An accessibility specialist named Michelle P. posted this on one of the Slack boards I use. She gave me permission to repost it. Person to vendor: How close are you to automating screen reader testing? Me, on the call: There’s no such thing, screen reader testing and automated testing don’t work like that. Person, to … Continue reading “How close are they? So so far away.”

This is the blanket that I’ve had on my bed mostly continuously since I was born, fifty years ago. It is 50 years old. My mom made it. Once upon a time, it had Holly Hobbie and her friends printed on it, but they have long since worn off. As a kid, this covered my … Continue reading “On 50 years”

I grew up in eastern Oklahoma, and it surprises a few people that mining was a part of my family’s, and eastern Oklahoma’s, history. My great great grandfather emigrated from Yorkshire to the coal mines of southeastern Oklahoma, a place so prosperous they had interurban train lines, brick streets, and minor league baseball teams. The … Continue reading “What will the AI Boom leave behind?”