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Eric Eggert

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Accessibility Specialist. Find me on Mastodon: @yatil@yatil.social

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Eric Eggert @yatil.social · 11/09/2026
I am concerned about the existence and amount of non-required requirements there are in WCAG 3. My answer is like always: Modules. But read my latest blog post yourself: yatil.net/blog/wcag-3-road-to-hell-…
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WCAG 3’s road to hell is paved with supplemental requirements · Eric Eggert
First, I want to apologize to the participants of the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AGWG) at W3C, as this blog post will …
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Eric Eggert @yatil.social · 29/08/2026
Nic again with a banger article thinking about how metadata (no pun intended) needs to be closely regulated to not allow for (mis)interpretation of independence. Thought provoking as always, and if you’re not subscribed, you should change that right now […]
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Moisés Chiullán @moiseschiu.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
18 months ago, my mom almost died. When I went to do a wellness check on her, a reckless driver almost killed me. We’re both alive and safe, but also both in danger of eviction. Anything helps, including just sharing the story. buttondown.com/officehours/...
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Avoiding (Currently) Certain Doom
You’ve seen this photo before, but I’m short on time and needed to break up all the text. This is another big long one, but I’m keeping the urgent/immediate...
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
When you’re chronically ill, learning to rest is critical It’s also hard Our society rewards productivity We’re taught that rest is weakness. That we should play through the pain Rest is a strength It can help you maintain your baseline If all you did today was rest, be proud of yourself
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Healthcare is suicide prevention. Housing is suicide prevention. Childcare is suicide prevention. Universal basic income is suicide prevention. When we ensure people have their basic needs met, mental health improves.
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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Bear in mind when you ask an LLM to explain why it did what it did (or didn't), you're asking faces on toast to explain faces on toast. It's not explaining. It's plausibly completing. And you fell for it twice.
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Verity Podcast @veritypodcast.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The last Verity! Podcast has been recorded and this two hour episode with all the Verities will drop Wednesday morning.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Vaccines save lives. And no, they do not cause autism.
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Eric Eggert @yatil.net · 16/07/2026
In a celebration that @wcagwidget.bsky.social is now following me, let me share the link below and say: Overlays are bad. They make your stuff not more accessible. They often introduce additional barriers. They are putting lipstick on a pig. overlayfactsheet.com/en/
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Overlay Fact Sheet
An open letter about accessibility overlays.
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Eric Eggert @yatil.net · 01/07/2026
Foodify a Doctor Who title. The Burrito of Ranskoor Av Kolos
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Eric Eggert @yatil.net · 25/06/2026
If you read this, you must hire @ashleemboyer.com. I don’t make the rules, I’m just informing you of your legal duty. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 04/06/2026
Meal delivery is accessibility. Grocery delivery is accessibility. Pre-peel/cut food is accessibility. Single use plastic straws are accessibility. Audiobooks are accessibility. Image, video, & audio descriptions are accessibility. Captions & transcripts are accessibility. Just some examples.
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Eric Eggert @yatil.social · 20/05/2026
Outsourcing accessibility considerations to “AI” leads to the erasure of disabled people when designing and creating. That’s the goal. It’s digital euthanasia. I’m done mincing my words about this.
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Eric Eggert @yatil.social · 02/05/2026
RE: snooker.uk.to/@snookerbot/116507325… What a completely bonkers semi final! Wu Yize is a superstar in the making. Commiserations to Mark Allen. #snooker
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Jon @jon.turningfortune.com · 23/04/2026
What are perma-’90s F1 people going to do next year when the Formula E car is better than the Formula 1 car
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Eric Eggert @yatil.net · 18/01/2026
Here, @jay.bsky.team says Bluesky is for fascists, too: > I'm wondering, would you welcome by President Trump if he was debating joining Bluesky? > Yeah, Bluesky's for everyone, you know. www.wired.com/video/watch/...
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Bluesky CEO Jay Graber On Building A Better Social Ecosystem
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N@ Tarnoff @nattarnoff.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Hire @ashleemboyer.com. Not because she had a hard year, but because she is damn good at what she does.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
If you’re traveling this holiday season, please wear a mask. Flu and Covid are both surging. No one wants to be sick for the holidays. A well fitted respirator like an N95 protects you and those around you. Give yourself (and others!) the gift of good health this year!
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Shane Anderson 🏳️‍🌈 @shaneanderson.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
A leaked memo suggests Pam Bondi wants to put a bounty on trans activists. She wants to reward people for turning advocates into the FBI. There’s another group who did this. The Nazis. They went after trans people, gay people, the disabled, immigrants and the Jews. Don’t let history repeat
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Pam Bondi wants FBI to put cash bounties on trans activists
Pam Bondi has reportedly ordered the FBI to place cash bounties on trans activists promoting so-called 'radical gender ideology'.
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Dr Satoshi Akima, FRACP @toshiakima.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
“Jiang and colleagues conclude, carefully but clearly, that their findings ‘redefine SARS-CoV-2 infection as a condition of long-lasting immune compromise’ and highlight lymphocyte dysregulation as a key immunological feature of Long Covid, particularly in people with cardiovascular disease.”
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SARS-CoV-2 Leaves a Lasting Mark on the Immune System
A landmark new study shows COVID-19 isn’t ‘just a cold’: One infection left people with long-lasting immune damage, and those with heart disease lost up to 70% of key immune cells. Reinfections may wo...
