DanHolbrookQA.bsky.social
@danholbrookqa.bsky.social
Accessibility specialist. Quality assurance nerd since 2006, accessibiliy nerd since 2014. Views my own etc etc.
Would love to hear the justification as to why the billboard images in this @nytimes.com "Tech Billboards Are All Over San Francisco. Can You Decode Them?" quiz article are marked as decorative images. There's no article without them!
August 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Would love to hear the justification as to why the billboard images in this @nytimes.com "Tech Billboards Are All Over San Francisco. Can You Decode Them?" quiz article are marked as decorative images. There's no article without them!
There is a disability rights advocate on here with thousands of followers who is posting images without alt text and I just needed to subtweet that here so I didn't explode
June 29, 2025 at 12:06 PM
There is a disability rights advocate on here with thousands of followers who is posting images without alt text and I just needed to subtweet that here so I didn't explode
But how does it work "at scale" (this is business slang for "when a dragon is hoarding the gold")
April 23, 2025 at 4:58 PM
But how does it work "at scale" (this is business slang for "when a dragon is hoarding the gold")
The lord put me on this Earth for one purpose: To downgrade WCAG 2.4.4 Link Purpose (In Context) bugs into WCAG 2.4.9 Link Purpose (Link Only) bugs until I crumble to dust. #a11y
April 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The lord put me on this Earth for one purpose: To downgrade WCAG 2.4.4 Link Purpose (In Context) bugs into WCAG 2.4.9 Link Purpose (Link Only) bugs until I crumble to dust. #a11y
QA are all-too-familiar with this phenomenon. It's very easy to sell a technical-sounding solution that is less effective (and often even, more costly) than a trained human who knows what to look for. When the alternative doesn't expose what it's missing, how are non-experts to know?
The depressing kernel of truth here is that an unschooled prompt artiste might well APPEAR to outperform actual experts in the eyes of a clients, supervisors, or audiences who themselves lack the knowledge to distinguish the real thing from superficially plausible horseshit.
If you have zero education, but learn how to ask AI models the right questions , in many jobs you will be able to outperform someone with an advanced degree, but who is unwilling to use Large Language Models.
Just takes a smartphone, curiosity to experiment and a mindset to learn.
Just takes a smartphone, curiosity to experiment and a mindset to learn.
February 17, 2025 at 10:25 PM
QA are all-too-familiar with this phenomenon. It's very easy to sell a technical-sounding solution that is less effective (and often even, more costly) than a trained human who knows what to look for. When the alternative doesn't expose what it's missing, how are non-experts to know?
Lotta people in my non-work feed eagerly grasping at that McSweeney's article as an excuse not to add alt text. Yes, keep it concise and relevant. No, one writer's preference doesn't mean you shouldn't use alt text at all, e.g. I have a blind coworker who asks for alt for every image they encounter.
February 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Lotta people in my non-work feed eagerly grasping at that McSweeney's article as an excuse not to add alt text. Yes, keep it concise and relevant. No, one writer's preference doesn't mean you shouldn't use alt text at all, e.g. I have a blind coworker who asks for alt for every image they encounter.
The wild thing is that the native html date picker is pretty good! And yet instead, people build their own bad versions that have a bunch of issues!
honestly we deserve to be replaced with AI. six figure salaries and we can't make a fucking date picker work right.
December 26, 2024 at 6:21 PM
The wild thing is that the native html date picker is pretty good! And yet instead, people build their own bad versions that have a bunch of issues!
Any sufficiently unread email inbox is indistinguishable from absent
January 29, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Any sufficiently unread email inbox is indistinguishable from absent
had to make it
January 29, 2025 at 11:51 AM
had to make it
If I ever need to go into witness protection don't send me to the desert or anything, just put my name in Azure DevOp's assignee suggestions dropdown. No one will find me there.
July 1, 2024 at 7:20 PM
If I ever need to go into witness protection don't send me to the desert or anything, just put my name in Azure DevOp's assignee suggestions dropdown. No one will find me there.
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Craigslist rules. Has looked the same for like 30 years. Does what you need it to do. No new dumbass features to ruin it. The pinnacle of Business
June 25, 2024 at 5:09 AM
Craigslist rules. Has looked the same for like 30 years. Does what you need it to do. No new dumbass features to ruin it. The pinnacle of Business
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Beware of companies promising to make sites completely accessible, compliant, and immune from lawsuits with just a few lines of code. This just isn't possible. Disabled users have long said these tools don't actually help them, and can often make things worse.
