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Usher syndrome, deafblind, retinitis pigmentosa, cochlear implants, guide dog 🦮 🌈, AltText and capitals on hashtags, ♿️ she/her, Equality, Equity and Justice

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Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 5h
EBay and accessibility - Disabled people use online shopping because it is accessible. Home delivery is a very important part of that delivery. Trying to foist Click and Collect, or Pickup Points on your disabled customers, and charging them a premium for home delivery, is illegal …
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Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This account is great and the alt text is always appreciated. I’m reposting this one because it’s a great example of the picture being described but because the text in the picture isn’t in the alt text, it still doesn’t make sense to a vision impaired person. I’ve added extra alt text in comments
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Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is a useful review from an accessibility point of view. There should be more of this. I wish someone told me Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy was going to be so mumbly monotone dialogue that meant I got concentrating boredom. I’ve also been known to take off my cochlear implants due to painful volume
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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
I didn’t even realize I did this until today lol
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Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If the life story and non death of Christa Pike doesn’t sum up all that is wrong in the US, I don’t know what else will. Abuse and failure of systems to prevent abuse. I am remembering Colleen Slemmer today as well, who was also failed. Continuing relentless violence.
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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Amazing contrast to Starmer's buttoned up style as Burnham delivers his speech stripped to the waist and covered in peanut butter, repeatedly diving into the audience
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Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The problem with the triple lock is that it prioritises pensioners above anyone else and that’s unequal. There any many worse off than pensioners, not just financially but in all needs. Yet they go without for decades. The triple lock has been a blackmail for years - keep the pensioners happy, win …
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
When picking fonts, use simple, familiar, and easily-parsed fonts. Avoid character complexity and ambiguity. Use a limited number of typefaces, fonts, and variations. Consider spacing and weight. Ensure sufficient contrast between the text and background. Avoid small font sizes.
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Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Best alt text today! Good boy Rex!
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Oregon's Statewide Assistive Technology Program @accesstechnologies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
iCanConnect provides equipment and training to Oregonians with significant combined hearing and vision loss so they can stay connected to friends and family. Contact us to learn more about the program's income and disability guidelines, refer someone you know, or to apply for the program.
A white graphic with blue lettering, two assistive devices, and information about the Oregon iCanConnect program. The lettering reads, "Combined vision and hearing loss? Learn about a free equipment program." The devices include a caption telephone and a high-contrast keyboard. The Oregon iCanConnect contact information is below and reads: The National Deaf-Blind Equipment Distribution Program. Online at www.iCanConnect.org. Oregon iCanConnect providers can be phoned at 503-361-1201 or Toll-free at 800-677-7512. Two logos show a QR code that leads to www.AccessTechnologiesInc.org and the Oregon-shaped logo of ATI.
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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The Marge Simpson bollard. #WorldBollardAssociation
A concrete bollard painted to look like Marge Simpson.
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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Never seen a fried egg bollard? YOU HAVE NOW. #WorldBollardAssociation 🍳
A bollard painted to look like a fried egg.
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Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I do love the stories of people rescuing b kittens and puppies in the wild and then like oh it got big and sharp
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Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The tipping point was 2016. Or at least that’s when it tipped over and spilled everywhere. Will the clean up ever happen?
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Thomas Pocklington Trust @pocklington.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
See and Stop. Speak and Support. As Catch the Bus Month continues, we’re highlighting how our driver training can transform bus journeys for blind and partially sighted passengers. Co-created with Sight Loss Councils, Guide Dogs and our partners. Read More: tinyurl.com/3he5za3y
Thomas Pocklington Trust testimonial graphic with a headshot of Vince Crossfield and the quote: “The training we provide to our drivers, utilising the resources from TPT, gives them the knowledge, skills and confidence to support customers with sight impairments.” Attribution: Vince Crossfield, Development and Compliance Manager, National Express.
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Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
There is only so many times a “recollections vary” response can be trotted out. If someone insists they are never wrong every time others speak up, it starts to look like staggering arrogance and contempt, not to mention downright nastiness and lack of self reflection. Gross.
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Alex Wormall @wormito.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Lovely bob down to the World Black Pudding Throwing Championship. Great buzz and an international turnout - 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 & 🇵🇱 amongst the countries represented.
