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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Had anyone in a position of power during the Cuban Missile Crisis acted this stupidly, we’d all be dead. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/the-stupid...

The Stupid Cuban Missile Crisi...
The Stupid Cuban Missile Crisis

Donald Trump is unfit for office. He might do genocide before Congress recognizes that.

Bug-eyed and Shameless

If you are thinking about running your blogpost through an AI editor, don't! It almost always makes it more boring.

Whatever you have to say is what you had to say anyway. Just say that, you don't need more. And the mistakes are perfectly fine.

I spell check once, proofread once, then publish. When people point out errors, it makes me feel good, because it means people are reading what I write, and I correct it then.

I'd rather have your charming acoustic-performance words, even if you make mistakes! I love mistakes in writing. Rustic and cozy.

Speaker announcement! I'm so hyped for all our speakers and our product conference on May 28 in Toronto! These are a lot of my favourite product people!

John Cutler ( @johncutlefish ), April Dunford, and Radhika Dutt are my absolute favourite product thinkers and I want everyone to hear more from them.

Tickets! https://www.tpma.ca/conference/toronto-product-conference

#Toronto #Product #TorontoProductCon

One of my most unpopular takes is that most folk who work in developer community type roles could learn a thing or two from salespeople
ARIA is inevitable when you work on web accessibility. Here's everything I wish someone told me when I first got started, presented at @webexpo in Prague on May 28th. #a11y https://webexpo.net/prague2026/sessions/eric-bailey-2026/

Adobe Has Run Out of Allies | PetaPixel
https://petapixel.com/2026/04/18/adobe-has-run-out-of-allies/

Disclosure: Former ally.

Adobe Has Run Out of Allies

Shifting priorities and a move to appeal to B2B has left Adobe alone. Now as enemies gather at its gates, it has run out of allies.

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Canada is a very normal place where people are very normal and do not go doing strange things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi-9wS1so

I have seen the future, and... its... name is #AngineDePoitrine

Angine de Poitrine - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

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Love this.
A peer reviewed blank page was published in 1974, without revision.

The unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of “writer's block” by Dennis Upper.

Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis.
https://doi.org/10.1901/jaba.1974.7-497a

Credit: Found this gem via ‘stephenknowstuff’ on another platform
#writersblock #academicchatter

Anyway, I'm over on Blacksky these days because as much as I personally like Activity Pub as a protocol, it's just way less racist and hateful over there.

You should come hang out and meet some cool people.

https://blacksky.community/profile/did:plc:77kv6gyr7b3ce6ceuuwpz444
Shintaro Melodrama (@are0h.blacksky.app)

Creative, Founder, Chaotic Good https://roiskinda.cool https://h-i.works https://polychrom.ing/@are0h

Blacksky
everyone demanding an elaborate taxonomy of what exactly constitutes "mansplaining" and what differentiates "mansplaining" from regular "explaining" should probably re-read (you did already read the original, right?) Rebecca Solnit's original essay, "Men Explain Things to Me"
Men Explain Things to Me

<p>Before there was <em>mansplaining</em>, there was Rebecca Solnit's 2008 critique of male arrogance. Reprinted here with a new introduction.</p>

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