“Dear Mozilla, I don't want an ‘Al [sic] kill switch’, I want a more responsible approach for all” hidde.blog/mozilla-ai-k... Unlike Hidde, I think the alt text argument is mostly bunk (bsky.app/profile/aard...), never mind given Firefox’s problematic PDF viewer, …

On the 26th day of December I add a 26th item to the collection of advent calendars: adrianroselli.com/2025/12/web-...

Every year, we offer our speakers, guest hosts, and core team members the option to convert their little thank-you payment/honorarium into a charity donation. 1/

In the spirit of sharing this “∪ of Christmas Traditions” Venn diagram each year since 2018… codepen.io/aardrian/pen... Debug view: cdpn.io/aardrian/deb... #CSS

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]

I made a GF rosemary bannock this morning (no leavening agents, so quite flat). I think I accidentally did a solstice thing and now expect coven membership pitches in the mail.

@jakearchibald.com I have no interest piling onto this thread: bsky.app/profile/jake... Two nuggets: 1. I encourage you to drop word highlighting in captions (contrast, distraction). 2. SRs already have “AI” features to describe images that have no alt text. The browser doesn’t need to do this.

How it started. How it’s going.

“Holiday spice” is the ground-up dessicated remains of last year’s mall Santas.

If I’m Isiah Thomas I’m reading that contract much more carefully now.

Not-really-hot take: Thinking `<button role="link">` is ever acceptable in place of `<a href>` is dogmatic transubstantiation belief nonsense. Does not… • fire on Space; • show URL in status bar; • have right-click options; • etc. It is never meat. Er, I mean, a link.

Congratulations President Kennedy… long into the future!

I haven’t tuned into CBS since its morning news promoted that interview (and Weiss) last week. This latest announcement validates my decision. “CBS News launches town hall series featuring JD Vance following Bari Weiss’ ratings flop” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Frankly, I’ve been quiet on this because I wanted to see if Firefox would offer a single ‘fuck off fake-AI’ button. mastodon.social/@firefoxwebd... That said, I still don’t see a clear message on disabling ad blockers. But I also haven’t gone looking.

I guess we can look forward to physical fitness tests for marriage in the US. bsky.app/profile/jayw... I expect the straight, white, and employed checks will come in other channels.

So ‘mistletoe’ comes from the Anglo-Saxon words for ‘shit stick’? www.npr.org/2025/12/17/n...

I just checked my CD player to see if it had a ‘year in review’ feature and then I remembered I bought it before the turn of the century and the only reason the lid stays closed is because I balance a book on it. I guess I could go by the CDs piled next to it.

The Nu HTML Checker has gotten a bunch of updates to validate ARIA. Try it: validator.w3.org/nu/ Or run it locally: validator.github.io/validator/ If you find issues with ARIA validation, _report them_: github.com/validator/va... #HTML #ARIA #accessibility #a11y

Oh goody, a LinkedIn connection request with a message! Let’s break this down: > …vc backed… Focused on quarterly profits / RoI instead of outcomes. > …invite-only… NDAs and other gag agreements. > …openAI browser… Chromium that begs authors for ARIA to parse content. [1/2]

When did LinkedIn change its “Sign in” button to “Access account”? And who thought that was a good idea? Never use a short, simple, common phrase when a long one that makes everyone roll their eyes will do, I guess.

📞 a11y juice – phone it in edition “One method they use to get your asses under their control is to constantly tempt you with FOMO (fear of missing out)” html5accessibility.com/stuff/2024/0... #a11y #control #LinkedIn

The Smashing Magazine comment form is still broken, so I’m memorializing the comment I _wanted_ to leave about CSS carousels: adrianroselli.com/2025/05/my-r... (anchor) Includes quote from a Google post that shows the author may have simply repeated very bad information. Maybe don’t repeat PR?

I may have “accidentally” bought a Bambino Plus #espresso machine and I’m finding all the skills I’ve developed with manual lever presses do not transfer. First shot tasted fine but the puck was wet and now I’m in a rabbit hole I don’t need to be in.

Surveys… GAAD / WebAIM Global Digital Accessibility Salary Survey #2 (closes 2 Jan 2026): webaim.org/projects/sal... Intopia’s Australia / New Zealand Assistive Technology Survey (closes 6 Feb 2026): intopia.digital/articles/int... #accessibility #a11y

Because #accessibility is out of scope for Baseline, devs may not know how poorly supported a feature is and miss an opportunity to vote for things that are barriers to users and risks to orgs. “Vote for the web features you want to see” web.dev/blog/upvote-... What’s missing from those factors?