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Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Happy Sunday memories of my childhood - Love Boat on the telly, the air rich with the smell of my grandma’s roast dinner, Oor Wullie comic from the Sunday papers, rain outside, the fire blazing, the dogs perusing, quiet domesticity
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Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The scariest things got me as a kid were lumps and bumps on the bed . The duvet had to be smooth. I also thought the bogey man has cut open the mattress, climbed in, stitched it back up again and was lying in wait during the night. Imagination hey .
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Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Some kids like beige ok Are they not allowed to have the choice of beige? Adults are upset that kids can choose beige? *gestures at the world apathetically
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Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I don’t know why I feel the need to say this today but for anyone who needs to hear it - the fact your parents decided to have multiple children is their choice and you owe your siblings nothing. They can be literally none of your business. If your sibling does not behave well, it’s fine….
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Well, I think Page Six Reports is a stupid name for a baby, but what can you do when it’s Lady Gaga?
Lady Gaga and her fiance Michael have welcomed their first child, Page Six reports.
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Greater Manchester Moving @gmmoving.co.uk · 11/09/2026
Great to see the first Leadership Skills Foundation awards underway in Bury, Oldham and Rochdale. Our collaboration is supporting young people who are NEET, care experienced, or referred through social care to build confidence and qualifications. Want to know more? Email jesseastoe@gmmoving.co.uk
Young girl wearing a hijab holding a soccer ball on a green artificial turf field with other players in the background.
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Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A Short Statement: As a deafblind person, if Miriam Margolyes wants to ask me “how do the cripples feel”, I will explain this to her by smashing her ducking face in. (Not really because that would be a criminal act, but certainly the mental imagery would certainly be there) FIN
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Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“Danny Tommo” No.
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Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
So Patriot Platform are a terrorist group right? And will be banned of course. Surely? If this is being allowed to play out I can only hope there is a easily guessable under cover infiltration op going on. Or I’m watching too many tv dramas
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gazzerd.bsky.social @gazzerd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Happy to ban a burka but not a balaclava.
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Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I recently read about the German Jews who voted for Hitler (they ended up in concentration camps and died there). If any of the “protesters” at Dover are of any non Anglo heritage, they will face the same fate too if they persist with promoting fascism. Sad sacks, the lot of them.
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Memorial Device @memorialdevice.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Arrest and jail them for 3 years. Just like you did with the 'disruptive' Pro Palestinian protestors. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Masked protesters block access at Port of Dover
Images appear to show hundreds of protesters, all dressed in black and wearing face coverings.
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Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Things are hard right now and then this happens ❤️
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Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I cannot abide Miriam Margolyes
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Mike Knell @blat.at · 04/09/2026
School uniform is stupid and the rest of Europe does just fine without it, pass it on
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Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
So you’re saying Reform is a foreign disrupter?
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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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Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is me every evening of Christmas Day
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Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A world within a world (description in the post’s comments)
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
First and foremost, alt text must always be informative and descriptive of the content in the image. It can have character and humor, but it still needs to be informative and descriptive. Alt text is not a place to add easter eggs or jokes for sighted users.
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Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I went to Disney and told Pluto my life story. I was 42 at the time
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Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Dear #WorldCon staffer. You are wrong. The backstage is for all participants. No other description necessary .
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Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Good job guys! Brix the cat leaping into the stool is top notch !
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Adam Tandy @adamtandy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Maybe we should rename measles as American Measles to differentiate it from the German kind; keep DJT happy.
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Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I got dog but I’m not a dogger (You’re welcome)
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Haunt Couture @hauntcouture.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This might be the smallest thing I've ever thrown, and honestly it was by accident. I couldn't use it for my actual need so like a normal person I attached a handle to it #pottery #ceramics #miniatures
A tiny mug sitting in the middle of a pennyThe same mug sitting next to a slightly bigger red mug
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Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Peyton Sawyer
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Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A small independent retailer goes out of business
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SeeAbility @seeability.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Looking for your next role? We're recruiting clinical professionals to bring specialist eye care to more schools across London and the South East. Join our growing team and use your expertise to change children's lives every day. Learn more and join our team: seeability.org/join-our-team
A graphic showing a SeeAbility eye test at a special school, with the text 'We are recruiting!'
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Kaz @lottieplot9.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I've been to a guide dogs fund raising meeting so please accept this month's picture of a trainee Guide Dog
A young yellow Labrador lying down but looking back towards me with big brown eyes and floppy ears.
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Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I wonder what he wants to rename the UK’s Lake District?
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Christmas Coffee @christmascoffee.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I do hope there’s another superstar ready to step into Dolly’s philanthropic shoes. I liked knowing Dolly was there, existing, shining a truly kind light on the world.
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