Friendly reminder to use aria-label as a last resort. Use a visual label if you can! And if you need to use an aria-label to add supplementary text to already visual text, make sure the full visual text is included in the aria-label, at the start of the string.

How broken is today's frontend culture? A friend points out that the median *mobile* page is now larger than a copy of DOOM (2.6 MiB vs. 2.48 MiB), the 75th percentile page is more than 2 DOOMs, and the P90 mobile page is 4.5x the size of DOOM: httparchive.org/reports/page...

saying "headers" when you mean "headings" is equivalent to using "there", "their" and "they're" interchangeably.

And that’s it for me for now. Maybe next time I post on social media I’ll have some accessibility information to share or some kind of witty jib jab to make for a good chuckle.

People shouldn’t have to be hungry. Rights and respect shouldn’t be taken away from people. These shouldn’t be debated topics.

I say this on a night where there have been some election results that demonstrate people with interesting ideas and a desire to good for everyone have been elected. So, I’m glad for that. But for every good bit news there is a metric ton of bad. I want us to do better for everyone. Consistently

Why is there a variable understanding in this country of what the minimum bar of being a shit head is? Like can we all agree that being a shit head is a bad thing? Yes? Then why the ever loving fuck have we elected so many of them? :: this is the bad place ::

NEW: A federal judge said the decision by Trump WH to end sign language interpretation at briefings by Trump and Leavitt likely violated the Rehabilitation Act and harmed deaf people who communicate in ASL. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

The first and last decent CEO of a social media app was Tom from MySpace. Buddy made himself everyone’s friend, stfu, and stayed out the way. Everyone since has been the worst.

Many people still misunderstand screen readers — who uses them, how they work, and what inclusive design really means. Ela Gorla has unpacked the most common myths on the TetraLogical blog: tetralogical.com/blog/2025/10... #Accessibility #InclusiveDesign #ScreenReaders

why do services provide a "stay logged in" and "remember this device" function if they just sign you out, randomly. often when not using the service, sometimes _when using the service_. is it sloppy coding, or active fucking with users? both?

I feel this post deep in my bones, Alice gets right to the heart of why working on a11y in standards can feel like killing your soul by degrees. And also why it’s hard to stop. alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-t...

Current status: Not beer

Current status: Beer

tonight's posts brought to you by: "this is easier than a blog post, and i can do it while watching netflix." bye

a11y audit: YOU MUST NOT USE COLOR ALONE TO INDICATE STATE designer: OK, i'll put a checkmark next to this option to indicate it's selected a11y audit redux: "THERE IS CHECK BUT NOT ANNOUNCED AS CHECKBOX. THIS ALSO FAIL BECAUSE NOT CHECKBOX LOLOLOL"

i just used a certain business-oriented social platform to message an old friend i lost touch with. the entire time i felt like i should use the word "synergize", but i didn't. i think i've forgotten how to internet properly. halp.

i know it's redundant for me to say it, but _this is the bad place_.

For anyone who pays attention to high contrast / forced colors mode styles: I wrote up an explanation of why forced-color-adjust: none is nearly unavoidable and how it sets up your codebase for downstream bugs: sarahmhigley.com/writing/forc...

Don’t tell people not to joke about serious shit. It’s a coping mechanism for some of us. It’s how we aren’t constantly screaming.

👁️‍🗨️ Conforming to WCAG does not make your UI magically accessible, but it will be a lot more accessible than if nothing is done. #UX is a different matter... #WCAG #accessibility #reality

an industry standard pattern: when you scroll a page, a dialog pops up out of nowhere and autofocuses a text field, which then triggers the virtual keyboard. peak UX right there. possibly the most elaborate way to say "fuck you"

I used the center element today. Fight me

a label and a name walk into a bar "When is a label also an (accessible) name, when is it not and when is it neither?" #HTML #ARIA #accessibility html5accessibility.com/stuff/2025/0...

Hot off the presses! Firefox Nightly (www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefo...) adds the new :heading pseudo! Easily style all headings, or use nth-child-like AnB syntax to select a range of headings! Needs `layout.css.heading-selector.enabled` flag enabled. Try it out and let me know your thoughts.

