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Elizabeth Schafer

@elizschafer

frontend software engineer @ hoopla inclusive design and accessibility equity and justice she/her

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I was pleasantly surprised to see how passionate and heartfelt this debate became, and the petitioner was great at explaining why this is so important. So glad this passed!

29.05.2025 17:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Meta Staff Engineer Shares Tips on Writing Better Code
Meta Staff Engineer Shares Tips on Writing Better Code YouTube video by Jonny K

Dang, these are great suggestions.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ITV...

21.05.2025 15:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The Brookline School Committee voted to eliminate the Office of Educational Equity, which provides critical support for underserved students and educators. A coalition is working to restore it and has raised $85K so far. Help them keep this vital work alive:
secure.givelively.org/donate/brook...

26.03.2025 15:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Move fast, fix things ๐Ÿ™Œ

07.03.2025 21:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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axe-con Digital Accessibility Conference | Deque Join us to learn how to build, test, monitor, and maintain digital accessibility. Hosted on February 25-27, 2025, axe-con is completely free and virtual.

Pumped to learn more about accessibility at #axecon today!
www.deque.com/axe-con/

25.02.2025 13:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My team is starting to put serious effort into accessibility โ€“ so pumped about this! I've missed doing this kind of work, it's so rewarding.

20.02.2025 19:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

me: what's a better name for this function?

github copilot: let me just write out the entire file and hide my suggestion somewhere inside

18.02.2025 23:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Accessibility fuckinโ€™ rocks

07.02.2025 00:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 52 ๐Ÿ” 16 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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European accessibility act The European accessibility act is a directive that aims to improve the functioning of the internal market for accessible products and services, by removing barriers created by divergent rules in Membe...

In spite of what's happening here, international accessibility laws are still a thing. Companies who serve foreign markets still have to comply or face enforcement. One such is the EAA set to be enforced starting June 28th, 2025.

#a11y #EAA

employment-social-affairs.ec.europa.eu/policies-and...

29.01.2025 01:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 21 ๐Ÿ” 6 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Community.

24.01.2025 15:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 107 ๐Ÿ” 9 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Bottom vs top, not left vs right.

24.01.2025 21:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's been eye-opening to see all the cross-cultural communication happening on xiaohongshu. I love it!
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21.01.2025 18:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Today's a great day to download your data and delete all your meta accounts ๐Ÿ’–โœจ

19.01.2025 03:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Deeply uncomfortable with how the Telepathy Tapes frames things: if youโ€™re skeptical of their methods for proving these kids are telepathic, they suggest you must think the kids arenโ€™t intelligent. But intelligence and telepathy arenโ€™t the same thing, and itโ€™s absurd to conflate them.

27.12.2024 19:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How to Dehumanize Accessibility with AI | Ashlee M Boyer Hire disabled people, not AI-generated caricatures.

@ashleemboyer.comโ€™s response to an โ€œAIโ€-enabled โ€œaccessibilityโ€ product is very good, and worth your time: ashleemboyer.com/blog/how-to-...

23.12.2024 13:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 44 ๐Ÿ” 13 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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Do You Have Insights Into Dental and Health Insurance Denials? Help Us Report on the System. Insurers deny tens of millions of claims every year. ProPublica is investigating why claims are denied, what the consequences are for patients and how the appeal process really works.

We're investigating health insurance denials. If you want to share your insights, here's how:

15.12.2024 18:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 12351 ๐Ÿ” 6035 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 349 ๐Ÿ“Œ 205

Telling myself I donโ€™t *have* to work in an attempt to trick myself into working.

20.11.2024 18:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm really loving that we can hear audience reactions over zoom for #BrooklineTownMeeting. Usually background noise like that is cut out, and it's caused a lot of confusion for me in the past.

20.11.2024 00:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I hope Bluesky will eventually have private lists. I follow completely different groups of people and want to be able to filter posts by group, but I donโ€™t particularly want to do that publicly.

17.11.2024 19:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ooooh, excited to see web dev / accessibility activity on here!

22.10.2024 02:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0