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SwiftUI @Apple . Prev: @SlackHQ , @Twitter . #Accessibility always. Frequently upside down. 🤸🏻‍♀️ (she/her) Follow me in other places!

SF Bay Area // Brooklyn, NY

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Joined January 2009

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@Sommer

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9 months

I'm excited to share the recording of my talk on #accessibility from @swiftconfto ! Speaking there (and playing with @jamesdempsey ) was a truly amazing experience. Everyone was so kind and supportive!

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Sommer Panage - Building accessibility into your company, team, and...

We often talk about how we as individual developers can make our apps and software more accessible–how to use the correct labels, colors, keyboard shortcuts,...

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3 years

Xcode: EVERYTHING IS BROKEN AND WRONG. YOU ARE A TERRIBLE PERSON, AND YOU CANNOT CODE. SEE ALL THESE RED ERRORS? YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF!!!!!!! Me: *adds missing semicolon* Xcode: We cool.

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I love working with people who are friendly. Who say “thank you” or cheer you on or say “good job.” These things may seem small, but they add up in the same way (but opposite direction) that all the negs and “paper cuts” do. They create a culture. They matter. Kindness matters.

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software engineers cats 🤝 Moving fast and breaking things

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Them: “Oh you work at Apple. It must be awesome get to code in Swift all the time.” Me: [self hatesToBreakItToYouBut:NO];

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3 years

@kaydacode I usually just say something like “Oh thanks for following me! So tell me about yourself.” (Or a more specific question depending on the context where we’re meeting, so if it’s an Accessibility Conf, I might say, “I’d love to hear about how you’re involved in accessibility!”

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3 years

Me, every year at WWDC: “Wow! Look at how amazing view debugging is getting!” Me, IRL: view.backgroundColor = UIColor.purpleColor;

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3 years

🧵 5 years at Apple as of today! 🥳 To celebrate, here are 5 tweet-sized fun stories from my time there! (Note - my 5 years was split into two stints.)

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3 years

Tip for testing your iOS app with VoiceOver! If you’re a sighted dev, it can be easy to “cheat” when testing with VO, using visual cues to navigate. I recommend using Screen Curtain to hide your screen so you can really experience your app w/o seeing! Just 3-finger triple tap!

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3rd time’s the charm, right? Excited to be back at Apple as an EM on the SwiftUI team!

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If you haven't tried it yet, check out Settings -> Accessibility -> Live Captions (Beta); this is one of many amazing #a11y features in iOS 16. The feature captions any audio out OR in! Honored to have worked on this and beyond stoked for the team to have shipped it!

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2 years

Today is my last day at Apple. I’m deeply grateful for my time on the #accessibility team; I learned from some of the brightest, most dedicated people I’ve ever met. 💙 I’m taking some time off and am excited to share what’s next for me + a11y in a few months!

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3 years

Since we’re all looking at Stocks today… In the past years #VoiceOver has started to do cool stuff w charts. You can summarize charts and even play an audio graph! In this video, I’m using 1-finger up/down swipes to go thru all the actions, then double-tap to activate. #a11y

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3 years

Got some BIG new on the #Apple Accessibility front! Check out AssistiveTouch for Watch, Image Explorer for VoiceOver and SO MUCH MORE! It’s a HUGE year for #accessibility . Could not be more proud to work on this team!

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Apple previews powerful software updates designed for people with disabilities

Apple today announced powerful software features designed for people with mobility, vision, hearing, and cognitive disabilities.

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2 years

After some time away, I’m excited to share that today is my first day at Slack. I’m super grateful to come to Slack as a sr. eng manager for product-wide #accessibility ! I’ll be working remotely w/ an amazing team across North America, and I can’t wait to see what we can do! 🎉

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3 years

This is your app without VoiceOver support. Don’t be this app! #accessibility

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3 years

Today marks 2️⃣ years managing part of the of the iOS Accessibility team at Apple. 🎉 I remember thinking when I took this job it would be the hardest role I ever had. I wasn’t wrong. It’s also the most rewarding work I’ve ever done. Want to hear a lil’ more? Storytime 🧵 below:

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3 years

I am SO proud of Apple for publishing this guide on device and data access for personal safety. I hope this might help anyone dealing with intimate partner surveillance or stalking by someone you trusted.