June 12, 2024 at 2:49 AM
Beware of companies promising to make sites completely accessible, compliant, and immune from lawsuits with just a few lines of code. This just isn't possible. Disabled users have long said these tools don't actually help them, and can often make things worse.
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This Zoom extension allows your video to “flashback” with audio and video effects to when you predicted the problem under discussion
June 21, 2024 at 8:40 PM
This Zoom extension allows your video to “flashback” with audio and video effects to when you predicted the problem under discussion
Apologies for another post about alt text (it is such a tiny portion of my actual accessibility job), but I can't stop thinking about some recent posts from webcomic artists talking about how they do so many jobs (true). And thinking quietly: except alt text, often you - deliberately - don't do that
June 22, 2024 at 10:33 AM
Apologies for another post about alt text (it is such a tiny portion of my actual accessibility job), but I can't stop thinking about some recent posts from webcomic artists talking about how they do so many jobs (true). And thinking quietly: except alt text, often you - deliberately - don't do that
I used "what if they could do this on the couch" instead of "this needs to be responsive for accessibility" and the same UX team that ignored the legal requirement last week loves this cool couch idea 😑 #a11y
June 21, 2024 at 3:29 PM
I used "what if they could do this on the couch" instead of "this needs to be responsive for accessibility" and the same UX team that ignored the legal requirement last week loves this cool couch idea 😑 #a11y
Saw a popular poster do some very bad alt text on purpose, so I immediately subscribed to the Bad Accessibility / Alt Text Labeler on here. Not sure how long I'll want to have everything set to hidden, but as a side effect it's definitely removed some of the more annoying posts from my feed, #a11y
June 19, 2024 at 4:30 AM
Saw a popular poster do some very bad alt text on purpose, so I immediately subscribed to the Bad Accessibility / Alt Text Labeler on here. Not sure how long I'll want to have everything set to hidden, but as a side effect it's definitely removed some of the more annoying posts from my feed, #a11y
I was on a project recently with some UX folks who were very excited to use AI art for the graphics in their designs and it was pretty bleak, like, hey if you like THAT just wait
June 13, 2024 at 12:02 PM
I was on a project recently with some UX folks who were very excited to use AI art for the graphics in their designs and it was pretty bleak, like, hey if you like THAT just wait
Waking up and sighing as I see a well-meaning Blueskyer reposting a meme with "here's the photo with photographer's credit, since SOME of you aren't appreciating the artist" and giving that photo some of the worst alt text I've ever seen.
June 5, 2024 at 10:36 AM
Waking up and sighing as I see a well-meaning Blueskyer reposting a meme with "here's the photo with photographer's credit, since SOME of you aren't appreciating the artist" and giving that photo some of the worst alt text I've ever seen.
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password protect staging website how to
can entire websites have passwords
private website how to
May 22, 2024 at 5:36 AM
password protect website
password protect staging website how to
can entire websites have passwords
private website how to
password protect staging website how to
can entire websites have passwords
private website how to
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“You can add this string of random shit to your Google searches to make them work” it’s been several years since I first noted that having to do little hacks and workarounds in order to make a product work as it should is utterly fucking stupid
May 21, 2024 at 11:38 PM
“You can add this string of random shit to your Google searches to make them work” it’s been several years since I first noted that having to do little hacks and workarounds in order to make a product work as it should is utterly fucking stupid
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Gotta admit it's kind of wild to me how people used to go after VCs for pushing for minimally viable products and now huge established tech companies with critical infrastructure are like what if not even minimally viable let's just send it and see what happens
May 24, 2024 at 1:49 AM
Gotta admit it's kind of wild to me how people used to go after VCs for pushing for minimally viable products and now huge established tech companies with critical infrastructure are like what if not even minimally viable let's just send it and see what happens
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I hope whoever invented the MacOS feature where shaking the mouse cursor makes it get real big so you can find it on the screen knows that they are a genius and I thank them every day
May 23, 2024 at 2:24 PM
I hope whoever invented the MacOS feature where shaking the mouse cursor makes it get real big so you can find it on the screen knows that they are a genius and I thank them every day
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Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller May 30,1963
May 30, 2024 at 6:03 PM
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller May 30,1963