WebKit Bug 277290 AX: Scrolling containers inoperable with keyboard (July 2024, critical): bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi... I’m betting if we can convince the Google Chrome team that this is preventing uptake of CSS carousels they’ll dispatch an engineer to fix it. #CSS #accessibility #a11y

“Flutter 3.38.0: How an accessibility upgrade broke Android headings” abra.ai/blog/flutter... PR that should fix it: github.com/flutter/flut... from @jjdg.bsky.social.

Thing is, I’m actually in a good mood today. A nice morning of snow driving, cafe socializing, shoveling, and then some casual meetings. But these really problematic lies from big vendors and megacorps (and WGs) about accessibility need to be called out when they flood the zone.

Lies. chrome.dev/css-wrapped-... #CSS #accessibility #a11y

Well this is disappointing.

If you are watching CART via Otter•ai and need the scrollbars at all (to scroll, to see where you are in the page, etc), then you can fix the WCAG SC 1.4.11 and 2.5.5 failures by adding this CSS to the page: ``` .otter-scrollbar { scrollbar-width: unset; scrollbar-color: unset; } ```

I like a deep dive into a single HTML element. “A complete guide to the HTML number input” olliewilliams.xyz/blog/guide-t... Fair warning, `<datalist>` is still poorly supported. #HTML

My coffee advent calendar showed up yesterday, fully ⅓ of the way through traditional advent season. Which is fine, since I can count down to Gregorian new year. Or wait until Julian Christmas? Or Isaac Newton’s birthday!

Two updates (so far) to old posts: 1. Todd Libby mentions `lang` impact on Braille displays: adrianroselli.com/2015/01/on-u... 2. Added Narrator’s Braille viewer to my viewers post, with video (attached, so no need to read it I guess): adrianroselli.com/2023/01/jaws... #HTML #accessibility #a11y

I missed this one: #12886 [css-fonts-5] Text Fitting: Default scaling limit github.com/w3c/csswg-dr... Essentially a discussion how responsive text can satisfy 1.4.4, especially in this fit-to-container pitch from Google. I added a comment about 1.4.12. #accessibility #css

[1/5] Microsoft commissions AT study, which I feel shoehorns ‘AI’ into results. Non-PDF/UA-compliant report: cdn-dynmedia-1.microsoft.com/is/content/m... Release: blogs.microsoft.com/accessibilit... No context for _what_ “AI capabilities,” and pages 16-17 don’t go into detail.

Nic Chan tells a familiar story and hits on one of three lessons I’ve learned in this scenario: 1. No discounts (project fees are different); 2. Very clear and tight scope with full-price out-of-scope rates; 3. Some clients are just a poor fit. indieweb.social/@NicMakesStu...

Sitting on a fancy sofa in a very dim bar surrounded by a dozen tieflings as I sip NA amari and the DJ spins Camouflage and more modern knock-offs and 14-year-old me is pleased at this. Current me is pleased at how early it is.

I think I’m more offended it attributes a metaphor to me that I can find no record of me saying or writing. elementor.com/blog/web-acc... The fact that is has an overlay is just… kinda funny?

Twenty-four. There are now 24 advents. All of you wiseacres suggesting I was one calendar away from an advent of advents can stuff it. adrianroselli.com/2025/12/web-... Still not making a damn advent of advents tho.

Updates to old posts: 1. adrianroselli.com/2020/01/defi... links to Adam Silver’s post on toasts: adamsilver.io/blog/can-you... 2. adrianroselli.com/2020/10/alte... embeds a vid from Manuel Matuzović on issues with CSS generated content alt text: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHjc... #HTML #a11y #CSS

[1/2] I appreciate this has some support gaps, but `list` (www.htmhell.dev/adventcalend...) is mostly moot given `datalist` support: adrianroselli.com/2023/06/unde... #HTML #a11y #accessibility

In my case, close but not a nation. Flying Spaghetti Monster. bsky.app/profile/jose... alt: Current GOP […] how many members of each of the following groups do you think are more loyal to a foreign country than to the United States? Italian Americans: Most / all: 25% Some: 20% Few / None: 44%

Apple could surprise remove Liquid Glass the same way it surprise added U2 to everyone's devices and I'd be first in line to call things even.

This years ‘tile’ pattern is last year’s ‘card’ pattern, which is prior year’s ‘block’ pattern, which is reformulation of ‘slide’ that was yanked from the ‘slider’ that didn’t slide and it was always & still is nested `<div>`s with an `<a href="#">` event handler. Well done, design system monkeys.