Types of Poor Accessibility Paper.
Full post including a guide to adding image descriptions on Twitter: axbom.com/memeaccess/
#a11y #accessibility
And yes, yes you may use this image, download it, retweet it, print it, share it with friends, illustrate your presentations and teach with. This image wants to travel. 🥰
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@ibalilebali @Abebab This is so good. I added it as a second example in this post, along with an image description for each of the headlines.
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@stefanjacobs123 @DrZimmermann Thanks. I've worked with digital accessibility since the early 2000s :)
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@Krux_22 @ibrahim_al_al @IdaOstenberg @piratpartiet 👍 Jag tror också de skulle vinna massor på namnbyte. Finns så mycket bra där men för många som avfärdar dem bara baserat på namnet.
May is supposedly the month Clubhouse releases their Android app. 🤞
I know Clubhouse has its shortcomings, and I've talked about many of them, but Clubhouse has also introduced me to so many people w visual impairments I have been honored to learn from.
I'm @axbom on there. 👋
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@weylandswart Thank you for the encouragement Weyland! I obviously need to make something more official out of this. But it’s definitely a project I would want to start working on asap.
Found myself writing a book outline on a whim…
#TheElementsOfDigitalEthics
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@DrZimmermann Thank you, this was really good and will be powerful for use in class with students. I published an image description of the cartoon to make the content available to people using screen readers:
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@Johan_QL2 For being first with a safety strap we have to back up further. This article does a good job of summarising. The Vattenfall version is the one Saab first used. I recommend the whole article for key insights on why Bohlin's design is unique: independent.co.uk/life-style/mot…
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@stendec6 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimate seat belts save more than 11,000 lives each year. By looking at a representative number of accidents, and fatality rates with and without seatbelt use, many countries provide this type of data.
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@EmilOberg @stephenhay I was born in Liberia :) My father worked for LAMCO (Liberian American-Swedish Mining Company) in the north of Liberia. LAMCO built the Yekepa hospital in the 60s and that is where I saw light of day for the first time.
@EmilOberg @stephenhay Since I write in both English and Swedish I sometimes use the Liberian flag to signify English-language content (it's the official language there too) but I think most people assume it's a symbolic US flag. Happy you noticed :)
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@stephenhay @uxlx @bigmediumjosh @beantin Haha! 😅 The future is now,
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@stephenhay @uxlx @bigmediumjosh @beantin Oh wow! That takes me back. I moved on from those but really haven't been using business cards over the past few years. Now I want them back!
This was my most recent design:
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#Technosolutionism
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@MissIG_Geek It's still going strong. Despite this research the new dummies aren't in use.
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@MissIG_Geek You were too fast for the second tweet in my thread :)
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The Swedish engineer Nils Bohlin invented the 3-point seatbelt in 1959. In 2002, the year of Bohlin's death, it was estimated the seatbelt had saved more than one million lives. The design was given away for free to competitors, for the benefit of humanity rather than profit.
In 2012 a Swedish researcher, Anna Carlsson, created the first prototype of a crash test dummy with a female body shape. This after it was found that women had a 47% higher chance of suffering serious injuries in car crashes.
cnet.com/news/world-get…
62 years after the seatbelt was invented, the safety of women in cars is still not a priority, and dummies with a female body shape are not in general use in tests, despite all the available data showing how a higher percentage of women die / are injured.
discovermagazine.com/technology/why…
The same structures, culture and powers of exclusion that so readily risk the safety of women in everyday vehicles are equally present in everyday digital tools and services. In this post I outline the elements of digital ethics that impact wellbeing.
axbom.com/elements/
On this topic you may "enjoy" this clip from the Daily Show showcasing common objections to seatbelt mandates in the 1980s.
