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Andrew Ashby

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Interested in local accessibility, disability, and inclusion issues.

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
What's fascinating to me about this is the tension between those who understand the obvious reason Trump wants to kill the Epstein files and those who are ignoring it, because they can't admit they support a man who seems to have such ugly secrets. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/m...
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Inside the White House Freakout Over the Epstein Files
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
We Do Remember ! Remember When Pam Bondage Said She Had The Epstein List On Her Desk ? And How The Entire RepubliKKKLan Party Covered It Up.......?
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Reuters @reuters.com · 24/03/2026
BREAKING: A New Mexico jury found Meta violated state law in a lawsuit brought by the state attorney general, who accused the company of misleading users about the safety of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp and of enabling child sexual exploitation on those platforms reut.rs/3Pr7oHe
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Meta ordered to pay $375 million in New Mexico trial over child exploitation, user safety claims
A New Mexico jury on Tuesday found Meta Platforms violated state law in a lawsuit brought by the state attorney general, who accused the company of misleading users about the safety of Facebook, ​Inst...
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
When creating PDFs, avoid using "Print to PDF." A screen reader user may still be able to access the text of PDFs created this way, but heading structure, alternative text, and any other tag structure will be lost. Using "Save As" or "Export" can preserve these tags.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The Justice Department released *some* of the missing files, namely FBI interview notes from the woman alleging Epstein trafficked her as a young teen to Trump, Trump sexually assaulted her, and then she later endured a series of threats not to talk. Very dark reading www.npr.org/2026/03/05/n...
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Justice Department publishes some missing Epstein files related to Trump
The Justice Department has published additional Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor after an NPR investigation found dozens of pages were withheld.
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Bon Hanson @bonhanson.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
That's Prime Minister Carney to you, not Governor. Your latest demented threat further illustrates to the world why the USA is no longer a reliable trade partner. www.cbc.ca/news/world/l...
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Trump threatens Canada with 100% tariffs if country 'makes a deal with China' | CBC
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
After Trump threatens 100% tariffs, Carney posts ad saying #Canada's focused 'on what we can control' Prime minister, cabinet say Ottawa will stay focused on investing locally and diversifying internationally #BoycottUSA #BuyCanadian #BuyLocal 💪🏻🍁🇨🇦 #ElbowsUP
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Accessibility in the News @a11ynews.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Medicaid Changes Could Limit Access For People With Disabilities, Advocates Warn www.disabilityscoop.com/2026/01/05/m... #a11y
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Medicaid Changes Could Limit Access For People With Disabilities, Advocates Warn
As federal officials begin to outline more stringent Medicaid eligibility rules, worries are running high about what the changes will mean for people with disabilities.
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Accessibility in the News @a11ynews.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Dating app offers safe space for people with chronic illnesses, disabilities www.telluridenews.com/news/article... #a11y
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Dating app offers safe space for people with chronic illnesses, disabilities
A unique dating app is helping thousands of people with disabilities and chronic illnesses find connection.
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Screen readers are an assistive technology that interprets the information on a screen and translates it to either synthesized speech or Braille output. This helps blind people, people with low vision, and people with cognitive or learning disabilities. www.afb.org/blindness-an...
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Screen Readers
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Many struggle with writing alt text for charts and other other data visualizations. Amy Cesal's "Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization" hammers home the importance of explaining the chart type, the type of data, and the reason for the chart. medium.com/nightingale/...
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Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization
How do you write text that conveys the whole meaning of a visualization? You probably can’t. But that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t try
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The Kingstonist @kingstonist.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
#ICYMI "The temperatures and humidex will meet or be extremely close to heat warning criteria," Environment Canada said. #YGK #HeatWarning #Weather The warning continues this week. More: www.kingstonist.com/news/environ...
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Environment Canada issues widespread multi-day heat warning, including Kingston region – Kingston News
(Kingston, Ontario) A heat warning is in effect for southern Ontario over the weekend and well into next week.
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Automated captions and transcripts can save time so that you don't have to manually transcribe on your own. But automated captions and transcripts aren't 100% accurate, so they need manual editing before you publish them. www.w3.org/WAI/media/av...
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Captions/Subtitles
Helps you understand and create captions (also called “subtitles”) for audio and video media accessibility.
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Bluesky has a setting that will remind you to add alt text before posting any images. Go to "Settings," then "Accessibility." Select the checkbox for "Require alt text before posting."
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The Kingstonist @kingstonist.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
#ICYMI National AccessAbility Week (NAW) runs from May 25 to 31, and the City of Kingston has detailed some of its plans and initiatives that are working toward the goal of increased accessibility. #YGK #Inclusion #PublicEngagement Learn more: www.kingstonist.com/news/city-of...
