I don’t care that Homan says he is pulling immigration troops from Minnesota. He said that last week with a pittance of a removal. It’s a trick. Get an axe (and cut DHS funding).

just sayin

Alt: A couple rows behind Pam Bondi, nine women and one man stand with their hands raised, two of the women looking intently at Bondi, who is seated with her back to them, eyes down as she looks toward her notes.

DOCTORS HATE THEM! USE THIS ONE WEIRD TRICK! LEARN THE TRUTH NOW! mastodon.radio/@VE3RWJ/1160...

Filed Chromium bug #483413444: Invalid `aria-level` values incorrectly default to 1 issues.chromium.org/issues/48341... Which addresses the regressions I found yesterday: adrianroselli.com/2024/05/leve... (anchor link) #HTML #accessibility #a11y #ARIA

So @[email protected] told me W3C TAG was looking at a `<canvas>` method to do split-text: hachyderm.io/@jyasskin/11... Looks like as of yesterday it’s DOA: adrianroselli.com/2026/02/you-... FWIW, I agree with @[email protected]. Not that he needs my opinion. #HTML #accessibility #a11y

When you’re being cocky in a meeting and take a big swig from your mug, only for it to dribble down both sides of your face, onto your shirt, and pool in your lap. Balance is restored.

Found by Nick Bromley on the A11y Slack: “[…] NVDA no longer treats controls with 0 width or height as invisible. This may make it possible to access previously inaccessible ‘screen reader only’ content on some websites.” www.nvaccess.org/post/in-proc... #NVDA #accessibility #a11y #CSS

Water main broke up the street, so decided to read at the 1970s-themed bar that was thankfully empty. Free bathroom (for the cost of drinks) and no mask necessary (for the absence of humans).

New testing on heading levels past 6: adrianroselli.com/2024/05/leve... Chromia: • will make invalid `aria-level` values on `<h#>` level 1 instead of the `<h#>` level, and • invalid `aria-level` values on `role=heading` are also now level 1 (instead of 2). Feels buggy. #HTML #accessibility #a11y

“Honoring Mobile OS Text Size” adrianroselli.com/2026/02/hono... Looks at the new HTML thing proposed from CSSWG (yeah, not confusing) and tries to merge Safari’s propriety hack with Google’s CSSWG proposal and Canary implementation. Firefox just works. #HTML #CSS #accessibility #a11y

Enya.

That was a fun halftime show.

As is my tradition, I honor the pig that gave its life for the ball on Super Ball Sunday by enjoying a pork loin roast. #SuperBowl

Last minute decision to go to philharmonic last night for Shostakovich. Was delighted with Miguel del Águila’s “Concierto en Tango” for cello (commissioned by BPO in 2014). History: interlude.hk/the-less-cla... YouTube (not of last night): youtu.be/JtmNShRjkdg

“The Mistake Of CES’s Accessibility Stage” accessaces.com/the-mistake-... “Accessibility had not disappeared [from CES], but it was segregated into its own corner with a dedicated ‘Accessibility Stage’.” #accessibility #a11y

While decent people have known this for years, it’s nice to have a more recent reference. Also, this is why I don’t read nor share Substack and why I judge those on it.

Me looking at every ‘cool’ new CSS trick by some CSS influencer (typically funded by a major browser vendor or astroturfing another ill-advised CSSWG feature).

They were never undertones. They were always overt. Now they are (even more) egregious and, IMO, disqualifying of public service and respect. Even this explicit acknowledgment of his racism comes (checks watch) a frigging decade too late. Ref: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

I’m seeing more comments to my blog from people asking for the latest support / bug / gap / etc for testing I’ve performed. I write these posts so people can do it on their own. I look forward to people commenting with their own (rigorous) testing results instead. Some day.

[1/4] So this happened while I was up a mountain: www.joshtumath.uk/posts/2026-0... But the post didn’t have a demo. Last night I made one: cdpn.io/aardrian/deb... I grabbed Chrome Canary and set the flags.

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"CSS is my passion"

Please stop splitting words into their constituent letters. GSAP SplitText is not as robust as you think. adrianroselli.com/2026/02/you-... #HTML #accessibility #a11y #ARIA

I wanted chicken noodle soup instead of chicken & rice soup. So I went to my GF pasta archive, dismissed the rigatoni, penne, and angel hair. Opted for the orzo, even though it’s rice shaped. Then I realized it’s made from brown rice. So I had chicken and rice-looking processed rice soup.

Someone using a screen reader, any screen reader, wanna tell me what they get when they animate by character (the text is after the three buttons)? cdpn.io/GreenSock/de... Ref (at end of toot): toot.cafe/@aardrian/11...

