Jeff Bishop

IT Accessibility Consultant at the University of Arizona

[Taylor Arndt @tayarndt]

Let's make this easy to follow. From now on, if you're reading my MacBook Neo book, have a question, or just want to talk about it, use the hashtag #MBNeoBook. That way I can find your posts, answer your questions, and follow the whole conversation in one place. Tag away.

[Taylor Arndt @tayarndt]

A friend asked:
“Is there an AirDrop for Windows?”
My answer: Tailscale.
But for me, it replaced more than file transfer.
No more fighting with:
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port forwarding
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fragile VPN setups
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broken sync workflows
Now I just:
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SSH by hostname
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send files directly
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access my machines from anywhere
The real win is I stopped thinking about networking problems.
I wrote how I actually use it:
https://t.co/BSbRqmR2Qa
#Tailscale #DevTools #Networking

[Taylor Arndt @tayarndt]

I spent all day on this one.
My MacBook Neo setup guide is live on Substack.
VoiceOver.
Accessibility settings.
The exact apps I installed first.
How I actually use it as a blind developer.
Paid post. Link below.

[Taylor Arndt @tayarndt]

This weekend was something special.
We ran a 16 hour workshop teaching people how to use Git and GitHub accessibly.
From the very beginning. What a repo is. How to clone, commit, push, and collaborate. All of it done with a screen reader.
Then we went further.
Students learned to build their own custom agents with VS Code and GitHub Copilot. @JeffBishop built image agents that are already in the workshop repo and ready to use.
People came in not knowing Git. They left feeling confident enough to contribute to open source.
Thank you to @JeffBishop, @mikedoise, and every single person who made this happen.
This is what accessibility education looks like when the community shows up.
#a11y #GitHub

[Pierce Boggan @pierceboggan]

Folks often ask for a list of best practices partnering with agents in @code, and we've compiled a list here!

[Visual Studio Code @code]

Want to learn more about features in the new VS Code release?

Our latest blog post walks you through some of the top highlights, centered on making agents practical for real-world development.

🔗 https://t.co/kgKDPZkHGh

[Taylor Arndt @tayarndt]

Hey @thdxr @jayair @adamdotdev @fanjiewang -- @opencode is completely unusable with a screen reader. Spinners, animations, and decorative unicode make the TUI hostile to blind users.

There's a working PR that's been sitting for over a month with no review. Code passes checks, it works, and screen reader users are waiting.

Can we get some eyes on this?

https://t.co/JAr7Reufoc
https://t.co/rwNyyPcrQR

#OpenCode #Accessibility #A11y #Blind #ScreenReader #OpenSource

[Taylor Arndt @tayarndt]

Friday night: 6 accessibility agents in a personal repo. Monday: 47 agents, 3 platforms, a GitHub org, and a community.
I was tired of AI forgetting accessibility. So was @JeffBishop . He showed up Saturday morning and started building. 43 commits in 5 days. We did not plan this. We just built.
https://t.co/8LEYD1arIx

[Taylor Arndt @tayarndt]

Hey @pierceboggan , I opened a PR on Primer adding a --accessible flag for screen reader support.

I'm a blind developer and the TUI was unusable with VoiceOver. Every box-drawing character gets read aloud individually. The flag strips all that out and replaces it with plain text.

https://t.co/aSfxzzZXKF

[Taylor Arndt @tayarndt]

Hey @pierceboggan @burkeholland @code @github! Me and @JeffBishop are building an entire accessibility agents suite called Accessibility Agents. They work in Claude and Copilot to help developers catch accessibility issues while they code, building more accessible components from the start. It does not replace manual testing but it helps developers get it right before code even ships.
For now the project is at https://t.co/1tKNUL8fSt. We will be moving it so it is more community based. If you want to contribute, jump in. We welcome all skill levels.
We would love your feedback.
#Accessibility #A11y #VSCode #GitHubCopilot #AIAgents #DevTools

[Michael Doise @mikedoise]

Agents are coming! Get subscribed to Perspective Intelligence All Access and get ready for 1.6! https://t.co/4GdOSRFAWL

[Jeff Bishop @JeffBishop]

Woot! More VSCode goodness from the team. Thank you!: Improved chat askQuestion carousel now has improved accessibility. ARIA labels have been added, keyboard focus can be moved to the container, and focus no longer automatically moves to the first response. A new command and keybinding is available to focus the first response in screen reader mode.

[Jeff Bishop @JeffBishop]

I am very proud of my contribution to Visual Studio Code. I hope to have more issues/pull requests accepted in the near future. I love contributing and making a difference: Improved screen reader accessibility for quick input dialogs. ARIA attributes are now dynamically set only when the list is active, preventing redundant announcements. The Go to Line dialog (Ctrl+G) now provides proper screen reader announcements for characters typed and list item navigation. #292353, https://t.co/NNn8CUvRND. Thank you Megan and the entire Visual Studio Code team for believing in me, supporting me and supporting the entire blind and low vision community. It means more to me then you realize and I am so thankful.

[Visual Studio Code @code]

You told us you’re running multiple AI agents and wanted a better UX. We listened and shipped it!

Here’s what’s new in the latest @code release:

🗂️ Unified agent sessions workspace for local, background, and cloud agents
💻 Claude and Codex support for local and cloud agents
🔀 Parallel subagents
🌐 Integrated browser
And more...

[Jeff Bishop @JeffBishop]

@mikedoise @tayarndt I simply respect those that are willing to take the risk and be creators. It’s not necessarily about languages, but about creativity, the willingness to learn and to grow.

[Scott Hanselman 🌮 @shanselman]

I’m seeing some hot takes that AI assisted coding means that you don’t have to be technical anymore. That’s only gonna last you until the first database migration, or the first security issue, or the first cloud migration, or the first scale out, or the first major regression, or the first refactor that ends in slop. I am finding that I’m learning more and I have to be as technical or more technical than ever before to get the kinds of high-quality output that I expect of any code, regardless of whether it comes from my fingertips or someone else’s - including an AI.

Whether your source comes from open source libraries, your own hands, or an AI via your clever prompt, there is exactly one responsible person for the output. That is you.

I never want to be accused of gatekeeping AI assisted programming, as non-technical people can get a lot of interesting work done. Until they hit a wall, and it’s gonna surprise them how quickly they either need to get technical, or get a technical person to help untangle the mess they’ve made.

The art and science of programming is taking intent and turning it into shipping products. I will never blame an AI - nor should you - for bad output. Own the code that you ship.

[Jeff Bishop @JeffBishop]

A letter to the blind and low vision community - https://t.co/pWeveOc7tf

[David @WonderingDavid]

Maybe VScode Coplit gpt-5-codex-mini ? @pierceboggan

[Visual Studio Code @code]

🎊 It's a VS Code Release Party! Join us tomorrow at 8 am PT for a first look at the features landing in Thursday's v1.104 release. @OliviaGuzzardo and friends will demo all the latest! 🎬 https://t.co/AgGdJrkEJj

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