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8 years ago, before I’d ever written a line of ObjC, I started by first tech job at @Apple . After a long journey, from Twitter to circus to a startup, today I’m back! Happy to announce I’m joining the Health team! 📱 + 💪🏻 = 😀

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3 years

@kaydacode Basically thank you and PIVOT

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3 years

Things are hard right now for so many. At this point I’m trying to remind my team members in every team meeting and every 1:1: Take vacation. Take mental health days. Take CARE of yourselves. It doesn’t matter if the bug is fixed if YOU are broken.

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2 years

Do you ever just feel like "omg what if I don't solve this one bug and it turns out I was never really an engineer?"

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3 years

@emrazz Sometimes it breaks my heart that I’ll never know the version of me that would exist outside of our patriarchal world.

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2 years

Goodbye, Grandma. Thank you for raising me like a daughter, teaching me to love Jane Eyre, and always reminding me to be kind. I know my life wasn’t traditional, but I hope I made you proud. 💔

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4 years at  today! So…4 highlights of the past year: 1. WWDC (speaking, participating, everything!) 2. Making my first 2 hires 3. Doing team stretching/acro classes on the Apple Park lawn 4. Building technical depth in unexpected areas like AVAudioSession

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🔊 As of today, I’ve moved from IC on the Health team to Engineering Manager for one of the iOS #Accessibility teams @ Apple. I’ll mainly focus on motion systems like Switch support! After years advocating mobile #a11y in and out of my job, it’s an honor to do this work here!

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2 years

After 18 yrs in the Bay Area, mostly in SF, I’m hitting the road tomorrow for a new chapter. Tonight, I say goodbye to this amazing apartment, that got me thru the first 20 months of the pandemic, for NY. If you’d like to follow the trip, I’ll be sharing daily on @StrangeSommer !

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4 years

I love Apple Park; it’s stunning and refreshing. However, the open floor plan and shared offices are the #1 contributor to lowering my productivity. I often find myself hiding out in conference rooms or working from home whenever possible in order to actually get shit done.

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5 years

This was hands down one of the best weeks of my life: - Saw our #accessibiltiy work featured in the Keynote - Gave my first talk at #WWDC - Watched one of my directs rock his talk - Met hundreds of incredible devs - Spent time with dear friends from all over the world 💕

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4 years

Really proud of the #accessibility features my team shipped in #ios14 ! - Back Tap - Confirm with Switch Control / AssistiveTouch - Sound Recognition

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3 years

🎭 #WWDC21 behind the scenes 🎭 1) We had to pause filming an inordinate amount of times for me to move my necklace back to center. 2) I 💯 channeled @hollyborla ’s talk last year to do my makeup 3) For shots of my hands on the kb we had to completely rearrange the whole room 🤦🏻‍♀️

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2 years

Why did we call it "employee churn" when we could have called it "Apple turnover?"

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2 years

My first WWDC was 2012 but I don’t have any pics until 2016 - back when it was in SF! That was the first year I think it really clicked for me what a special event this is. #WWDC2022

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3 years

Coworker and I today talking about the "sit & stare" period of dev. It's when you get a new proj and you just...sit & stare at all the code and it feels like you're doing nothing for a while, until then one day BOOM you're coding.

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5 years

Tonight I told a guy what I do for work & he started to explain my own job to me… BUT THEN mid sentence, he caught himself & said, “but you already know this. B/c it’s your job. So what I’m trying to say is I am thinking about what you do & I find it interesting & important!”😂

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2 years

Lesson I wish I'd learned sooner: While it's good to "love" my work, it's important for me to remember that a job will never "love" me back. It's a job. I'm a cog. So instead of putting my "love" into the company, I put it into *what* I'm doing, who it's for, and *why* I do it.

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6 years

After working in large and midsize companies, a tiny startup and even as a solo contractor, it seems the top 3 predictors of my work happiness are: 1. how much I like my direct co-workers 2. how much I believe in what we’re building 3. how much I’m trusted to manage my own time

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5 years

Big news. HUGE. Do you want to come work on iOS Accessibility? At @Apple ? On my team?! Well here you go: (Before you DM me: this is a Cupertino based role.) Come make a big difference, not just in tech, but in lives! #accessibility #a11y #apple

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3 years

No matter what I ship or what code I write, one of the things that makes me happiest and proudest in my career is that my current team is 50% women 50% men and 100% killing it. 💕

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11 years

OH: "Sufficiently advanced C++ is indistinguishable from trolling."