If you ever wondered whether fancy text effects paired with countless span elements, `aria-hidden`, and `aria-label` affect UX / A11y. This post might become a future reference piece! 👏 Huge shoutout to Adrian, who consistently shares valuable UX/A11y resources! adrianroselli.com/2026/01/barr...

I am vaguely annoyed these are called ‘enhancements’. Animated GIF alt: App menu → Settings → AI Controls → “Block AI Enhancements” (toggle). Then scroll down and find Translations. Change from “Blocked” to “Available”.

Time to pencil it into your busy social calendars ... #id24 will take place on the 24 September 2026. Call for presentations will open in April ... but if you have an idea, or you'd like to help out as a guest host, get in touch! inclusivedesign24.org/2026/ #a11y #accessibility #inclusiveDesign

Just rediscovered this fantastically helpful blog post and Codepen tool from @aardrian.bsky.social for mapping physical CSS properties (top, right, etc) to logical ones (block, end, etc). adrianroselli.com/2019/11/css-... #css

I’m thinking of a weekend trip to see State of the Browser. I’m on a mountain with crap reception right now, so lazy-webbing to see if anyone can suggest a hotel by The Barbican Centre before I drop coin on airfare. toot.cafe/@aardrian/11...

This is frustrating because the unnamed people advising that were wrong. It confuses trapping page focus in a modal to blocking users from using the rest of their browser. Also, ugh APG. css-tricks.com/there-is-no-... If you find someone advising it, be wary of their UI / accessibility chops.

When a necropost is just marketing cruft that is also wrong. Ah, accessibility support fora that are seen as sales channels…

mastodon.online/@darrell73/1... #accessibility

This is fascinating. Lots of useful info but also kind of damning breakdown of browser behavior IMO. Need to meet the browsers where they are but it's wild to respect aria-hidden but then not respect other aria attributes that compliment it

IIRC, Shadcn is a Vercel gig, so of course it’s both spaghetti code and wrong. “The Incredible Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button” paulmakeswebsites.com/writing/shad... #HTML

“Barriers from Links with ARIA” adrianroselli.com/2026/01/barr... Tried to capture other ways using `aria-label` and/or `aria-hidden` within links can break them for non-SR users. Corrections, additions welcome. Maybe check before the LLM crawlers turn my site into a gibbering pile of 503s. #ARIA

Thanks to a correction from @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy, my post now gives a pass-through for VoiceOver on macOS: “Brief Note on Application Keyboard Shortcuts” adrianroselli.com/2026/01/brie...

Frankly, this is moot since the current administration already has the data and will ignore the court order. Its overly-broad seizure was intentional. “Judge Blocks Government From Reviewing Seized Washington Post Devices” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/b...

Trump on Iceland at Davos 2026. First excerpt: www.youtube.com/live/qo2-q4A... Second: www.youtube.com/live/qo2-q4A... Full transcript: globalnews.ca/news/1162302... Fact checking: www.bbc.com/news/article... A rambling mess that a plurality here elected and now we must globally suffer.

I appreciate they are allowing a talk that seems counter to their CEO’s own promise from last year’s event. mastodon.social/@annaecook/1... Maybe, having failed on that promise, this allows them to claim… I actually don’t know. Cognitive dissonance?

Why does Ted Cruz keep fleeing Texas cold weather to countries and states he claims to hate?

I’ve been hesitant to share this since the post is strictly visuals sans alt text, but I think the examples it shows are worth it for those designing GUIs. “It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons” tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-i... Though if you’re a sighted visual designer, you’ve likely seen it already.

Remember, using a native HTML `<fieldset>` / `<legend>` gets you better results in SRs than its ARIA equivalent: adrianroselli.com/2022/07/use-... My post deals with the inverse of the others I shared — unstyling the native HTML so you don’t need the ARIA construct.

Ok, apparently there are dueling implementations. This one handles internationalization better than the one I shared last night, but this one works less well in forced-colors mode. Qualifier: I am endorsing neither, I simply appreciate the efforts.

A similar technique to this would work too to keep it in one piece instead of making it out of pieces codepen.io/thebabydino/...

This is a neat visual effect. If you use it to replace a legend / fieldset (such as in a form) for even more novel styles, then make sure you give the wrapper an `aria-labelledby` pointing at the heading and a `role="group"`.

Jeremy Keith found a `<datalist>` bug in iOS 26: adactio.com/journal/22360 I confirmed it affects iPadOS 26.2: bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi... It sucks `<datalist>` is still not ready for wide use. This is one more blocker. Updated: adrianroselli.com/2023/06/unde... #HTML #accessibility #Safari