Here's a thread of threads for those wanting to search for my advocacy tweets, pinned to my profile for convenience. Most disability rights, some trans stuff, some random disability history.
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This 1000% plus I'm only going to ever get better at writing Alt Text if I can read and learn from other people's Alt Text.
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I wish Twitter would visually indicate if an image includes alt text, with a button you can click to see it. Alt text benefits more than just screenreader users and would help people to know they're retweeting accessible content.
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Really nice descriptions of data here in the alt text. I rarely see people giving the actual info, they usually just say stats which is less than helpful. This is how to do it.
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I was looking at the Seattle rental registry data to get a sense of how many properties and housing units are run by individual landlords versus larger companies. 95% manage 1-3 properties, and 86% manage 1-5 housing units. Limitation: this is based on contact on file not owner.
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Does all of this solve the ultimate problem that people can't be bothered to write alt text or captions? Of course not. But the easier we make tools to access, the more likely it is that people will use them.
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This would require work, you'd obviously have to ensure that people didn't then edit alt text to add harmful or irrelevant content, but tools could be included to report that. More work, sure. But it would increase access for so many people.
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Both a visual and screenreader accessible symbol for captioned videos.
A way to show the captions in a window that's also screenreader accessible.
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Ideally we'd have the following:
Visible indicators of alt text and a way to view it on screen.
A popup reminder that you're about to tweet photos without alt text.
A way to go back and add alt text to previously published content.
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Should add that the Twitter accessibility team are good people and they work within certain constraints, so this isn't a criticism of them. But as a whole when we design things we need to push boundaries and consider how our understanding of access has changed over time.
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I know some may argue that alt text wasn't designed to be visible, the whole point is that it's for screenreader users. But just because something was built a certain way doesn't mean it's the best way, or that it shouldn't evolve with our understanding.
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I'd also love an indication for screenreader users that a video includes captions. At present I've no way of knowing so I can't make a choice about retweeting a video based on its accessibility to deaf people.
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I wish Twitter would visually indicate if an image includes alt text, with a button you can click to see it. Alt text benefits more than just screenreader users and would help people to know they're retweeting accessible content.
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Adding alt text to your photos on social media is really important for accessibility.
This thread by Connor () shares what it’s like to come across an image without alt text on Twitter.
(And all the workarounds it involves.)
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Here's what happens when you post a photo with no alt text on Twitter, because I think some of you don't understand what I have to do in response. First, it depends on what device I'm looking at it. 1/
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Grant me the confidence of sighted strangers who explain to me that the library for the Blind is closed:
spare me the bruised egos they must endure when i pull out my keys.
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We're all going to die at some point, but some people will die of terminal illnesses. Some people die earlier than they wanted to, and the fact they died doesn't mean they didn't fight hard enough. It doesn't mean they failed. I hate that people frame it as a battle.
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The idea that people “lose battles” with terminal illnesses is incorrect and damaging AF.
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I've got to agree. They're ok I guess, but people hype them up way too much.
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Since I'm feeling feisty because of the wind chill, here's a food take for you: Wings are the most overrated food dish in the universe.
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That didn’t take long. Lol
I expect these will sell quickly.
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How about that f*cking save, @Bmarch63?!
pghclothing.com
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USS members and students at striking institutions - please contact your VC using this tool to make your views clear
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authors being interviewed elsewhere: run-of-the-mill but interesting, maybe a few too many questions about “culture culture”
authors being interviewed in the UK: which toilet do you think trans women should use and precisely which lines of JK Rowling’s essay were your favourite?
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Stars making it annoyingly difficult not to like them at least a little bit
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Jake Oettinger on beating Marc-Andre Fleury: “Luckily, before the game, I got a stick from him, so I was pretty pumped about that. My stepmom, growing up, her first gift that she bought me was a Fleury Fathead. So I had that in my room until I was 15 or 16.”
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Someone buy this man a beer.
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Here it is with "ENHANCED" audio
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Video transcript: Hopefully I'm in frame, apologies for my inability to film anything. So I'm two weeks on T, as you can hear, my voice hasn't really changed, but my throat kind of hurts. Hopefully I'm not getting sick and this is actually the T working
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2 weeks on T! Can't caption from my phone, transcript in next tweet.
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T update! My voice hasn't changed but I'm only 2 weeks in so this is to be expected. My throat does feel a bit weird though, and I'm hoping that this is a sign that things might start happening. Keep your fingers crossed.
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When someone says they want to understand poor people, and then this is how they respond to those who receive benefits and raise concerns, why would any of us believe that they actually want to understand or give a shit about poor people at all?
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Replying to @CatchTheseWords and @DrAdrianHeald
And you are marvelous complaining, so you just suggest we stop and we let you do everything and don't bother, are you polishing your halo?
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I don't want to be that guy criticising a nice thing. But I'm asking people to consider whether these challenges are actually nice for the people they supposedly help.
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In my mind that's the most concerning part. Done with good intent, I've no doubt. But poverty isn't something you can just perform for a couple of weeks, it runs deep. And if you know you can go back to your comfortable life at any point, you have no idea what it's really like.
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Also, why do we need to perform poverty to help people? Why can't we help because it's the morally right thing to do, without having to put poverty on like some kind of costume, one which we know we can take off at any point.
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Food is a huge part of it. I research food insecurity and know how dreadful the situation is. But it's one part of it. It's how it all fits together as a whole that matters, and a two week challenge doesn't tell you anything.
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It's the instability, because the government can move the goalposts at any time and suddenly you don't have money. It's trying to account for rising energy costs when the money you receive stays the same.
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I think people do things like this with good intentions, but living in poverty is long-term. It's having to pay a bill and working out how that will impact finances over the next six months, because it isn't like you're going to make up the difference next month.
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Look, I am sure somebody will belittle it, but our group of friends decided to live on UC allowance and cook with a slow cooker, any difference between that and our regular food bill will be turned into food vouchers, it's a 2 weeks project, violations cost double
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The TLDR version is that they still don't believe strike action is in the best interest of students. What an embarrassment of a union.
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The University of Leeds is currently experiencing strike action.
We've updated our Strike Action webpage with a simple video explanation of what strikes are, why UCU are taking action, our response, and the support that is available to you 
luu.org.uk/campaigns/stri
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I don't feel like I know him. I don't feel like he knows me or was really engaged. Who thought this format of therapy would be helpful? 4/4
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In 50 minutes we got as much done as we would have in 5 minutes if we were face to face. He asked me about my anxiety, told me it does sound like anxiety, and asked me to keep a journal. That was it 3/
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The therapist would sometimes take 3 or 4 minutes to type back to me. And being on the internet was so distracting, I kept drifting off to my emails and random websites. 2/
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I absolutely hated my first therapy session but I feel like I have to stick at it. And it wasn't even the therapy itself. I'm doing it online, and it's text based, rather than spoken. It's like an instant message chat thing. 1/
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Difficult situation on campus. Traffic jam of automated food delivery robots, apparently all stuck behind a carelessly discarded scooter. I just observed a couple of students clearing a path out of pity for the robots. This is our future, I guess
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Can we discuss how the alt text on these photos is 🔥🔥🔥 This from an account that only started adding it recently, and it's so good.
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