Elizabeth Neal
@efneal.bsky.social
My work life revolves around accessibility and user research. I also write books for children and young adults, watch too much TV, and love seeing alt-tagged pictures of your dogs. Profile picture is a selfie with our pittie petting my head. She/her.
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Elizabeth Neal
@efneal.bsky.social
· Nov 17
Hi, would you like to see how ridiculously cute our mutt was as a puppy?
Steady yourself.
Steady yourself.
Wake Up Dead Man was so good I'm not even mad about the missing comma.
I am filled with the spirit of forgiveness!
I am filled with the spirit of forgiveness!
November 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Wake Up Dead Man was so good I'm not even mad about the missing comma.
I am filled with the spirit of forgiveness!
I am filled with the spirit of forgiveness!
Happy Pie for Breakfast Day to all who celebrate.
November 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Happy Pie for Breakfast Day to all who celebrate.
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Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌
#Thanksgiving report: have already burned one pie. I'm grateful for a friend's suggestion to rebrand it as "aggressively caramelized." 😂
November 27, 2025 at 4:17 PM
#Thanksgiving report: have already burned one pie. I'm grateful for a friend's suggestion to rebrand it as "aggressively caramelized." 😂
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If you like a writer's work, tell them! Email, LinkedIn message, DM, even in person at an event. It can make a huge difference in their lives, especially right now with declining freelance budgets, layoffs, stagnant salaries, the threat of AI, and dwindling book advances.
November 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
If you like a writer's work, tell them! Email, LinkedIn message, DM, even in person at an event. It can make a huge difference in their lives, especially right now with declining freelance budgets, layoffs, stagnant salaries, the threat of AI, and dwindling book advances.
This is a very wholesome and cheering thread. ❤️
What is the best compliment you ever received? Putting aside whether or not you believed it.
November 26, 2025 at 6:25 PM
This is a very wholesome and cheering thread. ❤️
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Stunning. Archives are everything.
‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard University fights to preserve Black newspapers. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/... Last year, during a move, workers found two whole boxes of Frederick Douglass’s’ The North Star’s first year of publication.
‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard fights to preserve Black newspapers.
Across the United States, scholars are working to preserve the history of the Black press before the brittle pages are lost forever. In a basement at Howard University, uncovered treasures have includ...
www.csmonitor.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Stunning. Archives are everything.
Just thought you might need a regal mutt in your timeline.
November 12, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Just thought you might need a regal mutt in your timeline.
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There is a reason every "secret iOS setting" lifehacking article inevitably points to the Accessibility section of system preferences, folks.
October 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
There is a reason every "secret iOS setting" lifehacking article inevitably points to the Accessibility section of system preferences, folks.
Genuinely appreciate starting my day with burrowing owl content.
October 21, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Genuinely appreciate starting my day with burrowing owl content.
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The hashtag #accessibility allows you to find lots of accessibility-related resources on Twitter and LinkedIn. To find accessibility resources in Spanish, use the hashtag #accesibilidad. The hashtag #accessibilité helps you find resources in French.
October 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The hashtag #accessibility allows you to find lots of accessibility-related resources on Twitter and LinkedIn. To find accessibility resources in Spanish, use the hashtag #accesibilidad. The hashtag #accessibilité helps you find resources in French.
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Bookshop is offering 20 percent off select titles to celebrate Latin American Heritage Month, including THE BEWITCHING and other books (The Great Divide, Pink Slime, etc). Use code LHM25 at checkout to receive 20% off. bookshop.org/lists/adult-...
Adult Fiction Books to Celebrate Latine Heritage Month 2025
Celebrate Latine Heritage Month with Bookshop.org’s curated recommendations of Latine authors.
bookshop.org
September 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Bookshop is offering 20 percent off select titles to celebrate Latin American Heritage Month, including THE BEWITCHING and other books (The Great Divide, Pink Slime, etc). Use code LHM25 at checkout to receive 20% off. bookshop.org/lists/adult-...
