A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

We have created a #SotB26 starter-pack of Suppporters go.bsky.app/mSQcdn

When considering what keyboard shortcuts to support in your application, don’t stress about JAWS/NVDA. They have pass-through commands (a key combo that tells the SR to ignore the next key/combo). • NVDA + F2 • JAWS + 3 • Narrator + 3 Stress about other languages instead. #a11y #i18n

Stephen Colbert on the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good: “The message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city: obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn’t obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country.”

He’s concerned about the safety of violent protesters in Iran but doesn’t give a fuck about peaceful citizens being murdered on American streets. 🤬

It’s getting so the only safe place to be is in the Epstein Files. 🔄

We have created a #SotB26 starter-pack of Speakers and Organisers. go.bsky.app/Di7jHyZ We'll others involved soon.

‘I don’t need international law’: Trump says power constrained only by ‘my own morality’ Morality of a paedophile 🤔 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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I chatted with my friend and #accessibility fiend @aardrian.bsky.social just before New years. #AI #WCAG #testing #memory html5accessibility.com/stuff/2026/0...

The media (and everyone else) need to stop referring to ICE as "law enforcement". They are out to perform "ethnic cleansing" and to terrorize the population. There is nothing "lawful" about it.

If you work somewhere that still communicates via X, this week is a good one to petition comms folks to stop using it (generates thousands of sexually abusive images per hour while its owner laughs, FT calls it a “deepfake porn site” www.ft.com/content/ad94...).

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

I chatted with my friend and #accessibility fiend @aardrian.bsky.social just before New years. #AI #WCAG #testing #memory html5accessibility.com/stuff/2026/0...

Thrilled to see more tests for real-world `aria-label` exposure: www.maxdesign.com.au/articles/ari... But ARIA outlines what roles disallow `aria-label` (§5.2.8.3): w3c.github.io/aria/#nameca... So that second paragraph appears to be wrong. Sadly, no comment form. #ARIA #accessibility #a11y

Trump killed 80 innocent Venezuelans to not release videos in Epstein files. I believe that is what all of this is about!!! Bottom line.

Common misconceptions about testing accessibility by Ela Gorla @tetralogical.com "Testing for accessibility is often misunderstood. Teams either overestimate what tools can do, underestimate their own role" #accessibility #testing #WCAG tetralogical.com/blog/2026/01...

Mantis & Co. kindly asked me about my predictions for digital #a11y for 2026. I'm not very optimistic about it: mantisandco.com/resources/gu...

The collab that nobody saw coming, including me, but here we have it: me and the baritone voice of @letorey.co.uk on an acid track. If you know Dave, you'll know it's him! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE0-... #acid #music #musicmaking

While the current administration, largely responsible for insurrection attempt on 6 January 2021, has memory-holed the government’s public archive, NPR maintains its own: apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/ Also there’s currently a Democratic-led unofficial hearing on Jan 6: www.youtube.com/live/EUEmzBY...

My loose process for evaluating an ACR (VPAT®): adrianroselli.com/2026/01/how-... You may have your own thoughts / ideas. Add them to the comments. I was also torn between the meat grinder and a Plinko metaphor. #a11y #accessibility

Disappointed that Vispero have airbrushed out author details from a whole raft of articles on their blog (including mine). Not a good move, in my opinion 😭 www.linkedin.com/posts/lloydi...

🔗 “The most distinctive element of [ITC Garamond] is its enormous lower-case x-height. In theory this improves its legibilty, but only in the same way that dog poop’s creamy consistency in theory should make it more edible.” (From: I Hate ITC Garamond designobserver.com/i-hate-itc-g...) (via Eric)

It’s a dark night when you look at the news and are forced to admit that you no longer believe in the power of the FIFA peace prize

Neither Deque nor accessiBe appears to have met its promise / goal of 100% WCAG coverage by the end of 2025. Granted, accessiBe scrubbed that date years ago, before the FTC fined it for false claims about ‘AI’. Yet both still promote ‘AI’ solutions. adrianroselli.com/2025/03/be-w...

