America and Russia are an existential threat to Western democracy, though one could simply say 'Russia' because Putin clearly controls the White House. Farage is the extension of this threat into the UK. He has already done incalculable damage through Brexit, we must never allow him to take power.

Findings from this week's UN report on AI vs climate: 🌿 80-90% is not in training models, but in day-to-day use. 🌿 Generating an image is 1450⨉ more energy intensive than text, generating video much worse. 🌿 We need to monitor water and land footprint, as well as carbon. unu.edu/inweh/news/e...

“These sad sociopathic fucks are attempting to write a future where everything and everyone behaves in a way that benefits them. Where no one gives them lip. Where no one tells them no. Where no one defies them. Where consent has been taken off the table.”

Hi, just because a software tells you it’s “reasoning” or “thinking” doesn’t mean it actually is. You won’t believe this but programmers can make software lie about what it does. Maybe programmers need more guardrails.

“The search market is also locked down by a cartel of Google and browser vendors, and anything that helps break that improves sovereignty by unlocking this market,” Berjon tells Cybernews. cybernews.com/tech/alterna...

anti islamic standup - Stewart Lee youtu.be/wOb2KQHr7V0?...

the amount of cognitive dissonance generated by the US propaganda about “civilisational decline” is overwhelming. #racism #propaganda #US #UK www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Dear BBC journalists, you really do not have to 'debate' every far-right talking point that pops up on your X feed. It is not "deeply contentious" to suggest non-white people can't be English. It's racist. The word you're looking for is racist

Fireside chat – the journey continues… 19 conversations with 18 people, still to come: Brian Kardell, Gareth Ford-Williams, Scott O’hara, Aaron Gustafson, Mat Marquis, Doug Schepers, Shell Little, to name a few #a11y #webStandards #people #politics html5accessibility.com/stuff/2026/0...

🫶🫶🫶 I'm delighted that we managed to land this. 🫶🫶🫶 Many many thanks to Michael & Björn for the coalition building.

Creating an accessible document isn’t just about headings, alt text, and PDF tags. Catriona Morrison covers practical design considerations in our latest post in accessible document design. tetralogical.com/blog/2026/05... #Accessibility #InclusiveDesign #DigitalAccessibility #ContentDesign #WCAG

Fireside chat – the journey continues… 19 conversations with 18 people, still to come: Brian Kardell, Gareth Ford-Williams, Scott O’hara, Aaron Gustafson, Mat Marquis, Doug Schepers, Shell Little, to name a few #a11y #webStandards #people #politics html5accessibility.com/stuff/2026/0...

Was part of our @ffconf.org news yesterday, but posting here too: we launched the FFConf Speaker Feeds page: ffconf.org/feeds/ It pulls all the latest blog posts for perusal, and you can cherry pick your own curated feed and download the OPML file for feed reader import. I'm quite chuffed with it.

No lies told!

It's hard to convey just how monstrous the privatisation of children's care homes has become. Highly vulnerable children have been turned into cash machines, with devastating impacts on their wellbeing. Please sit down before reading this week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Pro tip: Firefox now includes a built-in VPN with location selection. You can mask your IP address and reduce tracking at the network level, not just on sites.

alt 🤖 WISHING EVERY HOMOPHOBE AND TRANSPHOBE A SUPER UNCOMFORTABLE MONTH #A11Y is #POLITICAL

Heading to @pixelpioneers.co in Bristol on Friday 19 June? Come and say hello to Catriona Morrison, @lloydi.com and @gracesnow.bsky.social. There's still a few tickets left: pixelpioneers.co/events/brist.... We’re proud to be partnering with @oliverlindberg.com and sponsoring captioning.

With Copilot costs going up, how expensive is AI really going to be when you've burned through your token budget and STILL have just as many, if not more, accessibility issues to fix at the end? 🤔 Nothing changes, just more expensive. Make it make sense.

This one point is proving remarkably challenging to get across: ALGORITHMIC FEEDS ARE EDITORIAL You wouldn't expect to do well pitching your ideas to a newspaper or TV that hates you. Why expect anything better from X or Insta, which are openly authoritarian media?

“When a site's actions are hard for an agent to use, that is a gap in the page's own semantics, [why don't we] close it in the platform's shared layers (HTML and ARIA), where the user, assistive technology, and agents all benefit.” — thoughts from WebKit team on WebMCP github.com/WebKit/stand...

here comes the GoodWitch @a11ygoodwitch.bsky.social and I chew the #a11y community cud html5accessibility.com/stuff/2026/0...

