Léonie

@LeonieWatson

Director and co-founder of ; accessibility engineer; WebApps WG co-chair; screen reader user, tequila drinker and crime fiction junkie.

Bristol, UK
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Joined March 2009
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    6 hours ago

    The other sinister thing about accessibility overlays: they thrive because (non-disabled) people want to believe they can press a magic button to remove systematic barriers. Anything sounds better than meaningful, continuous work to repair the damage of ableism.

    If your product promises to “automate” accessibility with an overlay, please know this: I do not like you. Ableism is essential to your profit model. You actively and deliberately harm disabled users and the web. I will not network with you. I will not endorse your product.
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    3 hours ago

    📣 We are looking for volunteers among those who use the current W3C website, to take a short user survey: The survey is open until Wednesday, May 20. Thank you! and RT appreciated!

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    6 hours ago

    Exceedingly short note on CSS :before text content as accessible name

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    7 hours ago

    If your product promises to “automate” accessibility with an overlay, please know this: I do not like you. Ableism is essential to your profit model. You actively and deliberately harm disabled users and the web. I will not network with you. I will not endorse your product.

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  5. 6 hours ago

    Can anyone who uses TWBlue tell me how to find the URL of a tweet, as in where to find the tweet on the Twitter website?

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  6. Retweeted
    8 hours ago

    Rethinking Color and Contrast, by for 2017.

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    9 hours ago

    Do you download source and build tools and run the compiler every time you run an app on your desktop? No? Then why is it fine to make web users do it? An intemperate rant aimed at the non-thinking bits of the web industry. (And not Gentoo, which is fine.)

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  8. 8 hours ago

    *bump*

    Reminder that we're looking for a UK based experienced accessibility specialist to join our team. Job description and other information here:
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  9. Retweeted
    May 10

    I am a junior researcher in Neuroscience / Psychology / Psychiatry, keen to find out what people (like myself) *really* want from research. So, I am , if I could do any study in the world for you, what would you like it to be? Please RT! 🏳️‍🌈

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    11 hours ago

    Excellent read laying out the pitfalls with ‘modern’ frontend single page application architecture. 99% of the time you can do it on the server which is better in terms of performance, reliability, accessibility, usability and cost. I just wish it was cool to be boring.

    okay i mulled over this idea in my head for a month and then just sat down and wrote this in one pass without switching tabs so here it is, raw and extra spicy: "Second guessing the modern web"
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    21 hours ago

    If your workplace isn’t safe, you don’t have to work there. Section 44 of the 1996 Employment Rights Act is clear on this. Stay home, save lives.

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  12. 10 hours ago

    Little Richard: Good Golly Miss Molly

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    May 10

    Germany have handled the Covid-19 outbreak incredibly well, but even they have seen infections rise above R=1 when easing the lockdown. Please RT if you’re happy for our lockdown to stay in place for as long as it takes.

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    May 10

    Please don’t be too distracted by the new slogan. The rules that remain in place are what really matters. So please continue to: * Stay at home whenever possible * Limit contact with others * Keep 2m apart * Wash your hands often And please RT to remind others to do the same

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  15. May 10

    So will launch the UK's new slogan later today: "Stay alert...". Reminds me of the old "Be alert... your country needs lerts", and frankly I think we've got more than enough of those already!

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    May 10

    The web has never been more important, so wherever you are in the world, join us on Zoom for MAY, on the topic of REGULATION AND COMPLIANCE, we have and on cookies and GDPR.

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  17. May 9

    "...without a Coronavirus vaccine we will never be able to live normally again." Peter Piot, Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; co-discoverer of Ebola; head of the UN HIV/AIDs programme; and COVID-19 advisor to the EU President

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    May 9

    maybe if they called it “the great british lockdown” people might actually do it

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  19. May 9

    Can anyone in the EU point me at a website that has a cookie notice that is impossible to accept if you use a screen reader? I often come across them but now I actually need one I can't find one...

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    May 8

    “At the time, we were liberated. Today, we must liberate ourselves… From hatred and hate speech, from xenophobia and contempt for democracy – for they are but the old evil in a new guise.” The President of Germany marks 75 years since the end of the war in Europe.

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