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Clarissa Peterson
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Strategist/UXer, writer, speaker, educator. Author Learning Responsive Web Design (O'Reilly). Married to . She/her. #a11y #BlackLivesMatter #MMIW
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The Americans With Disabilities Act does not currently have specific, testable criteria to measure web accessibility. If a vendor or company promises you that they can make your site "ADA-compliant," be skeptical. Ask what standards they use to measure "compliance."
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I happened to notice some medical info online that was presented in a misleading way due to missing column headers. I wrote to the website (health insurance co.) to let them know. They wrote back and said they were unable to help me since I don't have an account with them. Sigh.
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I'm officially moving to Chicago in September, after bouncing around between countries the last couple years. and I just rented a place and we're looking forward to meeting new people and getting to know the city.
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Well, it's official: I'm moving to Chicago. We signed the lease on an apartment in Andersonville this week.
I'm going to miss all the friends I made in Calgary, and the fun I had doing improv at .
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We want you to share your ideas, speak up, be visible, and lead but we don’t want you to change who are in order to do that. (1/7)
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We have known for YEARS that Facebook allows advertisers to illegally discriminate by race, gender, and other demographics for housing, employment, and credit ads. Now Facebook has settled with the Justice Dept. and will overhaul its ad algorithm system.
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Should have seen this coming... yet another product that was made to work on white skin, with little thought to everyone else. Even worse, people with darker skin don't know it can give them incorrect readings — which can be a matter of life or death.
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Someone just told me I'm smart. Actually, I just know when to use Google. It's not like I actually store all this random information in my head.
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“There’s an idea in our society that pregnancy is a happy time,” [Phyllis Sharps, a nurse-scientist at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing] says. “But for a lot of women, that’s just not true, and a lot of women are just not safe in their homes.”
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Does anyone have an example of a website that hides or has a content warning for unpleasant images? It's for a medical site and some of the photos would be fairly disturbing if random people somehow end up on the page by mistake. Maybe blurring them until you click like FB does.
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I'm watching singing Lost In Your Eyes in a virtual concert sponsored by... AARP. I guess we're all old now. How did this happen?
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This is a step in the right direction. Other companies should follow this example, and allow users to opt out of ads about sensitive topics.
Imagine having a miscarriage but continuing to see pregnancy ads everywhere based on your recent search history.
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I'm so confused by this "water" my grocery store sells. (Hint: It's not water.)
Please have an actual human look at content before you put it on your website.
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You can't believe anything anybody says these days. twitter.com/hypervisible/s
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A crossword puzzle just told me that a "WWW page" is called a "netsite" and I am feeling incredibly disturbed by this.
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For anyone experiencing domestic violence, this article has tips on how to secure your devices and online accounts so that your partner can no longer access them.
Barista hot take of the day
The person in line behind you can afford their Starbucks. End the pay it forward chain and tip the baristas instead.
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For anybody who works on websites, it's important to understand what colorblindness is and how it affects user experience. Here's a nice thread by that will tell you a bunch of things you need to know.
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UX tips: About 12 million people suffer from colour blindness in the USA. Here's a quick guide to what that means when designing interfaces. 1/
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Something I think wealthy people wouldn’t understand about poor and middle class kids is that after we graduated from college, we couldn’t just go into our chosen fields - we didn’t have the connections, or resources. So we ended up with strings of the most random jobs ever.
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Fiction writers, make sure to check out the WordBridge online conference this weekend. It's a bargain at $5.
Hint: the Wordle results you've been posting on social media aren't accessible to screen reader users. Article by .
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I am obsessed with "offbeat" and small museums. Every time I travel, I go to all the museums I can. And I loved this article from .
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26% of the American population has reported disabilities.
15% of the global population has reported disabilities.
You have an experience that needs to be usable for disabled users.
So no, accessibility is not an edge case.
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I might actually run out of food videos* to watch next month so if you know of a FOSS policy or senior level community building job I should apply for, please let me know.
*Probably impossible, but for reals I am looking for a new gig.
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At the airport, just watched a flight attendant walk out of the bathroom without washing her hands. During a pandemic. (It would be plenty gross even in normal times.)
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Something we don't talk about enough is that Betty cast Arthur Duncan, the first Black series regular on a variety show, and when it was syndicated in 1954, she faced boycots in the South for having him on. When they told her to ditch him, she refused, saying, "live with it."
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The CDC said you don't have to finish writing your book by the end of the pandemic; they plan to extend the pandemic indefinitely until you finish.
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This is absolutely ridiculous.
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📚🗣Did you know that we have an amazing library of talks in our speaker directory online? Over 800 video resources to be more exact! Head to our website to view the full list.
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Critics have long suspected that predictive policing software was racially biased.
Today, we have the answer: & analyzed 5.9 million algorithmic crime predictions. We found they disproportionately target Black & Latino areas. /1
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You don't have to be consistent with everything in design. But at least in content design, stick with a style choice for things like ampersands, numbers as numerals or words, and title vs. sentence case. Mixing them together does no good and increases cognitive load.
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One of my engineering principles is I'd rather look "foolish" for asking a question rather than not.
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Design your digital content for someone with a bad wifi connection, low mobile data or a limited time slot in a local library, and you’ll not only support them but make the user journey easier for all your users.
#ContentDesign #AccessForAll #DigitalInclusivity
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When people ask me how they can learn accessibility I always tell them they have to start by really understanding HTML. They say "I want to hire someone to teach me accessibility, not HTML." That's like saying "I want to be a SCOTUS justice but I don't want to go to learn law."
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This is a great opportunity for a dev who wants to make a difference in the world.
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Come work with us in building a decentralized social media commons future. We're hiring. apply.workable.com/j/89A8B9B5E0
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idk who needs to hear this but brand social media managers are not interns
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Today I learned that the CDC's website has content about preparing for a zombie apocalypse.
cdc.gov/cpr/zombie/ind
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