iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12/03/2026

why is Justin Fox setting off my Harvard Douchebro alarms

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MdDoogie3 @mddoogie3.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

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Ian Arawjo @ianarawjo.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

🎉 Thrilled to share that our paper "Reporting and Reviewing LLM-Integrated Systems in HCI: Challenges and Considerations" has been conditionally accepted to #CHI2026! A thread 🧵

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NPR @npr.org · 24/12/2025

AN NPR survey finds that people with disability still find hotels unaccommodating, even 35 years after passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. n.pr/48VPxj2

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35 years after ADA, people with disabilities still find hotels unaccommodating

AN NPR survey finds that people with disability still find hotels unaccommodating, even 35 years after passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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Christian Vogler @krischi.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Save the Date! The Deaf & Hard of Hearing Accessible Technology Conference When & Time: Sept 16–17, 2025 | 9 AM–4 PM EST Where: In person at Gallaudet or online via Zoom Register by Sept 5. ASL & CART provided for all sessions. Details: gu.live/a11yconf

A flyer for the "State of the Science Conference" on Deaf and Hard of Hearing Accessible Technology, hosted by Gallaudet University. The event will take place September 16–17, 2025, from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM EST. Attendees can join in person at the Multipurpose Resource Room or online via Zoom. The registration deadline for both options is September 5, 2025, and accommodation requests for in-person attendance are due by September 1, 2025. ASL interpreters and real-time captioning (CART) will be available for all sessions. Contact email: dhh.rerc@gallaudet.edu. More information and registration at https://gu.live/a11yconf.

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Christian Vogler @krischi.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Student Call for Proposals! Present your DHH-accessibility research at the 2025 Deaf & Hard of Hearing (DHH) Accessible Technology: State of Science Conference! Win prizes + recognition! Deadline: July 23. Details + submit: gu.live/a11y-submiss...

A flyer titled “State of the Science Conference – Call for Student Submissions,” hosted by Gallaudet University and available in person or via Zoom on September 16–17, 2025. It invites student researchers working on Deaf or Hard of Hearing accessibility to submit proposals. Topics include captioning technology, usability of hearing aids or mobile apps, sign language tools, accessibility in public spaces, and disability policy. The top-ranked submissions will win a prize. Submission deadline is July 23, 2025 (Anywhere on Earth), with notifications sent by August 22, 2025. Links and contact info are provided: https://gu.live/a11y-submissions, https://gu.live/a11yconf, and dhh.rerc@gallaudet.edu.

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Christian Vogler @krischi.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

The Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Technology for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing is conducting an in-person deaf-friendly study on text-to-speech technologies at Gallaudet University. Looking for people who are deaf, hard of hearing, or have hearing loss to join our co-design session

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Christian Vogler @krischi.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Deaf and hard of hearing authors have to expend considerable extra time and resources to create multimedia content, compared to their hearing peers. Much of people's attention has focused on consuming accessible content, but not on ensuring that the content creation process is accessible. 1/2

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Barriers to Employment: The Deaf Multimedia Authoring Tax

This paper describes the challenges that deaf and hard of hearing people face with creating accessible multimedia content, such as portfolios, instructional videos and video presentations. Unlike cont...

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Christian Vogler @krischi.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Oliver Suchanek and @katta.bsky.social at #CHI2025. Refreshing to see a good deaf-hearing collaborator dynamic: both presenters signed, and interpreters did the voicing. So much more respectful than the typical scenario of the deaf presenter signing and the hearing presenter talking up a storm.

Two people presenting on opposite ends of a podium. On the left, the deaf presenter (Oliver) looks on while their hearing collaborator (Katta) is signing on the right.

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Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 30/04/2025

code generation presents a new opportunity to make UI code accessible, but @peyajm29.bsky.social's work shows current codex models mostly fail on #a11y; her system CodeA11y improves accessibility of UI code w/ three strategies other tools could adopt 4:20pm in AnnexF206 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

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CodeA11y: Making AI Coding Assistants Useful for Accessible Web Development | Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Janelle Shane @janelleshane.com · 13/04/2025

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 30/03/2025

As Bluesky has grown, I've seen a lot of backsliding on alt text. Please try to be considerate to others and include alt text with all of your images. It helps everyone. Indeed, in the "accessibility" setting in Bluesky you can set it to make sure you add alt text, which is a useful thing to do.

Showing the accessibility settings for alt text in bluesky with two options:

Require alt text before posting
Display larger alt text badges

Both are checked

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

"The question the embattled university president asked [me], in effect, was how a university fights an authoritarian regime." "I told him to frame his fight to gain as many allies as he can." Note FIGHT. Universities must act. Keeping their heads down won't work. 1/4 www.chronicle.com/ar...

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Kristen Shinohara @kristenshino.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Amidst a lot of uncertainty these days, @shaunkane.bsky.social and I re-affirm our commitment to diversity and community for ASSETS 2025. With that in mind, accepted papers will appear in the proceedings, regardless of presentation/attendance modality. Please see our blog post for more.

