Twelve billion dollars would feed a lot of hungry people, shelter a lot of unhoused, and erase a lot of medical debt. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Hell yeah

"Techno-solutionism and cost-cutting must not be allowed to damage the human rights of sign language users." bda.org.uk/bsl-is-not-f...

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

Seeing this bubble grow from the front row and yelling into the void as we head towards 2008 part deux is making me lose my mind.

I don't remember who asserted that the way systems thinkers grab power is by expanding scope, but ime, expanding scope often happens in the absence of systems thinking.

I partnered with Fable to evaluate their pay-per-project offering. Its an amazing way to get insights into how disabled people actually use your service, and what they think about it. ericwbailey.website/published/ev...

You can tell you're a grizzled old veteran of the internet when you always copy everything you've typed just before hitting the "submit" button, just in case something doesn't work and it disappears.

Major tech news sites reporting on the iOS update in terms of it allowing you to further remove the liquid glass effect tells you everything you need to know about how successful liquid glass is.

You must accept the Xcode license before proceeding. Spiritually, I mean.

HTML Screen reader support - updated 03 November #HTML #Screenreader #ARIA #WebStandards tetralogical.github.io/screen-reade...

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month. Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

A Halloween UX horror story for y'all: Many years ago, I worked as a consultant specializing in product creation. One of our clients was a large financial firm, likely one you're familiar with.

goddammit i have to work late in the lab tonight

The retrenchment is here: As more news outlets and media companies roll back commitments to diversity efforts, including reporting on stories about traditionally marginalized groups, the avenues for reporters who specialize in such coverage grow increasingly limited. www.thewrap.com/nbc-news-div...

Ending spooky season with one of the spookiest images I've created.

corpus is such a fun word

Hard to imagine anything more on brand than Elon Musk creating a racist Wikipedia clone.

"The fastest path to improved accessibility is to stop defending patterns that already irritate non-disabled users. Those patterns are already creating friction." buttondown.com/access-abili...

It’s late 2025 and Safari still breaks accessibility via display properties: bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi... Amended my 2022 post as a result: adrianroselli.com/2022/07/its-... #Safari #CSS #accessibility #a11y

I was invited onto the rad podcast, Design Downtime, to talk about my passions outside of work to fight back against grind culture and slow work burn out. I obviously picked my special interest Minecraft. Huge thanks to @guysegal.com for having me on and for hosting such an important podcast!

This is exactly why its horrific that individuals in tech and companies get millions to build disability dongles like "AI-aided braille gloves," or wheelchairs that can climb stairs--they do not care about users and their needs. And what happens when companies just get bought up/fold/lose interest?

"Visually appealing interfaces may unintentionally impact user experience and exclude users if motion, transparency, and blur effects are used without giving accessibility top priority." #a11y axesslab.com/glassmorphis...

Defaults matter. Remember that people tend to internalize bad UI as their own personal failing, and that people also may not identify as disabled. Combined this means they'll feel bad using inaccessible experiences and not think to check how to fix the problem. www.theverge.com/news/802963/...

“No app is a museum that people come to explore.” — Albert Gareev #A11yTOconf #a11y

“Trauma is the sense of being trapped. So, providing choices is huge in a trauma-informed practice.” — Hitomi Yokota #A11yTOconf #a11y

“Accessibility is not optional. It’s required. We all know that. But we still have to tell other people that.” — @xirclebox.com #A11yTOconf #a11y

“When we design for ideal users, real users struggle and fail. We blame users instead of systems. We miss critical barriers, and we create exclusion.” — Ina Tsvetkova #A11yTOconf #a11y

“What’s essential [for your organization] may not be the same for your user.” — @press1forjosh.bsky.social #A11yTOconf #a11y

This was super relevant when reviewing some recent user testing, design folks commented on how zoomed in the user was and how it throws off button placement and spacing leading to confusion. Sorry (not sorry) to say, not everyone is going to see the interface exactly as it is mocked up in Figma!

“It is accepted and expected that the user will make changes to how content is displayed.” — @press1forjosh.bsky.social #A11yTOconf #a11y

"Disabled people are peers not charity cases" - Dr. Michele A. Williams Mic drop #A11yTOconf #A11y @a11yto.bsky.social

Firefox now supports view transitions, the command and commandfor HTML attributes, and the moveBefore() method. www.firefox.com/en-US/firefo...

At last, today is the day. I am immensely proud to announce that JavaScript for Everyone is here. Tell a friend, tell a Slack channel — write it on a slip of paper, fold it once, and slide it across your boss' desk without breaking eye contact. _It's time to get weird._ piccalil.li/javascript-f...

"Screen readers are familiar to many in digital, but how they work in practice can be less clear. In this post, we shed some light on the topic." @tetralogical.com tetralogical.com/blog/2025/10...

Combine this with the RFK Jr. antivaxxer stuff and you get a pretty clear and coherent eugenicist policy agenda.

Role equals application used.

"Inviting overlay companies and other performative actors into genuine Accessibility spaces isn’t harmless. It compromises trust, distorts the message, and damages the integrity of the work." chrisyoong.com/blog/invitin...

If I were a famous politician I would legally change my name to TKTK just to mess with newspaper editors

Please, my portent. It’s very ill.

✏️ Conformance vs compliance, accessibility standards edition hidde.blog/compliance-c... (as a non native speaker I needed to look this up way too often, so I created a post for future reference)

microsoft product (begging, pleading): save this document to my documents? me: save to desktop microsoft (twitching, shaking) this jpeg. save to pictures? me: save to desktop microsoft (weeping, throwing up): this email attachment... downloads? me: desktop

Accessibility is popular, it's rare I meet anyone who thinks it doesn't matter. Usually it's the systemic failures that make us de-prioritize it, things like perceived tight timelines, low budgets, lack of resources. Regardless, the future world is accessible. There's too many of us that want it

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

"The Americans with Disabilities Act would not exist in its present form - or even at all - without the energy, people, and determination galvanized by this unparalleled historical moment." longmoreinstitute.sfsu.edu/archive/disa...

OK @kevinpowell.co has written what has to be one of the best (if not THE best) practical article to #CSS colors I have read in a while. piccalil.li/blog/a-pragm... Easy to read, practical examples, and *perfect* for someone like me who's fallen behind and hasn't kept up with all the new stuff.

"Poorly designed content is a barrier for everyone." equalentry.com/accessible-c...

Big tech is laying off user researchers in droves, because it believes that coercing its customers is more profitable than silly things like "making good products people want to buy." But now the FAFO pendulum is coming around, with Amazon's $2.5B dark pattern settlement and #a11y lawsuits galore.

"Again and again, accessibility as a topic in web standards is treated as simultaneously too trivial for specialists' technical opinions to be given weight, but also too difficult to get right without a specialist volunteering to tackle the tricky details." alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-t...

If you really do (seriously, really do) need to create a PDF, Steve has your back to help you make sure you make that PDF accessible without having to fork out for Adobe Acrobat Pro. piccalil.li/blog/a-guide...