Ashlee 🤟🏻

For anyone who thinks AI is new, *MY MOM* wrote a bibliography of the literature on AI in 1959. Yes, MY 93-YEAR-OLD MOM. Yes, I'm proud of her. www.google.com/books/editio...

New newsletter issue will be hitting your inboxes shortly. It's a while since I last checked in, but you can start expecting more frequent emails (but too many) starting today. ✨

Rough day, will send tomorrow! #TheAccessibilityPond

Just a girl paying her Gerber premium that her Grandma purchased 2 weeks after she was born because her Grandma isn't here to pay it anymore

Hey it’s Wednesday! That means the next issue of #TheAccessibilityPond is going out when? Tomorrow! If you’d like to sign up or check out the latest issue, you can do it here: buttondown.com/the-accessib.... Last week, I outlined my 90-day plan for the pond and my first 6 months in AGWG.

Accessibility Guidelines Working Group minutes for October 20, 2026: www.w3.org/2026/10/20-a.... #a11y #accessibility #wcag

WCAG 3 Guidance Documents Task Force minutes for October 19, 2026: www.w3.org/2026/10/19-a.... #a11y #accessibility #wcag

Ooooooooo I'm adding this to the top of my reading list. Sociolinguistic Pathways in Sign Languages: Studies in Honor of Ceil Lucas. Published September 2026 gupress.gallaudet.edu/Books/S/Soci...

This is EXCELLENT reporting

If October 2025 Ashlee could see where October 2026 Ashlee is 🥹

Tomorrow, October 16th, marks Practical Accessibility's third birthday. 🎂 To celebrate, I am gifting everybody 25% off for the next 48 hours 🎁 Individual and team licenses alike! The discount is automatically applied during checkout—no code is needed. 👉🏻 practical-accessibility.today Enjoy! #a11y

Braille maps for all the bathrooms, even the dog bathrooms! The Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport is the first US airport to install tactile maps by every restroom. Which airport should be next? #AccessibleTravel #a11y youtube.com/shorts/7piRe...

Issue #3 of #TheAccessibilityPond is out! What's in store this week: - The Pond’s first 90 days - My first 6 months as a W3C Invited Expert - My week in AGWG buttondown.com/the-accessib...

Indianapolis feels kinda inaccurate tbh 😭

Dang! Wrote the next issue of #TheAccessibilityPond. I’m sending it out either tomorrow or Thursday! Where to sign up if you want it in your inbox: buttondown.com/the-accessib...

Is "we're just getting started" a gen-AI signal now?

I think I'd completely forgotten how to blog for a couple years there but the feeling might finally be coming back to me?? I hope, because if so that's a lovely sign from the executive function part of my brain!

Before we totally abolish DHS, let’s outline accessibility impacts that’d have if not mitigated: The DHS Trusted Tester Process is one approach to testing accessibility to Section 508 (legally required in US edu and gov). DHS offers training & certification for identifying trusted testers.

Nearly 400,000 people in Indiana have paid to have their license plates easier for flock cameras to read. 👍🏻 www.wfyi.org/statewide/20...

Is there a database of book cover descriptions somewhere? Sometimes book covers are too niche for me to describe on my own. (For alt text accessibility.)

Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent

Miss her terribly 💔

Think I’ll have to make photo essays be part of my first book. This strip of Franklin Road has so many memories. Like this specific DQ where I got countless medium vanilla cones dipped in chocolate. Across the street I got foil-wrapped Hershey bars and Extra gum. And tiger tails at Village Pantry.

I have so much I want to write about my Grandma that doesn't feel within reach because her estate isn't closed. Please send all the good vibes, prayers, whatever you believe in... because I need this chapter to end so I can move to the next chapter of my healing.

The final days my Grandma was in the cardiac ICU, I was so grateful the nurses didn't seem to care a bit about visiting hours. They saw me in pain and let me sleep in her room. On her last night, I'd driven back after being at the hospital most of the day. One nurse said I must've felt pulled back.

In the first year of my big grief, markings of time passed were painful because they marked “firsts.” First fall. First Thanksgiving. First birthday. First Christmas. In the second year of my big grief, it all still hurts, but I also find myself hurting for the people going through their first.

Update: I joined the new WCAG 3 Guidance Documents Task Force! We had our inaugural meeting yesterday (6 October 2026). www.w3.org/groups/tf/wc...

Anyone have #Alt4Me? No captions on this video. Transcript fine!

In a meeting today I blurted “I don’t like black and white, give me nuance or give me death!” 😂

Support your local news sites instead.

Imagine paying $100 and all you get is your personal data leaked 😬

What he had to say about the 1933 Rothschilds FDA going after radium water instead of “vaxxines, dirty electricity, or pesticides”: “Gee I wonder why… healthy people don’t yield large profits” More people need to learn about the eugenics era. They wanted people healthy enough to work jobs.

Mixed feelings about this one. The Arday case is painful, and I get vulnerable in this piece. But the message is important, and it draws some of my favorite research, led by Brittany Torrez with @mwkraus.bsky.social . My latest, in Times Higher Ed. www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/blac...

My Grandma has visited me in multiple dreams the past week 💜

It’s almost midnight on a Thursday and I’m happily sipping on red wine while reading and taking notes on Fink’s Taxonomy of Significant Learning. Little Ashlee would love knowing what a nerd we become.

I wonder just how significantly anti-friction perspectives in (agile) software engineering have influenced the negative connotations of friction in (web) accessibility.

Fifth Third was my first bank 😂

Please no 😫

I'm learning how to use Blender because I just started playing House Flipper and want to create custom objects. I made a coffee mug!

I meant to type "linkedin" but searched "link" on duckduckgo instead and it showed me the duck dressed as Link!!

Does he need to wear a tan suit for there to be public outcry from the right

Mitch McConnell disappeared for three months & kept his full salary. Disabled people are forced to prove they’re “still disabled” just to remain in legislated poverty. Folks on SNAP must re-apply and prove they’re “still poor”. Republican Senators don’t even have to prove they’re alive.

If there's one thing I miss about being on a college campus (there are several reasons actually) it's having a printer within a few hundred feet at all times 🖨️