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Ohhhhh wow. Wow. I was so distracted, I did not actually *look* at the flag -- my brain registered "blue and yellow" and jumped to its own conclusions. I have to go crawl into a hole now. 🙈🕳

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sylvia @svillegas.com · 23/09/2026

What's the Ukrainian word for "snail", cuz you nailed that one 😁

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sylvia @svillegas.com · 21/09/2026

I've been kicking the can on this skills file and now my team lead is putting priority on it. We're about to have a meeting to discuss with another a11y colleague and I've got to figure out how to neither implode nor explode. One task, one file, is setting all of my nerves on fire.

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sylvia @svillegas.com · 21/09/2026

From the same dudes who don't know how to open and close the windows blinds.

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sylvia @svillegas.com · 20/09/2026

...dogs with bees in their mouths, and when they bark, they shoot bees at you?

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sylvia @svillegas.com · 20/09/2026

From this morning's hike 🍄

Ground-level view of mushrooms in the forest. Focus is on one in the foreground, with a beautiful , light yellow domed cap with some little creamy crumples and frills. Below the dome, on its slender cream stalk, it seems to be wearing a little frilled collar. These are not botanical terms.

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sylvia @svillegas.com · 19/09/2026

And news, and news "correspondents". Everything must be scrutinized, everything has added cognitive overhead now. bsky.app/profile/emil...

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 19/09/2026

This is a terrible time for systems thinkers, in part because nobody wants to listen to systems thinkers about stuff they’ve been saying for years, so now systems thinkers have to watch deeply incurious people reinvent systems thinking from first principles

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sylvia @svillegas.com · 19/09/2026

So many great takeaways, even besides the main point. I love the comparison of screen reader variation as the same language in different countries. 👍

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sylvia @svillegas.com · 19/09/2026

Bird love + creative code makes me think of @sarasoueidan.com

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sylvia @svillegas.com · 19/09/2026

This looks so cool.

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sylvia @svillegas.com · 17/09/2026

Waiiiiit. Waitwaitwaitwaitwait. Wasn't the single-dog capacity kayak the only pathetic excuse still holding me back from getting a second? 🤔 Cuz the SUP will def handle two... I... I may have to think about this again... 😆

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sylvia @svillegas.com · 17/09/2026

Impressed by my salary. Disappointed that I'm not spending my days in a field station or lab, surrounded by books and specimens, and publishing esoteric papers with long titles making claims about and excessively niche animal facts. Pleased that I'm alive and getting outside with horse and dog.

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sylvia @svillegas.com · 17/09/2026

[Yes, I realize this doesn't resolve the technical aspects of the question in the original post. My point is there are ways not to walk into situations where complex technical interactions must be invented.]

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sylvia @svillegas.com · 17/09/2026

I kinda hate tooltips & friends for many reasons (esp. a11y), but they also are kinda gross visually most of the time. There's often a clearer solution if you try a little, e.g.:

"Leave a Comment" form, with input fields for "Name" and "Email" and a text area for "Comment". Below is a solid line, then the text "Somehelpful text about the 'Rewrite' button that describes its function without being hidden away in a tooltip, while simultaneously separating this action from submission" and a "Rewrite" button. Another solid line separates the "Submit" button below.

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sylvia @svillegas.com · 17/09/2026

Agree with your second point. First point sucks, though: without any visual affordance, how does a user know any information about this button is available if they do not hover or tab to/through it [e.g. submitting the form with Enter key]. Also how would this be exposed to AT? Do not recommend.

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sylvia @svillegas.com · 17/09/2026

Q1. ℹ️ Q2. no But more strongly: ew, no.

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sylvia @svillegas.com · 17/09/2026

Greatest squirrel I ever saw was on my uni campus. It perched on the edge of a trash bin holding an entire slice of pizza. Legendary.

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sylvia @svillegas.com · 17/09/2026

The proliferation of excessive and gratuitous interrupting [unprompted] modal dialogs to "get my attention" nearly guarantees that I will close them by reflex without paying any attention to the content within. Great place to bury a body.

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sylvia @svillegas.com · 17/09/2026

Ahahaha, how apropos: bsky.app/profile/samo...

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sylvia @svillegas.com · 16/09/2026

Okay, so I just learned about Beoga and, hello, the vocals on "Up" are Maya Angelou reciting Still I Rise, so thank you Ed Sheeran for being a massive coward and setting off all the events that came to put this in my ears.

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sylvia @svillegas.com · 14/09/2026

If all we're after is a faster road to average and problematic: congrats, we've got it.

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sylvia @svillegas.com · 14/09/2026

Yes, the agentic software created a web page. Yes, it follows corporate branding. Yes, it was done faster than humans would have done. This is all the praise and wonderment I can muster for you.

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sylvia @svillegas.com · 14/09/2026

What's the word for "windy" underwater? 🤔

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sylvia @svillegas.com · 13/09/2026

Turns out I'm not terrible and this kayak is just muuuch easier to paddle without a 70lb skipper 🐶 (lopsided sack of potatoes) up front. She may only be an occasional guest on board, and mostly come out with me on the SUP instead.

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sylvia @svillegas.com · 13/09/2026

Nice evening paddle at Biidaasige Park.

Cloudy evening. POV looking over the bow of my Oru kayak on the Don River in Biidaasige Park, with some shrubbery along the shore in the foreground and the Toronto skyline beyond.

Selfie on the water, with the Toronto skyline behind me. I'm smiling, wearing an orange and black NRS PFD over a light blue t-shirt, sunglasses, and a blue plaid ball cap.

Wide-angle POV over the bow of my kayak in Biidaasige Park. The river looks wide and quiet, and one of the big white bridges is far ahead.

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sylvia @svillegas.com · 11/09/2026

I like the sound of Bronze/Silver/Gold, only bc I know how well that would circulate among corporate leadership teams, but I see how that can be vague & I like your concept of modules. What if "Bronze" meant e.g. "WCAG 3 + 3 modules" etc.? Scope is specified & clear, buzzword still there for show.

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sylvia @svillegas.com · 11/09/2026

Not the pangram, eh?

NYT Games Spelling Bee UI. The letters are [K] H I E A C D. My first guess is "DICKHEAD" but I got "Not in word list"

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sylvia @svillegas.com · 11/09/2026

Sounds like a ruse 🤔

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sylvia @svillegas.com · 10/09/2026

That was the style at the time

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sylvia @svillegas.com · 09/09/2026

Even "smartphone" feels inappropriate.

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sylvia @svillegas.com · 09/09/2026

It's weird to me that we still call these devices "phones".

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sylvia @svillegas.com · 09/09/2026

Dog, asleep on the couch, just barked loudly. I said "Heyy! We don't just wake up and start screami--actually..."

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sylvia @svillegas.com · 09/09/2026

Umm, the iconographer(s) never looked up what a coronavirus looks like? Never paid attention during a worldwide pandemic?

Icon is a circle with dots inside, and four dots and small circles on the outside. It is labeled "Covid 19".

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sylvia @svillegas.com · 09/09/2026

Off to search @merriam-webster.com for a definition of "mansion" meaning "very large cube" 🧐

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sylvia @svillegas.com · 09/09/2026

bsky.app/profile/svil...

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sylvia @svillegas.com · 09/09/2026

It's the same rage I feel at accessibility being overlooked, dismissed, or being put off for "later". We're doing the same thing now, only we're just dismissing humans on the whole, it seems.

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