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Christian Vogler @krischi.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Government-sanctioned discrimination coming?

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 11/03/2025

UPDATE on Mahmoud Khalil from his lawyers and his wife: "Today I spoke to Mahmoud and he is healthy and his spirits are undaunted by his predicament." (Legal team now includes ACLU, CCR.)

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Amy E. Greer, attorney for Mahmoud Khalil provided the following update this evening:

First, importantly, today I spoke to Mahmoud and he is healthy and his spirits are undaunted by his predicament. He also greatly appreciates, and, typically for him, is moved by the extraordinarily broad and steadfast support he has received from a variety of communities that understand what is at stake. He is in ICE custody in Louisiana, and arrangements have been made for local attorneys to visit him today and tomorrow.

The remarks by government officials, including the President, on social media only confirm the purpose – and illegality – of Mahmoud's detention. He was chosen as an example to stifle entirely lawful dissent in violation of the First Amendment. While tomorrow or thereafter the government may cite the law or process, that toothpaste is out of the tube and irreversibly so. The government’s objective is as transparent as it is unlawful, and our role as Mahmoud’s lawyers is to ensure it does not prevail.

Today Mahmoud's legal team, which includes Kyle Barron, CLEAR, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Amy Greer filed a motion to compel in federal court in the Southern District of New York, as part of the habeas corpus petition filed on his behalf over the weekend, seeking an order requiring the government to return to New York for any immigration proceedings.

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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

If I, as a disabled person, post something referring to “disabled people,” don’t correct me by arguing that I should say “people with disabilities.” My identity is my choice.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Worried about what the Trump/Musk cuts mean for the future of American higher education? This one pot Nom Banh Chok will make you feel you're in Pol Pot's Cambodia.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 24/02/2025

🚨 Many NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) are being cancelled for Summer 2025. www.reddit.com/r/REU/commen...

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Cancellation megathread

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Christian Vogler @krischi.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

There’s much talk about how early career researchers are getting shafted. Researchers with disabilities and those who are working hard to maintain mentoring pipelines: hold my beer.

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Accessibility Is Taking a Hit Across the Sciences (Gift Article)

Confusion has ensued about the future of programs and research supporting people with disabilities as a result of President Trump’s executive order.

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Linda @unewme.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I hate to keep reminding people that we are all one car accident or chronic illness away from becoming disabled. We need to use all of our people to make this country work.

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Dr Abi Roper @abracabadger.com · 07/02/2025

The #BASConf25 abstract submission portal is open! Submit your abstracts for presentations, panels, lightning talks, or posters here: blogs.city.ac.uk/bas2025/subm... • Submission Deadline: 17 Mar 2025, 9AM UK • Notification of Acceptance: 2 May 2025 • Conference: 18-20 August 2025 #aphasia

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Submit an Abstract | British Aphasiology Society International Conference 2025

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Lee Atwater had a pungent and famous quote about how once conservatives could no longer use the n-word they used things like “states’ rights” to invoke the same spirit. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration any more — if it ever was — to say they use DEI as the n-word.

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Jen Mankoff @jcmankoff.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

"All NSF grantees must [cease] all non-compliant activities... that [use] DEIA principles and frameworks" The EO asks that DEIA "discrimination programs" be terminated "to the maximum extent allowed by law." But it is illegal to fail at accessibility and to discriminate. I'll be obeying the law.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I went through Trump's birthright citizenship EO, line-by-flagrantly-unconstitutional-line, to highlight the illegal, the racist, and the just plain incorrect understanding of the constitutional *right* to citizenship. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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A Line-by-Line Breakdown of Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Executive Order

Almost every sentence of the order is wrong, misleading, or flagrantly unconstitutional.

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Christian Vogler @krischi.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Participate in a 1.5 hour study on the accessibility of interactive personal assistants and earn $50 in cash. Fill out the Qualtrics form if you are interested: gu.live/viJEA For more information, contact at alexa.study@gallaudet.edu. This study has been approved by the Gallaudet University IRB.

Yellow background with several white bubbles with black text. Centered at the top reads in all caps and bold font Participants Needed. An additional bubble below that reads We are recruiting participants who will be using speech to observe their interaction with Amazon Alexa. The study will take up to 90 minutes. Up against the yellow background there is a text box saying Participants will get compensation of $50. A title bubble reads Qualifications, and a larger bullet point list explains below: must be 18 years or older, identify as deaf or hard of hearting, must be able to meet in person on campus at Gallaudet, and use spoken English in everyday communication, or be interested in using speech with voice assistants. The last row of bubbles says For more information, contact us at alexa.study@gallaudet.edu and the second bubble says JOIN US in all caps, with a qr code that goes to this webpage: https://gu.live/viJEA

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Highly recommend this reflective essay from Temple Prof. Seth Bruggeman. It captures the central challenge of teaching today in a system that over time has become entirely transactional, and then suddenly technology that could satisfy the transaction arrived. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

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A crisis of trust in the classroom (opinion)

The work of teaching has never been harder, Seth C. Bruggeman writes.

