Budding Journalists: We are pleased to be able to offer a disability reporting fellowship for 2023-2024. This fellow will arrive with our fellowship class in June and report to our National desk. Watch for applications to open as soon as next week.
Follow
Click to Follow mapcourt
Court Cox
@mapcourt
Court Cox’s Tweets
Process thread for the #dataviz nerds on how we made this 3D scrolly trucks animation for our recent story on how pickups have gotten so big. axios.com/ford-pickup-tr 🧵
0:25
20.7K views
9
60
362
Show this thread
Everyone please go to your garage and check to see if you have classified documents.
69
533
3,508
The HDI Photo Library is looking for models as we work to increase disability representation.
The paid photoshoot will take place in Lexington, KY.
Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI.
read image description
ALT
read image description
ALT
read image description
ALT
read image description
ALT
1
Happy Sunday 😚😊
read image description
ALT
105
822
4,732
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."
13
32
Most people think the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results, but to them I say, that's just GIS. Sometimes on the third try, your geoprocessing tool just inexplicably works.
23
76
648
"Stigma reduction and public awareness must occur at the societal level, instead of placing the responsibility on the individual with a facial difference."
part two:
Show this thread
"The Elephant in the Room: Explaining Facial Difference" // I really enjoyed these articles. Having language for your identity is empowering, but yeah, de rigueur disclosures about the way your face looks are not.
part one:
1
Show this thread
An organization that says it cares about diversity, equity, and inclusion must include disability and accessibility in its diversity plans. If an organization uses hashtags like #diversity, #equity, or #inclusion but doesn't use alt text, its diversity efforts come off as hollow.
20
35
2023 reminder that a lot of wheelchair users can WALK!
i don’t know how people are still ignorant of this fact and at the point it feels wilful
we are not faking if you see us use a wheelchair one day and not the next. it’s not that hard to grasp! 👩🦽
35
719
2,433
One thing I really dislike is when people attack the appearance of someone they don't like or they claim is bad.
It basically paints all people with undesirable physical traits as bad people. And justifies harming them solely based on their appearance. It's cruel and ableist.
11
76
292
Show this thread
for starters these are some wildly tall shins
Quote Tweet
Data Science Challenge:
Obviously this graphic seems wrong but can you explain what common data visualization mistakes are being made here?
Show this thread
1
my mom was so relaxed and trusted me so much that I couldn't really rebel even when I tried lol
Quote Tweet
If you were a generally very well-behaved and square teenager, what’s the most rebellious thing you did?
New year, new planner
6
1
32
Memes can indeed be made to be accessible. In this blog post, Adrian Roselli explains how he used CSS and HTML to recreate common and popular memes. He includes a CodePen example for each one.
9
23
Here's a shiny new example on the Mapbox GL JS docs for creating an "ant path" animation by sequentially updating `line-dasharray`. Take a look! 👀 🐜🐜🐜 docs.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/e
GIF
2
12
not me sitting here trying to figure out if i can use the MIDI API in a google apps script to create an app to write sheet music in google sheets with a piano/keyboard controller for absolutely no reason other than to see if i could do it
Quote Tweet
Sheet music written in Excel twitter.com/breathing_iki/…
1
1
Show this thread
has anyone else ever been dragged into that international house of prayer place in kansas city for healing 😭😭
one of the ickiest experiences of my life
Quote Tweet
Just had a near stranger pray for me in a coffee shop because I was using my walker 
Disabled people don’t need you to pray for us
Disabled people don’t need you to pray for usShow this thread
sometimes i'm like why am i irrationally angry and then i'm like oh there's an overhead light on
199
9,899
88.5K
Show this thread
#100DaysofCode day 28
worked more with Svelte event handlers + read mdn documentation to better understand javascript event bubbling and stopPropagation(). kind of understood these prior but have a much more solid grasp now
2
3
Yall do know that since I am the first Deaf contestant on #TheCircleNetflix that there is going to be a huge number of Deaf people watching right? Why would I play the game with just a keyboard? I’m using ASL for my community. And Paris is helping YOU understand. Simple
219
2,041
24.2K
Show this thread
flashing back to when i was an english ed major for three semesters and got told in ed block that my clothes were professional and modest enough but that, basically, i might want to dress uglier to help myself not get mistaken for a student 😭
Quote Tweet
literally where do feminine young professionals in their mid/late 20s even shop for clothes. every store i go in to feels way too young, waayyyyyy too old, and/or way too expensive for a grad student budget
Show this thread
#100DaysofCode day 27
took a few days trying to stay mostly off my laptop which was definitely good, but i am back on this now!
reviewed logic syntax, await blocks, and event handlers in Svelte today
2
1
