The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

I've set up a small monthly newsletter called Focus State. With accessibility support shrinking in a lot of orgs, I wanted to create something that divides that gap, builds community, and makes the internet a bit more fun. If you dig digital accessibility give it a look: annaecook.com/newsletter

*new role has a script called `test:turbo`* *runs it* Time elapsed: 1303 seconds (21 minutes) Dead.

Hey! @lflegal.bsky.social, @rejinae.bsky.social, and @chanceyfleet.bsky.social gathered 36 authors to write about ethics in digital accessibility. Chapters, authors (I’m one of them), pre-order: www.routledge.com/Digital-Acce... Out 26 March 2026. #DigitalAccessibilityEthics #accessibility #a11y

It’s my liiiife It’s Nerf or nothin’.

If you’ve been waiting to get the audio version of my book Black Disability Politics (narrated by @imanibarbarin.bsky.social), it’s currently deeply discounted on @libro.fm! libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Gotta love how quickly pull request best practices get abandoned the moment accessibility work is involved.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states. Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

I think this is a common kind of scammy rhetorical construction that makes people mad, because it sets up a world in which the thing cannot fail, it can only be failed. I actually associate this most with diets, but it also appears a lot for Agile.

when im captioning someone's words, i caption all of their words, aside from most speech disfluencies such as uhs and ums. for example, i dont change "gonna" to "going to" or whatever else to "fix" their speech. it's racist, ableist, and classist to do so. i side-eye captioners who do that.

TIL: The Japanese Blind ICT Network (JBICT) runs AT surveys (kind of like WebAIM’s). dragonscave.space/@Piciok/1153... #accessibility #a11y

Tell me, why does Musk get to tell Microsoft how to manage employees? Far right extremism isn’t just threatening media, it’s threatening every single one of us. If we continue to bend to their demands we will all be forced into silence. www.theverge.com/news/777664/...

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...

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

I heard a rumour that they're releasing HTML6 next week, which deprecates semantics and introduces 3 new types of div. Can't wait!

Using images with alt text to show code is not very helpful. • A typical user would need to know about the alt text to copy it. • A low-vis user cannot scale it, and it won’t honor text prefs. • A blind user has to parse a wall of text they cannot pause. Paste code. Maybe a URL to longer code.

Time to submit comments to oppose a republic plan to rollback rules that help people with #disabilities get hired by federal contractors. Comments (they can be short!) due this Tuesday Sept. 2. All the info you need is here: www.lflegal.com/2025/08/comm... Thx @dredf.bsky.social

My cat: *screaming* Me: I understand

This was pushed out with a rushed security review, a coerced and unwilling engineering team, and in full opposition to our supposed company values. If you don't want it, tell them. Social media and support forums. Leadership won't listen to employees. github.blog/changelog/20...

New on the blog: “CSS-only scrollspy effect using scroll-marker-group and :target-current” www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/css-scr... — A short post about the new #CSS scroll-target-group property, how to use it with :target-current, and important #accessibility considerations to keep in mind. #a11y

ICYMI I am looking for my next role. Hopefully something design systems and accessibility related. Ideally using Web Components APIs. Shares, tips, and referrals appreciated!

No one ever tells you just how much of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is just straight up detours where Verne just lists out every kind of mollusk or shark or coral or whatever.

New blog post! 🚀 A few months ago a media org demanded a license fee for an open graph image I linked. I paid the fee because I was worried, but it raises serious questions about open graph usage on the web! This goes through how it went and my thoughts. alistairshepherd.uk/writing/open...

I have been back and forth over the span of 5 years about whether to publish this article. All opinions and experiences in this post are my own, or from people I personally know, backed up with recent reports and statistics.

📝 Please, can we have ARIA Notify Live regions suck and I hope we get a better solution soon! www.nicchan.me/blog/please-...

Me sitting in on an important coordination meeting for the team I moved to last week and have little context for:

I just gotta ask like how efficient does it make a workforce if you’re constantly laying off and re-orging them? It would seem to me, a humble not big brained CEO, that perhaps this would actually be counter productive to that end.

“Don’t talk to me or my son ever again.”

I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?

This is one of the biggest impacts of a protest. Seeing actual physical proof in front of your eyes that other people do not want this, and getting out of "silence = complicity" by being loud together. It's a lot easier to fight when you know you won't be alone against a powerful foe.

How to Protest More Safely in the Age of Surveillance Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy better if you plan to protest. via WIRED www.wired.com/story/how-to...

Due to the Coriolis effect, loading spinners in the Southern hemisphere spin the other way.

Another thing. Trump team trying to roll back 40+ year old regulations saying new construction has to be accessible. Here’s my piece today about how to file comments against this attack on #DisabilityRights: www.lflegal.com/2025/06/ener.... Will digital #accessibility be next?

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Ken Paxton likely used a little known database that tracks RX records of controlled substances to target gender affirming care providers. Worse, he can access the prescription records of anyone without a warrant in over 37 states with an agreement with Texas. www.thedissident.news/texas-ag-ken...

This is exactly what I mean when I say that it is impossible to reduce friction, only to move it around. The text-making-up machine dropped the friction of "research" to zero, but every single person downstream of that "research" who has to act upon it now shoulders a double workload.

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

*crab-walked

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.

there are few books I feel will better equip you for the current moment. even if you think you know a lot about Christofascism (which I did!), it will turn out that there is so so so much more you did not know

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

Work email about “mental health awareness month” while finding out my friends just got laid off. Idk man I’m pretty aware of it rn.

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.

don't forget that the difference between an italian pope and a chicago pope is the cheese is under the sauce

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

[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