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Maartje De Meulder @mdemeulder.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I talked to reporters from Deaf Journalism Europe about the economic and societal costs and benefits of sign language avatars vs. human sign language interpreters, and the slippery slope of access rights. www.deafjournalism.eu/sign-languag...

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Sign Language Avatars: The German Gold Rush to Undercut Flesh And Blood Interpreters – Deaf Journalism Europe

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Many Cats Studios @manycatsstudios.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Check out @sightlesskombat.bsky.social article on being without sight and how that does effect the ability to work with studios on location. The industry needs to acknowledge the location bias that comes with working with disabled people. #accessibility #disability www.linkedin.com/pulse/access...

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SK Talks: Accessibility Discussions: Location

Believe me when I say this was a hard article to write, but I feel that the time for doing so is long overdue. When trying to not only play video games, but work in the industry as well, there can be ...

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

One of my 'obsessions' is interior design, and that is largely shaped by my experiences with multiple disabilities. I think a LOT about competing access needs & how to harmonize them.

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Lainey Feingold @lflegal.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Good news for the @bsky.app #accessibility and #disability communities: @habengirma.bsky.social (Haben Girma) is now on this platform. A #BlueSky author and much more. Put her in your Starter Packs. habengirma.com/book/

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Book – Haben Girma

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Laura Kate Dale - LauraKBuzz @laurakbuzz.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

What Is Video Game Accessibility Consulting? - Access-Ability Text: access-ability.uk/2024/11/22/w... Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V33...

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What Is Video Game Accessibility Consulting? - Access-Ability

YouTube video by LauraKBuzz

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Grant Stoner @supercrip1994.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

This doesn't even get into the nuance behind what each accessibility design or setting offers. If a game has dozens of options, it will be nominated. If it has settings for the Big 3 disability categories, it will be nominated. But for stuff like Cognitive Accessibility? That's a tough sell.

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Christian Vogler @krischi.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Technology for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing is conducting a Zoom focus group on deaf-friendly text-to-speech technologies at Gallaudet University. We are looking for participants who are deaf, hard of hearing or have hearing loss.

Flyer: Gallaudet University Text-to-Speech Study; looking for focus group participants.

You must be: 18 years or older; deaf, hard of hearing or have hearing loss; familiar with communication technology; able to participate in an online Zoom session on a computer.

We want to know what you think! We want to learn how to improve Text-to-Speech technology (TTS) for individuals who are deaf, hard
of hearing or have hearing loss. TTS is a technology that allows
you to convert text to speech automatically.

This involves: One-Time Online Session in ASL and English. Duration: 12O min. Compensation: $75. Sign language interpretation and CART services will also be provided.

Interested? Scan the QR code, or email our team at tap.sg@gallaudet.edu.

This research is approved by Gallaudet University IRB FY24-137.

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Leala Holcomb @lealaholcomb.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Deaf readers are the ultimate plot twist for the Science of Reading. SoR insists sound-based approaches (oral language, phonics, phonological awareness) are required. Yet here we are, a whole community of deaf folks reading without hearing or speaking a word. What does that tell you?

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a man in a lab coat is smiling and asking is you mad ?

Alt: a white man in a lab coat is smiling and asking is you mad ?

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Christian Vogler @krischi.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Many good principles laid out here, but #7, deaf leadership in sign language AI projects, is really the most critical. In the USA, there are now many qualified deaf researchers to lead this work. If it’s too hard to find European counterparts, then folks need to prioritize capacity building.

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🍂 aderyn 🪶 @aderyn.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Alright here it is… we shouldn’t put “accessibility” things in games just because competitors did it. Approaching accessibility by doing whatever competitors did is missing the goal: 1. It might not be right for that game. 2. It might not actually have been the right approach to begin with.

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Christian Vogler @krischi.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

One thing I love about gaming is observing the freewheeling accessibility innovations in this space. Some of these even have changed my mind about what constitutes best practices elsewhere. Today, let’s talk captions in VR. I truly feel we’ve been applying the wrong lessons from 2D media. 1/

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Jaipreet Virdi @jaivirdi.com · 20/11/2024

<whispers loudly> Don't forget to add alt-text to your images

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Christian Vogler @krischi.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Can’t recommend the Dashboard enough. It’s such an awesome product of NDC.

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phelan • ᜉᜌᜎᜈ᜔ 🏳️‍🌈 @signingmango.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Interpreters, it is super freaking AWKWARD for you to assume that a client will request you again if they have not explicitly said they will. By asking about upcoming potential assignments, you infringe on their ability to choose which interpreters they wish to work with.

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