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As we enter fall, it's so important that we tell everyone to leave those leaves! Mads Torres designed a poster to help us.
Lightning bugs are one of the most charismatic insects we've got. Actions we take to protect them protects many insects!
Get some to hang in your neighborhood!
Squidfacts.net
Lightning bugs are one of the most charismatic insects we've got. Actions we take to protect them protects many insects!
Get some to hang in your neighborhood!
Squidfacts.net
September 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
As we enter fall, it's so important that we tell everyone to leave those leaves! Mads Torres designed a poster to help us.
Lightning bugs are one of the most charismatic insects we've got. Actions we take to protect them protects many insects!
Get some to hang in your neighborhood!
Squidfacts.net
Lightning bugs are one of the most charismatic insects we've got. Actions we take to protect them protects many insects!
Get some to hang in your neighborhood!
Squidfacts.net
Our pittie sleeps in full Snoopy-dance formation.
September 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Our pittie sleeps in full Snoopy-dance formation.
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Hello, my beloved mutuals! Here is a quick thing you can do that will delight your followers and expand your reach:
1. Go to Settings.
2. Select "Accessibility."
3. Turn on the option to "require alt text before posting."
4. Get in the habit of describing your images.
5. Thrive.
1. Go to Settings.
2. Select "Accessibility."
3. Turn on the option to "require alt text before posting."
4. Get in the habit of describing your images.
5. Thrive.
December 20, 2024 at 9:30 PM
Hello, my beloved mutuals! Here is a quick thing you can do that will delight your followers and expand your reach:
1. Go to Settings.
2. Select "Accessibility."
3. Turn on the option to "require alt text before posting."
4. Get in the habit of describing your images.
5. Thrive.
1. Go to Settings.
2. Select "Accessibility."
3. Turn on the option to "require alt text before posting."
4. Get in the habit of describing your images.
5. Thrive.
Not to brag, but I am on a streak of three good library books in a row.
The first was "Nightwatching," by Tracy Sierra. So suspenseful I had to reach across the aisle of the plane a couple times to grab my husband's arm and hiss "this book is so scary!"
The first was "Nightwatching," by Tracy Sierra. So suspenseful I had to reach across the aisle of the plane a couple times to grab my husband's arm and hiss "this book is so scary!"
August 31, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Not to brag, but I am on a streak of three good library books in a row.
The first was "Nightwatching," by Tracy Sierra. So suspenseful I had to reach across the aisle of the plane a couple times to grab my husband's arm and hiss "this book is so scary!"
The first was "Nightwatching," by Tracy Sierra. So suspenseful I had to reach across the aisle of the plane a couple times to grab my husband's arm and hiss "this book is so scary!"
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Just FYI if you’re posting images of blobs of text, your device may have a little button that lets you copy all of that text so you can effortlessly put it all in the alt prompt, which allows for like 2000+ characters.
July 25, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Just FYI if you’re posting images of blobs of text, your device may have a little button that lets you copy all of that text so you can effortlessly put it all in the alt prompt, which allows for like 2000+ characters.
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mind the WCAG automation gap
"What can automated tools test without humans?"
#WCAG #accessibility #automation #AI #hype
html5accessibility.com/stuff/2025/0...
"What can automated tools test without humans?"
#WCAG #accessibility #automation #AI #hype
html5accessibility.com/stuff/2025/0...
mind the WCAG automation gap – HTML Accessibility
html5accessibility.com
July 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
mind the WCAG automation gap
"What can automated tools test without humans?"
#WCAG #accessibility #automation #AI #hype
html5accessibility.com/stuff/2025/0...
"What can automated tools test without humans?"
#WCAG #accessibility #automation #AI #hype
html5accessibility.com/stuff/2025/0...
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Describing images isn’t just accessibility, it’s human connection. Silvia Maggi reminds us that thoughtful alt text turns visuals into shared experiences.
silviamaggidesign.com/blog/from-hu...
