This. Blind and visually impaired people fear smart glasses backlash:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmx2qlz7ney2o

PerlBod and I have embarked on a mission to get rid of our Echo devices and use Home Assistant instead:
https://www.home-assistant.io/

The basic platform is up and running on a Raspberry Pi 5. Now just waiting for some sensors and voice i/o hardware to turn-up before I can tackle the voice assistant bit.

Can anyone recommend an Air-to-Air pump fitter that covers the Bristol (UK) area? Note that these are not the same as the Air-to-Water heat pumps that just handle heating - which is, it seems, why they're few and far between. TIA.

📣 W3C and Marsh are excited to announce the Dublin Developer Meetup! Held alongside TPAC 2026, the event brings together Dublin’s developer community and @w3c members for inspiring tech talks by @tink, @Yoav and @patrickbrosset.

Register now and join us on Monday 26 October in #Dublin 🇮🇪
▶️ https://www.w3.org/events/meetups/2026/dublin-developer-meetup/

Participation in the meetup is open to everyone at no cost. Space is limited!

We gratefully thank Marsh for hosting the event.

#w3cTPAC #WebPerformance #AI #a11y #WebMCP

I've been re-elected to the @w3c Board of Directors for another term:
https://www.w3.org/news/2026/consortium-members-elect-board-of-directors/

Thank you to everyone who voted - the open web only stays open because people show-up!

Now, I'm looking forward to contributing towards W3C's corporate governance for another two years.

Just got my annual COVID booster 💉 💪

Proud (and grateful) that at @TetraLogical our COVID and Flu Vaccine policies mean anyone not eligible to get them on the NHS can claim 100% on expenses.

📢 Two of @w3c’s most commonly used IRC bots, RRSAgent and Zakim, are now open source. These bots have assisted over 60,000 meetings at W3C over the past 25 years! 😊🎉

▶️ https://www.w3.org/blog/2026/w3c-irc-bots-now-open-source/ - by @gerald

Zakim is for agenda and queue management and RRSAgent for recording minutes. Their code and issue trackers are on #GitHub:
- https://github.com/w3c/zakim
- https://github.com/w3c/rrsagent
#OpenSource

👇From a T-shirt designed by @karlcow to thank W3C group chairs back in 2008!

If you caught the Inclusive Design 24 @inclusivedesign24 #id24 talk with Lainey Feingold, Léonie Watson, Shilpi Kapoor, Meena Das, Jutta Treviranus, and Sheri Byrne-Haber, you can find out more about the book Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion In All Things Tech, here:
https://www.lflegal.com/book/digital-accessibility-ethics/

#accessibility #ethics #digital

Two great points from Sheri Byrne-Haber
at Inclusive Design 24 #id24

"Procurement is the secret sauce for every organization because it lets them vote with their pocket books"

"You are liable for the organizations you choose to do business with"

#accessibility #ethics

"AI represents the most confounding ethical dilemma when it comes to disability" ~ Jutta Treviranus at Inclusive Design 24 #id24

This. So much.

#AI #inclusion#ethics

Our first Inclusive Design 24 talk is a panel discussion with Lainey Feingold, Léonie Watson, Shilpi Kapoor, Meena Das, Jutta Treviranus, and Sheri Byrne-Haber, all speaking about Digital Accessibility Ethics as a a new framework to advance accessibility. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVTGHP5m0a8&list=PLFbG3UWnuE3U #id24 #a11y #accessibility #InclusiveDesign

Boom! Inclusive Design 24 @inclusivedesign24 #id24 2026 is live!

Schedule with automatic time conversion, here:
https://inclusivedesign24.org/2026/schedule

#accessibility #inclusive #design #free

Inclusive Design 24 #id24 @inclusivedesign24 kicks-off at 12:30 UTC with the pre-show look at everything to come over the next 24 hours.

Spoiler alert: it's 24 free talks about everything #accessibility and #inclusive #design

No idea when UTC is? The schedule has you covered, with automatic time conversion:
https://inclusivedesign24.org/

Inclusive Design 24 would like to thank its platinum supporter, Intopia. #id24 #a11y #accessibility #InclusiveDesign https://intopia.digital/

Are you ready? Inclusive Design 24 (@inclusivedesign24) #id24 is on 24 September.

It's a #free 24-hour online event for the global community, with no registration required, but with built-in time conversion so you know when to show up, no matter where you are:

https://inclusivedesign24.org/2026/schedule/

#accessibility #inclusion #international #community

Track two.

“GeneratimondayMixtapem astonishingly real, but like the spoon in The Matrix, it’s just an illusion.”

Léonie Watson (@tink), on our stage in Düsseldorf last year.

She asked ChatGPT for the HTML for an accessible button. It could not produce one. Her point was not that the tools are useless, but the promise that they will build a tailored interface for a screen reader user is not a promise at all.

The full talk, with transcript: https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2025/speakers/leonie-watson

#btconf #mondayMixtape

We've rounded up all the resources the @TetraLogical team has put together and put them all in one place (with more to come):
https://tetralogical.com/resources/

#accessibility #resources

“Accessibility is resistance!” by @tink

https://tink.uk/accessibility-is-resistance/

RNLI volunteer lifeboat crews and lifeguards have saved more than 147,000 lives since 1824.

Now they're being targeted by Fascists in black shirts and balaclavas for rescuing migrants.

I've just donated to the RNLI to support their work and let them know they're not alone.
https://rnli.org/support-us/give-money/donate

#Portsmouth #resistance

Did you know Inclusive Design 24 sells swag? You can check it out on TeePublic, proceeds go towards helping run future editions. #id24 #accessibility #InclusiveDesign https://www.teepublic.com/user/inclusivedesign24