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Inclusive designer, writer, speaker. Helping good ideas become more accessible (he/they) See also:

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    16 Nov 2017

    📢 ANNOUNCEMENT: In the new year, I want to help organizations doing good in the world with inclusive design and development. If that's you, or you know someone, please get in touch! (RTs appreciated 🙏) 👉 

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  2. 9 hours ago

    I'm sick of the term UX. It's completely meaningless.

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  3. 10 hours ago

    Thank you next

    Great to meet today in my office with California AIPAC leaders to discuss the need for a strong U.S.-Israel alliance, the right of Israel to defend itself, and my commitment to combat anti-Semitism in our country and around the world.
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  4. 11 hours ago

    Coda: everyone can be a dick (especially Mark, but also me). Give people a chance to redeem themselves, and if they don't: call them out on their dickification. Try not to be a dick, but if you're going to be a dick, be a dick only to dicks. Be a meta-dick. And use alt text.

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  5. 11 hours ago

    Denouements are most gratifying when they're anticipated, in my opinion.

    I am blocked from following Mark or reading Mark's tweets.
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  6. 11 hours ago

    Little reminder here, when he forgets to add alternative text again. I include examples of alternative text applied to screenshots from this thread (bit meta that, sorry).

    Tweet with multiple screenshots of our previous conversations. Tweet reads: We agreed the other day you would provide alt text? And not rely on others to do it for you? Here are a few examples to get you started. Cheers.
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  7. 11 hours ago

    Okay, then, let's see.

    I reply Okay, understood. I look forward to your creative alt texts! Thank you for listening.
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  8. 11 hours ago

    He assures me my assumption is correct (I already know it isn't because I've met people like Mark before). There is an astonishingly dickesque quality to this simple two word reply. I can't prove it, but he immediately folded his arms after writing it.

    His tweet simply reads, Good assumption.
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  9. 11 hours ago

    I send two replies. I want him to know how to actually activate alternative text. But I also want him to know that his attitude towards me, and the accessibility community on Twitter in general, is out of order.

    The first tweet reads: I don't follow. This is why you don't what? In any case, you can activate image description fields under Settings > Accessibility. A problem already solved ✌️
    The second tweet reads: I'm assuming you don't mean "I don't bother because someone else will do it for me" because that would be hugely entitled and lazy.
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  10. 11 hours ago

    "This is why I don't" he says. The implication is that he doesn't have to do it because some sucker like me will do it for him. He even provides an image without alt text. Exactly the sort of dicktacular behavior that should have been taught out of Mark in childhood.

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  11. 11 hours ago

    But, instead, he replies with this:

    His tweet reads "why I don't" and he cc's Twitter Support. The image included, of a man wearing a tie and pointing to camera, reads "Modern problems require modern solutions".
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  12. 11 hours ago

    A grown-up / reasonable response would have been something along the lines of "I should really try harder at that" or "I wasn't aware I could do that, sorry". Nobody is perfect, and I'm not someone who would expect everyone to be aware/good at this stuff off the bat.

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  13. 11 hours ago

    I can't see the original meme because blocked me (← dramatic irony). But not immediately. Here is my original reply, providing alternative text for him as an example.

    My tweet to Mark reads: Please use an image description for the blind. alt text = the power rangers Webpack, Babel, Typescript, React, and Emotion combine to form A static blog with 3 posts
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  14. 11 hours ago

    Thread: Here's what happened when I asked to add alternative text to his Twitter memes. Not to preempt my conceit too much, but he was a total dickface.

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  15. 11 hours ago

    "I'm sorry THAT YOU NEARLY GAVE ME A HEART ATTACK"

    I'm sorry
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  16. 12 hours ago

    Okay, that's it. No more engaging in right wing crap on Twitter. My engagement, no matter how negative, is counted as endorsement by advertising algorithms.

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  17. Retweeted
    17 hours ago

    Retweet to tell the will of the people has changed

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  18. 13 hours ago

    'different type of deal' is up there with 'alternative fact'

    Kate Hoey just told parliament she doesn't call No Deal 'No Deal' but a 'Different Type of Deal' that would take us out.
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  19. 13 hours ago

    I wonder what the alt right position is on Muslims protesting LGBT education. Exploded heads, probably.

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    13 hours ago

    An abandoned child becomes the most feared warrior of the North. And the time has once again come to wage war. Herja Blood-Axe is Battlemuff and no man stands in her way. Valkyries have blessed her people with one of their own.

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  21. 13 hours ago

    I just wrote to in support of including humanist content in 's Thought For The Day. It's long past time. You can write to him too:

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