This Christmas Eve I choose not to engage with Mark Cubans complaining on Bluesky, say it with me folks.

Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, will return in Avengers: Doomsday.

*tapping the sign* seeing journalists and publications and politicians all posting statements on here without alt text.

Someone help, I've fallen into a well (of writing about accessibility when I should be resting)

“Enable Accessibility?” Ya dun goofed AP!

I shouldn’t post because I’m on post surgery meds On the other hand, I’m extra funny because I’m on post surgery meds

Justice Department launches compelling new word game website with thousands of puzzles.

What's your new year's resolution? Mine is 3840x2160

Thanks to the Seattle PSA, I now check my toilet for rats every time I use the bathroom. Yes, you read that right.

Taking the W

If you’re sharing large bodies of text as a photo: In iPhone you can open that photo and copy the text and paste it as your alt (maybe android too, Im sleepy) Mentioning this because lots of folks are sharing the Bill Clinton statement and just hoping to help. Back to bed for me, night night

Sometimes I wonder if the rest of the world is watching what’s happening in my country and think it’s just like the trashiest reality TV. Which is kind of is. Except it’s more horrifying.

My man Weizenbaum casually arguing for UBI in his 1976 book about why AI is bullshit, even if it would work (which it doesn’t). The argument here is that shiny technology distracts us from solving the hard problems and often prevents actual innovation.

I was too weak post surgery so I haven’t seen my little ones much the past couple days. Woke up today with a little energy and rushed to see them. Better than Christmas morning.

Times person of the year should have been the black rectangles redacted from the Epstein files

The pre op waiting room: a sensory nightmare of dinging elevators and people listening to audio on their phones without headphones for some god forsaken reason. And while I might normally escape this with my headphones and earplugs I have to listen for my name.

A new US Government Accountability Report found that HHS does not collect data related to accessibility for disabled people in health care. www.gao.gov/products/gao...

I cannot imagine how many people are going to be harassed at the airport this week because of this article alone. It will likely cause abuse for many ambulatory wheelchair users or has anyone with a non apparent disability. It’s completely unacceptable actively harmful rhetoric

I raised this article earlier on a call and said that even if one in 20 people (which is a high guess) doesn't really need it, who cares. There are more pressing disability stories that could be told. Like wheelchairs being broken. Also dynamic disability exists!

Sending my heart out to my trans friends and followers today. You are seen and you are loved.

Every time I hear “super intelligent” or “super human” used in tech branding I immediately think of eugenics. Seems like a bad branding move ngl

This past year I've been dealing with silent sinus syndrome. My vision has been blurry and tunneled for a long while and I've been needing to zoom on every interface. I am so glad I knew I could zoom into sites/apps. Accessibility helped me long before I knew why I needed it, ya know? 1/2

“WE ARE FINE WE HAVE A TOTALLY GOOD ECONOMY AND IM THE GREATEST THINGS ARE FINE”

Ah, my annual reminder that I can't use the user name "annaecook" on GitHub because I used it on an account 12 years ago that I can no longer remember how to access

Someone hold me back – I got a joke I wanna make in a big important meeting

It always strikes me how cognitive disability-friendly design is just… good design. makeitfable.com/community-co...

New in PN: The tech industry will come to regret its embrace of Trump "A comprehensive anti-corruption, pro-consumer movement would inevitably target the industry and its indifference to the harms it creates. It could be incredibly potent, and tech barons would have no one to blame but themselves."

I've set up a small monthly newsletter called Focus State. With accessibility support shrinking in a lot of orgs, I wanted to create something that divides that gap, builds community, and makes the internet a bit more fun. If you dig digital accessibility give it a look: annaecook.com/newsletter

I demand the gayest of Yuletides

Idk if y’all heard but React has a major security issue that’s affecting a lot www.techworm.net/2025/12/crit...

If there's a better way to let people know you're available for work than writing a curse word laden blog post, I simply do not want to hear it! Jokes aside, what do YOU call this kind of contact page? www.nicchan.me/blog/the-f-o...

LinkedIn Park "In the end, I learn about B2B Sales"

A personal reflection on focus, autism, and accessibility, what focus has given me in clarity and self-acceptance, and why I’m choosing to keep building better systems, even when clarity is hard to hold, as we head into 2026. annaecook.com/writing/2025...

The babiest of voids

Two victims of previous school shootings — Mia Tretta, who was shot in the stomach in 2019 at Saugus High School, and Zoe Weissman, who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — are now at Brown. Gun violence is out of control in this country.

I'm actually excited writing CSS on a Saturday again, like I used to be. It feels odd, how I've spent so long doing this and some of the excitement faded given the state of tech work. But here I am remembering that the web still has the power to be fun and exciting, oddly enough.

Just sitting around with friends comparing the variable prices we receive for the same product in the same apps because we live in the land of nightmares

Unfortunately I did not pay for Premium Grandma w/out Ads and had to settle for free Grandma, and she starts every conversation telling me it would be cool if I got a job with ICE.

I'm annoyed because I realized that people are using AI to edit and write code, and that might actually motivate them to stop using divs and/or providing actually distinct classes and IDs, finally. Because an LLM has no idea wtf div you're referring to if you have 50 divs with no logical structure

Every year Time picks the worst possible “person of the year.” Let’s ignore them, and ask ourselves, who is our person of the year? For me, I think it’s my partner, who is very sweet and also insists on making me a latte every day. What about you?

Thinking on people using AI to talk to dead people I think what bothers me is that the person who died likely put a lifetime of things together to be remembered and appreciated on their own. Like if I died, I’d rather you read my poems then make any mimick of my person, ya know?

If any of you do this to me I swear I will go full poltergeist

Fonts are in the news, so I'm going to take the opportunity to port over an old thread: what was typography like in the Soviet Union? Spoiler: they did not just have 1 font everyone had to use. As a matter of fact, there were 39. One of them, you can see here, used to great effect for "Chernobyl."

Fellas is it gay if I use Calibri

Calibri is just the default font for Word docs lol

This is the cover of the card with some stars and a moon. I’m no great artist but it is filled with love 💙 Each inside will mention a poem by Mary Oliver www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

The vibe across tech (and everywhere) in terms of accessibility has felt regressive this year. Lots of scaling back efforts and great talent getting hit with anti-DEIA related job losses. It's not easy and it sucks. But I still see most people in tech wanting their work to be accessible. 1/3

Every facet of generative AI has made my professional life worse, without question, but THIS specific aspect has been driving me NUTS. Clients, who have made me toil for weeks over indescribably small details, are now approving & producing in-house commercial artwork that looks like a fever dream.