Tom Starkey
@tstarkey1212.bsky.social
Roses are red
Poetry's sus
All your base belong to us
Poetry's sus
All your base belong to us
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"Learn Accessibility" is a course that takes you through the essentials for building accessible websites and web apps. Created for both beginners and advanced users, this course can be taken beginning to end, or used as a reference for specific topics.
web.dev/learn/access...
web.dev/learn/access...
Learn Accessibility | web.dev
An evergreen accessibility course and reference to level up your web development.
web.dev
May 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
"Learn Accessibility" is a course that takes you through the essentials for building accessible websites and web apps. Created for both beginners and advanced users, this course can be taken beginning to end, or used as a reference for specific topics.
web.dev/learn/access...
web.dev/learn/access...
Got an official plaque for the door to go with our poster. Think we've made it people.
May 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Got an official plaque for the door to go with our poster. Think we've made it people.
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Goodness, the relief of a more comfortable mouse! The left is the new one and it fits my hand SO much better! Equipment is important.
April 30, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Goodness, the relief of a more comfortable mouse! The left is the new one and it fits my hand SO much better! Equipment is important.
Bus driver waited for me to get sat down before setting off today.
Absolute bastard.
Absolute bastard.
April 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Bus driver waited for me to get sat down before setting off today.
Absolute bastard.
Absolute bastard.
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This can't just be fought by classroom teachers using industrial action. It needs the voices of the big MAT leaders putting pressure on the DfE and Ed Sec for the good of all. Those voices of influence need to be using that influence now.
Yikes. Schools pay review board set to propose a 4% pay rise but only 2.8% is funded. Schools would have to find an extra £300m+ if no extra funding on offer.
The Times: Reeves faces pay demand for teachers
and nurses #TomorrowsPapersToday
and nurses #TomorrowsPapersToday
April 28, 2025 at 6:23 AM
This can't just be fought by classroom teachers using industrial action. It needs the voices of the big MAT leaders putting pressure on the DfE and Ed Sec for the good of all. Those voices of influence need to be using that influence now.
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The Cape Town bus tour plays an amazing soundtrack with the commentary, including Toto's Africa (CD available). You've never truly heard Africa through headphones until you've heard it half way up Table Mountain through tinny earphones that only play max volume. Pure, unadulterated joy.
Songs that you really need headphones to appreciate properly.
1. Stolen Car. Beth Orton.
2. Teardrop. Massive Attack.
3. Idioteque. Radiohead.
4. Africa. Toto.
5. Hoppipolla. Sigur Ros.
1. Stolen Car. Beth Orton.
2. Teardrop. Massive Attack.
3. Idioteque. Radiohead.
4. Africa. Toto.
5. Hoppipolla. Sigur Ros.
April 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The Cape Town bus tour plays an amazing soundtrack with the commentary, including Toto's Africa (CD available). You've never truly heard Africa through headphones until you've heard it half way up Table Mountain through tinny earphones that only play max volume. Pure, unadulterated joy.
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Teachers in England with 5+ years’ experience — can you help a PhD student? She’s looking for detailed survey responses on career development (interviews also welcome).
forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
Microsoft Forms
forms.office.com
April 25, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Teachers in England with 5+ years’ experience — can you help a PhD student? She’s looking for detailed survey responses on career development (interviews also welcome).
forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
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One of the major logistical challenges will be preventing Holly Willoughby and Philip Schofield from queue-jumping.
Barriers at the basilica: the logistical challenges of Pope Francis’s funeral
Barriers at the basilica: the logistical challenges of Pope Francis’s funeral
Defence and security mechanisms are being across Rome as authorities expect crowds of up to 200,000 people
www.theguardian.com
April 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
One of the major logistical challenges will be preventing Holly Willoughby and Philip Schofield from queue-jumping.
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Dawn will be cremated this coming Sunday. So if you would like to quietly remember her sometime that day it would be a lovely thing to do.
April 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Dawn will be cremated this coming Sunday. So if you would like to quietly remember her sometime that day it would be a lovely thing to do.
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Chartability is a resource by @frank.computer to help make data visualizations and charts more accessible. It's organized into principles with testable criteria aimed at making sure people with disabilities are able to access data.
chartability.fizz.studio
chartability.fizz.studio
Chartability
chartability.fizz.studio
April 22, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Chartability is a resource by @frank.computer to help make data visualizations and charts more accessible. It's organized into principles with testable criteria aimed at making sure people with disabilities are able to access data.
chartability.fizz.studio
chartability.fizz.studio
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2) Retype' tool in Adobe Illustrator, which allows one to identify and select/add the same or similar font to your document in seconds.
April 23, 2025 at 10:10 AM
2) Retype' tool in Adobe Illustrator, which allows one to identify and select/add the same or similar font to your document in seconds.
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Two assistants I find useful ...
1) This summarises an image as text for alt-text - either long form or short - I do usually edit it to my own requirements but makes a good start.
asuo-ai-labs.streamlit.app/Image_Access...
1) This summarises an image as text for alt-text - either long form or short - I do usually edit it to my own requirements but makes a good start.
asuo-ai-labs.streamlit.app/Image_Access...
April 23, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Two assistants I find useful ...
1) This summarises an image as text for alt-text - either long form or short - I do usually edit it to my own requirements but makes a good start.
asuo-ai-labs.streamlit.app/Image_Access...
1) This summarises an image as text for alt-text - either long form or short - I do usually edit it to my own requirements but makes a good start.
asuo-ai-labs.streamlit.app/Image_Access...
