Katherine

@kcarrandale@tenforward.social
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I'm passionate about accessibility and disability justice. This was meant to be my professional account, but I've stopped working due to disability. Now I just follow accessibility and web dev folks for fun!

Icon description: a pixelart bust of a white woman with long blond hair, n95 mask, and purple glasses. Behind her is the Disability Pride flag, 5 parallel stripes running diagonally against a black background. The stripes are green, blue, white, yellow, and red.

Pronounsshe/her/hers
Icon CreditsArt by Poltergeister, Avatar Creator by jazzybee, Disability Pride Flag background and mask by me
2. Contrast Grid: feed your colors to the plugin, and it will create a grid of colors that you can combine, or not, depending on their accessibility contrast ratio when used together.
https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/993414361395505148/contrast-grid

Those who oppose Covid mitigations say it’s because we won’t stop until we reinstate lockdowns

Many disabled people have been locked down for 5 years. All we want is safe access to public spaces

Just give us clean air, paid sick time & masks in high risk public spaces.

Your regular reminder than Covid vaccines do not actually prevent you from getting Covid, spreading Covid, or developing long Covid.

They myuake it less likely, and reduce the severity of your symptoms, but they are just one tool in the tool kit.

Please wear a fucking mask.

I don't care if the death penalty is reserved for only the most heinous of crimes. One innocent person being killed by the state is too high of a price.

That's also not to mention that the death penalty is disproportionately used against people of color. The death penalty doesn't just have a racist past. It has a racist present.

The death penalty is lynching made legal. The victims and lack of mercy and humanity remain the same.

Here's a way to turn anti-AI rage into action:

Normalize crediting.

I can't tell you how many times an invite, email, blog post, random bit of social media content goes out with some kind of unattributed lovely art.

CREDIT ARTISTS. ON EVERYTHING. It's easy. And if we normalized crediting enough, the generated images would stand out on their own for absence of credit.

#AI #art #GenAI #artists

Web developers. Please pleas pleas, stop fretting on how screen readers pronounce things. Way too much time is wasted on such non-issues. Blind people do have the cognitive capacity to figure out how things should sound. Besides, all screen readers have user dictionaries. WE can cope. Just concentrate on accessibility and leave the pronunciation to the experts; the screen reader users themselves. <end of rant>

Making a point and raising awareness.

#parking #accessibility #wheelchair #disability

"The Covid pandemic didn’t end; it was normalized as part of the capitalist drive to stabilize and perpetuate existing power structures. To "normalize" in this context means to embed the pandemic's disruptions into the routine operations of capitalist society, transforming what was once an acute crisis into a standardized, expected condition of daily life."

~ Beatrice Adler-Bolton, death panel podcast.

https://blindarchive.substack.com/p/from-class-war-to-carceral-violence

#OngoingPandemic #Capitalism #DisabilityJustice #COVID19

From Class War to Carceral Violence: How Covid Still Shapes our Struggles

WATCH: The Political Economy of Covid - Death Panel Podcast Session at the 2024 Socialism Conference

Blind Archive

Periodic reminder that "wrapping the <label> around the <input> is fine, and is sufficient for conformance on its own, however adding explicit association with` for` and `id` is still necessary in practice."

Details: https://www.tpgi.com/should-form-labels-be-wrapped-or-separate/


"Both Dragon Naturally Speaking for Windows, and Voice Control for macOS and iOS, don’t recognize implicit association, so the Click email address command wouldn’t work." @siblingpastry

#a11y #HTML

Should form labels be wrapped or separate? - TPGi

Is it strictly necessary for form fields and labels to have for/id association, or is it enough to wrap the label around the input?

TPGi

It's a weird disconnect to open LinkedIn and see posts from people going to the DNC without masks. In contrast, the only place I've been these last few months aside from medical appointments is one trip to a local park, and I'm still recovering from it nearly a week later. And I'm terrified of having to go to the dentist next week for an emergency appointment (without a mask, before the new vaccine, during a surge).

I always felt a bit out of place when working part-time in politics, but COVID really laid bare how even progressive politics isn't a place for my disabilities.