This is the same bot attack that nearly took down the A11y Project site last year. @matthiasott.com describes the problem in detail. matthiasott.com/articles/web...

Wonder how the general public figuring out they can vibe-code single-purpose utility apps while simultaneously enduring the LMM-created outages will make a lot of companies behave, especially when it removes the need for the current rent-seeking suites of software.

99% of stakeholder "ideas" is just copying a feature they saw on a competitor's product. And the features they notice most are the ones that yell at their users the loudest. Now all software (not just consumer apps, but also metrics dashboards) yells at you, and trains you to attend to its yelling.

10 examples of how accessibility innovations like the typewriter, audiobooks, the typewriter, text-to-speech, online shopping, and touchscreens began as solutions for disabled people and evolved into mainstream products that benefit everyone.

work in tech and you can be both!

"CSS is my passion"

✏️ WCAG-EM 2.0 lets you report on accessibility of more than just websites hidde.blog/wcag-em-apps

So I know a lot is going on right now, but I do want to share this: I’m excited to share the launch of the new Microsoft Inclusive Design website 💙 This project is my love letter to the community and practice that’s shaped my work for nearly a decade. inclusive.microsoft.design 1/

You might know that I write a weekly newsletter, the Product Picnic, about the nonsense going on in UX design, product, and tech generally. A lot of the people I quote in the newsletter are on bsky, so I decided to make a starter pack. If you are looking for smart/interesting follows: here you go.

I wrote about some nuance involved with annotating focus order, following a conversation with @annaecook.com where we realized we'd both been running across the same well-intentioned behaviors. #a11y ericwbailey.website/published/yo...

I spent the past month examining how accessibility in design underpins digital infrastructure and how federal divestment creates brittle, inaccessible platforms. This backslide isn’t inevitable. We can reject it and do better in our work. I explain how in this piece annaecook.com/writing/2026...

For the record, I hate being right. mantisandco.com/resources/gu...

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for * Google AI Summaries * YouTube Ask button & chat summaries * GitHub Copilot * Facebook AI chat * X's Grok buttons * Deviantart DreamUp * Booru AI images * And more github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

Getting the contrasting color from another in CSS has been something I've always wanted, and you may have wanted too. You can do it today, without waiting for the dedicated function!

Important for people to realize that like 30% of all the bad stuff in society is already explicitly illegal it's just not enforced.

"Creating a separate space risks reverting to “accessibility ghettos”—a term for products designed only for people with disabilities that often use inferior components, lack mainstream utility, and cost exponentially more." #a11y accessaces.com/the-mistake-...

In case you missed it, I have a free, full, open course on accessibility and visualization that is part of the launch of the new Open Visualization Academy. The course is packed! And the OVA has over 300+ sign-ups already (which isn't even necessary!) as well as over 4000+ newsletter subs.

Time to pencil it into your busy social calendars ... #id24 will take place on the 24 September 2026. Call for presentations will open in April ... but if you have an idea, or you'd like to help out as a guest host, get in touch! inclusivedesign24.org/2026/ #a11y #accessibility #inclusiveDesign

Happy International box-sizing Awareness Day, to all who celebrate. css-tricks.com/internationa...

animal control is ignoring my reports of a street-walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm 😠😠😠

currently fighting the urge to make a website whose entire layout uses Anchor Positioning, save for the logo which everything else hangs off of

Blink: Intent to Experiment: Focusgroup

Something I've been thinking about since the AI hype started is that the inevitable end game here is that human interaction will only be for people who can afford to pay for it. This isn't accessibility, it's automated inequity

blogged: Mozilla Slopaganda dbushell.com/2026/01/28/m... — I read it so you don’t have to.

It is a lot more complicated to add keyboard shortcuts to your web app than you might initially think, featuring a big honkin' table. #a11ty ericwbailey.website/published/ho...

Looking forward to this!

