Content Queen

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Abortion care quietly shelved amid staff shortage Abortion care at Whakatāne Hospital has been quietly shelved, with patients told they will likely have to travel more than an hour to Tauranga to get the treatment they need

The government disposed of all the gynae doctors in Whakatane. It pays travel costs for people who want to give birth, but those who don’t want to give birth have to find their own way to get where they can get the health care they need.
#nzpol #abortion 1/3

[“The first people a dictator puts in jail are the writers, the teachers, the librarians—because these people are dangerous. They have enough vocabulary to recognize injustice and to speak out loudly about it. Let us have the courage to go on being dangerous people.”]

Madeleine L'Engle; this is why they want you illiterate

I'm sure I speak for many of us when I say fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuiuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

You can tell that the NZ Free Speech Union is not, in fact, in favour of free speech when they come out in support of a report that would make a criminal act of failing to notify authorities of a protest in advance. #nzpol

An alt Decision Tree Accessibility resources free online from the international standards organization: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

For beginners, it can be difficult to know what to put in alt text, as well as when alt text is needed on your website and when it isn't. This decision tree from W3C helps you determine what to do, based on specific situations.

www.w3.org/WAI/tutorial...

Accessibility Testing - Rachele DiTullio Hundreds of folks have expressed an interest in watching someone go through an accessibility test. I perform accessibility testing regularly and created these resources to demonstrate the process. My ...

If you feel daunted by the idea accessibility testing and don't know where to begin, this resource from accessibility engineer Rachele DiTullio can help. This includes an accessibility testing spreadsheet, along with guides on how to prepare for testing.

racheleditullio.com/projects/acc...

Mine all go flat but with enough whipped cream it's hard to tell and they still taste good. Even tried a slow cooker once.... same result

When people say 'run government like a business,' they mean cut services, raise prices, and pay the CEO 400 times more than the workers.

The ‘dangerous’ bill flying under the radar | E-Tangata “Individually or together, these two bills would entrench libertarian preferences in New Zealand’s constitutional framework. They would also obstruct the consideration of Te Tiriti in future lawmaking...

“…embedding Act’s ideological worldview in the heart of New Zealand’s constitutional framework, limiting legislative flexibility, executive decision-making, & judicial interpretation”. e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...

Submit on this Bill!

The long neoliberal con From the University of Otago – Opinion: The Regulatory Standards Bill is another attempt by Act leader David Seymour to prioritise corporations over the good of the public, argues Dr Ryan Ward

"Under the guise of equality before the law and the rather boring talk of regulation and “cutting red tape” is a more insidious goal of stripping the democratic right to regulate business and corporate activity, even when such regulation is in the best interest of the majority of New Zealanders."

The BBC's Accessibility Guide has several resources, including step-by-step instructions to using assistive technologies. The resource includes insight into several assistive technologies, including VoiceOver, JAWS, NVDA, TalkBack, ClaroRead, and Dragon.

bbc.github.io/accessibilit...

A bright pink instructional graphic titled “How to sleigh alt text.” It includes colourful headings labelled Identify Who (in green), Expression (blue), Description (pink), Colour (red), and Interesting Features (grey). On the right side, there’s a sample alt text description in various colours that reads: “Santa Claus looking happy as he waves at the camera. He wears a traditional red suit and hat and has a long white beard and glasses. There are colourful lights twinkly behind him.” Below the text, a photo of Santa Claus is shown, waving with a big smile against a background of twinkling, colourful holiday lights

Alt text? Don’t worry, Santa’s elves have your back! Writing great alt text is simpler than you think.

Got questions? Ask our alt text elves!

Happy pre-birthday week!

A close up of the snout of a black poodle. His gaze is skeptical.

Franken Behaviour Report. 95% good. 1% menacing the soft furnishing, 4% waking up at 3am

We, as a society, have given the morning people far too much power

Doctors Without Borders in Gaza says 100% of the patients it has treated in the past 24 hours have b... Medical-aid groups in the Gaza Strip told Insider they were running out of supplies due to Israel's counterattack and blockade.

Doctors Without Borders in Gaza says 100% of the patients it has treated in the past 24 hours have been children

I think the best response I've seen to AI anything has been, "Why should I bother reading something that nobody could be bothered to write"

Don't know the context, but always true.