“We will take all your jobs and destroy humanity and the Earth! Also we’re going to force this into everything now, and you have to use it to train your replacement or you’re fired. Oh, and it kills kids and makes CSAM and revenge porn, as a treat” Why don’t people like this? A mystery for the ages

Years ago I made this diagram to describe Firefox's basic architecture. It's not perfect, but it's mostly correct as an introduction.

I just noticed Deque changed its logo from the combined ‘D’ and ‘Q’ letterform (visually representing the pronunciation) to the ‘AI’ anus (or “AInus”) of the big LLM purveyors. I bet this was for Deque’s 100% WCAG ‘AI’ coverage, which must be getting released today to honor its March promise.

🛐 new year wish Reproducible tests of AI‘s ability to correctly ascertain WCAG conformance better than manual testing #AI #accessibility #testing

🛐 new year wish Reproducible tests of AI‘s ability to correctly ascertain WCAG conformance better than manual testing #AI #accessibility #testing

At what point during initial page loading do WCAG success criteria apply? WaiCAG 💯 #WCAG #a11y #obscurantist github.com/w3c/wcag/dis...

At what point during initial page loading do WCAG success criteria apply? WaiCAG 💯 #WCAG #a11y #obscurantist github.com/w3c/wcag/dis...

Off to Birmingham with daughters to visit family. 🖖🏼

Iain Banks (With Alt Text)

Tesla doesn't recongise Trade Unions. Apple doesn't recognise unions. Amazon is anti-union. McDonald's is anti-union. Starbucks is anti-union. Google is anti-union. Walmart is anti-union. The big corporations are not on your side.

First outing for my HTML HIGH shirt. you too can own one along with 100’s of other designs. Use code PIGGYTRUMP for 20% off #HTML #a11y #WebStandards #politics #merch www.etsy.com/uk/shop/HTMLZ

Hire @ashleemboyer.com. Not because she had a hard year, but because she is damn good at what she does.

Everyone benefits when those with disabilities are included ✍️ Anna Taylor www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

When the AI bubble bursts, humans will finally have their chance to take back control | Rafael Behr

Capitalism tomes at the double... Prospect Magazine (UK) reviewed Capitalism and Its Critics alongside Sven Beckert's Capitalism: A Global History. Thanks to Tom Clark for a thoughtful article. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7184...

The statistical averageness of AI is the problem. It requires higher levels of education and professional scepticism to spot when it is going wrong.

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

👀Expose implicit ARIA semantics (browser-defaults and ElementInternals) #HTML #ARIA #a11y #WebStandards #browsers github.com/w3c/aria/iss...

Informative and light hearted, #HTML as it should be www.htmhell.dev/adventcalend...

Fun walk down HTML memory lane. I remember using <bgsound> for fun on my Geocities site. 🤣 🤦🏻‍♀️ htmhell.dev/adventcalend...

Welcome to the Marvellous Museum of Moribund Markup. You're in for a treat today, for I'll be guiding you through a brief history of an assortment of the more arcane esoteric elements of HTML past. Take a look at what they were and what still remains of them. www.htmhell.dev/adventcalend... #HTML

TalkBack does not offer an option to use computer vision & LLMs (“AI” for the scope of this thread) to describe images lacking alt text. If you do it in Chrome, it overwrites all the good alt text with, well, crap. Try it on this page: srt.csb-cde.ca.gov/jaws/jaws-l [1/4]

"If the standard for airing a story becomes, 'the government must agree to be interviewed,' then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from being an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state." Sharyn Alfonsi

Anyone a part of a “divitis” webring? Is the `<section>` element your best friend? Do you use semantic HTML, but have never looked up the definitions for the elements you use? I wrote this for you. htmhell.dev/adventcalend...