Eric Bailey
@ericwbailey.website
#accessibility / #a11y advocate, post enjoyer.
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Eric Bailey
@ericwbailey.website
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I see some galaxy genius over at Adobe chose the same day they're announcing price hikes to also opt everyone into new email marketing lists.
November 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I see some galaxy genius over at Adobe chose the same day they're announcing price hikes to also opt everyone into new email marketing lists.
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a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
Twelve billion dollars would feed a lot of hungry people, shelter a lot of unhoused, and erase a lot of medical debt. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
OpenAI Made a $12 Billion Loss Last Quarter, Microsoft Results Indicate
Inside Microsoft’s earnings was a charge that caught analysts by surprise: a $4.1 billion hit on its investment in OpenAI.
The figure was up 490% from a year earlier. It implies a more than $12 billio...
www.wsj.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Twelve billion dollars would feed a lot of hungry people, shelter a lot of unhoused, and erase a lot of medical debt. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
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"Techno-solutionism and cost-cutting must not be allowed to damage the human rights of sign language users." bda.org.uk/bsl-is-not-f...
BSL is not for sale: a Deaf-led approach to AI procurement
Today, the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at the University of Cambridge has published a new report, BSL is not for Sale: a Deaf-led approach to AI procurement.
bda.org.uk
November 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
"Techno-solutionism and cost-cutting must not be allowed to damage the human rights of sign language users." bda.org.uk/bsl-is-not-f...
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
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Seeing this bubble grow from the front row and yelling into the void as we head towards 2008 part deux is making me lose my mind.
BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.
November 6, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Seeing this bubble grow from the front row and yelling into the void as we head towards 2008 part deux is making me lose my mind.
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I don't remember who asserted that the way systems thinkers grab power is by expanding scope, but ime, expanding scope often happens in the absence of systems thinking.
Every app trends towards becoming the Totalizr because the easiest "strategy" for leaders to come up with is "we'll simply do everything."
Coming up with specifics is for peasants. Saying "no" requires a strong opinion. When the strategy is 'Everything App" managers can get away with doing nothing.
Coming up with specifics is for peasants. Saying "no" requires a strong opinion. When the strategy is 'Everything App" managers can get away with doing nothing.
November 4, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I don't remember who asserted that the way systems thinkers grab power is by expanding scope, but ime, expanding scope often happens in the absence of systems thinking.
I partnered with Fable to evaluate their pay-per-project offering. Its an amazing way to get insights into how disabled people actually use your service, and what they think about it. ericwbailey.website/published/ev...
Evaluating Fable’s pay-per-project offering
Get valuable insight about how your digital experience works for disabled people..
ericwbailey.website
November 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I partnered with Fable to evaluate their pay-per-project offering. Its an amazing way to get insights into how disabled people actually use your service, and what they think about it. ericwbailey.website/published/ev...
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You can tell you're a grizzled old veteran of the internet when you always copy everything you've typed just before hitting the "submit" button, just in case something doesn't work and it disappears.
November 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
You can tell you're a grizzled old veteran of the internet when you always copy everything you've typed just before hitting the "submit" button, just in case something doesn't work and it disappears.
Major tech news sites reporting on the iOS update in terms of it allowing you to further remove the liquid glass effect tells you everything you need to know about how successful liquid glass is.
November 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Major tech news sites reporting on the iOS update in terms of it allowing you to further remove the liquid glass effect tells you everything you need to know about how successful liquid glass is.
You must accept the Xcode license before proceeding. Spiritually, I mean.
November 3, 2025 at 9:47 PM
You must accept the Xcode license before proceeding. Spiritually, I mean.
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HTML Screen reader support - updated 03 November
#HTML #Screenreader #ARIA #WebStandards
tetralogical.github.io/screen-reade...
#HTML #Screenreader #ARIA #WebStandards
tetralogical.github.io/screen-reade...
HTML/SR Support lookup
tetralogical.github.io
November 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
HTML Screen reader support - updated 03 November
#HTML #Screenreader #ARIA #WebStandards
tetralogical.github.io/screen-reade...
#HTML #Screenreader #ARIA #WebStandards
tetralogical.github.io/screen-reade...
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arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog
blog.arxiv.org
November 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
A Halloween UX horror story for y'all: Many years ago, I worked as a consultant specializing in product creation. One of our clients was a large financial firm, likely one you're familiar with.
October 31, 2025 at 6:59 PM
A Halloween UX horror story for y'all: Many years ago, I worked as a consultant specializing in product creation. One of our clients was a large financial firm, likely one you're familiar with.
