“The ‘Disability Dongle’: Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and you.” by @weirdwriter.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy: sightlessscribbles.com/disability-d... I’ve attached my disability dongle meme because yes. #accessibility #a11y

Oh yay, an outlet that people trust is promoting this article through its accessibility messaging. And I see the author has updated the original to… justify the article text (versus ragged right). Maybe more readers will tap out sooner as a result.

Adrian Roselli, pH0@aardrian.bsky.social · 2w ago

/me starts reading post on building an accessible model dialog using `<dialog>`. /me comes to this sub-head about five paragraphs in. Me: “Ok then.” /me ignores remaining 2,000 words, closes tab, adds site to block list. Me: “That was a good use of everyone’s time.”

JAWS Speech History window when using dark mode. Sometimes everyone needs a reminder that not all screen reader users are blind. adrianroselli.com/2017/02/not-... I understand there is an internal-to-Vispero bug report about this. #a11y #accessibility #JAWS

I’ve just learned from a very helpful SEO / AEO expert who filled out my contact form that my “Spa & Wellness” booking form would rank better in search if I could just take a few minutes to respond and see a demo of what they can do for me.

Somebody dug up this 2023 post on Masto and boosted it: toot.cafe/@aardrian/11... It seems I didn’t post it here, so no you get to see in your timeline.

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Attached: 1 image When linking to files include the file type and size in the text of the link. Not as an icon, not as CSS generated content. https://adrianroselli.com/2019/12/showing-file-types-in...

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Is five pounds of salt potatoes too much in one day? Should my lips be burning?

“Link + Popover Navigation” adrianroselli.com/2026/07/link... With `popover` support now extant, you can ditch the disclosure widget version and go JS-free. If you don’t like my layout choices (or SVGs), I link to variants from readers. There’s also a linked polyfill. #HTML #accessibility #a11y

Link + Popover Navigation

This is a redress of my 2019 post Link + Disclosure Widget Navigation, except (as the title implies), I’ve modified it to use native HTML popovers instead of ARIA or HTML disclosure widgets. Popover h...

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Unclear if / how ShieldFont blocks scrapers. It feels relatively trivial for an LLM scraper to render the page and filch the content from the rendered output. I’ve seen decades of efforts to block copying text from sites. None worked, but *all* blocked SR users. caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter...

“Blanche formally withdraws Trump fund plan, ahead of AG confirmation vote” www.bbc.com/news/article... Meh, Trump hasn’t: “Trump Threatens to Revive $1.8 Billion Fund for Allies Over Blanche Standoff” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/u... Turmps’ IRS protections still in there. Nothing has changed.

Blanche withdraws Trump fund plan in writing, ahead of AG confirmation vote

Two Republican senators wanted a written guarantee that Trump would not revive a controversial proposal.

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What Can’t I Press? now includes Orca keyboard shortcuts. #a11y github.com/ericwbailey/...

GitHub - ericwbailey/what-cant-i-press: ⌨️ Lists what keyboard shortcuts are claimed

⌨️ Lists what keyboard shortcuts are claimed. Contribute to ericwbailey/what-cant-i-press development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Pirro on 2 July: “This is a case with tremendous evidence.” www.pbs.org/newshour/pol... Pirro on 31 July: “[…] damage […] was the result of flawed installation by the contractor […]” www.cnbc.com/2026/07/31/t...

Pirro moves to drop case against Olympian, says Reflecting Pool damage caused by 'flawed installation'

President Donald Trump had touted the Reflecting Pool update, one of many renovations in D.C. he ordered ahead of America's 250th birthday celebrations.

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Reminded of when AudioEye filed a SLAPP against me and its attorneys used untagged PDFs to do so. IMO, an indictment of AudioEye’s accessibility capability and its & its attorney’s ethics. Anyway, useful nuggets littered throughout the book, if you don’t have it: adrianroselli.com/2025/11/pre-...

🌿 A new version of the Web Sustainability Guidelines is out! www.w3.org/TR/web-susta... Updates include: - Impact Measurement + Impact API - Lots of small tweaks following peer review - Improved tone of voice and readability, new introduction Changelog: github.com/w3c/sustaina...

I didn’t expect much, but I expected more than two people to get this t-shirt double reference. Three people genuinely thought it was the band alone. Also, I’m just flipping off people who wanted me to hurry up so they could pose by the sign. It’s not meant for you.

Dislike. “Media Library infinite scrolling is now enabled by default, with a per-user opt-out” make.wordpress.org/core/2026/07... “Enable infinite scrolling in the Media Library grid view by default” core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/65564 #accessibility #a11y #WordPress

Media Library infinite scrolling is now enabled by default, with a per-user opt-out

Background The grid view of the Media Library (including the Media Modal) has supported infinite scrolling for a long time, where attachments load automatically as you scroll instead of behind a Lo…

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Like CSUNATC, I was turned away from a Disability:IN session. Unlike CSUNATC, I was able to sit outside the room and stream the session.

