Sina Bahram

@SinaBahram

I run Prime Access Consulting to help create inclusive meaningful experiences. I love tech's power for good, coffee, and cocktails.

RTP, North Carolina
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Joined February 2010
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    Aug 1

    Technologies and politics invariably infect one another. Cars lead to drink-driving laws: central banks necessitate photocopiers that can’t copy banknotes. And insofar as politics embodies beliefs about the world, and racism is a belief system, racism infects our technologies.

    Remember when we were like "yo, racism is structural, it's inbuilt, it's embedded," and you were like "shut up, stop playing the race card," and we were like, "nah, fam, I'm telling you," and you were like "quit playing the victim," and we were like "..."
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    Jul 29

    If I can make the Google Keep web app pretty efficient for a screen reader user with an hour of Greasemonkeying, why the hell is it so hard for Google to just do it properly?

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    Jul 28

    Today 205 out of 206 House Republicans voted against funding the Capitol Police Saying this louder for the people in the back: The GOP is literally DEFUNDING THE POLICE!

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    Jul 26

    A feature being inaccessible (for example, button not labeled for VoiceOver) is a P1 bug. There’s no gray are here. You wouldn’t ship without the icon being there would you? Because this is essentially the same thing, just via a different interface.

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    Jul 27

    There's no point in engaging with transphobic arguments when you realise they pretty much all boil down to defining people exclusively by their reproductive capacity and valuing this over their happiness and bodily autonomy, and pretending this is somehow feminist.

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    Jul 26

    Hey font and typography nerd friends how’s this metro sign make you feel?

    DC metro sign that reads “Authorized WMATA Personal Only” which is white text on red background. Then white text on brown m that reads ”No Trespassing”. The visual issue is the last two words are so close together it looks like one word instead of two.
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  7. Retweeted
    Jul 24

    Despite a year of warnings from the community. We need to hold companies accountable for their dangerous growth hacks. Clubhouse doesn’t even have consent from all the people whose numbers they harvested!

    Full phone number database of is up for sale on the . It contains 3.8 billion phone numbers. These are not just members but also people in contact lists that were synced. Chances are high that you are listed even if you haven't had a Clubhouse login.
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    Jul 13

    "Protecting people with disabilities’ right to vote is crucial to ensuring they will never be dismissed again." Great piece from

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  9. Retweeted
    Jul 23

    "Normal" and "average" users don't exist. When we design for averages, we are designing for no one, not everyone. Few people actually fit into what we consider "normal." Most people have varied needs, preferences, disabilities.

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  10. Retweeted
    Jul 23

    Weird. Been a month since I challenged the CEO’s assertion nobody has been sued due to its overlay by offering 4 URLs of cases with page numbers to find the specific text naming accessiBe, and yet he has not responded. Links to the 4:

    Shir Ekerling, CEO & Co-Founder at accessiBe. One note on your comment - You have never, not once, had encountered a company that got sued because of accessiBe. You have only seen companies that have joined accessiBe to be a solution to their already existing legal situation. I'm well aware of the lies that accessiBe customers are being sued. The competitors who spread them present them in a misleading way though they know it isn't true. If you apply manipulative and scheming tactics to present your case (and I'm not saying that YOU do, I'm answering your argument), then it comes to show how weak your argument really is. Especially when it's so easy to prove wrong (the lawsuits themselves prove them wrong if you only read it carefully and not take it out of context).
    Adrian Roselli, Accessibility & UX Consultant. Shir Ekerling I am aware of four (4) cases where accessiBe is either explicitly named or the accessiBe name is visible in screen shots: KLAUS et al v. UPRIGHT TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (URL trimmed). Page 11 has a screen shot of an overlay with the accessiBe name visible. DOUGLASS v. MASTERBUILT MANUFACTURING, LLC. (URL trimmed). Pages 13 and 14 reference accessiBe by name. MURPHY v. EYEBOBS, LLC. (URL trimmed). Pages 14 and 15 not only reference accessiBe by name, but also identify specific features of accessiBe that are blocking the user. Fischler v. Dorai Home, Inc. (URL trimmed). Pages 7 through identify the accessiBe overlay by name and cite it as the barrier to the user completing tasks.
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    Jul 23

    Just had a user test confirm that blue underlined links were more or less the only thing an older, less tech-literate population would know to interact with to get access to vital resources. Definitely fodder for the "are you practicing design or decoration?" conversation.

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    Jul 23

    📖 Introducing Megapedia: A Table of Universal Shortcuts BBC Assistive Technology Tester talks us through her megapedia for designers and developers creating keyboard shortcuts for their products and services

    A raised eyebrow emoji reading an open book with the title, Megapedia Guide.
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    Jul 23

    New in ARIA 1.2: ARIA IDL attributes

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    Jul 24

    WATCH: Egypt's coastal city of Alexandria has designed a beach for people with disabilities. A third of the beach is equipped with a wooden platform that extends to the water

    Egypt's disability-friendly public beach - Lifestyle
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    Jul 23
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    I told an NTP joke once, but the timing was awful.

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    Jul 23
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    Would you like to hear a joke about UDP? It doesn’t matter you wouldn’t get it anyway.

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    Jul 23

    "Hi, I'd like to hear a TCP joke" "Hi, would you like to hear a TCP joke?" "Yes, I'd like to hear a TCP joke" "OK, I'll tell a TCP joke" "OK, tell me a TCP joke" "Are you ready to hear a TCP joke?" "Yes, I'm ready for a TCP joke" "I'm sorry, your connection has timed out"

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    Jul 24

    I became Prime Minister two years ago today! I think a decimated economy, disastrous Brexit, unrest in Northern Ireland, a new variant raging out of control and over 130,000 dead is a pretty solid two years' work.

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    Jul 24

    WATCH: Barcelona's Nova Icaria beach helps beachgoers with disabilities access the water and enjoy the waves

    Barcelona helps beachgoers with disabilities frolic in sea - Lifestyle
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    Jul 24

    Every year I retweet this piece on how to spot drowning. Last year someone replied saying they’d read my RT the previous year and later rescued a kid. TL;DR: drowning kids usually don’t scream or splash about.

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