Saw Soul Coughing and DEVO tonight, but during DEVO’s seventh song a tiny storm front moved in with lightning and we were sent to the underground parking garage to wait. Then they made us leave. Energy domes are good rain hats. Bad for lightning.

With so many articles telling us to make our sites accessible so LLMs can more easily steal the content, it’s ironic when the articles (and articles about the articles) themselves aren’t.

Is there a nice way to say that I don’t give a shit about the CSS opinions of anyone who chooses to stay on MechaHitler’s CSAM-generating hate platform?

Intended for humans and now co-opted for IP theft, I expect the ARIA abuse to continue its rise. “Prioritize semantic HTML and proper ARIA labeling, as these are the "machine-eye view" of your page.” developer.chrome.com/docs/lightho... Build for humans, not Google etc. toot.cafe/@alastc/1166...

“Overview of Digital Accessibility Technologies” vale.rocks/posts/digita... Which I now link to from my post “AT Is More Than Screen Readers”: adrianroselli.com/2024/08/at-i... (anchor) #accessibility #a11y

I have no idea why images in my Bluesky posts (both images I paste and images from link cards) are coming up black. I’m using Firefox, in case for some reason Bluesky offloads image processing to my browser and has a weird bug.

[1/3] New State of CSS survey is out: survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey... Still oversimplifies disabilities: mastodon.social/@MoritzGlant... From August, my own thoughts on surveys, how they’re made, how they’re used: adrianroselli.com/2025/08/my-t... #CSS

I guess this is one way to do a code review. So… yes? It’s undefined? On lines 16 and 18?

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

I’m no artist. But I am at least human. With a six-finger salute and an homage to Vonnegut, this is the perfect shirt to let your managers know that you’re on board with whatever KPIs you have to meet in order to help replace your own job! aardrian.threadless.com/designs/we-s...

Hey you … yes YOU! If you were planning to submit a talk idea for Inclusive Design 24 #id24 in September, better hurry! The call for presentations closes this Sunday night (UTC) inclusivedesign24.org/2026/ #a11y #accessibility #inclusiveDesign

“Accessibility question: is nesting interactive elements bad?” christianheilmann.com/2026/05/27/a... Yes, bad. • Reduced hit area; • Extra tab-stops; • Verbose in SRs; • Hassle with voice control; • Destructive mistakes; • Contrast violation (in example). I’ve been batting these down for years.

I was pretty pleased with my play on the MWG lantern icon. I scanned Vonnegut’s illustration of an asshole, in keeping with logos AI companies use, and adjusted lantern shape to better match a toilet. I put some real effort into that! But my Atlas variant is the one that really stuck the landing.

ICYMI, I have issues with Google’s Modern Web Guidance (MWG). While it can help make less awful LLM vibe-coded output, the code is still rife with errors — but more subtle and requiring greater skill to evaluate. It makes no promises while making promises. adrianroselli.com/2026/05/mayb...

Favorite people doing favorite things together.

Spanning table cells are always a layout bummer and often a screen reader navigation hassle. But this associates stuff correctly. The CSS is where I tried a different approach for the Safari bug: codepen.io/aardrian/pen... #HTML #CSS #accessibility #a11y mastodon.social/@Meyerweb/11...

Updated my post on evaluating ACRs to add a note about ‘N/A’ entries in a WCAG VPAT: adrianroselli.com/2026/01/how-... In short: not allowed; ask vendor for clarity.

Everyone is trying to be fast in getting their AI product to market. And by going fast, it’s not only breaking things but making y’all look fucking foolish.

F U too, Google. yatil.social/@yatil/11665...

Apparently Google’s Modern Web Guidance accessibility megaskill believes it should only be called when a dev explicitly asks for accessibility in the output? Which doesn’t quite track with the promise on the MWG home page. github.com/GoogleChrome... #accessibility #a11y

Craig Abbott believes “Our CSS isn’t opinionated enough”: www.craigabbott.co.uk/blog/2026/ou... Which of course I agree with and link from on of my posts: adrianroselli.com/2021/06/usin... #accessibility #a11y #css

Weekly Reading List onsman.com/weekly-readi... #accessibility #a11y #web #design #development #news

Less than a week left to submit a talk to #id24: inclusivedesign24.org/2026/ The call for presentations closes on 31 May 2026. The event is 24 September 2026, which is far enough away to block out your calendar now

If you already have to use an LLM to vibe-code for your job, Google’s Modern Web Guidance is kind of like a Band-Aid / Elastoplast for a gaping chest wound. Don’t count on it making conformant performant hamformant output. adrianroselli.com/2026/05/mayb... #accessibility #a11y #html #llm

Appalling yet unsurprising. Given Google search results are a years-old ad-driven dark pattern, with the mostly-wrong stolen results of its LLM answers, my fear is people have been inured to it. It already bends to governments, so expect more state disinformation. matthiasott.com/notes/ad-inf...

