The end of the year was really fun

“In the practical, this means designers will have more LLM-based features integrated into their tooling. These tools will promise to do their job for them […]. This will further widen the divide between the work and its human-facing impact.” mantisandco.com/resources/gu...

One of my goals for bsky has been to rebuild Design Twitter. But what we got instead was something better: Design Bsky.

“In the coming year, I expect WCAG 2.2 to become the default expectation in procurement language, RFPs, and accessibility evaluation.” 🔗 2026 Predictions: The Next Big Shifts in Web Accessibility webaim.org/blog/2026-pr...

Cognitive research often highlights foundational issues like clarity, predictability, hierarchy, and friction points that affect all users but become visible sooner with the cognitive audience. Cognitive accessibility toolkit by Fable ✨ makeitfable.com/tutorial/cog...

We are getting to the season of end-of-year reflections, so it’s time to post my annual reminder. If you helped someone this year or let someone else help you, then you’ve had a good year. That’s enough.

“Automated tools can quickly flag non-descriptive link text such as “click here” or “read more” […] But automation alone can’t determine whether context makes a vague link meaningful or if a link’s purpose is truly clear to users.” www.dennisdeacon.com/web/accessib...

Fit width text in 1 line of CSS `text-grow: per-line scale;` nerdy.dev/css-text-grow (prototype in Canary 165+)

Ramp table UI is honestly so good. Fully functional with the keyboard (not fully accessible as there are a few color contrast failures, but it’s functional), and the focus ring is styled. ✨

“we hear often we must make special solutions for people with disabilities, that accessibility is expensive and that it hampers innovation… that's all wrong: we can do inclusive design, it can be cost effective and lead to lots of innovation”—Alejandro Moledo del Rio of the European Disability Forum

are you excited for MINDFUL DESIGN ADVENT? what is #MindfulDesignAdvent i do not hear you ask? it’s a daily dose of some course related stuff in a transparent attempt to convince you it is good and to buy it! for day one, you can watch the INTRO (wow!!!) for FREE (huh?!!) piccalil.li/mindful-desi...

@cassidoo.co writes: "I’ve been thinking a lot about the internet lately, like as a concept. I don’t know where everyone went... When the algorithms are determining everything we should be seeing, it’s a much less personal internet" In response I made powrss.com to rediscover the personal web.

“The standard back button is the best way to do this as it is familiar to the user. Many users will try the back button first.”

Magic Patterns isn’t doing what I need, Claude prototypes feel off, and Figma Make isn’t there yet for handling complex interactions. What else is there?

Anthony and I shared our favorite design assets on Complementary this week. After trying to define what a design asset is, of course. creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

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

Getting back to work from maternity leave, design engineering (more engineering than design), organizing my wedding, helping my mom to come to Spain 🫠 beyond TIRED

No conocía este término, pero me gusta bastante. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majorit...

I’ve been mulling my own WCAG3 post, but my TL;DR on Karl’s post is essentially the same as I would have written: “WCAG 3 is not ready for you to use as a compliance framework. Not even close.” afixt.com/why-now-is-n... #accessibility #WCAG #a11y

Let me tell you that the birth and pregnancy was not traumatic, what is really traumatic is leaving your 4 months old and sitting infront of the screen for 8 hours instead. Back to work on Monday 💔

Fought my way through to level 35 and for now I'm like, nope! Fun though: neal.fun/not-a-robot/ Thanks @neal.fun 😄

Here's where accessibility reveals its hidden superpower: it forces you to understand the purpose of everything in your product. 🔗 “Accessible by Design: Building Inclusive Digital Products from the Ground Up” www.nira11y.com/post/accessi...

Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size > Reduce Transparency For those who updated to #iOS26 today

True story: my friend actually got vibe coding cleanup specialist freelance job www.404media.co/the-software...

We were 🤏 this close to having 4 days workweek in Spain. Can’t get over the fact that due to some votes it’s no longer happening 💔

“How often users will see an animation is a key factor in deciding whether to animate or not.” emilkowal.ski/ui/you-dont-...

Generally we think of alt-text as the domain of those with accessibility needs. However alt-text is useful for many reasons, which benefit your viewers, as well as you, the creator!

good chill day plan: open the wikipedia app, tab over to 'places', find articles about stuff near you that don't have photos. walk there, take some photos, learn about the stuff, improve the pages.

Parece una locura que diga esto y que sea verdad: he descansando estas vacaciones con un bebé de 3 meses y he dormido más que nunca en mi vida 😳

What 15 years of design debt looks like

Repair psychic damage from the labor department AI slop with beautiful Soviet work safety posters

My wish for years is for Microsoft Word to let me move the image without messing up the entire PRD doc

Waking up to the sound of rain on the ceiling of the cabin near the beach during the hottest Spanish summer is h e a v e n.

A small recap of improvements done for students to have access to all visual graph information with keyboard and screen readers. Love accessible graphing ❤️ blog.khanacademy.org/rebuilding-g...

Before Hackernews, before Twitter, before blogs, before the web had been spun, when the internet was just four universities in a trenchcoat, there was *BYTE*. ✨ byte.tsundoku.io

“First thing I learned was to really listen. Hear the words people use and reflect them in the UI. […] excellent design doesn’t have to be fancy. Sometimes excellence is a few well-placed words.”

The #NoMouse Challenge is a global effort to raise awareness about accessible web design. Try using your website without a mouse. Use the keyboard instead. Is it possible to access all features and operate all buttons, sliders, and other controls? nomouse.org

Penguin group logos via dustyburrito.blogspot.com/2009/12/peng...

Someone needs to figure out the icon for AI agent. They all are weird.

“[…] for me, standing in bright sunshine, a bit over 45 years old and with a mild dyslexia, the text became a gray blur. It was simply too hard to read. Not because the contrast was too low – but because the letters were too thin.” stiftelsenfunka.org/about-us/col...

Funka foundation just launched new accessibility training (including preparation for CPACC, WAS and ADS certifications). Seems like a nice alternative to Deque University, I might try 👀 stiftelsenfunka.org/what-we-do/t...

Back to school (last of my summer books)

Introducing Bases, a new core plugin that lets you turn any set of notes into a powerful database. Now available to everyone with Obsidian 1.9!

Behind every ‘effortless’ new mom who is working there is a nanny, a cleaner, and a partner who shows up every day.

“An engineer in a first job used to need basic coding abilities: now that same engineer needs to be able to detect vulnerabilities and have the judgment to determine what can be trusted from the AI models.” I think we’ve forgot what entry-level engineer is 🙄 archive.is/202507291237...

“If they replace their websites with agentics that generate the information someone wants in the format they prefer, will that help or hinder accessibility?” 🔗 “Accessibility and the agentic web” tetralogical.com/blog/2025/08...

An interesting study on productivity (16 experienced developers from large open-source repositories) using AI and recording their screens metr.org/blog/2025-07...

If you feel like you don't know what you don't know about accessibility, it can help to follow folks who discuss assistive technology, accessibility and disability. Here's a list of people who post a lot about those topics. bsky.app/profile/did:...

<small> - It’s not just about font size! 🔠 It is meant to represent side comments, legal disclaimers, fine print, or less prominent text, not just make things smaller visually. 📜 Used for: Legal disclaimers Copyright notes A11y hints, etc Read more 👇 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/...

“Software development has never been just about typing out syntax as fast as possible. The real work happens in understanding problems, designing elegant solutions, making architectural decisions, and […] careful crafting of individual functions and algorithms.” victorwynne.com/developers-n...