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Natalya D @natalyad.bsky.social · 2d

Was feeling OKish for a bit although couldn't read more than 4 lines of text. Now I'm cold, shaky and dizzy. I'm going to call autonomic nonsense and eat some more oaty sugary biscuits.

Main windows set to dark mode which I hate but I can't look at anything else right now, so...

Natalya D @natalyad.bsky.social · 2d

I didn't notice early migraine signs (difficulty typing/spelling) and was mid meeting full of MY "annoying access report" agenda items when my vision suddenly exploded into visual-tinnitus central. Yellow bars, halation and sparkles that look like these emoji ✨ ✨ ✨ everywhere...

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Natalya D @natalyad.bsky.social · 2d

Ah yes the unpaid accessibility tester and in my case architect. I'm a student disability adviser NOT a software engineer, coder, architect, etc etc.

I'm lucky my current bosses are aware of the tendency to dump unpaid access work on crips and has systems to direct stuff IF the right ppl use em...

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Natalya D @natalyad.bsky.social · 2d

Breach of the above regs is automatically a breach of the Equality Act 2010.

I work for a university and I know how much really doesn't comply either through technical design OR lack of user training/guidance.

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Natalya D @natalyad.bsky.social · 2d

If that is a web service used by a UK university I will happily share some UK law that requires them to nobble that shit good and hard. I'd consider the visual jumping to be a breach of the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) Accessibility Regulations (No.2) 2018...

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Natalya D @natalyad.bsky.social · 2d

I am SO glad someone else already got in there with BS 1363 three-pin (rectangular) plugs and sockets being the safest in the world!

Alec of @techconnectify.bsky.social is thoroughly used to Brits and Europeans commenting in horror as Leftpondian Electrocity!

Natalya D @natalyad.bsky.social · 2d

This "trans women vagina = wound" is not-all trans women, but for those it affects, woundy words are ableist AF

As a disabled cis woman with BAHA implants which have woundy issues, I find this TERF nastiness about ANYONE's PRIVATE bodily-maintenance needs very unnerving and intrusive.

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Natalya D @natalyad.bsky.social · 2d

Trans (and other) writers have totally critiqued vaginaplasty surgery for trans-women for years for the often sexist assumption/hegemony of "suitable depth for penile penetration".

They're WELL ahead of this pile of creeps without being disgustingly dehumanising and outright anatomically wrong!

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Natalya D @natalyad.bsky.social · 2d

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Natalya D @natalyad.bsky.social · 2d

I find the app hangs a bit on Android but not as bad as what you describe. I often have to stop it in the OS and then restart.

Hope a reinstall gives it a kick up the code it needs.

Natalya D @natalyad.bsky.social · 2d

Fortunately we were doing OtherStuffTM for attender who had to leave early and doing all my "annoying stuff" at the end. So I had a few mins to grab Bluspex & my CGRP blocker meds and mostly get my words out for my talkie bits.

It's a tightly well run committee, but human(e) about *things*.

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Natalya D @natalyad.bsky.social · 2d

I didn't notice early migraine signs (difficulty typing/spelling) and was mid meeting full of MY "annoying access report" agenda items when my vision suddenly exploded into visual-tinnitus central. Yellow bars, halation and sparkles that look like these emoji ✨ ✨ ✨ everywhere...

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Natalya D @natalyad.bsky.social · 2d

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Natalya D @natalyad.bsky.social · 2d

Even with 2 other bathrooms I wouldn't want a transparent one in the bedroom.

I am reminded of my friends' shabby family 4 bedroom house which had a random shower cubicle + screened sides in her bedroom. Looked like a bodge job and they never used it for obvious reasons.

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Natalya D @natalyad.bsky.social · 2d

Rule 34 means "now you mention it, someone will be into it" .

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Natalya D @natalyad.bsky.social · 2d

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Natalya D @natalyad.bsky.social · 2d

After horrendous school bullying, daily verbal/physical abuse all the time, college was a lifesaver. I think I had one tiny incident. I asked to move-class to avoid bully. Tutor did move me to be with my mate. But also sat bully down and made it clear she was being watched - this was her 1 warning.

Natalya D @natalyad.bsky.social · 2d

I hope she's been able to get college support and they are stomping on that shit good and hard.

At my 6th form, they really did have ZERO tolerance to any kind of bigotry or slightest-bullying and perps would be quietly but ever so firmly warned once. Repeats would result in being kicked out.

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Natalya D @natalyad.bsky.social · 2d

Ugh, universities and employers and HMRC, all a nightmare.

Fingers crossed all is OK and HMRC will recognise you did your best. So hard to speak to a human to say "err, complicated" as they make that almost impossible.

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 3d

When using Microsoft Word or Google Docs, don't just make text bigger and bolder to make it a heading. That will work for sighted users, but screen reader users will miss that and just hear it as normal paragraph text. Use actual heading styles, like level 1 through 6.

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Natalya D @natalyad.bsky.social · 2d

They look great. I hope they're comfortable to wear!

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Natalya D @natalyad.bsky.social · 2d

Students are so stressed by assessments and limited timescales. When their maintenance loan doesn't cover basic living costs and they have caring, disability, money, family, other issues going on, there is almost no flexibility. We bodge round them - a flexible-by-design system would be less cruel.

Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 3d

Last week on Wonkhe: What looks like efficiency in UK higher education often masks systemic injustice. Jim Dickinson explores how policies around reassessment quietly entrench inequality

For students, the costs of failure are far too high

What looks like efficiency in UK higher education often masks systemic injustice. Jim Dickinson explores how policies around reassessment quietly entrench inequality

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Natalya D @natalyad.bsky.social · 2d

And arguably reflect existing disadvantage like racism, sexism, disablism and classism in employment markets.

So often I look at the private school types, who get jobs cos Daddy knew somene and throughout school career were taught "how to get on" which many others just don't get.

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 3d

The idea of linking fees to TEF is clearly an attempt to bankrupt a set of universities. The reputational damage of association of cheaper tuition with lower quality* will ring a death knell.

* of course, TEF does not measure teaching quality

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Rachel Charlton-Dailey @rachelcdailey.bsky.social · 3d

Politicians on mental health awareness days: mental health matters! It’s ok not to be ok!

Politicians every other day: all these lazy scroungers are going to the Drs, saying they’re depressed and being handed thousands in benefits THIS MUST STOP

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Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 3d

This was debunked decades ago

Thomas Barker @wifeofmatlockbath.bsky.social · 3d

I wish an actual historian of witchcraft and indeed cunning folk had been properly consulted because the narrative on witchcraft provided by the exhibition is essentially "the alleged witches were mostly folk healers"

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