I just sent an email newsletter out 📬 announcing a soft-launch of this year's Global Accessibility Awareness Day #GAAD promotion: For the next two weeks, the Practical Accessibility course is going on sale! 25% off ($299 instead of $399) 🎁 Sale ends on June 1st ⏳ practical-accessibility.today

Here is me giving the "AI hater" label some dense knobwaffle placed on my profile a run for its money. #a11y github.blog/ai-and-ml/gi...

There is no magic. It's just us and what we decide to do together.

I was today years old when I learned that you can now use element with ARIA! a11y-up.com/articles/bas...

OMG it's happening!!!

Inspired by @anatudor.bsky.social's fantastic CSS tip about CSS shorthand, I wrote up a post about how and when I use short and longhand (spoiler: it's often the latter). thoughtbot.com/blog/when-to...

the OG user flow

slow down and feel things

America’s next top threat model is this anything

centralised design system components that rely on a specific front-end framework has always felt like such an anti-pattern. framework lock-in from day one is wild. i'm sure i'm missing something but switching to framework-agnostic web components has been so freeing.

You can't put important links exclusively in your site's footer if you have infinite scroll. You can't have infinite scroll if you put important links exclusively in your site's footer. Please stop.

It is probably not the smartest thing to channel your anxiety into the place where you curate your professional representation online, but also here's a future I would really like to avoid. ericwbailey.website/published/ev...

we are Not Amused

Launching on a Friday to prove to my kids I'm still with it and hip: I put together a mobile accessibility checklist for the GitHub Annotation Toolkit. Big shout out to @ericwbailey.website @joelamyman.bsky.social and @julianmka.bsky.social for making it happen! primer.style/accessibilit...

Screen Reader HTML Support – Lookup updated 7th May 2026 #JAWS #TalkBack #VoiceOver #NVDA #Narrator #HTML #accessibility tetralogical.github.io/screen-reade...

"We aren’t asking for favors; we are demanding the basic dignity of a usable interface." #a11y accessaces.com/beyond-furio...

Hey #accessibility #a11y #inclusiveDesign folks: you still have until the end of this month (31 May 2026) to propose a presentations for this year's #id24 in September inclusivedesign24.org/2026/ Reminder: as it's a global event, we'd also be delighted to have talks in languages other than English.

One or more person or persons may or may not have spoken, and in a voice funneled through a person whose professional success explicitly hinges on demand for this feature, cried out: “eight.” That’s web standards, baby! wil.to/posts/google...

Available now. Today. “Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech” Info: accessibilityethics.org Links to other sellers: adrianroselli.com/2025/11/pre-... (anchor) Add to your StoryGraph to-read pile: app.thestorygraph.com/books/42da2f... #DigitalAccessibilityEthics

This month, I've published two articles and a workbook as a follow-up from my design keynote at axe-con 2026. TLDR: AI doesn't "fix" accessibility. It reproduces the structural debt it was trained on, at the speed and scale that AI-assisted coding now operates. annaecook.com/writing/2026... 1/2

The problem with hoovering up the entire Internet for training data is that eventually you end up drinking from a poisoned cup

Heck yeah I like UFOs U nlimited F rench O nion s oup

Happy birthday, WCAG. www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/

the older I get the more the idiom, "wake up and face the day" makes sense

📝 Post-mortem on my "lots of little HTML pages" approach — still like it. The browser's most basic feature is following a link. Can I build a site’s interactions around just that? e.g. a "menu" is <a href="/menu/"> + CSS view transitions blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/small-h...

me: some people call me the space cowboy therapist: hmm, tell me more me: some call me the gangster of love therapist: and how does that make you feel? me: some people call me Maurice therapist: ok what the fuck.

Goodnight, sweet prince.

I'd like to acknowledge that part of you that doesn't think you're ready to give a talk and say that you are. #id24 is a great way to share your knowledge with a global audience, and we'd love to have you pitch us.

I should whip up a Bluesky labeling service for overlay companies, looks like they're starting to creep in here.

You passed the audit. Congratulations. But your users still can't use the site properly. 😱 Our speaker and long-time accessibility advisor Radek Pavlíček recommends 6 sessions you shouldn't miss at WebExpo. From ARIA and typography to neurodiversity and design systems. 👇

I think my call to action here is to pay for no-vc non-public small business made software and cut them a little slack on downtime because it’s where your favorite expensive big guys are headed anyway

It is deeply, darkly tragicomic to me that years of not rigorously templating overall page designs and enforcing said templates due to trivializing is actively stymieing vibe-coding-friendly design efforts. It turns out trivializing the frontend and downplaying design systems is… bad?

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

the more I think about the term “hand clippers” the angrier I get

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

In order to be worthwhile for investors, AI companies need to simultaneously: - increase demand 100,000x - increase capacity to support that usage - make a profit instead of a loss on each token Which, well, lol.

Mat Marquis has waited 14 years to write this article. The sizes attribute has been a necessary evil but now, with an auto value capability, it’s completely transformed authoring responsive images on the web. piccalil.li/blog/the-end...

being an adult means getting excited not only for stew night, but also successfully storing the soup spoons in the dishwasher in the most efficient possible way

Beyond the art direction and responsive loading... <img>-as-poster would allow video posters to have their own accessible name. Which – great!

Tired of accessibility pushbacks like “We have no disabled users”? Yeah, me too. Here’s how to reframe them. This article is a text version of my axe-con 2026 talk (organised by @deque.com) Full article: stephaniewalter.design/blog/9-acces...

Hey is anybody else in tech really stressed

In my experience as a UX designer, leadership is hostile to what UX recommends because what solves for the user needs is often at odds with what will create the biggest value for shareholders/investors.

Browsers crash. Tabs close. Life happens. Here’s a web component that saves form progress so your users don’t have to start over from scratch.

ARIA is inevitable when you work on web accessibility. Here's everything I wish someone told me when I first got started, presented at @webexpo.bsky.social in Prague on May 28th. #a11y webexpo.net/prague2026/s...

really loving Adobe's new feature-promotion-messaging-as-jumpscare tactic

"For all of us, I want digital spaces that remember we’re human. That respect our boundaries. That prioritize our well-being over their quarterly targets." —@nattarnoff.bsky.social tarnoff.info/2026/04/13/w...

Whatever you do,

📝 Story about a family vacation when I was a teen and our car kept overheating and nobody could fix it without hooking it up to a computer. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/hook-it...