Amber Armstrong, CPWA

Listening to NVDA pronounce FAQ reminds me of when we learned the French word for seal in elementary school.

Baby got back-to-back meetings.

The louder the bass, the harder the day was 🎧

What it takes to get into a position of power directly opposes what it takes to use that power to help others.

It just occurred to me that I did exactly this with my toys.

You beat me to it 😂

Now that it's March and I haven't yet started the blog I resolved to start this year, I've realized something.

I don't avoid writing because of imposter syndrome. It's from exhaustion.

I hear good things about their minced measles pie.

Kiss me, I'm an accessibility specialist with a bit of Irish ancestry.

It reminds me of something from Robin Williams' excellent book, "The Non-Designers Design Book"!

(And also the black text needs higher contrast).

My brain: Do I mention the color contrast between the brown and black or do I hop in and celebrate the beautiful design 🤔

Bill Murray from Groundhog Day. It's gonna be cold, it's gonna be gray and it's gonna last you for the rest of your life.

Figma is freezing every time I try to edit an annotation. I'm about ready to freeze the entire laptop. In the snow.

That's clever.

I don't understand why it's so difficult to believe someone could be proficient in design, dev, and accessibility.

I've been working on the web since I was a teenager. If it takes 5 years to learn a craft, I've had 5 rounds to learn those skills.

Wait, how? With the steam nozzle?

I do this! Well, not the MMA part. I have math-like dreams and often wake up with the solution to a coding problem.

Also as dangerous. After slavery, they were portrayed as violent criminals because slavery shifted into convict leasing.

It grew 8 legs.

Friday brain !== Monday brain

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Drum 'n bass is responsible for my clean home.

I just received a dopamine hit to last me all next week.

I informed someone that the scores provided by semi-automated #accessibility browser scanners aren't reliable or accurate.

I was believed and trusted right away and my recommendation to also do manual testing was taken seriously.

Haha! That was the perfect response.

Except that I'm working 9-5, so not yet lazing away.

Skype is better than Teams.
Slack is better than Teams.
Google Meet is better than Teams.

Tin cans attached by a string are better than Teams.

The reason I've made no money with my side app is that I've used it as a learning and experimentation tool. That's what's fun for me.

If I approached it differently, I could monetize it.

Maybe I should, then retire, then have more time to tinker for fun.

Other keys, like arrow keys and keyboard shortcut keys navigate static content (images, text, headings, lists...) 2/2

The Tab key on a keyboard

I feel semi-confident saying that the most common misunderstanding about how screen reader + keyboard users navigate is that they only use the Tab key.

The Tab key only navigates through interactive elements (links, buttons, inputs).

1/2

Oh yes!!

I will die someday.

And go!