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Accessibility, continued
Accessibility, neurodiversity and how I work
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I Am Not an Archivist: What Careless Automation Asks of Disabled People
When a system fails and nobody owns it, the person on the other end becomes the archivist, advocate and detective. Four failures from my life, three national scandals, and what that load costs a disabled person.
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Built to Stop Bots, Built to Stop Me: How CAPTCHAs Fail the Humans They Claim to Protect
Modern CAPTCHAs are now easier for machines than for many people. A validation engineer on what that means from the wrong side of the gate, and the better gates that let real people through.
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Software Is Where My Actions Count: What a Special Interest Actually Does
A special interest is not an intense hobby. It's the one environment where agency, competence, and control become reachable for a brain that can't access them reliably anywhere else. Mine maps onto software, which is why the thing that regulates me is also the thing that pays my rent.
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The Safety Net Is an Accessibility Feature: ADHD, AI, and How I Actually Build Software
I don't build safety nets that talk back only because they're good engineering. I build them because they're how I stay functional as a developer with ADHD and autism. Good engineering and accommodation are, quietly, the same thing.