I can point to multiple transcripts or minutes that have me on record for exactly this. Feels good, don’t it?

Actually LOL'd at my very snarky post on the HTML menu element being linked in this intent to prototype. but give this a look see. poke around the open ui discussions. give feedback if you are able to do so. the goal here is to reduce the need for the ARIA patterns & instead provide them natively

i made some updates to my blog post about the figure and figcaption elements. www.scottohara.me/blog/2019/01... maybe give it a read - especially if you think you need to use figures to wrap any old image you add to your web page (psst... you don't)

Just realized that it is Wednesday It’s 738 pm What the ever loving F

"vibe coding" where i keep asking the AI to adjust the script it wrote so that it can be used for multiple instances of a component on a single page - and the AI just can't do it... thus producing the "vibe" of me wanting to throw my computer into the ocean and curse at the AI. i hate everything

current status: "LOL, there are only so many hours in a day."

Inclusive Design 24 is on 25 September 2025, and our Call For Presenters (CFP) is open until 31 May: inclusivedesign24.org/2025/ #id24 #a11y #accessibility #UX #inclusion #InclusiveDesign #code #gamedev

This #GAAD and every GAAD, you can champion #accessibility by hiring accessibility specialists, paying them well, ensuring they have what they need to be successful and make a change, and by not putting their heads on the chopping block first whenever layoffs roll around. #a11y

reposted this already, but seriously. reach out to aaron, or me. i lost some excellent coworkers. let this mistake be your gain.

👉🏽 We are looking for 2 new people to join the @tetralogical.com team as Associate Accessibility Specialists #a11y #accessibility #jobs www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

I know of a handful of accessibility specialists who were impacted by yesterday’s RIF at Microsoft. If you’re looking for amazing accessibility talent (PMs and Engineering Managers), please reach out.

i'm still employed. people who should be, are not. today was not a good day.

I was not personally impacted this time. A lot of amazing designers, PMs and accessibility experts were impacted. A lot of my friends. I will be trying to support them as best as I can. Please give them support too.

if a prototype isn't accessible, then it is likely not something that can be tested by people with disabilities. and if that's the case, any UX decisions made based on such a prototype will be biased away from inclusive design / UX decisions.

why haven't design apps realized trying to copy photoshop's "save for web" from the early 2000s is a metric ton of BS? what's been released is embarrassing. & that's not meant to be a critique on the people who did the work. but rather, the person(s) that said "yeah, this is good enough. publish!"

[New blog post] Are CSS Carousels accessible sarasoueidan.com/blog/css-car... In this post, I share some important insights from examining the accessibility of CSS-only carousels that use new features introduced in the #CSS Overflow Module Level 5 spec. #a11y

if you point out a typo to scott, he's going to want to fix it. but when he fixes it, he's going to re-read what he wrote. when he re-reads what he wrote, he's going to want to make it better. when scott makes it "better" he adds ridiculous examples & metaphors. www.scottohara.me/blog/2019/05...

trying out various automated a11y checkers today. many false positives for a skip to main content link while it's in a visually hidden state. i'd file issues. but, i don't really have the time to do more free work for others.

I did say…

i was told that my blog post on making an accessible toast notification had a typo. so of course when i fixed that, i also ended up adjusting some of the content and adding a whole new section about popovers at the end. www.scottohara.me/blog/2019/07...

Surprised to not see betting booths setup to wager on whether the amtrak train back to Boston will be delayed again. Feeling like I got a good handle on a safe bet now….

In the middle of a week off. Taking time away is wonderful

Can generative #AI write contextual text descriptions? tetralogical.com/blog/2025/03...

My friend worked on a website which just got an “accessibility audit”. I won’t say by what company. But the issues he’s been sharing with me are absolute rubbish. Flagging p1 bugs on solid a11y components because they aren’t solely built with native html elements.

If you are an accessibility advocate that doesn’t end your work days feeling like you let someone down or pissed someone off… well… tell me your secret or try harder…