Calum Ryan
@calum_ryan
Making the web a better place @GDSTeam #Accessibility Advocate INFJ, Neurodivergent 💭 @IAAPOrg WAS certified http://A11Ywebsites.com curator 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 🇪🇺
Unless Common sense prevails on Thursday @Merton_Council DPAC meeting, entire(pink) 75 acre MOL Grade II* Heritage Park will be excavated & lost forever with openness gone via a Stadium & Boardwalk, 2000 trees removed & 10000’s tonnes of concrete poured into the precious ground.
Weeknote 66: Christmas and seeing out 2023 calumryan.com/articles/weekn…
Bye British Cycling. Your continuing partnership with Shell UK didn't make it too difficult a decision for me to not renew my membership this year.
Weeknote 65: Christmas wind down, Visit to Dublin, 2024 travel plans calumryan.com/articles/weekn…
There must be a special place in Hell for the designers of central heating timer control interfaces
The salary for postdoctoral scientists is £36k. Science is global - if the UK is going to be 'the best country for science in the world', we need to be able to recruit the best scientists. Now, we might not be able to - only British scientists can apply.
Salary threshold for skilled worker visas to rise to £38,700 under government plans to cut legal migration levels Follow live bbc.in/3RamgGW
Weeknote 64: Wet and gloomy, TV audience, Three weeks to Christmas calumryan.com/articles/weekn…
Feeling old at work today...in a group retro exercise having to explain who Ray Mears is to colleagues, including fellow Millennials. Someone about 10yrs younger than me then elaborated "an older version of Bear Grylls"
Weeknote 63: Rid of Covid, Hearing difficulties, Out and about calumryan.com/articles/weekn…
Weeknote 62: Return from Germany and return of the unwelcome guest calumryan.com/articles/weekn…
Popular tech conference season here in Europe and North America, but also peak time for cold, flu, and Covid spreading indoors. Keep doing your lateral flow tests, folks! Tested positive for Covid after conf last week, plans written off for a week. 1 other there confirmed 😞
Weeknote 61: Nuremberg, Bamberg, Border None conference and IndieWebCamp calumryan.com/articles/weekn…
Another threatening letter from the estate management company chasing me for a debt owed by the previous leaseholder. Cue another round of chase my unresponsive conveyancing solicitor. Oh joy, Happy Halloween 👻
I published a blog post for @TPGinteractive about the Digital Accessibility Blogs and Newsletters I follow to keep up with things. And it lets me give some credit to people like @laura_carlson and @A11yNews: tpgi.com/digital-access… #DigitalAccessibility #a11y #accessibility
‘Most of our users are on WiFi!’ Most people are under 6′ tall, but we still design doors that tall people can use. Don’t build for the norm; build for the population.
The most ambitious #LowEmission zone to date will begin in Stockholm in 2025. Petrol and diesel cars are to be banned in the city centre. Refreshing to see leaders being bold to tackle #AirPollution. amp.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct…
Weeknote 59: Design workshop, New dining discoveries, Out and about calumryan.com/articles/weekn…
Breaking: Elon Musk once again ignoring all the blind and partially sighted users of his own website by removing headlines from tweets fortune.com/2023/08/21/elo…