#AltText #Accessibility #InclusiveDesign #A11y #DigitalAccessibility
silviamaggidesign.com/blog/from-hu...
#AltText #Accessibility #InclusiveDesign #A11y #DigitalAccessibility
Silvia Maggi Design - From human to human, describing images is the least you can do
The use of generated text might save time for who creates, but the results are lazy and unhelpful. Don’t be that person.
silviamaggidesign.com
July 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Describing images isn’t just accessibility, it’s human connection. Silvia Maggi reminds us that thoughtful alt text turns visuals into shared experiences.
silviamaggidesign.com/blog/from-hu...
#AltText #Accessibility #InclusiveDesign #A11y #DigitalAccessibility
silviamaggidesign.com/blog/from-hu...
#AltText #Accessibility #InclusiveDesign #A11y #DigitalAccessibility
Tell me your pettiest triumph.
Here's mine: a pretty daylily bloomed after I hacked away the invasive honeysuckle that had been smothering it.
#BloomScrolling
#PettyTriumphs
Here's mine: a pretty daylily bloomed after I hacked away the invasive honeysuckle that had been smothering it.
#BloomScrolling
#PettyTriumphs
July 11, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Tell me your pettiest triumph.
Here's mine: a pretty daylily bloomed after I hacked away the invasive honeysuckle that had been smothering it.
#BloomScrolling
#PettyTriumphs
Here's mine: a pretty daylily bloomed after I hacked away the invasive honeysuckle that had been smothering it.
#BloomScrolling
#PettyTriumphs
What I'm reading on the Fourth of July:
July 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
What I'm reading on the Fourth of July:
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Check out this new blog post from Dennis Massie highlighting how our amazing OCLC RLP SHARES community members on resource sharing teams work to boost accessibility in libraries! 💡📚 Must-read blog post on ILL, alt formats & inclusive partnerships. 🙌 #LibraryAccessibility #ILL #AccessForAll
Roles for resource sharing practitioners in making library materials accessible - Hanging Together
The OCLC Research Library Partnership and the SHARES resource sharing consortium are connecting library professionals to share strategies for improving accessibility. Read highlights from a recent web...
hangingtogether.org
July 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Check out this new blog post from Dennis Massie highlighting how our amazing OCLC RLP SHARES community members on resource sharing teams work to boost accessibility in libraries! 💡📚 Must-read blog post on ILL, alt formats & inclusive partnerships. 🙌 #LibraryAccessibility #ILL #AccessForAll
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If you're looking to hire people with accessibility knowledge and experience, the Accessibility Skills Hiring Toolkit created by Teach Access can help you. The toolkit provides language to use when writing job ads, and questions to ask when interviewing.
teachaccess.github.io/accessibilit...
teachaccess.github.io/accessibilit...
About the Toolkit
Teach Access provides the Accessibility Skills Hiring Toolkit to help organizations build internal capacity for producing accessible digital products by developing a knowledgeable and skilled workforc...
teachaccess.github.io
July 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
If you're looking to hire people with accessibility knowledge and experience, the Accessibility Skills Hiring Toolkit created by Teach Access can help you. The toolkit provides language to use when writing job ads, and questions to ask when interviewing.
teachaccess.github.io/accessibilit...
teachaccess.github.io/accessibilit...
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In hashtags, it helps if each new word starts with a capital letter. Otherwise, sighted users could see a string of letters and not immediately know where one word ends and a new word begins. Capitalized words also help screen readers properly read out the hashtag.
June 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
In hashtags, it helps if each new word starts with a capital letter. Otherwise, sighted users could see a string of letters and not immediately know where one word ends and a new word begins. Capitalized words also help screen readers properly read out the hashtag.
Life with an elderly dog means trying not to go downstairs because she *will* follow you, and you don't want her to have to navigate the stairs too many times in a day.
June 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Life with an elderly dog means trying not to go downstairs because she *will* follow you, and you don't want her to have to navigate the stairs too many times in a day.