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4 years

Today marks 1 year being an eng manager at #Apple for iOS #Accessibility . This is both the hardest & most rewarding job I’ve ever had. In celebration, my top 3 moments: 1. Meeting @iansride2016 & @TheSwitchMaster 2. First WWDC talk 3. Getting my team to laugh @ every team meeting

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2 years

Reminder! #VoiceOver has its own back gesture! It's a 2-finger Z or scrub. Here's a video showing it. Make sure you test that your app's nav and modals support it (stock SwiftUI and UIKit does automatically!). If you need to manually support it, check out:

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3 years

Hearing @hollyborla explain async/await with dance has me 😍💃🏻. It may seem small, but after so many classes with examples from sports and cars, it’s lovely to hear something different and such a clean example to boot! #WWDC21

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2 years

A slight change of plans ... #WWDC22

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Was just reminded that as of iOS 15 there’s the new dynamicTypeSize Environment Value for SwiftUI — which means you can easily do handy dynamic layouts like this #accessibility

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3 years

One of my fave Mac #accessibility features: Hover Text. I have 2 displays; one is always harder for me to see, especially content to the far right. Hover Text is an awesome and super lightweight way to bring things into view! Find it in System Preferences -> Accessibility -> Zoom

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3 years

From what I’ve experienced, gatekeepers don’t gate keep because they’re better/smarter/stronger/something-er than you. It’s because they’re afraid you’re better/smarter/stronger/something-er than them. They’re afraid you’re going to shake up a system that puts them on top.

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A few things in your apps that don’t “feel” like #Accessibility , but actually are! 📏 Flexible layouts 🖤 Dark mode support 🧼 Simple, clean UI 🕊 Using SwiftUI (lots of accessibility comes for free) 👊 Haptics

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3 years

Every day, I go to work, and I know that some ppl view me this way. I don’t know which ppl, but I’ve heard shit like this enough that I know it’s ever-present in our world. It angers me to see these viewpoints expressed by someone in a leadership role at my own company.

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It’s so exhausting being a woman in tech; sitting opposite men who think because of my gender, I am soft and weak and generally full of shit. It’s not even worth it to say I have worked relentlessly for every accomplishment I have

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It took me years to realize this. When I hear terminology or discussion that I don’t understand in a meeting, it doesn’t mean that it’s “too hard” for me or I’m not “technical enough.” It’s just stuff I don’t know about yet. Of course it’s confusing. I haven’t heard of it before.

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2 years

Wow…just realized today is 3️⃣ years managing part of the iOS accessibility team at Apple! Can’t begin to express how grateful I am for this role. And how much I’ve grown…year 1 was terrifying, year 2 I got my bearings, & this year I finally almost believe I know what I’m doing!

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Today marks 2️⃣ years managing part of the of the iOS Accessibility team at Apple. 🎉 I remember thinking when I took this job it would be the hardest role I ever had. I wasn’t wrong. It’s also the most rewarding work I’ve ever done. Want to hear a lil’ more? Storytime 🧵 below:

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TIL: On Mac, you can do ⌘+T to bring up your Tapback responses in Messages and then you can use the number keys, 1-6, to select your reaction. 🤯 Get ready for lots of ❤️ and 👍🏻 everyone…

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3 years

Sometimes I’m torn. Coding for my job means I rarely feel like coding for fun. Do I want to have a non-coding role so I can…code more…for fun? A thing I loved about working in the arts 🎪 was that my *hobby* was coding. What a good time 🤓👩🏻‍💻! Anyone else struggle with this?

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Some personal news: 🐱 I am *so* excited to share with you that...I’ve adopted a cat. Meet Smalltalk! She’s a 1/2 Maine Coon rescue 💕

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You know you’ve been working at Apple for a while when you start regular sentences with “I am *so* excited to share with you…”

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2 years

So I store my clothes this way: fresh out of the laundry items get hung up on the far right. This means that over time the left side of my closet is stuff I don’t wear. Every 6 mo I donate the leftmost items. My friend just pointed out this is basically an LRU cache 🤦🏻‍♀️

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3 years

Ok hands down best part about my M1 Mac is that I can use it while wearing shorts. ☀️

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3 years

I was playing around with my phone’s text size, and I noticed this great example of the idea of reflowing layout when text size grows in the Fitness App! Note how at the larger text sizes, Trends go from 2 column to 1 column to help prevent truncation!

