Ah yes, we could never have predicted this, never www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

people in power really hate it when you continue to demand concrete information rather than abstract platitudes

less Cassandra Complex and more Cassandra Simple plz

*whispers* This job is 5 jobs. www.a11yjobs.com/jobs/RLZUO-s...

Ugly chuckling to myself realizing that one of the main reasons tech companies aren’t trying to push thin clients on consumers during the RAM shortages is because of America’s chronic underinvestment in internet infrastructure.

A rant in the face of the industry's continued neglect and outright hostility towards digital accessibility and care for users. vale.rocks/posts/access... #WebDev #Accessibility #a11y #FrontEndDevelopment

“Nominalistic determinism strikes again!” exclaimed Ignatius J. Thatguy

Read Erika's beautiful description. Think about how you would describe this amazing photograph to a friend. The alt text is: "Image may contain Gail Graham Blazer Clothing Coat Jacket Formal Wear Suit Face Head Person and Photography"

Well this is good news for #a11y Germany rejects Accessibility overlays for EAA compliance and says regulators won’t audit any website that uses an accessibility widget chrisyoong.com/blog/germany...

The Nu HTML Checker has gotten a bunch of updates to validate ARIA. Try it: validator.w3.org/nu/ Or run it locally: validator.github.io/validator/ If you find issues with ARIA validation, _report them_: github.com/validator/va... #HTML #ARIA #accessibility #a11y

Hi, I'm the CEO of Glorbo, the company who enjoys near unprecedented goodwill in our field, I'm here today to talk to you about our pivot to using the Magic 8-Ball powered by children's bones that everybody hates, I've given myself psychosis listening to the 8-ball aaaaeeeeeiiiiooouuuu

[[ social model of disability intensifies ]] axesslab.com/inaccessible...

On day 15 of this year’s #HTMHellAdventCalendar, I “break” down (pun intended) an aspect of #HTML we often take for granted: Line breaks! htmhell.dev/adventcalend... #WebDesign #WebDev #CSS #Typography

It always strikes me how cognitive disability-friendly design is just… good design. makeitfable.com/community-co...

"Any plans for the holiday break?" Me, slowly sliding a heavily bookmarked copy of the 2nd edition D&D Monster Manual away from arm's reach. "I'll probably just do some reading, I dunno."

I've spent six years trying to cultivate the impression that component.gallery is some unbiased reference site, all so I can drop the 1600 word “carousels are awful and if you use them you should feel bad” rant. component.gallery/components/c...

Time is owned by Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, which is currently trying to sell its AI tool to ICE in order to triple their recruitment. just a thing I think about sometimes while I’m at work, implementing his product for nonprofits.

There is nothing as permanent as a temporary solution, and anyone who makes websites for a living knows that swapping out a prototype for production code is a lie. This is going to fuck over so many people with access needs. www.fastcompany.com/91458333/fed...

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

"This is not a mere inconvenience. It is a functional blocker to employment, education, and independence." blindaccessjournal.com/2025/12/when...

kicked out of film crit class for suggesting that the end of Grease makes the movie's genre magical realism

I hope this email finds you interesting and pleasant to chat with.

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

Happy Baseline newly available day for CSS @scope now that it's in Firefox 146!

An inconvenient truth to non-deterministic code generation is that while visual discrepancies are annoying, each new version of the underlying code is a roll of the dice for fucking over someone who relies on assistive technology to get what they need.

New from my blog: The only winning move is not to play https://gregg.io/the-only-winning-move "Let’s not debase ourselves as user researchers further"

Cannot imagine what would be so attractive about technology made in an era before everything was so aggressively abusive and predatory and pre-broken to people who have never known anything else

tfw your web site is static

bog-standard, eh? where is this ISO-certified bog at?

If there's a better way to let people know you're available for work than writing a curse word laden blog post, I simply do not want to hear it! Jokes aside, what do YOU call this kind of contact page? www.nicchan.me/blog/the-f-o...

In these cases, AI is being used to solder together the libertarian goal of dismantling administrative capacity with the fascist goal of ever present control and enforcement. This mediating function between contrasting desires is at least as important whether it actually works.

six figure salaries for the ride hailing app employees who just tried to upsell me a supposedly faster pickup time that was twice as long a wait period as the one I’d already locked in

Florence and the Rage Against the Machine is this anything

Me: Hey, thanks for this product! It’s exactly what I need, but I don’t want any more email from you. Brand: What if I invent a brand new marketing list and put you on it without your consent? Me: … Brand: :)

This tech is a weapon and should be regulated as such

This January 21-22 CrystalCon 2026, over two days and six sessions, will explore AI's very real consequences for disabled people and everyone who has to live with the products that companies integrate with it. There's no hype, no "innovation theater," just honest conversations and practical sessions

Apple could surprise remove Liquid Glass the same way it surprise added U2 to everyone's devices and I'd be first in line to call things even.

One of the under-discussed trends in UX is the shift in product design borrowing addictive elements from gambling, to straight up making gambling products. Post-ZIRP, the psychological toolkit that was once used for growth (goosing MAU metrics) is now being deployed for revenue extraction purposes.

it's wild how the positive use cases are like "save 5 minutes reading a long doc" and "write a generic email faster" and the negative use cases are "get encouraged to dive deeper in psychosis, misogyny, or suicidal thoughts" and we're still on the fence about overall value

I'm more convinced with each passing day that web infrastructure and history needs means of existing outside of corporate ownership.

How does this article not mention eugenics even once?

In September, I (and many other accessibility advocates) reviewed the America by Design website, finding sloppy AI-generated code and accessibility bugs. @notus.com wrote on it, and also spoke to many amazing folks from @alt18f.bsky.social and @ethanmarcotte.com www.notus.org/trump-white-...

I hope this email finds you worthy of love.

This is a textbook definition of coercive control . This is describing straight up dominance

These people have sold their humanity to support their addiction to power and they've built an entire system around justifying it at our expense

It's interesting, and by interesting I mean really sad that companies are moving away from investing in design systems at the same moment token specs are starting to get formally standardized.

Part of what we lost when newsrooms shifted from dedicated beat reporters to freelancers is the ability to push back/question. News sites uncritically reprint marketing and propaganda, lending it authority it doesn't deserve and actively contributing to misinformation. As with Elon, so with Sam.

I wanted to write about this for a long time, but @adactio.com did it first and definitely better. Web frameworks should be invisible to the user, they serve us developers. Users don't care, and shouldn't pay the price neither.

Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.