Philip Kiff

@pkiff
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I help governments and nonprofits create accessible documents and websites. Current focus: PDF and PDF/UA documentation, training, and workflows.
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This month for Pride, University of Virginia Press is offering a 30% discount on my book Uncommon Sense: Jeremy Bentham, Queer Aesthetics, and the Politics of Taste (2022), about Bentham's extensive arguments for the liberation of nonconforming sexualities throughout his career (1770s-1830s). I'm told it is a fun, accessible, and enjoyable reading experience! https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5744/

Use the code 10PRIDE26 at checkout.

Uncommon Sense

<div><p>Infamous for authoring two concepts since favored by government powers seeking license for ruthlessness—the utilitarian notion of privileging

We're now at least a couple of years into the knowledge that code review has become prohibitively challenging and yet the overwhelming majority of attention paid to the problem has been on automating code review rather than making it easier for humans, not to mention the multitude of problems that follow shipping

I shared a childhood memory with an artist friend, and their response was that it sounded "midway between an old master's painting and a Ken Loach film."

Yes, that's it. That's my childhood in a nutshell.

Well, here we are finally - the sound of one door closing, and the end of a 17-year journey.

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/06/04/a-car-crash-in-slow-motion/

A Car Crash In Slow Motion

Since I’m among friends, I hope I can be open with you. I started Codemanship 17 years ago in my late 30s, as a response to being asked by a recruiter for the gazillionth time “Why are …

Codemanship's Blog

I've been too busy with work to actually write on social media, but I soon have availability for new clients again, starting August 2026 👋🏻

I work freelance with web & dataviz accessibility and offer:
- Reviews (high-level or full audit)
- Consulting, advice, documentation
- Training, talks, workshops
- Help with remediation
- Front-end development

Interested?
💌 [email protected]

#accessibility #datavizA11Y

⏳ Only two days left to grab the Practical Accessibility course at a discounted price and level up your #a11y skills with me ⬇️

https://practical-accessibility.today

The Practical Accessibility Course

A get-right-down-to-it online course for Web designers and developers who want to start creating more accessible Web user interfaces and digital products today

@Em0nM4stodon @meganL This is a good list of software projects with stances against AI, including a Linux distro section: https://noai.starlightnet.work/list.html
Starlight Network No-AI List

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue

https://www.404media.co/hackers-simply-asked-meta-ai-to-give-them-access-to-high-profile-instagram-accounts-it-worked/

Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked

The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.

404 Media

The strength of your conviction tells you nothing about whether you're right.

It tells you about your appetite.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/be-thou-not-pilled/

Be thou not pilled

A Scottish journalist named Charles Mackay published a book about the way crowds lose their minds. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841) catalogued tulip speculation, alchemy, the South Sea Bubble, witch hunts, and the slow-burn lunacy of people who grow so attached to an idea that they

Westenberg.

I have waited fifteen years to take this photo.

Every year of the #RideForHeart and then the #BikeForBrainHealth I would stop at the bridge over Eglinton, take a photo of the empty tracks, and sigh.

Not this year. Line 5 lives!