One of the reasons I'm so sceptical (not anti) about most things AI is that again and again, big tech confirms my worst suspicions. Of course internal docs reveal that Microsoft wants to make their new “always-on personal agent” addictive www.404media.co/microsoft-wa...

It’s important to know (IMO) that headings can never go beyond level 9 with this feature: adrianroselli.com/2024/05/leve... And avoid pushing past 6. #accessibility #a11y #HTML

The Web Meetup is happening in Rotterdam, 2 July! Join us for an evening with web, standards and mingling, kindly hosted by Level Level. Sign up: ti.to/w3cab/rotter...

here comes the GoodWitch @a11ygoodwitch.bsky.social and I chew the #a11y community cud html5accessibility.com/stuff/2026/0...

Accessibility moves fast. Ricky Onsman's latest Weekly Reading List highlights the news and trends shaping our work. reading-lists.kc.vis... #Accessibility #A11y #DigitalAccessibility #WCAG #InclusiveDesign #WebAccessibility

The excellent accessibility team at the Ministry of Justice are looking for two Accessibility Specialists. Deadline: 12th June. www.jobtrain.co.uk/justicedigit...

🚄 off to London to rant to the fine UX London folks about why the future of UX is green! we'll cover the W3C's in progress Web Sustainability Guidelines, and ways to reduce the carbon emissions associated with digital products.

BREAKING: Charles Manson backs out of the Freedom 250 concert

🫡 glad to be home after travelling for 2weeks. Last stop was the Hague for a WCAG-EM editors meeting with @hidde.blog and Jeroen #a11y

🫡 glad to be home after travelling for 2weeks. Last stop was the Hague for a WCAG-EM editors meeting with @hidde.blog and Jeroen #a11y

had a very fruitful WCAG-EM 2 working session today with @stevefaulkner.eurosky.social and Jeroen at the Ministry, addressing the last issues, feedback, and comments. We're getting closer to Note publication!

Favorite people doing favorite things together.

hanging out with @rianrietveld.bsky.social at #NCDT conf. #Toegankelijkheid is #politiek #accessibility is #political

Presentation pro tip: just stick @stevefaulkner.eurosky.social's face on a slide

Part 4 of my series on iPhone mobile #accessibility is live: AT for iPhone: Full Keyboard Access I'm going to follow this up with a series on Android. racheleditullio.com/blog/2026/05...

⏰ Just a few more days left to get the Practical Accessibility course for 25% OFF before it goes back to the full price. Discount is automatically applied at checkout—no coded needed. 👉🏻 practical-accessibility.today

There are many things wrong with the interwebs #accessibility helps make it better

Fresh accessibility insights and inclusive design perspectives in Ricky Onsman’s latest weekly reading list. onsman.com/weekly-re... #Accessibility #A11y #InclusiveDesign #DigitalAccessibility #UX #WCAG #AccessibilityMatters

Thanks @stevefaulkner.eurosky.social ! Just in time for the NCDT.

Always a pleasure to catch up with @stevefaulkner.eurosky.social. Even came away with a wooden whistle and badge!

🆓 HAZ WCAG-EM Buttons to share at @ncdt.bsky.social conference

🆓 HAZ WCAG-EM Buttons to share at @ncdt.bsky.social conference

I was today years old when I learned that you can now use element with ARIA! a11y-up.com/articles/bas...

Americans may insist that they dont have concentration camps But remember Germans said the same thing

🆓Will have WCAG-EM buttons to give away, limited supply!

📣 🚨 🪩 I'm delighted to announce "Funding The Web: a covenant for browsers, search, and people", new work from yours truly generously supported by D//F: ftw.fund. It's a complicated topic but it only impacts the whole web, so please bear with me a little! 🧵

Your website can be accessible but your documents may not be. Catriona Morrison has put together an introduction to accessible documents. tetralogical.com/blog/2026/05... #DocumentAccessibility #PDFAccessibility

Wes Streeting prepared to resign and launch Labour leadership and UK PM bid. After days of denials Streeting wants to push for quick coronation. That won't do. He is a corporate stooge, already privatizing parts of the NHS. Silence on policies. We need a proper contest.