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Steve Faulkner

@stevefaulkner.bsky.social

🍭 LAST WEEK IN WAI - 3-9th November 2025

Each week I get a ton of mailing list emails and a load of github emails related to issues and discussions going in the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative A few bubble up and pique my interest

#a11y #WCAG #WebStandards

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LAST WEEK IN WAI – HTML Accessibility

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November 11, 2025 at 5:49 PM

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TetraLogical

@tetralogical.com

Accessibility works best when it is part of the design process, not added later. Our Design Review service helps teams create inclusive designs from the beginning.

Find out how a Design Review can strengthen your approach at tetralogical.com/services/design-reviews or email hello@tetralogical.com.

"TetraLogical are the absolute experts in the field: there's no accessibility question they can't answer." Sarah Corney, Head of Digital Experience, The CIPD

November 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM

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Alastair Somerville

@acuity.design

BBC holds a consensus reality space that a lot of people dislike the BBC for a number of reasons and appreciate specific parts of its many services. Without BBC, we lose that space. We shrink our shared cultural commons.

November 11, 2025 at 12:44 PM

Steve Faulkner

@stevefaulkner.bsky.social

Cognitive disonnence defined:
#Trump accusing the #BBC of being fake news

November 11, 2025 at 12:27 PM

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LBC

@lbc.co.uk

'I don't want people thinking I am racist.'

Caller Julie explains why she threw her Union Flag t-shirt in the bin.

November 11, 2025 at 12:22 PM

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Piccalilli

@piccalil.li

The majority of us are a bunch of self taught people with rather spotty knowledge and that's fine! Kilian (also self taught) is here to share some of the computer science fundamentals you probably are missing with the aim to improve your code in the long term.

piccalil.li/blog/program...

Programming principles for self taught front-end developers

The majority of us are a bunch of self taught people with rather spotty knowledge and that's fine! Kilian (also self taught) is here to share some of the computer science fundamentals you probably are...

piccalil.li

November 11, 2025 at 11:36 AM

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Sara Soueidan

@sarasoueidan.com

This Thursday November 13th, I will be joining the OZeWAI (an Australian Web Accessibility initiative) on their Ask The Professionals Webinar to talk all about #ARIA, along with Rafal Charlampowicz and Andrew Downie. The session will be moderated by Russ Weakley.

#a11y

OZeWAI - Accessibility testing: ARIA, Ask the Professionals - 13 November 2025

OZeWAI hosts a panel of specialists to share tips and tricks on mobile and app accessibility testing.

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November 11, 2025 at 8:21 AM

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Russ Jones

@russincheshire.bsky.social

Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China."

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds

World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity

www.theguardian.com

November 11, 2025 at 7:08 AM

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George Monbiot

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social

This accidentally turned into a short thread. Bit of a rage-thread I'm afraid. Please read to the end if you can. Thanks

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

November 10, 2025 at 6:16 AM

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George Monbiot

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM

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Craig R. Brittain

@craigbrittain.com

Michael Bennet: I really am a Bolshevik. I believe we should provide universal healthcare to all Americans as a right. There is no reason not to do it in the richest country in the world, especially if we can do it at half of the cost of care we are providing now.

November 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM

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Adrian Roselli, pH0

@aardrian.bsky.social

I have WCAG shirts for sale.

One that moves the “Punch Nazis” to the same line (this one’s new), but available in white on whatever and black on whatever.

And two variations of the MASH logo (yellow or black text).

Get them as weird holiday gifts!

aardrian.threadless.com/collections/...

Stacked vertically in white Helvetica on a unisex blue tee: “Perceivable & Operable & Understandable & Robust & Punch Nazis.”

Printed in yellow stencil text on a brown unisex tee: “W*C*A*G.”

November 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM

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Just Jack

@just-jack-1.bsky.social

If you think the people throwing Great Gatsby-esque parties for themselves, while millions were denied their food assistance, are all of a sudden going to grow a conscience and save affordable healthcare, you clearly have not been paying attention.

November 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM

Steve Faulkner

@stevefaulkner.bsky.social

👁️‍🗨️ Reading - JAWS mailing list: Glen Gordon Has Left Vispero

#a11y #tech #politics

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jfw.groups.io

November 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM

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Steve Faulkner

@stevefaulkner.bsky.social

A conversation with @patrickhlauke.bsky.social on Wokeness, AI, disability, @w3c.bsky.social, WCAG and other stuff

November 10, 2025 at 9:15 AM

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George Monbiot

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social

When was the last time anyone at the BBC had to resign for misrepresenting a leftwinger?

November 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM

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deconspray

@deconspray.bsky.social

Weekly reading list from Ricky Onsman serves up sharp insights on digital accessibility & inclusive design. Dive in, find your takeaway & share which idea challenged your thinking or sparked fresh action.

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#DigitalAccessibility #InclusiveDesign #WebAccessibility #WCAG #UX #A11y

Weekly Reading List November 10 2025 - TPGi — a Vispero company

A weekly roundup of links to digital accessibility industry news, posted every Monday. Compiled by Ricky Onsman.

www.tpgi.com

November 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM

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Governor Gavin Newsom

@governor.ca.gov

Tonight’s Senate vote on the federal government shutdown should have been a time for strength.

Instead we saw capitulation and a betrayal of working Americans.

The American people need more from their leaders.

November 10, 2025 at 6:20 AM

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Black Aziz Anansi

@blackazizanansi.blacksky.app

A lot of yall think that we can just vote our way back to pre Nov 2016, and we are so far gone beyond that point...

November 10, 2025 at 6:25 AM

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The Onion

@theonion.com

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM

Steve Faulkner

@stevefaulkner.bsky.social

A conversation with @patrickhlauke.bsky.social on Wokeness, AI, disability, @w3c.bsky.social, WCAG and other stuff

November 10, 2025 at 9:15 AM

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Tim Onion

@bencollins.bsky.social

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM

Steve Faulkner

@stevefaulkner.bsky.social

📺 Watching the next American Revolution 🇺🇸 unfold from a distance, it’s still up close enough for it to feel visceral & a sure sign that it will have a major effect on many lives, including mine. I don’t have the foresight to see likely outcomes, but i don’t have a good feeling about any of them.

November 9, 2025 at 11:55 PM