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Also so honoured to be speaking at an event in Kristy's memory as she's the reason I'm a disability practitioner at all. I hope to do her legacy proud.
April 22, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Also so honoured to be speaking at an event in Kristy's memory as she's the reason I'm a disability practitioner at all. I hope to do her legacy proud.
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Off to Cambridge this morning to deliver the Kirsty Wayland Memorial Lecture this evening with my partner in competence standards crime @diervilla.bsky.social. Looking forward to catching up with some former colleagues and old friends! www.disability.admin.cam.ac.uk/working-disa...
Kirsty Wayland Memorial Disability Lecture
An annual disability lecture we hold in memorial of Kirsty Wayland.
www.disability.admin.cam.ac.uk
April 22, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Off to Cambridge this morning to deliver the Kirsty Wayland Memorial Lecture this evening with my partner in competence standards crime @diervilla.bsky.social. Looking forward to catching up with some former colleagues and old friends! www.disability.admin.cam.ac.uk/working-disa...
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Thank you. It’s a bit daunting. ‘Study Skills Survival Guide for Neurodivergent Learners.’ Catchy title 🤣 In production, published by Jessica Kingsley in Sept. Eeek.
April 21, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Thank you. It’s a bit daunting. ‘Study Skills Survival Guide for Neurodivergent Learners.’ Catchy title 🤣 In production, published by Jessica Kingsley in Sept. Eeek.
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My daughter's latest. I love the painting and also that she's painting Thom Yorke.
April 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
My daughter's latest. I love the painting and also that she's painting Thom Yorke.
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What's that? You'd like me to share some of my workflows because I'm so damn awesome? Stop it, I'm blushing. Ok then but just because it's you...
April 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
What's that? You'd like me to share some of my workflows because I'm so damn awesome? Stop it, I'm blushing. Ok then but just because it's you...
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I'm pretty much all-in with using an AI assistant at work as a productivity tool. Never had anything available to me that's as useful for daily tasks and is the biggest time saver since me adopting dictation.
April 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I'm pretty much all-in with using an AI assistant at work as a productivity tool. Never had anything available to me that's as useful for daily tasks and is the biggest time saver since me adopting dictation.
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Great news about your grandad, @tstarkey1212.bsky.social
Zak Starkey reinstated as The Who’s drummer, days after departure
Zak Starkey reinstated as The Who’s drummer, days after departure
Pete Townshend welcomes musician back into band after disagreement over his playing at Royal Albert Hall gig
Zak Starkey has been reinstated as The Who’s drummer just days after parting company with the band.
The group announced earlier this week that Starkey, the band’s drummer since 1996, was leaving over a disagreement about his playing at a Royal Albert Hall gig last month. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 19, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Great news about your grandad, @tstarkey1212.bsky.social
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I use a lot with students, for kind of ‘life skills’ stuff. It can help with feeling overwhelmed, if people don’t know where to start. Of course, needs checking, but ‘give me five healthy recipes for dinners under £5 per head’ can help!
April 19, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I use a lot with students, for kind of ‘life skills’ stuff. It can help with feeling overwhelmed, if people don’t know where to start. Of course, needs checking, but ‘give me five healthy recipes for dinners under £5 per head’ can help!
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As if Idris Elba wasn’t cool enough already now he’s creating assistive technology for actors with dyslexia. diginomica-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/diginomi...
#AXSChat #accessibility
#AXSChat #accessibility
How Idris Elba is acting on the need for assistive tech for dyslexia
The actor used his own experience of dyslexia to co-develop a script-reading app, highlighting the need for more workplace support for neurodiversity
diginomica-com.cdn.ampproject.org
April 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
As if Idris Elba wasn’t cool enough already now he’s creating assistive technology for actors with dyslexia. diginomica-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/diginomi...
#AXSChat #accessibility
#AXSChat #accessibility
I'm pretty much all-in with using an AI assistant at work as a productivity tool. Never had anything available to me that's as useful for daily tasks and is the biggest time saver since me adopting dictation.
April 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I'm pretty much all-in with using an AI assistant at work as a productivity tool. Never had anything available to me that's as useful for daily tasks and is the biggest time saver since me adopting dictation.
So I'm going to put this on an old netbook I've got lying about and then obviously that's going to let me write that blockbuster novel with no problems obviously tinker.sh
Tinker WriterDeck
A Writer Deck Operating System
tinker.sh
April 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
So I'm going to put this on an old netbook I've got lying about and then obviously that's going to let me write that blockbuster novel with no problems obviously tinker.sh
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Still trying to process that Dawn @missdcox.bsky.social
is no longer with us. Her impact on RE was huge & she shaped so much of my own practice. More than anything, I’ve lost a friend. Gutted we never took the trips we’d planned. I miss her laughter & support so much.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
is no longer with us. Her impact on RE was huge & she shaped so much of my own practice. More than anything, I’ve lost a friend. Gutted we never took the trips we’d planned. I miss her laughter & support so much.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Teacher Dawn Cox's death after car crash a 'terrible loss to education'
Dawn Cox, who was in a car crash, had a passion for improving outcomes for pupils, her family says
www.bbc.co.uk
April 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Still trying to process that Dawn @missdcox.bsky.social
is no longer with us. Her impact on RE was huge & she shaped so much of my own practice. More than anything, I’ve lost a friend. Gutted we never took the trips we’d planned. I miss her laughter & support so much.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
is no longer with us. Her impact on RE was huge & she shaped so much of my own practice. More than anything, I’ve lost a friend. Gutted we never took the trips we’d planned. I miss her laughter & support so much.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...