My book, Accessibility For Everyone, is now free and online as a website. accessibilityforeveryone.site The book was first published by A Book Apart in 2017 but it holds up! It covers web accessibility for designers, developers, content folks, and really everyone who works in tech.

Everything they learned in Minnesota they’re applying in Maine from day one. They started off doing fast-moving snatch and grabs on the street, recording and using facial id on observers, and threatening observers directly. They’ll do it all where you live too.

taking a minute from Marinating In The Horrors to indulge in Some More Horrors

The wild thing is watching companies spend years ignoring accessibility (building div soup with misused ARIA) and now seeing AI models fail to understand their sites. Turns out AI can’t infer structure where none exists.

Saying there must be trials isn't just an emotive aspiration. Congress can: - Create a new court (complying w/ 6A jury vicinage) - Give it jurisdiction over defined category of crimes - Also create dedicated prosecutors for the same - Strip SCOTUS of appellate jurisdiction It can be done.

Solidarity with everyone striking today. The only way we’ve ever secured and held our rights is through collective action.

If you want to know the future, look to the present. restofworld.org/2026/iran-bl...

“Barriers from Links with ARIA” adrianroselli.com/2026/01/barr... Tried to capture other ways using `aria-label` and/or `aria-hidden` within links can break them for non-SR users. Corrections, additions welcome. Maybe check before the LLM crawlers turn my site into a gibbering pile of 503s. #ARIA

Once again, for those who need to hear it: ARIA alters semantics, not behavior. css-tricks.com/i-learned-th...

wading through this to get ur tech hot takes makes no sense to me

bro there’s a gofundme to crowdfund attorney fees for a preschooler who was kidnapped by our federal government and shipped across state lines and his senator is posting about high school hockey while every other elected official is debating whether to give a zillion more dollars to the kidnappers

Humility means understanding you’ll never design something as elegant as the airport toilet foot pedal flush button.

This article provides the perfect view into React brain worms: Instead of a native HTML input radio element It’s somehow easier to import hundreds of lines of code, and implement a faux radio button (that’s actually a button with svg to LOOK LIKE A RADIO), and ARIA rules (to WORK LIKE A RADIO)

I helped my pal @chriskirknielsen.com fake a fieldset-legend layout (where the “legend” overlays and clips a containing border). My technique, plus a few alternatives: cloudfour.com/thinks/fakin... #CSS #WebDev #WebDesign

That money could’ve ended homelessness in the US, or established UBI for every American, student loan erasure, or supercharged every creative industry in existence to pay artists better, instead of, yknow, blowing it on dead malls full of Elegy of Emptiness statues for rich people I hate it here

🚀 It’s 2026. The web is faster, more fluid, and more powerful than ever. Yet we’re still chasing “pixel perfect.” ↬ Amit Sheen questions this legacy concept, explaining why it’s failing us and redefining what “perfection” actually looks like: www.smashingmagazine.com/2026/01/reth...

"By including diverse perspectives from the beginning, [accessible design creates] systems that work better for everyone." #a11y makeitfable.com/article/acce...

i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals

this is the most ridiculous thing we could make life enormously less stressful and awful by simply Not Doing Any Of This call off the ICE goons, rescind the tariffs, stop threatening Greenland just stop it! problem(s) solved!

deep linking implies the existence of shallow linki—oh wait that's just Medium

@anatudor.bsky.social Hey! Just wanted to say I saw your post and updated the CodePen. Thanks for the advice, and was also sure to credit you directly in the code.

thanks to a tidy little PR by our old friend @bell.bz, personalsit.es now has /random, in case you just want to let the Old Gods of Digital Fate take the reins of thy chariot have a look 👁️ ↪ personalsit.es/random

You can't nest interactive controls on the web, but you can fake it 'till you make it. @piccalil.li let me ramble on about how to do exactly just that, because they're champs. #a11y piccalil.li/blog/accessi...

At the point in my accessibility career where I think I’d be net more effective at advocacy by breaking people’s hands than asking them to please, please, please use heading elements.