web dev has completely failed users with poor connectivity. an incredibly common scenario that is often when a person needs connectivity the most.

they should invent a tech industry that isn't speedrunning the extinction of everything that matters to you and all hopes of happiness

No office hour signups today at work. I can (try to!) answer 5 accessibility-related questions you might have. First come first serve.

last-minute pitching `aria-labeledby` and `aria-labellledby` as alias additions to WCAG 1.3

"People are betting on wildfires." Really feels like banning these betting markets is a minimum necessary condition for civilisation.

🤘New Post🤘 Why Separating Themes from Modes Transforms Your Design System Separating brand colours from user preferences scales design systems. Themes = personality. Modes = accessibility https://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/why-separating-themes-from-modes-transforms-your-design-system 🙏🖤

Wrote this five(!) years ago today. Still chuffed by it, as folks from Britainland are wont to say. ericwbailey.website/published/ha...

Started out trying to make documentation easier for humans and AI to read. Months later, I'm having an existential crisis about filing cabinets: gerireid.com/blog/organis...

Browser bugs should get filed with their Web Feature ID attached along with a type and severity level and that should be presented along with the Baseline support data to web developers.

blogged: ARIA, anti-patterns, and you dbushell.com/2026/06/26/a...

named grid lines don't inherit in subgrid mom pick me up I'm scared

It's really time we updated the conventional design process model to be more descriptive. We're in our third diamond era.

I'm so sick of headlines that lead with "an ex-Google/Apple Engineer/Designer made". Like, from the companies that brought you Google+ and a Carpal Tunnel-inducing mouse.

coming soon to a css reset near you! put line-height back in the box where it should be!

data attributes are cool

I saw a great introduction to CSS Grid Lanes, aka Masonry Layouts, by @patrickbrosset.com at CSS Day 2026. I liked the versatility of its use cases, but I was also concerned that it's inaccessible by default. matuzo.at/blog/2026/gr...

Thank you to all the lovely folks who submitted a talk proposal for the next Inclusive Design 24. We worked through nearly 100 submissions for our initial selection. We'll be in touch in the coming days to let you know! #id24 #inclusiveDesign #accessibility #a11y

I feel like the name "Sir Mix-a-Lot" left a lot on the table in terms of worldbuilding

"Across the board, it was a deprioritization of accessibility requirements in favor of visual presentation." silktide.com/blog/google-...

“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...

maybe jotting down ideas immediately after waking up from an intense dream isn't as good an idea as other folks claim it is

Father’s Day reminds me that you can mourn someone who’s still alive.

NO MORE TECHNOLOGY WE HAVE ENOUGH

you: Please, dr moreau. your unholy creations are an affront to god. creatures of land should not combine with creatures of the sea. a baby belongs with its mother sheep, not imprisoned within a pearlescent shell until you see fit to pry open its hinges dr moreau: clamb

you can usually just buy the funny book you see on the internet, the next edition in this apparently ongoing series

Engineers discover a revolutionary technology called "CSS classes". polar.sh/blog/orbit-l...

this whole ::interest-button drama can be avoided by designers using a damn visible label in the first place! I'm so tired of guessing what meaningless icons do 🫩 (and make buttons look like buttons!) github.com/w3c/csswg-dr...

Firefox is a great browser with a management problem.

also, firefox updates routinely un-flip the kill switch, without your consent, so that mozilla can try pushing a.i. garbage on you again, something people regularly complain about this makes any numbers mozilla provides inherently untrustworthy

UI means user interface and UX means user exerface

TIL recap: Did you know that incorrectly applied ARIA roles can nuke semantics entirely? The standard rule applies: if you're reaching for ARIA, make sure you know what you're doing. https://www.stefanjudis....

"This thing is developer catnip, and I don’t mind saying that I was really excited to try it out — after which point I willed myself to tuck it away in a drawer and put it out of my mind." Mr. @wil.to cracking into ariaNotify(): css-tricks.com/the-siren-so...

It must be so cool to live in a functional republic.

New HTML spec proposal from my team github.com/whatwg/html/...

This and my thread from last week in one: adrianroselli.com/2026/06/unio...

I can't believe Cursor wants to voluntarily host code now. It comes with so, so many problems.

The Safari team's reason for opposing Web MCP struck a cord with me. It is something I've struggled to articulate in the past. In fact, their comments contain the seed of a design principle that the W3C should adopt. cloudfour.com/thinks/impro...

cube of perfect anger

What’s up with people in GitHub issues sounding like mob bosses. “I trust we can come to an agreement you will fix this issue.” No?

Here's some thoughts and feelings about needing to vibe code to do accessibility design work. ericwbailey.website/published/th...

The story of Icarus provides us with a valuable lesson: never fuck up real bad

kinda funny that we turned beach sand into computers and now they’re allergic to water

This is what a real user experience success metric looks like. "User can complete workflow faster than it takes to eat a pack of Wotsits."

Please spread the word #a11y people: There was an Acrobat bug that made it crash if you used NVDA with Visual Highlight setting turned on to move through a PDF. I filed multiple tickets about it with Adobe and FINALLY it might be fixed! Please update your Acrobat to version 26.001.21662 & test!

Fleetwood Mac trip hop album

I had to use aria-setsize and aria-posinset to make macOS VoiceOver happy and I am big baby mad about it 😤

they should invent a kind of task list that gets shorter

This is my surprised face. www.thevoiceofuser.com/the-largest-...