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Hi #a11yScotland folx. Thank you for organizing an amazing conference. I'm home in Seattle but want to share some of the links from my talk for you to have a look. (Thread)
Matthieu Ricard and the MRI measurement of empathy vs. compassion: garrisoninstitute.org/blog/less-empa…
"The Promise of Empathy: Design, Disability and Knowing the 'Other'" by @clb5590 and Dr. Daniela Rosner:

bennettc.com/wp-content/upl…
"Empathy Reifies Disability Stigmas" keynote by Liz Jackson, from Interaction 19: interaction19.ixda.org/program/keynot…
The Perils of Playing Blind by Dr. Arielle Michal Silverman: nfb.org/images/nfb/pub…
"The Difficulty of Imagining Other People" by Elaine Scarry: beyondintractability.org/artsum/scarry-…
My office hours, which are posted every Monday, for slots the following Friday: calendly.com/mattmay/office…
and finally, my dinosaur Buddy overlooking the city from Edinburgh Castle.

Again, thank you and/or I'm sorry. <3 A small, green toy dinosaur overlooks the city skyline of Edinburgh
PS: Liz Jackson is @elizejackson on the Twitter box.
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Matt May
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Accessibility pro tip:

Engineers can't solve #a11y problems that are rooted in faulty business or design decisions. They can _make compliant code_ to cover over those decisions. But it won't result in fundamentally better software if it's not conceived with inclusion in mind.
As an engineer, I spent a good chunk of my career trying to make other engineers my allies. But if they're always directed to the most expedient implementation and never recognized for making it accessible, for them it's a fool's errand. They'll burn out, and so will you.
Weird but important corollary here:

Beware the engineering manager who asks business/design questions (e.g., "how many users are we talking about here?").

Why? THAT IS NOT THEIR JOB. They are likely just giving you their excuse in advance for deprioritizing the work.
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Matt May
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THREAD: Captions are one of the greatest inclusive design success stories.

The first closed captioning decoder, made in 1980, cost ~$750 in today's dollars. TV not included.

That provided access to 15 hours a week of captioned broadcasts TOTAL across ABC, NBC and PBS.
Today, thanks to US law, every >13" TV sold since 1993 has a decoder. Every TV show broadcast since 2002 has required captions. Those captions now have to carry over to online distribution. And as of 1/1/19, video games require captions, too.

Not a bad 40 years, I'd say.
Captions help D/deaf and hard of hearing people, obviously. But they also help people who don't speak a language fluently, or don't grok a specific accent, or have other issues processing speech, or, like me, focus better when we can read the words.
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Writing the CV everyone wants to read is easy, if you'd consider these points I want to share with you. They are as simple as ABC, but you'd be surprised how many of us over look them or consider them to be inconsequential.

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Thank you to everyone who walked me through that domestic dispute situation. I want to share some thoughts on what happened in hopes that you will intervene if you seen a domestic dispute.

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