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City of Kingston highlights ongoing initiatives to kick off National AccessAbility Week – Kingston News
(Kingston, Ontario) National AccessAbility Week (NAW) runs from May 25 to 31, and the City of Kingston has detailed a number of plans and initiatives that are working toward the goal of increased acce...
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
When creating PDFs, avoid using "Print to PDF." A screen reader user may still be able to access the text of PDFs created this way, but heading structure, alternative text, and any other tag structure will be lost. Using "Save As" or "Export" can preserve these tags.
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Hyperlink text should make sense when read out of context. Screen reader users can navigate from link to link, and can listen to links in a list. When navigating this way, only the link is read. So "click here" or "read more" won't make sense.
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
You don't necessarily need to say "image of" in your alt text for users to know it's an image. Screen readers will announce that it's an image. But it can help readers to specify if it's a hand-drawn image, Polaroid, infographic, screenshot, chart, map, diagram, or so on.
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Structure content to guide users and help them quickly find what they need. Organize content logically, and break content into short sections that reflect natural stopping points. Write headings that help readers predict what is coming. www.w3.org/WAI/tutorial...
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Page Structure Tutorial
Accessibility resources free online from the international standards organization: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
The EU Web Accessibility Directive is a law that applies in all European Union countries, as well as in countries of the European Economic Area. The directive lays out accessibility requirements for public sector websites and apps. digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/...
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Web Accessibility
What is web accessibility? Web accessibility allows everyone, including people with disabilities, to perceive, understand, navigate and interact with the Internet.
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CFRC 101.9 FM @cfrcradio.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Thrilled to say our brave little radio station is only $745 away from its fundraising goal! We're doing daily raffles thru Jan 17th & immortalizing the donor who gets us up to or over the $25,000 mark. Maybe that could be you, immortalized with a neat little plaque....donate today via cfrc.ca!
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Some people have disabilities that are directly based on the way they understand and interpret numbers. In this post, Ricky Onsman explains some of these disabilities, who is affects and how, and what web creators can do about it. www.tpgi.com/making-numbe...
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Making Numbers in Web Content Accessible - TPGi
Numbers are a key part of web content. It makes sense, then, that when we use numbers, they must be accessible.
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The Kingstonist @kingstonist.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
The church explained the funding grant through the City of Kingston and United Way's Community Investment Fund will be used for renovations to the aging church building, specifically those that address accessibility. #YGK #KFLA #Community Details: www.kingstonist.com/news/rustle-...
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Rustle Church celebrates accessibility project grant – Kingston News
(Kingston, Ontario) On December 22, 2024, the congregation at Rustle Church had more than one reason to gather together on a Sunday – and extra cause to rejoice.
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Andrew Ashby @andrewashby.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Submit your feedback on the new Canadian Federal draft "Accessible-ready housing standard" by Jan 31, 2025: accessible.canada.ca/creating-acc...
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CAN/ASC-2.8 - Accessible-Ready Housing - Accessibility Standards Canada
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Andrew Ashby @andrewashby.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Condo Board reverses policy on people visiting with service animals: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Disabled woman, and her service dog, win fight with Toronto-area condo | CBC News
The board of a Toronto-area condo is reversing course on an order that forced a disabled woman with a service dog to register with the property manager every time she wanted to visit the building, whe...
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Accessibility in the News @a11ynews.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
She's the 1st Radio City Rockette with a visible disability. Sydney Mesher on performing with a limb difference buff.ly/3DoWOdE #a11y
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She's the 1st Radio City Rockette with a visible disability. Sydney Mesher on performing with a limb difference — and how she stays fit during the holiday season.
Mesher talks about joining the famous kickline, and shares what it takes to perform in 100 holiday shows each season.
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The Kingstonist @kingstonist.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Mayor Bryan Paterson & Kingston City Council invite everyone to join them in Springer Market Square for a New Year's #celebration on Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025. Besides skating, the event will feature games, snacks, campfires & more. #YGK Details: www.kingstonist.com/news/city-co...
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City Council, Mayor invite public to New Year's celebration in Market Square – Kingston News
(Kingston, Ontario) Mayor Bryan Paterson and Kingston City Council invite everyone to join them in Springer Market Square for a New Year's celebration on Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025.
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Overlays are widgets or technologies that promise to improve a site's accessibility with third-party source code. More than 900 accessibility advocates and web developers have signed an open letter to explain the limitations and dangers of these products. overlayfactsheet.com
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https://overlayfactsheet.com/en/
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Hyperlink text should make sense when read out of context. Screen reader users can navigate from link to link, and can listen to links in a list. When navigating this way, only the link is read. So "click here" or "read more" won't make sense.
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Accessibility in the News @a11ynews.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
My struggle to plan an #accessible Christmas party buff.ly/3VG5vXb #a11y
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Disability: My struggle to plan an accessible Christmas party
Why enjoying a Christmas party can be so difficult for people like me, says Cerys Davage.