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3 years

Training up my new hire over the break.

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Smalltalk is objectively excited for the swift arrival of #WWDC21 😺

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5 years

Today marks exactly 3 years employed at Apple (including my first stint). 🎉

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2 years

Smalltalk has more new furniture than I do... But the cat wall is finally complete! (She loves it!)

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Hands down my fave 2020 interaction: Him: What do you do? Me: I work in Accessibility @ Apple on iPhone/iPad Him: Whoa wait so did you do BACK TAP? Me: Well, I didn’t write it but the lead eng is one of my directs! Him: OMG HOLY SHIT—WELL TELL THEM HI FOR ME I LOVE BACKTAP!😂

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On my way! Here’s what I look like today, if you wanna say hi, feel free!Blue pants, pink and white sandals, radar shirt and iOS jacket! #WWDC22

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The weirdest thing about burnout for me is that it causes me question not just my work but my identity. Things that on paper I enjoy…things I always have enjoyed…are no longer fun. It’s scary. It brings up feelings not just of “I need a break,” but of “what’s wrong with me?!”

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Me: “Person A was very rude to my direct in this bug.” Co-worker: “Oh yeah but that’s just how Person A is, you know? They’ve been here forever.” No. Let’s stop normalizing the notion that after N years at a company you EARN the right to be rude to your coworkers.

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Coworker: “I’ll be taking about a month off for parental leave.” Me (knowing not the first thing about children or what to say): “Oh have a great…baby?!” *crawls under rock*

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3 years

I’d like to welcome a new member into my family… #MacBookAir #M1

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Hey folks! I'm still looking for a later-career engineer to join my Widget-focused team on SwiftUI at Apple! It's an exciting area of the project, and I'd love to talk to you if you're interested!

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2 years

I have shamelessly stolen Jen’s amazing idea and used it for my own means.

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Been talking more openly w my coworkers re: burnout & work-life balance. This stood out: it’s VERY hard for individuals to have work-life balance in systems that don’t both promote AND exemplify it. In other words, if your managers send emails @ 2am, you feel like you should too.

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3 years

A few tips for good alt text for your tweet images: 📏 Keep it short 🚫 Don’t start w/ “picture of” or “image of” ✅ Include text in the image (when it makes sense) 🖊 Describe what you see (foreground/background/light/color/people/objects/expression/action) Got more?!

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Over break, I hit 6 total years @ #Apple , inc roles on UIAutomation (mostly working on Accessibility during that time), Health, Accessibility, & now SwiftUI. At this point in my life, I can’t really imagine working anywhere else, lord knows I tried 🙃 Truly grateful to be here!

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Thanks for all the congrats and well-wishes from everyone on my now-deleted-I-just-bought-a-home Tweet! 🏠🔑 💛 [Don't post pics of your keys, folks]. I'm really excited to be moving in soon and I welcome ALL new home owner tips, as this is my first time buying!

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3 years

If you don’t have the “budget” to make your product accessible, you don’t have the “budget” to make your product at all. So tired of this excuse.

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6 months being back at Apple today. I couldn’t be happier with the choice to return. The people, the culture, and the work make it somewhere I feel truly at home. I do miss NYC, but not even living in my favorite city could make up for a job I can 💯 put my heart into.

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2 years

Current work setup is starting to feel cozy!

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A feature being inaccessible (for example, button not labeled for VoiceOver) is a P1 bug. There’s no gray are here. You wouldn’t ship without the icon being there would you? Because this is essentially the same thing, just via a different interface. #accessibility

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Oh what’s that now? Per-app display and text size settings for #Accessibility !?! So SO stoked of our team for this one!! #WWDC21

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Supporting Large Text isn’t a feature. It’s a fundamental part of functionality. Some users *only* use their devices w Large Text! That means if you don’t support it, they can’t use it! Learn more re Large Text support in this talk!

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Visual Design and Accessibility - WWDC19 - Videos - Apple Developer

Learn about the importance of supporting Large Text. Hear about Differentiate Without Color, a new API on iOS which can enable people...

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I don’t know who chose to do this, so I can’t think of another way to say this so it might reach them: If you know me or have access to my info via work, do not *ever* give away my contact info without my permission (mine or probably anyone’s...). It’s not ok.

