SBLTN Lab Notes

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Feb 13 • SBLTN

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June 2025

Language matters but so does listening: ivory tower terms taking over social impact spaces (SBLTN Lab Notes 054)

Open captions at movie theaters, “unhoused” vs “homeless”, and free accessibility icons

Jun 16, 2025

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May 2025

Apple Podcasts gets transcripts and ASL gets botched on popular poster (SBLTN Lab Notes 053)

Apple Podcasts automates transcripts, ASL is wrong in Echo promotion, and National Parks use billboards as protest

May 8, 2025

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Overlay ordered to pay up and a World Cup poster party (SBLTN Lab Notes 052)

U.S. F.T.C. hits AccessiBe with $1mil fine, free climate education centering People of the Global Majority, and posters from World Cup host cities

May 2, 2025

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February 2024

The hellscape of DMV inaccessibility (SBLTN Lab Notes 051)

Principles of "calm tech", AI dabbling in diversity, and inaccessibility of a driver safety course

Feb 23, 2024 • SBLTN

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October 2023

❄️ You’re not a special snowflake… and that’s okay (SBLTN Lab Notes 050)

Audio tools for in-person captions and name pronunciation; Adobe + Pantone workarounds

Oct 17, 2023 • SBLTN

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August 2023

A**hole ‘accessibility’ company sues accessibility advocate (SBLTN Lab Notes 049)

Overlay company sues accessibility expert, implementing inclusive language in small ways, Africa-inspired animated short films

Aug 9, 2023 • SBLTN

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July 2023

Move-In Day for SBLTN Community

The doors are open for the informal, hella soft launch to the SBLTN Community

Jul 30, 2023 • SBLTN

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$240,000 USD verdict for blind students (SBLTN Lab Notes 048)

Blind students win accessibility lawsuit against community college, prosthetics for Black amputees, Arabic Design Archive, India’s street lettering and…

Jul 27, 2023 • SBLTN

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Live, laugh, launch? 🤭

A soft launch to the SBLTN Community that helps people to start, and sustain, a long-term practice of inclusion and digital accessibility. Find answers…

Jul 24, 2023 • SBLTN

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June 2023

A.I. automated accessibility + English-dominated internet (SBLTN Lab Notes 047)

AI-generated captions, English: more popular online than offline, NYC Pride branding

Jun 27, 2023 • SBLTN

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Storytelling Through Color: Accessibility + Black ‘American’ history (SBLTN Lab Notes 046)

Animated films for Black history, digital library of printed collateral from film + broadcast, & color accessibility tips

Jun 20, 2023 • SBLTN

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