Eric

https://social.ericwbailey.website/@eric

#accessibility / #a11y advocate and design systems wonk.

Website: https://ericwbailey.website/
Pronouns: https://ericwbailey.website/he-him-his/
Newsletter: https://ericwbailey.website/newsletter

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eric_at_social.ericwbailey.website@momostr.pink

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2024-09-23 16:28:22

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I was gonna go for some kebabs myself

2024-09-23 15:28:59

what are even words, really
https://cdn.masto.host/socialericwbaileywebsite/media_attachments/files/113/187/571/153/014/989/original/14324083c90878f7.png

2024-09-21 17:00:34

Brazil has the chance to do the funniest thing ever and persist the X ban.

2024-09-20 18:53:49

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Taylor,

2024-09-20 14:46:11

I met a user from SPA land,
Who said—Two vast and label-less inputs
Stand on the login page… Near them, on the page,
Half sunk a checkbox lies, whose state
And contrast and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its engineer well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things

2024-09-19 14:18:51

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The intrinsic mediocre bigotry will continue until hegemony improves.

2024-09-19 14:16:54

The fun and cool bit about nerds who are aware of the problem space necessitating opting out of LinkedIn’s AI shenanigans is the future of the data derived from those who didn’t.

2024-09-18 15:59:43

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ELEVENTÉ

2024-09-18 15:53:32

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in your defense, the library on the Switch is excellent

2024-09-18 15:52:40

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liberté, égalité, properté

2024-09-18 15:38:23

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so... can I use them

2024-09-18 14:40:38

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joke’s on you, they all locked themselves into the Tailwind jail and have to wait for trickle down functionality

2024-09-18 14:38:38

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clown shit

2024-09-18 14:27:06

pain is just yeastness leaving the body

2024-09-17 17:08:16

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Super apt hero image there.

2024-09-17 15:29:10

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This is absolutely phenomenal, wow.

2024-09-17 14:30:29

I wrote about a talk I give about exploring your device and apps' accessibility settings. https://ericwbailey.website/published/accessibility-preference-settings-information-architecture-and-internalized-ableism/

2024-09-16 18:19:59

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💀

2024-09-16 15:50:58

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😆

2024-09-16 15:05:09

ICQ said "uh oh" when you signed on. It knew.

2024-09-14 18:59:14

Thunderbolt and lightning, very very frightening to me, my X-Men

2024-09-13 16:52:46

Whomst! (There It Is)

2024-09-13 15:32:26

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It is heartening and lightly unsettling to see you embrace color like this

2024-09-12 20:24:30

One of the things I appreciate most about Inclusive Design 24 is how good a job it does in demonstrating the wide range of ways people interface and interact with technology and the larger world. There are so many ways to be, and that's wonderful. https://www.youtube.com/inclusivedesign24

2024-09-12 19:08:33

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truly, I am bathroom scale

2024-09-12 17:50:04

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hell yeah, 🐴🐴🐴🐴⭐

2024-09-12 00:36:02

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Sorry about the technical issues, folks. We'll be live again at the top of the hour 😬

2024-09-11 23:36:41

Inclusive Design 24 is live now! Tune in! #id24 https://inclusivedesign24.org/

2024-09-11 16:13:42

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what kind of low-tier engineer is opposed to using a `dialog` element

2024-09-10 15:49:08

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We can have affirmative necromancers if we believe.

2024-09-10 15:23:13

Poker is so unintentionally affirming. Seeing someone and then raising them? Bliss.

2024-09-10 15:12:30

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Awesome, thanks for letting me know!

2024-09-09 14:37:37

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Also, a huge shoutout to @npub1xk6…cgrv for the idea and the patience while I got around to it 🧡

2024-09-09 14:36:43

I'm happy to announce the release of the new, modernized a11y-syntax-highlighting themes! Nothing has visually changed, but there's a lot of cool stuff going on under the hood. #a11y https://ericwbailey.website/published/a11y-syntax-highlighting-has-been-updated/

2024-09-08 17:31:59

Apropos of a bug report someone kindly submitted, the Inclusive Design Principles are now hosted at https://inclusivedesignprinciples.info/
The first domain lapsed and now points to a spammy casino site.

