nazis. They went after trans people, gay people, the disabled, immigrants and the Jews. Don’t let history repeat

“Jiang and colleagues conclude, carefully but clearly, that their findings ‘redefine SARS-CoV-2 infection as a condition of long-lasting immune compromise’ and highlight lymphocyte dysregulation as a key immunological feature of Long Covid, particularly in people with cardiovascular disease.”

I’m trying to remember to rest. To remember I did nothing to deserve this. But when things are falling apart it’s very hard to hold on to your baseline. So please remember you’re worth protecting. You’re worth self care. Your value is not determine by your income or your health. You’re loved.

I’m posting this as much for myself as for anyone else who needs to hear it. I’m facing losing my housing and I’m priced out of the market. I’m bedbound and lack the physical ability to move. I’m terrified. And it’s only happening because I’m disabled.

If all you did today was breathe and survive… that’s ok. Surviving a capitalist, eugenicist, ableist system is hard work. Resistance is exhausting. Never forget that rest is resistance. Survival is resistance. You’re not alone. There’s more of us than there are of them.

Hell yeah

Our house is officially on the market. www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS

"Again and again, accessibility as a topic in web standards is treated as simultaneously too trivial for specialists' technical opinions to be given weight, but also too difficult to get right without a specialist volunteering to tackle the tricky details." alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-t...

⭐️ A threat model for accessibility on the web @sundress with an excellent article about accessibility and why and how it is so neglected. https://alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-threat-model-for-accessibility-on-the-web/

Mum will be so proud! (@tansyrr.bsky.social, @xanister.bsky.social, @lynnemthomas.com)

I wrote a little about “best practice” examples, and how I understood them, which apparently is different than how Craig has seen them in the wild. https://yatil.net/blog/about-best-practices https://a11y.info/@craigabbott/115059612941198326

With more people than ever looking at WCAG 2, the GitHub repository is buzzing with feedback and questions for clarifications. This is really awesome to see. Now it only was an actively developed standard that could be adapted to be better, but no, the new rules are made elsewhere and then […]

To summarize -waves are not seasonal -vaccines are waning -people are getting long covid -it’s still not an endemic disease -very young kids are at increased risk because they didn’t go through the initial vaccine series Oh and it turns out, Covid Cautious people have been right the whole time.

I have published my first 3D model on Maker World. All self-designed. It’s a magnetically held guide for the drip water hose of the Midea Porta Split portable AC unit. That was a fun little weekend project! https://makerworld.com/en/models/1707401-midea-porta-split-drip-hose-guide

⭐️ Avoiding the word “help” By me, @yatil https://yatil.net/blog/avoiding-the-word-help

If accessibility events did not provide captions, sign language or ramps, we would be rightfully up in arms. But, it seems totally OK to not make any accommodations for people with pre-existing conditions or weakened immune systems (like many, many people who already got Covid in the last […]

New newsletter alert! (Yes, I’m as shocked as you are that this happened!) https://steady.page/en/075ca46e-c27f-49fb-946a-f1aa90a08e0d/posts/a1113fe6-287b-4dfe-a06d-28ff8ec0cc70

This is huge! A human rights tribunal found that employers must accommodate remote work for immunocompromised employees Remote work accommodations are something disabled people have needed for decades Covid showed us it’s possible, but ableism & discrimination took it away We all need this right