Andrew Hedges 🦔

@segdeha
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COO @ Assistiv Labs. Advocate for equity and inclusiveness in tech and on the web. Learning to live.

My profile photo is my face against a clear, blue sky in a baseball cap and sunglasses with my long, white beard backlit by the sun.

My header photo shows rows of smiling daisies from Plants vs Zombies.

personal homepagehttps://andrew.hedges.name
assistiv labshttps://assistivlabs.com
linktree/segdehahttps://linktr.ee/segdeha
Andrew Hedges 🦔Feb 11
PDX Accessibility & UX MeetupJan 27

Excited for our February meetup — join us on Tue Feb 17 to learn about making continuous accessibility the default at your organization! Presented by Andrew Hedges (@segdeha) and Devon Persing (https://dpersing.com):

https://pdxa11yux.org/events/2026/02/17/making-accessibility-the-default.html

#PDXa11yUX #a11y #UX #Meetup #Portland #PDX

Devon Persing

I’m an accessibility specialist and mentor based in Seattle, WA, USA.

Andrew Hedges 🦔Dec 3
Turns out #IngramSpark’s mobile website is trash for purchasing books. Trying to send people there to buy my dad’s latest book and the “Add to cart” button is mostly/completely cut off even on reasonably-sized phones (e.g., my iPhone 15 Pro). Page doesn’t even allow horizontal scrolling, so multiple people have just been shut out from buying. 😐
Andrew Hedges 🦔Sep 3, 2025
Heather MigliorisiNov 14, 2022
Every time I see someone new here that I followed on the bird app, in my head I hear their name being shouted liked they're Norm and this is Cheers.
Andrew Hedges 🦔Aug 7, 2025
Andrew Hedges 🦔Feb 11, 2025

Ready for #accessibility automation that’s not just 3 axe-cores in a trench coat?

https://assistivlabs.com/articles/asana-end-to-end-accessibility-testing

End-to-end testing leveled up the way Asana engineers think about accessibility

Before partnering with Assistiv Labs, Asana’s accessibility team generally grouped testing into two categories: automated and manual. Assistiv Labs’ end-to-end accessibility testing service has helped produce a testing workflow that redefines automated and manual. Because accessibility feedback loops are shorter, bugs are resolved faster.

Andrew Hedges 🦔Mar 27, 2025
Justin PotMar 27, 2025
Jeffery Goldberg, Editor of The Atlantic? In *my* group chat? It's more likely than you think... https://justinpot.com/how-to-tell-if-jeffery-goldberg-editor-of-the-atlantic-is-in-your-signal-group-chat/
How to Tell If Jeffery Goldberg, Editor of The Atlantic, Is In Your Signal Group Chat – Justin Pot

Andrew Hedges 🦔Mar 20, 2025
Cat HicksMar 20, 2025
Seeing even "humanities" people post so much about saving the INFORMATION of science and really not at all about the humans who are scientists does convince me that our culture is fundamentally utilitarian and transactionally dehumanizing; you are nothing but an object, you are nothing but your intellectual value to others
Andrew Hedges 🦔Feb 11, 2025

Ready for #accessibility automation that’s not just 3 axe-cores in a trench coat?

https://assistivlabs.com/articles/asana-end-to-end-accessibility-testing

End-to-end testing leveled up the way Asana engineers think about accessibility

Before partnering with Assistiv Labs, Asana’s accessibility team generally grouped testing into two categories: automated and manual. Assistiv Labs’ end-to-end accessibility testing service has helped produce a testing workflow that redefines automated and manual. Because accessibility feedback loops are shorter, bugs are resolved faster.

Andrew Hedges 🦔Feb 10, 2025
Noelle Feb 10, 2025

Meta staff torrented nearly 82TB of pirated books for AI training — court records reveal copyright violations

"...court records reveal that the social media company used pirated torrents to download 81.7TB of data from shadow libraries including Anna’s Archive, Z-Library, and LibGen. It then used this information to train its AI models."

#tech #news #Meta #AI #books #bookstodon #writers #libraries #media

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/meta-staff-torrented-nearly-82tb-of-pirated-books-for-ai-training-court-records-reveal-copyright-violations

Meta staff torrented nearly 82TB of pirated books for AI training — court records reveal copyright violations

Did they think they could get away with it?

Tom's Hardware
Andrew Hedges 🦔Feb 4, 2025
El°n must hate ISO 27001.
Andrew Hedges 🦔Jan 31, 2025
Frontend DogmaJan 31, 2025

Advancing Accessibility: Strategies for Continuous Improvement, by @segdeha (@equalentry.com):

https://equalentry.com/advancing-accessibility-strategies-for-continuous-improvement/

Advancing Accessibility: Strategies for Continuous Improvement - Equal Entry

This article is based on Andrew Hedges’ talk at A11yNYC. Andrew Hedges has been building the web professionally since 1998. This is the year that section 508 passed and one year before the publishing of version 1.0 of the World Wide Web consortium’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). Fast-forward kind of two and a half […]

Equal Entry