and they were scared that the university would slash their funding deal if they were seen hiring “DEI” hires.

I guess making high quality, usable web apps is “woke” now or something.

Literally “making things easy to use” is considered woke now

I never heard back. So jobs worldwide are hurting.

I live in Australia and I was interviewing for a job here, halfway through the 4 interview long process they tell me they’re pausing “because of their funding deals with American universities”.

I’m an accessibility professional, I work on making web apps easy for everyone to use…

The people who arranged the event are not to blame. This seems (in my opinion) to be the university‘s extreme attempt to comply with HB 261 (Utah). To be clear, I would’ve been speaking as a private individual, not for the university.

That a hook for this piece is the photo of Sir Joh (a man whose gerrymandered racist regime finally collapsed in a comical miasma of corruption) in his office says a lot.

Personally I think saying the HPV vaccine was a bad a thing for young women should disqualify you from discussion as serious person worthy of ThinkPieces and yet here we are.