@Ciela personally, I think keeping things simple and designing things accessible from the start is something we should do, if not make mandatory per law.

The web used to be simple and accessible enough that it just worked with #LynxBrowser and other #CLI #Browsers and thus was trivial to do #TextToSpeech.

• It's just relatively recent that we get #ableist #AssholeDesign with mandatory #JavaScript for no valid reason like that #ClownFlare bullshit!

Slapping some "#AI" on is just putting the burden of #access onto those already #magrinalized and #discriminated against with even more compute load on their end and/or denying them privacy.

#Trump argued in his post that #states were “merely an agent’ for the #FederalGovernment in counting & tabulating the votes.” [he is so unbelievably ignorant]

“They must do what the Federal Government, as represented by the President of the United States, tells them,” Trump said. [whatever happened to the #StatesRights party?]

#Trump also wrote that he wanted to get rid of voting machines, which he described as inaccurate & expensive [wrong. Far more accurate than hand counting]. He claimed, incorrectly, that the US was “the only Country in the World that uses Mail-In Voting.”
His post did not elaborate on what the #ExecutiveOrder would say. It was also not immediately clear whether the Trump admin could stop the use of mail-in voting, which is largely entrusted to individual states.

#Trump has maintained his opposition even after #Republicans in the 2024 #election made significant gains in mail voting when the party encouraged its supporters to make use of the practice.

On Truth Social on Monday, Trump posted: “THE MAIL-IN BALLOT HOAX, USING VOTING MACHINES THAT ARE A COMPLETE AND TOTAL DISASTER, MUST END, NOW!!!”

[IOW if people #vote, he & his candidates lose]

IF they qualify [they won’t, not now, in #Trump’s America], young adults can sign up for #Medicaid, the #federal & #state program for #LowIncome Americans, in most but far from all states.

But most buy cheap subpar #HealthInsurance that leaves them w/insurmountable #MedicalDebt following a #medical crisis. Others choose plans w/EXTREMELY limited networks, losing #access to their longtime #doctors & #medicines.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday allowed teams affiliated with #DOGE to gain #access to potentially sensitive #data on millions of Americans, overruling a lower court that had blocked that access in Feb.

By a 2-1 vote, a 3-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the #FourthCircuit granted the access to data stored at the #Treasury Dept, the #Education Dept & the Office of Personnel Management [#OPM], citing the June #SocialSecurity #SCOTUS decision.

A nonprofit group called Securing American Greatness, which is affiliated with #MAGA Inc. but is not required to disclose its #donors, can accept cash from interests willing to pay for #access to #Trump without the controversy that can come with having that known.

Even the White House Historical Association has become a vehicle for lobbyists & favor seekers.

Since Trump’s election last fall, fund-raisers & #lobbyists have been steering #corporations & #donors to a buffet of options for unlimited giving, some of which are less overtly political or allow anonymous donations, that can bring #access to #Trump.

Trump’s inaugural cmte raised a record-shattering $239M, including about $18M from #crypto interests & $1M each from #tech giants like #Meta & #Amazon that had drawn his ire in the past & were looking to smooth things over….

“Patients are likely to suffer adverse health consequences where care is disrupted or unavailable,” Talwani wrote in her Monday order. “In particular, restricting Members’ ability to provide #healthcare services threatens an increase in unintended pregnancies & attendant complications because of reduced #access to effective #contraceptives, & an increase in undiagnosed & untreated #STIs.”