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Them: “How do I know if I wanna be a manager?” Me: “I had 32 meetings this week. It was a light week. Do with that what you will.”

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8 years

Goodbye hardcoding my reuse IDs. Don’t know why I didn’t do this sooner…

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As much as my 🧠 would love me to believe otherwise, taking a vacation has never caused me to forget how to code, miss a deadline, lose ground towards a promo, or “ruin” my project. It’s almost always the opposite. I come back with more energy, more ideas, and more joy. 😃

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2 years

Me when my manager says, “hey are you around for a quick call?“

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It’s always like this for me: Me: I’m sad Brain: Go for a run. You will feel better Me: That sounds absolutely terrible. Brain: Just do it, ugh. TRUST ME HERE Me: Fine but u are wrong and this will suck * 30 minutes later * Me: *dances in the door to Despacito* Brain: told you

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If you haven't tried it yet, check out Sound Actions for Switch Control! This feature allows you to control your device with sounds you can make with your mouth. Here's a video of how to set it up and use it :D #accessibility #ios15 Sound ON!

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Large. Text. Matters. Sometimes for many years. Sometimes just for a day here and there. #accessibility #ios

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I just had my eyes dilated, so I can’t read any text that isn’t comically large. I don’t know how to use a screen reader. I’ll be fine in a few hours, but this has been a fascinating journey into how well third-party iOS apps respect text size accessibility settings! (Thread)

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Reminder! The #Accessibility at Apple team has roles open for: - iOS (general and Braille specific) - Mac - Webkit There are *not* remote roles - they’re in Cupertino, CA. DMs are open!

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Ok a short follow up with Smalltalk the circus cat. This is all the tricks we have so far :-). She’s doing great!

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Y’all thought I’d get a cat and not teach her circus tricks?

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Hotels and flights book. Car rented. Extra N95s and testing kits purchased. #WWDC 2022 is happening!!! 🎉 See many of you there!

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Apple released their #accessibility preview. 🤩 One part in particular is near and dear to my heart, so it's deeply emotional to see it coming to light. So happy for the team and thrilled to see what they're doing this year. Sending all my love to CA! 💙💙

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Apple previews Live Speech, Personal Voice and more new accessibility features

Apple today previewed software features for cognitive, vision, hearing and mobility accessibility, along with innovative tools for individuals who are nonspeaking or at risk of losing their ability...

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At airport: “We are now boarding group A like Apple Bottom Jeans” “And now we will continue with group B, like Boots with the fur” “Next up group C as in the club looking at her” I really hope this flight doesn’t hit the floor as it gets low tho...

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Huge thanks to @tsunamino for my new profile photo and headshots!! She's AMAZING to work with and somehow had me laughing the WHOLE time. 💗

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Did you know on iOS you can check if your users want auto-play video? The API isVideoAutoplayEnabled! There are many reasons users may not want videos to autoplay, including: - Motion sensitivity - Distraction management - Risks of triggering content

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isVideoAutoplayEnabled | Apple Developer Documentation

A Boolean value that indicates whether the Auto-Play Video Previews setting is in an enabled state.

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Want to work on SwiftUI and Widgets? Excited to help define the future of app development? Pumped about shaping API design? Well you're in luck! I have 2 roles open on my team on SwiftUI! Links in thread. Note: these roles are in-office in Cupertino.

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Your friendly neighborhood reminder that dispatch queues you create yourself do not drain their own autorelease pools necessarily. :-) This brought to you by 1 hour of debugging weird leaks and retain counts!

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Just today I got asked the age old Q, "what's it like to be a woman in tech?" Since I've never lived as a man, it's tough to compare, but I've started answering, "Well one thing is that I get asked this question a lot...so I'm guessing that's quite different." 🤷🏻‍♀️

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baby’s first wing walk #ww33

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Back when I worked at 🍎 ~2010, I was late to a circus class so I changed in the work bathroom into my PURPLE LEOTARD & NEON PINK tights. As I ran out of the office I passed Steve Jobs. He stopped cold & just stared at me. When I looked back from the door, he was still staring👀

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quote tweet this with a mundane experience you’ve shared with someone who is more famous than you (but you obviously have enough chill to leave it out of your twitter bio)

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Having a few months off from work is really showing me how much I actually love living and how utterly exhausted I truly was. My job was amazing, and I wouldn’t change taking it. And still, seeing my interests all return like old friends is bittersweet…they were there all along.

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