The 2026 State of CSS Survey results are out: 2026.stateofcss.com Unsurprised color features in CSS are most hated, despite last year’s survey’s odd focus on them. CSS carousels also fitting given they encode WCAG violations, break Separation of Concerns. #CSS

I appreciate this both acknowledges error & credits resources. Something I’d like to see more of from browsers (looks askance at Chrome). Key takeaways: • `aria-label` is code smell, • testing in only VoiceOver is always insufficient (as is testing in only one SR in general, but VO compounds it).

Firefox for Web Developers@webdevs.firefox.com · last wk.

I made an accessibility error in one of my recent videos, and I want you to learn from my mistake: (sorry, yet another YT link - bsky video uploads are still broken) www.youtube.com/shorts/hPrZi...

A was a big fan of the original aViewer, so I look forward to trying this one. Probably on a VM to start.

Steve Faulkner@stevefaulkner.eurosky.social · last wk.

🗣️aViewer – Moderno A free, open source, modern Windows accessibility API inspection tool inspired by the original aViewer. #uia #ia2 #msaa #accessibility #screenreaders html5accessibility.com/stuff/2026/0...

On laptop and hotel wifi right now, but yesterday I got this message on my mobile. So I’m mostly not using Bluesky while in Texas for Disability:IN. Except when back in room, maybe.

/me starts reading post on building an accessible model dialog using `<dialog>`. /me comes to this sub-head about five paragraphs in. Me: “Ok then.” /me ignores remaining 2,000 words, closes tab, adds site to block list. Me: “That was a good use of everyone’s time.”

This is one way to get rid of your Real Doll overstock: “New York School District Shells Out $58K for a Robot Teaching Assistant” www.pcmag.com/news/a-robot... I’m driving through Salamanca this weekend. Well, I might route around it, actually.

New York School District Shells Out $58K for a Robot Teaching Assistant

'Sally' from Realbotix will have a 'lifelike appearance,' with silicone skin and long brown hair, and will give students personalized learning support based on the data it stores about their progress.

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I missed that Georgetown not only purged posts from its former provost, it also took down the entire blog. So this banger exists only in the Wayback: “Eating our Seed Corn” (about ‘AI’) web.archive.org/web/20240703... Found because I was updating a post on my site and this link was dead.

Are you a screen reader user who relies on F6 navigation? Maybe you have an opinion on navigating landmarks on web pages via a proposed `focuslandmark`? github.com/openui/open-... #HTML #accessibility #a11y

I know nothing about LabX Media Group. Is my decades-old sub to Sci Am about to bring me enshittified content instead? Anyone have experience with LabX beyond what’s on its site? “LabX Media Group Acquires Scientific American, Expanding Global Science Media Portfolio” www.prweb.com/releases/lab...

LabX Media Group Acquires Scientific American, Expanding Global Science Media Portfolio

/PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- LabX Media Group today announced that it has acquired Scientific American, one of the world's most established and respected science...

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📣 Today is the day: WCAG-EM 2 is officially out as a W3C Note! w3.org/TR/WCAG-EM New: - name; it's now simply “WCAG Evaluation Methodology” - instead of 'websites', it's about 'digital products' (of which websites and apps are examples) - better readability (content, layout) - better examples

Deque in February 2025: adrianroselli.com/2025/03/be-w... Deque in July 2026: www.deque.com/blog/new-rep...

Went to a show with a lot of hippies in the crowd for the first three acts and was afraid I’d have to do all the skanking for the ska final act but then the 2 tone started and skankers came out of the woodwork and I may have thrown out my hip.

With alt. Also top of page 2: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... What you get when the agents & agency get incentives to detain and the detainee is sent to a private prison that gets paid to detain him. The government scamming taxpayers and counting on racism to let it go unnoticed.

Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2w ago

Here's a new one: ICE *prevented* a man from self-deporting by a June 11 deadline — he asked ICE to let him leave and had a one-way plane ticket for June 10. Then ICE re-detained him because he missed the deadline. Due process violation, judge rules. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I updated “Don’t Disable Form Controls” with a suggestion on what to do with submit buttons: adrianroselli.com/2024/02/dont... And no, making them read-only is not it, so don’t: adrianroselli.com/2024/11/avoi... #HTML #accessibility #a11y #ARIA #CSS #JS #hashbrowns

Don’t Disable Form Controls

Just another usability and accessibility pro telling authors not to do the thing they continue to do. It’s Ok to Disable Buttons There are plenty of cases where you want to disable a button until a us...

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