Finally replatforming my website to Astro after all this time... it's a prerequisite to creating a blog post, since I don't have the old site running on a computer anymore! A good kick in the butt to get this thing updated. ✔️

Wrapping up a week in Vancouver, BC with the frontend infrastructure team from @khanacademy.org. Lots of getting to know each other, eating amazing food, and pedaling around on my bike. So glad I went! I love this town.

🚨 **Security alert** 🚨 Today, malicious versions of [`chalk` and several other packages](www.aikido.dev/blog/npm-deb...) were published to npm. We've assessed the impact to our users and believe the threat from Storybook specifically is minimal. Sharing for visibility. Stay safe out there folks!

performance.now() is coming! @marcysutton.com explains how designing for accessibility contributes to better experiences, and why subtle choices — like which elements receive focus — lead to better products. She’ll also talk about the legal context in Europe. perfnow.nl/speakers.htm...

Sesame Street will be putting a huge collection of episodes on YouTube starting in January 2026 This is a fantastic way to educate children It’s a form of resistance. Shows like Sesame Street teach love, tolerance, acceptance & more. These lessons are crucial for the long fight ahead.

This is the only kind of design I want to see from you all tomorrow

I'm presenting tonight at our local Bellingham.Codes meetup on my work in accessibility engineering, titled "From Breakpoints to Burnout and Back Again." I dug through my entire photo album to tell some career stories. Should be a fun time! www.meetup.com/bellinghamco...

It's been a pretty bad summer for me here in Washington, but you know what's been great? WORK. I have the opportunity to bring you EIGHT count em EIGHT glorious financial literacy videos. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMrA... In this one, Darnell and I play scammers who teach you the ropes.

I mean it, fellow Americans: call your reps about this. It seems small in the short run, but this is going to fuck up businesses, especially small ones, big time.

Pure chaos in the USA, self-inflicted. It’s absolutely absurd

In word and in action, the United States must continue to stand with Ukraine. I don’t care what President Trump says – Putin started this war and yesterday's meeting was not in the U.S. national interest. Trump is rewarding Putin for the war he started and his continued attacks on civilians.

Pretty annoying how Cursor likes to delete pre-existing, unrelated code comments and tests. Slow your roll, bro 🛑

Senior dog Sunday. Loving getting time to hang on the beach with this sweet dude! He moves pretty slowly on the rocks and sand these days. #RainierMcCheddarton

We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.

This should be a good event! "How to fix A11y debt without burning out" webinar coming up on Thursday with some all-time greats: @ericwbailey.website and @a11ymel.bsky.social 💜

@unbreaking.org has put together a timeline of things that has happened around data security (of your personal data that the federal government has) since January and you may need a break or two to get through it 😭

Feeling some kind of smug satisfaction when Cursor introduces a browser bug. The overconfidence of it all 😒😏

My kind of patriotism

Bleak indeed.

I don’t know why I’m getting daily bunnies in my feed but I’m here for it.

Ya know I want to say it’s disability pride month and then make a cute remark about web accessibility. But instead I need to say it’s disability pride month, every elected official voting to take away healthcare needs to be removed from office. Web accessibility is a drop in an ocean of needs.

Happy "European Accessibility Act goes into effect" week to all who celebrate

We have @marcysutton.com to explain the relation between a11y and performance because faster is more accessible, while @michael-hladky.bsky.social will share from his wealth of experience as a practical performance worker. perfnow.nl/speakers.html

"[W]earables are key to the MAHA agenda...every American [using one[ within 4 years." So the MAHA/MAGA vision is total surveillance down to your personal biorhythms, and if you deviate you're not "healthy". Eugenics and tech going hand in hand w/ total survellance. Will Palantir hold that data? ‪

Got word yesterday that the A11y Slack community is NOT losing complimentary account status after we were notified of an upcoming downgrade. Thank you Slack A11y team for confirming!

This is true of popular recreation areas in Washington and other states as well. Call your senators and urge them to vote NO!

I have 2 significant anniversaries in my life this year, 2025: Mr. Rainier McCheddarton the Labradoodle _and_ the A11y Slack both turned 10 years old this year. Time flies when you’re pallin’ around with accessibility folks and a cool dog!

Los Angeles has really been going through it in the past year. I have so much admiration for LA, I always loved my time there. A true melting pot with so many wonderful communities. Sending love 🫶🏼

Last minute code push on our way out to the San Juan Islands. Gone bikin’ 💻 🚐 🚲

You know, when I first got into politics, men would always tell me that WOMEN were too emotional to lead. 🧐

Webbed Sites -- an epic takedown of Figma Sites from @heydonworks.com. The song about DIVs might as well apply to SPANs, too! They're basically the same thing! briefs.video/videos/intro...

Why do people feel so strongly about data-testid in automated tests. You Google it, and there are literally posts arguing for and against. It seems so incredibly arbitrary to me, I don’t know why anyone would choose that as a hill to die on.

I’m speaking at @perfnow.nl this October about Accessibility and Performance! Super looking forward to it. perfnow.nl/speakers.html

This week felt like a year. Ending work on a high note but whewww I need some rest. Have a good weekend, everybody 🫶🏼

Happy Global Accessibility Awareness Day! Here are my top tips for web #a11y: 1. Use your keyboard. Can you reach & operate interactive controls? 2. Run the Axe extension. Fix what you find! 3. Zoom your browser. Does it reflow on small screens? There’s more, but that will get you started! #GAAD

Next week I’m running an internal Accessibility Jeopardy game show for #GAAD. Working on sound effects 😂 a worthy effort.

It’s so disappointing to see history repeat itself in 2025 with accessibility forgotten in this @figma.com “Sites” announcement. An MVP must include accessibility to be actually viable. Make accessibility part of your company DNA so it’s a core part of your product from the start!

pssst — if you're a CodeTV supporter, the latest episode of Leet Heat is available to you now! featuring @brandonkelly.io and @marcysutton.com supporters can watch now — available to everyone on Tuesday! codetv.link/lh/s1e7

Traveling to my first @khanacademy.org company onsite this week in Mountain View. And I’m taking my bicycle to pedal around! 🚲 Excited to see folks (wish more of my team was going, but understandable). I’ve been meaning to write a blog post about my new job. Now I’ll have more thoughts to share!

Nope nope nope. This is not what we used our technical skills for. This is not what government data is for. Our friends and family who are autistic are not this regime's test subjects.

The world is shit, but yesterday, my nonspeaking autistic son used his AAC device to tell my wife, "I love you, mom" for the first time.

Join us for a live session with @marcysutton.com from @khanacademy.org to talk about accessibility testing! We'll share testing strategies, demo what's coming in Storybook 9 next month, and answer your accessibility questions. Happening in 24 hrs. Register now! us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I am autistic. I pay taxes, I have a job. I dated. I get the desire to push this narrative autistic people DO accomplish these to rebut Kennedy. But there was a time when I DID NOT have a job. And non-speaking autistic people or thise with intellectual disabilities don't. They have worth as well.

Next Tuesday, April 22nd at 10am Pacific I'm participating in a webinar on Accessibility Testing in @storybook.js.org with @kylegach.com from the Chromatic team. You can register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Andrew Chen, co-founder of one of my favorite denim brands, 3sixteen, breaks down how the tariffs affect his company IG 3sixteen

Love to hear some loud booing and look over to see a Cybertruck driving by.

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

I think cats would be genuinely devastated if they found out that we all find that sideways run they do when they’re trying to be scary just really funny

I haven’t really recovered from laughing at this Generative AI image that Adobe Photoshop created from my favorite headshot. I just wanted to upscale it from a small pixel size. It came back with these weird gems 🤣