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Totally blind Microsoft software engineer, accessibility advocate and open source contributor, Wikipedian, and language geek.

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Given the popularity of third-party clients in the #a11y community, this will probably result in the death (or at least significant erosion) of blind Twitter. If it all crashes and burns, I’m on Mastodon at bill@n6.io

Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead 🧵



This is a seriously huge release with lots of welcome fixes!

NVDA 2023.2 Beta 1 is now available for testing! For anyone who is interested in trying out what the next version of NVDA has to offer before it is officially released, we welcome you to download the beta and provide feedback. Full details & download at: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2023…



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People will say anything to avoid metric

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Australian Story is starting now! Tune in on ABC TV, iview, or Youtube now. YouTube links are: AD-enabled version: youtu.be/3i7gkN-1sAI Regular version: youtu.be/jwHbXh3WzSw


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Mick and Jamie bonded over coding, now their big idea is changing the lives of thousands #AustralianStory @NVAccess abc.net.au/news/2023-06-0…

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The cat is out of the bag! @AustralianStory is dedicating an episode to our founders, Mick & Jamie. NVDA & NV Access are featured & we’re excited to share it with you! It airs on Monday, the 5th of June at 8pm on ABCTV, ABC iview or YouTube #AustralianStory #NVDA #NVAccess #a11y


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One of my oldest comics is going around. A gentle attempt to poke fun at English common names.

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So I have a newsletter now! Very short essays on media & storytelling, plus updates on any new fiction & poetry I've had published. Monthly, unless I have nothing new to announce. If you sign up, you get a free weird science fiction short story. unrealityeffect.beehiiv.com/subscribe


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If you or anyone you know reads #SFF in Spanish: have you checked out Voces de lo insólito? They're a really cool translation project (also interviews and other things!) and I'd love it if they got some more attention. RT if that's your thing? patreon.com/vocesdeloinsol…


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BREAKING: NINE Republican state senators from Michigan supported a law that makes it a misdemeanor for an unmarried man and woman to live together. Two of the GOP lawmakers, who voted against the repeal argued that the law encourages marriage and strengthen families. Another…

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I've got a science fantasy short story out in @LightspeedMag! Only 1500 words, so you won't have time to get bored. It'll be available online for free on 4/27. Thank you so so so much @wnwagner and @JohnJosephAdams! Link in 🧵⬇️ #SFF #flashfiction

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Transferwise (great & memorable brand) -> Wise (what? why?) HBO Max (great & memorable brand) -> max (what? why?) Why do great & memorable brands keep sabotaging themselves by removing the part of their name that made them memorable?


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If you’re autistic and looking for a job, don’t be afraid to apply for roles you like but don’t meet all - or even most - of the requirements for. Job specs are not meant to be taken literally; NT people often apply for and secure jobs meeting only a fraction of the requirements.


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One of the best things you can do for autistic people is explaining why. Why you’d like us to do a thing (X way); why something isn’t possible; why you’re upset with us; etc. We may not intuit the “why”, and knowing it helps us to contextualise and act with purpose and direction.


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if it weren’t so horrifically harmful, the basic premise of ABA / conversion therapy would make me laugh your solution to someone’s discomfort is to…force them to pretend they are not uncomfortable? what?


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The 2023 WebAIM Million report is now available - webaim.org/projects/milli… Home pages had 50 detectable errors (down from 50.8). WCAG failures were found on 96.3% of pages (down from 96.8%). Home page elements increased 10% and ARIA attributes 29% (77 per page!) in the last year.


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This will be the end of third-party clients, which means the end of convenient access to Twitter for many of us. If you're somehow still not on Mastodon, you should really fix that.

Today we are launching our new Twitter API access tiers! We’re excited to share more details about our self-serve access. 🧵



There’s even been research into harbinger postal codes…

There is a group of consumers that is drawn to products that flop. In consumer research they are known as ‘harbingers of failure’. If they are fans of a new product, companies know it likely won’t be a success.



Including (optional, experimental) UIA notifications in Windows Terminal! @cazamor_msft @DHowett

NVDA 2023.1 is now available! New paragraph options, link destination & annotated web content keystrokes, new Braille tables, fixes for Kindle, Windows 11, Office, Chrome, Firefox, web, java and more! Read the full what's new & download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2023…

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“You’ll miss being a child; your childhood years are the best years of your life!” Autistic me: *is relieved childhood is over and does not miss all the years of being lonely, confused, anxious, drained, overwhelmed, bullied and labelled mean, rude, naughty, snobby and dramatic”


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“Describe your employment history”. NT: so, I started as an admin assistant and gradually progressed until I became a director. Autistic: a) I’ve been a nurse, yoga teacher, model, singer, retail worker, painter, actor and business owner; and/or b) I’ve been a [x] for 30 years.


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