“AI does not fix a broken process; it accelerates whatever process you already have. If accessibility is already in the workflow, AI can help scale inclusion. If it’s not, AI will scale the same barriers teams are already shipping.” @aaron-gustafson.com www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/can...

Israel’s unhinged National security minister Ben Gvir says Bibi should tell Trump ‘no’: “Lebanon should be our playground. We should target all of it. Thousands of Lebanese mothers should cry and not one 🇮🇱 mother… Iranians have to be bombed & bombed…”

Happy Juneteenth! 161 years ago today, the last enslaved people in Galveston, Texas were finally freed. Let us celebrate our ancestors’ strength and resilience, and remind ourselves of the work we still have to do to create the future they dreamed of.

Making accessibility a project requirement and still having the coding model treat a11y fixes as optional? It’s not you. It’s the model.

@hegemommy.bsky.social I missed hearing your voice in my headphones this week 💜

Last week at Microsoft Build, Jessie Lorenz, Carie Fisher, and I talked about how to build accessibility into AI-assisted software development from planning through code review and release....

I highly recommend listening to Jon Stewart’s interview with @quinnslobodian.com on this week’s @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social It’s a fascinating, historical perspective on the modern era, amid the machinations of Elmo. player.fm/1CGPJgp

I honestly find it amazing how little credence is given to the fact that local constituencies pick the candidates they prefer and those candidates attributes will differ across the country. The top-down, one-size-fits-all magic bullet candidate thinking has got to fucking stop.

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It’s kinda amazing that the party that practically deified the legendarily adulterous JFK is clutching their pearls so tightly regarding Platner’s behavior, even going so far as to suggest Collins is a better choice… again, despite her own infidelity. It’s all just so disingenuous.

I just learned that some people think “undocumented” (in reference to a person) means “there is no record that they exist” as opposed to “they lack the proper documentation authorizing them to reside and/or work in a given country.”

A useful look at GitHub’s accessibility agent experiment and what it takes to make these systems genuinely helpful rather than merely busy.

AI is inheriting the web’s accessibility debt. If we want a different outcome, we need to change the training data, the defaults, and the incentives.... www.forbes.com/sites/keelyc...

This poor little guy was trapped in my pepper.

At Ability Summit 2026, I moderated a panel on shifting accessibility left in the age of AI with Yumeng Ma, Dylan Barrell, Navin Thadani, and Ed Summers. www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/fix...

There is so much excellent class & cultural analysis in this episode. It’s well worth your time. www.youtube.com/live/z8zMqCc...

Need two form fields to match? `form-matching-fields` adds simple validation for confirmation fields.

Cancer drug Revlimid is one of the bestselling pharmaceutical products of all time, with total sales of over $100 billion. It’s also extraordinarily expensive, costing nearly $1,000 for each pill, even though that pill costs just 25 cents to make. (Published May 2025)

I just want to share that this was a very real CAPTCHA I encountered nearly 20 years ago and chronicled on Flickr. Happy Friday!

Is it me, or was Bob Flanagan the original looksmaxxer?

Jeff Bezos just gave an interview where he revealed his economic philosophy — and it's pure, uncut trickle-down economics with a fresh coat of paint. 🧵 buff.ly/tmpCmE0 1/7

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AI is moving fast, and accessibility needs to move with it. This is a chance to shape how AI and accessibility evolve together 💕 Excited to be speaking with @aaron-gustafson.com at Microsoft Build where we’ll explore how accessibility is shaping the future of AI 🚀

I was at TopGolf on Saturday and there were a ton of birthday parties. Now I know most corporate chains have their own birthday song (to avoid copyright issues), but theirs bears a striking resemblance to a certain 2 Live Crew song. Has anyone else experienced this? It was wild.

Spending the day reflecting on the writings of MLK Jr. on Israel, economic disparities in the U.S. & abroad, etc. With the exception of apartheid South Africa, so little has changed since he wrote these words. And some that had changed is roaring back. 💔 store.thekingcenter.org/products/the...

"A developer who builds accessible interfaces is more skilled. Say this out loud. Repeat it often. A developer who creates accessible interfaces isn't doing extra work; they're doing the work the right way." newsletters.feedbinusercontent.com/3c2/3c2d0562... 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I’m very excited by `focusgroup`: less bespoke roving-`tabindex` code, more consistent keyboard UX, and a healthier platform overall.

It’s just a radio button. We really don’t need two component libraries, ARIA role remapping, and client-side JS to do what HTML already does.

This is the right framing: inaccessible AI-generated interfaces are not a minor bug trend; they’re a civil-rights failure at scale.

I'm working on a blog post series about mobile #accessibility for May. 1st article: 4 iOS display settings to check your app with racheleditullio.com/blog/2026/05...

This is exactly the kind of resource the web platform needs more of: practical, test-backed guidance on how modern CSS features actually behave with Shadow DOM.

A well-structured design system is not just a delivery mechanism for consistency; it’s also critical infrastructure for AI-assisted coding.

A well-structured design system is not just a delivery mechanism for consistency; it’s also critical infrastructure for AI-assisted coding.

This is a clever pattern from Eric Bailey: keep the larger click target, keep the secondary actions, and don’t sacrifice semantics to get there.

This is a sharp and useful read from Cory Doctorow, especially his framing of workers being turned into ‘reverse centaurs’ and accountability sinks.

This is a fascinating architecture write-up from MDN: fewer abstractions, less shipped JavaScript, and interactivity where it actually belongs.

This is a tough read, but an important one: the attacks on the open web are not abstract anymore.

This is exactly the sort of UI work I love seeing: ambitious, polished, and still rooted in native controls and progressive enhancement.

Passing automated checks is not the same thing as delivering an accessible experience.

slideVars feels like the kind of tiny, practical tool that makes design and front-end iteration a whole lot more fun.

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis, or Ghibli.

👇🏻 this whole thread is facts on facts on facts.

New #WebComponent: Show users which validation requirements they’ve met — as they type.

This is exactly the sort of UI work I love seeing: ambitious, polished, and still rooted in native controls and progressive enhancement.

A useful reminder that the real power in standards work is often the power to say no.

Gotta love a good collab @rbreich.bsky.social @levernews.com @davidsirota.com youtu.be/AeO41h4fHb4?...

Passing automated checks is not the same thing as delivering an accessible experience.

AI didn’t invent better documentation practices; it just exposed how valuable structure, clarity, and explicitness have always been.

slideVars feels like the kind of tiny, practical tool that makes design and front-end iteration a whole lot more fun.

New #WebComponent: Show users which validation requirements they’ve met — as they type.