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I’m trying to remember to rest. To remember I did nothing to deserve this. But when things are falling apart it’s very hard to hold on to your baseline. So please remember you’re worth protecting. You’re worth self care. Your value is not determine by your income or your health. You’re loved.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I’m posting this as much for myself as for anyone else who needs to hear it. I’m facing losing my housing and I’m priced out of the market. I’m bedbound and lack the physical ability to move. I’m terrified. And it’s only happening because I’m disabled.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
If all you did today was breathe and survive… that’s ok. Surviving a capitalist, eugenicist, ableist system is hard work. Resistance is exhausting. Never forget that rest is resistance. Survival is resistance. You’re not alone. There’s more of us than there are of them.
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Eric Eggert @yatil.net · 14/06/2025
I don’t really use this. Follow me in the open Fediverse at @yatil@yatil.social or use the bridged account here: @yatil.social
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Vaccines save lives. And no, they do not cause autism.
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Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁ @frank.computer · 06/11/2025
Hell yeah
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Stop saying that AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used
I’m tired of this phrase and this simple way of thinking about tools. This blog post is a wandering train of thought on the topic of what tools are and why it matters to be even slightly more mature i...
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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 25/10/2025
Our house is officially on the market. www.zillow.com/homedetails/...
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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 24/10/2025
THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS
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Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · 02/10/2025
"Again and again, accessibility as a topic in web standards is treated as simultaneously too trivial for specialists' technical opinions to be given weight, but also too difficult to get right without a specialist volunteering to tackle the tricky details." alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-t...
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A threat model for accessibility on the web - Alice
A explanation of the primary threat to accessibility on the web, and a call to action for the web standards community
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Links by @yatil@yatil.social @links.yatil.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2025
⭐️ A threat model for accessibility on the web @sundress with an excellent article about accessibility and why and how it is so neglected. alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-threat-…
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A threat model for accessibility on the web - Alice
A explanation of the primary threat to accessibility on the web, and a call to action for the web standards community
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Lizbeth Myles @lizbethmyles.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Mum will be so proud! (@tansyrr.bsky.social, @xanister.bsky.social, @lynnemthomas.com)
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
GOOD NEWS! For the FIRST time ever, and after MORE THAN 30 YEARS of HIV vaccine clinical trials, researchers have developed a vaccine that has SUCCESSFULLY generated TIER 2 broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) against HIV and BLOCKS viral infection in vaccinated PEOPLE.
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Eric Eggert @yatil.social · 20/08/2025
I wrote a little about “best practice” examples, and how I understood them, which apparently is different than how Craig has seen them in the wild. yatil.net/blog/about-best-practices a11y.info/@craigabbott/115059612941…
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About “best practices” · Eric Eggert
Craig Abbott wrote about the term “best practice” today. Thanks to posting his thoughts on Mastodon, I had time to kick my brain into gear …
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Eric Eggert @yatil.social · 19/08/2025
With more people than ever looking at WCAG 2, the GitHub repository is buzzing with feedback and questions for clarifications. This is really awesome to see. Now it only was an actively developed standard that could be adapted to be better, but no, the new rules are made elsewhere and then […]
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
To summarize -waves are not seasonal -vaccines are waning -people are getting long covid -it’s still not an endemic disease -very young kids are at increased risk because they didn’t go through the initial vaccine series Oh and it turns out, Covid Cautious people have been right the whole time.
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Eric Eggert @yatil.social · 17/08/2025
I have published my first 3D model on Maker World. All self-designed. It’s a magnetically held guide for the drip water hose of the Midea Porta Split portable AC unit. That was a fun little weekend project! makerworld.com/en/models/1707401-mi…
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have revealed a synthetic glycosystem -a sugar-coated polymer nanoparticle- that can BLOCK SARS-CoV-2 from infecting human cells, REDUCING infection rates by NEARLY 99%. Acting as a decoy, the molecule BINDS to the spike protein, PREVENTING it from attaching to real cells.
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Links by @yatil@yatil.social @links.yatil.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2025
⭐️ Avoiding the word “help” By me, @yatil yatil.net/blog/avoiding-the-word-he…
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Avoiding the word “help” · Eric Eggert
I frequently see the word “help” used in accessibility, and I don’t like it. This is certainly a personal gripe, but I want to share my …
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Eric Eggert @yatil.social · 10/07/2025
If accessibility events did not provide captions, sign language or ramps, we would be rightfully up in arms. But, it seems totally OK to not make any accommodations for people with pre-existing conditions or weakened immune systems (like many, many people who already got Covid in the last […]
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Eric Eggert @yatil.social · 30/06/2025
New newsletter alert! (Yes, I’m as shocked as you are that this happened!) steady.page/en/075ca46e-c27f-49fb-9…
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The tiniest progress
How has 2025 been to you so far? It treated me relatively well, but with all the upheaval around the world, I did not get to write this newsletter as often as I wanted.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
This is huge! A human rights tribunal found that employers must accommodate remote work for immunocompromised employees Remote work accommodations are something disabled people have needed for decades Covid showed us it’s possible, but ableism & discrimination took it away We all need this right
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Employer required to accommodate immunocompromised employees during communicable disease outbreaks
Measles outbreaks raise issue of accommodation similar to COVID-19
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Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · 19/06/2025
I'll buy an eBook copy of Accessible UX Research for the first five folks who are interested! I'll need an email address to send a copy to when it's published (currently in pre-order). If you're into user research and disability, this book is for you. www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/06/acce...
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Meet Accessible UX Research, A Brand-New Smashing Book — Smashing Magazine
Meet “Accessible UX Research,” our upcoming book to make your UX research inclusive. Learn how to recruit, plan, and design with disabled participants in mind. Print shipping in August 2025. eBook ava...
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Eric Eggert @yatil.net · 14/06/2025
I don’t really use this. Follow me in the open Fediverse at @yatil@yatil.social or use the bridged account here: @yatil.social
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