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Andrew Ashby @andrewashby.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
1/2 I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Manager, Corporate Accessibility and AODA Compliance at Fleming College as part of an amazing team in their HR department.
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Avoid character complexity in fonts. Simpler shapes and patterns of typographical text are more quickly and accurately analyzed by the human mind. Be careful with complex fonts, especially for long sections of text.
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
For people who want to see a screen reader in action, it can be helpful to start with this demo from Hadi Rangin of the University of Washington's IT Accessibility Team. Among the things Rangin discusses are ARIA landmarks, headings, and text content. youtu.be/7Rs3YpsnfoI
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Using a Screen Reader
YouTube video by TheDOITCenter
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Alive And Able @aliveandable.com · 12/12/2024
Accessibility worsens for blind and low-vision readers of academic PDFs alive.ws/y6w9y #Disabled #Disabilities #Accessibility #SpecialAbliities #AliveAndAble
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Accessibility worsens for blind and low-vision readers of academic PDFs
Preprints and other rapid-publishing trends have fuelled a decline in scientific publications meeting accessibility standards, study finds.
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Alt text is not the same as a photo caption. Captions are typically written to support a photo, and usually depend on users being able to see the photo. But alt text is meant to be the stand-in for the photo. The alt text is what a screen reader user gets in place of the photo.
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The Kingstonist @kingstonist.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
'Ctrl + Salt + Delete' joins the City of Kingston snowplow fleet after over 340 names were submitted to the 2024 "Name Our Plow" campaign. #Snowplow #YGK More about the campaign here: www.kingstonist.com/news/ctrl-sa...
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'Ctrl + Salt + Delete' joins City of Kingston snowplow fleet – Kingston News
(Kingston, Ontario) 'Ctrl + Salt + Delete' joins the City of Kingston snowplow fleet after over 340 names submitted to the 2024 "Name Our Plow" campaign.
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Everyone who works on a website has a role to ensure the site and its content are accessible. This resource from Vox Media breaks down some accessibility tasks by job role, including content creators, designers, developers, project managers, and testers. accessibility.voxmedia.com
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Vox Product Accessibility Guidelines
As journalists, advertisers, producers, and creators, content is at our core at Vox Media. We want to ensure that everyone—regardless of ability, situation, or context—can access it.
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
How a screen reader reads a special or unique character will depend on the character as well as the screen reader. There's been a lot of improvement over the last decade, but there are some characters aren't correctly read by certain screen readers. elevenways.be/en/articles/...
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How screen readers read special characters: an update | Eleven Ways
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Abeeha Tariq @abeehatariqart.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I remember when you could just buy a computer program like Microsoft Word or Photoshop and just have it on your computer forever without having to pay monthly or yearly. What a time that was
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
People who want to make the web accessible need to understand the many different ways that people with disabilities use the web. This W3C resource offers a good introduction to how disabled people navigate the web, and barriers they commonly encounter. www.w3.org/WAI/people-u...
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How People with Disabilities Use the Web
Introduces how people with disabilities, including people with age-related impairments, use the Web.
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
When working with vendors, don't forget to ask about accessibility. How the vendor answers questions about product design, testing, training, and support will help you determine whether the product will meet the needs of your site's users.
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 03/12/2024
NEW: Canada’s immigration detention system discriminates against people with disabilities, including through widespread violations of their right to make crucial decisions about their own lives. #IDPD2024 www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...
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Carrie Marshall - MySeveralWorlds.com @myseveralworlds.com · 03/12/2024
“Accessibility is being able to get in the building. Diversity is getting invited to the table. Inclusion is having a voice at the table. Belonging is having your voice heard at the table." ~Unknown Dec 3 is International Day of Persons with Disabilities. #IDPD #IDPD2024 #Disability
Banner image features Carrie in her power wheelchair next to graphics of a person walking with a white cane, a person who is hearing impaired, and a person who has lost a limb.
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April Sparkles 💛🍁 @aprilsparkles.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Today is International Day of Persons with Disabilities “27% of Canadians aged 15 years or older, or 8 million people, have one or more disabilities, and that 72% of people with disabilities experience barriers to accessibility in their day to day lives.” 💛 #Disability
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International Day of Persons with Disabilities | United Nations
The International Day of Disabled Persons aims to promote the rights and well-being of persons with disabilities in all spheres of society and development.
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SpookyCobraChicken @andgracetoo.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Good Morning Bluesky! Today is International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Fitting as we have our first consultation with TinyTyrant's neurosurgeon. Good vibes appreciated.
International Day of Persons with Disabilities, December 3rd.
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King Ludd @kingludd.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Today is International Day of Persons with Disabilities. This is the day were we ask you to not look away. This is the day were we would like to take the next step towards being accepted as a part of the workforce and respected wether we can work or not!
International Day of Persons with Disabilities
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