Elizabeth Schafer
@elizschafer.bsky.social
frontend software engineer @ hoopla
inclusive design and accessibility
equity and justice
she/her
inclusive design and accessibility
equity and justice
she/her
Meta Staff Engineer Shares Tips on Writing Better Code
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May 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The Brookline School Committee voted to eliminate the Office of Educational Equity, which provides critical support for underserved students and educators. A coalition is working to restore it and has raised $85K so far. Help them keep this vital work alive:
secure.givelively.org/donate/brook...
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March 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The Brookline School Committee voted to eliminate the Office of Educational Equity, which provides critical support for underserved students and educators. A coalition is working to restore it and has raised $85K so far. Help them keep this vital work alive:
secure.givelively.org/donate/brook...
secure.givelively.org/donate/brook...
Move fast, fix things 🙌
March 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Move fast, fix things 🙌
My team is starting to put serious effort into accessibility – so pumped about this! I've missed doing this kind of work, it's so rewarding.
February 20, 2025 at 7:26 PM
My team is starting to put serious effort into accessibility – so pumped about this! I've missed doing this kind of work, it's so rewarding.
me: what's a better name for this function?
github copilot: let me just write out the entire file and hide my suggestion somewhere inside
github copilot: let me just write out the entire file and hide my suggestion somewhere inside
February 18, 2025 at 11:15 PM
me: what's a better name for this function?
github copilot: let me just write out the entire file and hide my suggestion somewhere inside
github copilot: let me just write out the entire file and hide my suggestion somewhere inside
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Accessibility fuckin’ rocks
this haptic display absolutely rocks. basketball is for everyone.
February 7, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Accessibility fuckin’ rocks
Reposted by Elizabeth Schafer
In spite of what's happening here, international accessibility laws are still a thing. Companies who serve foreign markets still have to comply or face enforcement. One such is the EAA set to be enforced starting June 28th, 2025.
#a11y #EAA
employment-social-affairs.ec.europa.eu/policies-and...
#a11y #EAA
employment-social-affairs.ec.europa.eu/policies-and...
European accessibility act
The European accessibility act is a directive that aims to improve the functioning of the internal market for accessible products and services, by removing barriers created by divergent rules in Membe...
employment-social-affairs.ec.europa.eu
January 29, 2025 at 1:58 AM
In spite of what's happening here, international accessibility laws are still a thing. Companies who serve foreign markets still have to comply or face enforcement. One such is the EAA set to be enforced starting June 28th, 2025.
#a11y #EAA
employment-social-affairs.ec.europa.eu/policies-and...
#a11y #EAA
employment-social-affairs.ec.europa.eu/policies-and...
Reposted by Elizabeth Schafer
Bottom vs top, not left vs right.
January 24, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Bottom vs top, not left vs right.
It's been eye-opening to see all the cross-cultural communication happening on xiaohongshu. I love it!
看到小红书上发生的跨文化交流真是令人大开眼界。我喜欢它！
看到小红书上发生的跨文化交流真是令人大开眼界。我喜欢它！
January 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
It's been eye-opening to see all the cross-cultural communication happening on xiaohongshu. I love it!
看到小红书上发生的跨文化交流真是令人大开眼界。我喜欢它！
看到小红书上发生的跨文化交流真是令人大开眼界。我喜欢它！
Today's a great day to download your data and delete all your meta accounts 💖✨
January 19, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Today's a great day to download your data and delete all your meta accounts 💖✨
Deeply uncomfortable with how the Telepathy Tapes frames things: if you’re skeptical of their methods for proving these kids are telepathic, they suggest you must think the kids aren’t intelligent. But intelligence and telepathy aren’t the same thing, and it’s absurd to conflate them.
December 27, 2024 at 7:25 PM
Deeply uncomfortable with how the Telepathy Tapes frames things: if you’re skeptical of their methods for proving these kids are telepathic, they suggest you must think the kids aren’t intelligent. But intelligence and telepathy aren’t the same thing, and it’s absurd to conflate them.
Reposted by Elizabeth Schafer
@ashleemboyer.com’s response to an “AI”-enabled “accessibility” product is very good, and worth your time: ashleemboyer.com/blog/how-to-...
How to Dehumanize Accessibility with AI | Ashlee M Boyer
Hire disabled people, not AI-generated caricatures.
ashleemboyer.com
December 23, 2024 at 1:38 PM
@ashleemboyer.com’s response to an “AI”-enabled “accessibility” product is very good, and worth your time: ashleemboyer.com/blog/how-to-...
Reposted by Elizabeth Schafer
We're investigating health insurance denials. If you want to share your insights, here's how:
Do You Have Insights Into Dental and Health Insurance Denials? Help Us Report on the System.
Insurers deny tens of millions of claims every year. ProPublica is investigating why claims are denied, what the consequences are for patients and how the appeal process really works.
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December 15, 2024 at 6:30 PM
We're investigating health insurance denials. If you want to share your insights, here's how:
Telling myself I don’t *have* to work in an attempt to trick myself into working.
November 20, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Telling myself I don’t *have* to work in an attempt to trick myself into working.
I'm really loving that we can hear audience reactions over zoom for #BrooklineTownMeeting. Usually background noise like that is cut out, and it's caused a lot of confusion for me in the past.
November 20, 2024 at 12:43 AM
I'm really loving that we can hear audience reactions over zoom for #BrooklineTownMeeting. Usually background noise like that is cut out, and it's caused a lot of confusion for me in the past.
I hope Bluesky will eventually have private lists. I follow completely different groups of people and want to be able to filter posts by group, but I don’t particularly want to do that publicly.
November 17, 2024 at 7:58 PM
I hope Bluesky will eventually have private lists. I follow completely different groups of people and want to be able to filter posts by group, but I don’t particularly want to do that publicly.
Ooooh, excited to see web dev / accessibility activity on here!
October 22, 2024 at 2:26 AM
Ooooh, excited to see web dev / accessibility activity on here!