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goddammit i have to work late in the lab tonight
October 31, 2025 at 1:33 PM
goddammit i have to work late in the lab tonight
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The retrenchment is here: As more news outlets and media companies roll back commitments to diversity efforts, including reporting on stories about traditionally marginalized groups, the avenues for reporters who specialize in such coverage grow increasingly limited. www.thewrap.com/nbc-news-div...
Media Went All-In on Diversity. Now It's in Full Retreat
Experts say the rollback of newsroom investment in DEI suggests they were never fully committed in the first place
www.thewrap.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:32 PM
The retrenchment is here: As more news outlets and media companies roll back commitments to diversity efforts, including reporting on stories about traditionally marginalized groups, the avenues for reporters who specialize in such coverage grow increasingly limited. www.thewrap.com/nbc-news-div...
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Ending spooky season with one of the spookiest images I've created.
October 30, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Ending spooky season with one of the spookiest images I've created.
corpus is such a fun word
October 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
corpus is such a fun word
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Hard to imagine anything more on brand than Elon Musk creating a racist Wikipedia clone.
Grokipedia is racist, transphobic, and loves Elon Musk
xAI’s version of Wikipedia, Grokipedia, frames the world’s history from Elon Musk’s perspective.
www.theverge.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Hard to imagine anything more on brand than Elon Musk creating a racist Wikipedia clone.
"The fastest path to improved accessibility is to stop defending patterns that already irritate non-disabled users. Those patterns are already creating friction." buttondown.com/access-abili...
Sometimes the Best Accessibility Fix is a Usability Fix
AI cartoon of woman with long dark hair struggling to open a bottle, a common form of usability failure. Teams often arbitrarily divide work into two piles:...
buttondown.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:28 PM
"The fastest path to improved accessibility is to stop defending patterns that already irritate non-disabled users. Those patterns are already creating friction." buttondown.com/access-abili...
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It’s late 2025 and Safari still breaks accessibility via display properties:
bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi...
Amended my 2022 post as a result:
adrianroselli.com/2022/07/its-...
#Safari #CSS #accessibility #a11y
bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi...
Amended my 2022 post as a result:
adrianroselli.com/2022/07/its-...
#Safari #CSS #accessibility #a11y
adrianroselli.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:21 PM
It’s late 2025 and Safari still breaks accessibility via display properties:
bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi...
Amended my 2022 post as a result:
adrianroselli.com/2022/07/its-...
#Safari #CSS #accessibility #a11y
bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi...
Amended my 2022 post as a result:
adrianroselli.com/2022/07/its-...
#Safari #CSS #accessibility #a11y
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I was invited onto the rad podcast, Design Downtime, to talk about my passions outside of work to fight back against grind culture and slow work burn out. I obviously picked my special interest Minecraft. Huge thanks to @guysegal.com for having me on and for hosting such an important podcast!
Explore the blocky world of Minecraft with @shellelittle.bsky.social!
Finally an episode my kids will listen to.
Finally an episode my kids will listen to.
Shell Little Loves Minecraft | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
Watch out for creepers, as Shell Little takes us on a journey to the blocky world of Minecraft. They progressed from vanilla gameplay to modded Minecraft, drawn to the game's complete transparency—whe...
rss.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I was invited onto the rad podcast, Design Downtime, to talk about my passions outside of work to fight back against grind culture and slow work burn out. I obviously picked my special interest Minecraft. Huge thanks to @guysegal.com for having me on and for hosting such an important podcast!
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This is exactly why its horrific that individuals in tech and companies get millions to build disability dongles like "AI-aided braille gloves," or wheelchairs that can climb stairs--they do not care about users and their needs. And what happens when companies just get bought up/fold/lose interest?
Neato’s cloud is shutting down, leaving its robovacs stuck in manual mode
Neato’s cloud is shutting down, leaving its robovacs stuck in manual mode
The end of Neato is nigh.
buff.ly
October 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
This is exactly why its horrific that individuals in tech and companies get millions to build disability dongles like "AI-aided braille gloves," or wheelchairs that can climb stairs--they do not care about users and their needs. And what happens when companies just get bought up/fold/lose interest?
"Visually appealing interfaces may unintentionally impact user experience and exclude users if motion, transparency, and blur effects are used without giving accessibility top priority." #a11y axesslab.com/glassmorphis...
Glassmorphism Meets Accessibility: Can Glass Be Inclusive? | Axess Lab
Tech giants such as Microsoft and Apple are integrating glassmorphism into their design languages, aiming for a refined, unique, modern and engaging user interface (UI).…
axesslab.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM
"Visually appealing interfaces may unintentionally impact user experience and exclude users if motion, transparency, and blur effects are used without giving accessibility top priority." #a11y axesslab.com/glassmorphis...