2024-09-07 15:32:39

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It's cool that Dragon sits in purgatory after Microsoft bought Nuance, letting the software just sort of rot on the vine.

2024-09-06 18:53:59

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this reply is actually a pretty strong password! so is mine oh no

2024-09-06 17:28:24

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Happy birthday, bud!

2024-09-06 15:07:32

I have complained about
the ingots
that you shipped
from Dilmun
and which
you were probably
hoping
I'd accept
Forgive me
they were sub-par
shown with contempt
it was so cold

2024-09-04 18:53:53

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The good news here is grid will be perfect for this!

2024-09-04 15:15:40

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run while you still can

2024-09-04 14:59:28

"Tailwind grid builder—" Let me stop you right there, bud.

2024-09-03 14:03:06

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Happy to! We have an interactive list construct that is used to navigate quickly through what would otherwise be a ton of tab stops. Since focus is placed on the list item, we need to support requests to open the main URL each list item contains in a new tab, etc.

2024-09-03 14:01:39

I don't believe in the watchmaker argument, but reggae relaxing dogs and heavy metal making sharks excited does hint at some higher order governing structure

2024-08-31 17:25:06

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👀👀👀

2024-08-31 17:13:50

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something in the water, been giving it a go myself as of late

2024-08-31 17:01:33

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Little note that Userway is an overlay company, which has repeatedly operated in a way hostile to the people it purportedly serves: https://adrianroselli.com/2021/09/userway-will-get-you-sued.html

2024-08-28 15:59:08

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Here's my go-to source if you're trying to motivate via profit incentives: https://www.air.org/resource/report/hidden-market-purchasing-power-working-age-adults-disabilities

2024-08-28 14:32:09

Gentlemen, our researchers have revealed that fat bottomed girls do in fact make the rockin' world go 'round. Our coordinated detonation will shake the world's governments to their core.

2024-08-27 20:05:59

"Wearing a mask is not a crime. People who wish to wear a mask to protect themselves from infectious diseases at protests or anywhere else have the right to do so." https://dredf.org/disability-groups-condemn-mask-bans-urge-lawmakers-to-protect-rights/

2024-08-26 17:32:46

In hindsight, it is tragicomic that the last decade of making websites was based on tech who claimed they’d fix performance in post, coupled with every major tech company actively trying to suppress web app capability to drive monopolistic surveillance capitalism.

2024-08-26 14:45:05

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Hey! Thanks for the share!

2024-08-26 14:44:45

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Me too! Ah, this turned out great—thank you for having me on 🎉

2024-08-22 16:23:20

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Please feed my LLM, he's starving.

2024-08-22 02:52:27

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Thanks for the head's up! It should be fixed now.

2024-08-22 01:06:30

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Aww wow, this is great! Just added a link to it in the post and gave attribution. Thank you!

2024-08-21 14:11:39

For the love of all that is good: use an anchor element and not a div. https://ericwbailey.website/published/basic-keyboard-shortcut-support-for-focused-links/

2024-08-20 18:59:12

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I hear the W3C is big mad about cookies now or something

2024-08-20 18:45:19

documents can have a little state, as a treat

2024-08-06 19:23:21

I have a lightning talk I deliver internally at my job that's intentionally given to non-accessibility practitioners, so mainly engineers, designers, and product folk.
I've attached the first two slides that set the tone to this post.
The talk is about exploring macOS' Accessibility system preferences. It points out different features, like offline white noise sounds, color filters, and magnification.
It deliberately avoids mentioning VoiceOver, or screen readers in general.
https://cdn.masto.host/socialericwbaileywebsite/media_attachments/files/112/916/695/944/865/153/original/042a83c0d69a2975.png
https://cdn.masto.host/socialericwbaileywebsite/media_attachments/files/112/916/702/653/017/452/original/5dab6159f889d9b8.png

2024-04-08 16:27:40

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Stability, mostly. I'm guaranteed a persistent post history all under one account, and am less susceptible to instance admins burning out or defederating from instances over petty drama.