I made Eric’s GAAD BINGO card into a table on my 2022 GAAD post: adrianroselli.com/2022/05/the-... _This_ time I actually checked it across dark and light modes. I think.

Happy Global Accessibility Awareness Day! #a11y #GAAD

Out of curiosity I fired up Twitter to see how GAAD was going over there. The first thing I saw was a BrowserStack 7-tweet alt-less image thread. Lessons: 1. BrowserStack chooses to stay on MechaHitler’s CSAM-generating site, and 2. BrowserStack is bad at performative acts. Oh, TinyMCE too!

Once again @sarasoueidan.com uses her free time to push back on a megacorporation releasing more accessibility gaps into the world: front-end.social/@SaraSoueida... It’s exhausting to watch it have no impact. Maybe go support Sara: practical-accessibility.today Because Google sure as hell isn’t.

Cressida Stephenson is only ¼ through #DigitalAccessibilityEthics, but is so far positive. I like her take on #GAAD. Doesn’t mean doing something substantive is buying this book, but it should be more than a post. I’m not even adding a buy CTA. So there. Post: www.linkedin.com/posts/cressi...

Amazed how many accessibility practitioners I talk to, in addition to old-school web devs, look at every Google I/O as the coming storm. Like, what new torrent of destruction will Google, in its utter hubris, pour on us and the open web.

Google’s conference-driven development model rears its ugly head again. These skills seem to largely lack accessibility deets: developer.chrome.com/docs/modern-... I understand “in a few it was intentionally omitted”. To be “handled in the future”.

Since when did autumn become dangerous? Anyway, one of a myriad reasons I don’t log into LinkedIn (except, apparently, to self-promote, which is the whole reason it exists).

My copy of #DigitalAccessibilityEthics showed up! I spent my fika ego-surfing my own chapter. Look at all those real, verified, not hallucinated citations! That’s more than you’ll see in some think-pieces or government reports or research studies! You deserve well-sourced content. Treat yourself.

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There, I fixed study title: “[White Guy] Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights” arxiv.org/abs/2509.00462 PDF: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.00462 HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4798... And yes, the methodology doesn’t exactly drive that conclusion, but I’m for the lulz.

Me preparing for video calls first thing on a Monday morning.

I've already shared this @aardrian.bsky.social post with co-workers once this year in the run-up to Global Accessibility Awareness Day, and it's worth a reminder. If you don’t already have a GAAD event on the calendar already, it’s too late to start planning one. #GAAD #Accessibility #A11y

Surfing Ability Summit page at 200% with my keyboard (as one does) and came across this weird control. Turns out it’s a roled-up button that launches Microsoft Immersive reader. Which is crap at 200%, it turns out. Anyway, use native HTML buttons and let users rely on their browser’s reader mode.

The accessibility industry is so full of bad actors, it's genuinely painful. A flashy firm that spends all their money on branding got paid to 'remediate' my code and added a link element around several interactive elements. 🫠

I’m avoiding live-posting all of #Eurovision by restricting my commentary to a two-person SMS group chat. That other person is on the same piece of furniture as I.

In many cases, the people citing the LLM to me either won’t listen to why it’s wrong or don’t care. Because their employee reviews are a function of how much they use the LLM versus accuracy, bug-free code, giving a shit, …

One post each at Smashing Mag & CSS-Tricks in last few weeks on scrolling containers which are now 404. _Guessing_, but I assume it’s authors not understanding native browser support, getting caught out in responses. Support is good. Well, except Safari OF COURSE: adrianroselli.com/2022/06/keyb...

[1/2] While I’m wary of linking to posts with alt-less images (in figures for some reason?), I give it kudos for trying to show patterns to use instead of disabling fields: zeroheight.com/blog/rethink... But ignore ideas 1–3. (for later me: `//figure/img[@alt=""]`)

I feel validated for resisting `box-sizing: border-box` ALL THE THINGS, tho because I am generally fine with leaning on browser defaults (which often map to user prefs). I haven’t had to do pixel-perfect designs since sliced images and layout tables were a thing. bsky.app/profile/anat...

“Retraction Note: The effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a meta-analysis” www.nature.com/articles/s41... With 572 citations, how many poor decisions coming from this retracted study? How long to Wakefield-level harm?

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I don’t know which companies need to hear this, but it’s ok, you don’t have to hold a #GAAD event. Maybe just share all the others or recommend one to check out. Let your employees attend one. We don’t need dozens of competing events. If you don’t have one on the calendar already, it’s too late.

This is everything I know about the EPUB version of “Digital Accessibility Ethics,” the DRM and its accessibility, as of _right now_: adrianroselli.com/2025/11/pre-... (anchor link) #DigitalAccessibilityEthics

I will not be at #AccessU2026. However @lflegal.bsky.social is running a 3 hour workshop on the #DigitalAccessibilityEthics framework: knowbility.org/programs/joh... She’ll also have these stickers on hand and at the book signing on 12 May at 6pm in Mabee Auditorium at St. Edward’s Uni in Austin.