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Sarah Higley

@codingchaos.bsky.social

An inveterate oddball who writes about accessibility online. Offline I'm trying to start a crow army in my backyard, but so far all they do is yell at me for peanuts. https://sarahmhigley.com/

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Sarah Higley @codingchaos.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Think I should be worried about the RѤS DĘĀEƃALTH OF MASŢꜺITꝻꝞTTƎ.Ꜭ (est. 2816) revoking my drivers license?

Cropped screenshot of the header an AI-generated court notice for traffic violations from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The document text looks official, but The seal in the top left looks vaguely like the massachusetts state seal until you try to read the image's text. The date at the bottom of the seal reads 2816.

Adrian Roselli, pH0 @aardrian.bsky.social · 7mo ago

[5/4] It’s a post now: adrianroselli.com/2026/02/hono... 712 words, but the images are huge (dimensions, not file size). I also captured fresh images (last night’s were an old version of my demo). #HTML #CSS #accessibility #a11y

Honoring Mobile OS Text Size

If your users scale the text size in Android or iDeviceOS, that doesn’t always affect the size of text on a web page. It’s a function of browser and authored code, as opposed to a standardized approach. That may be changing. Support The current state of affairs in the three…

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Sarah Higley @codingchaos.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I feel this post deep in my bones, Alice gets right to the heart of why working on a11y in standards can feel like killing your soul by degrees. And also why it’s hard to stop. alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-t...

A threat model for accessibility on the web - Alice

A explanation of the primary threat to accessibility on the web, and a call to action for the web standards community

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Sarah Higley @codingchaos.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Adrian is wrong about exactly one thing in his post, which is that “when the caret is no longer a stick” is an *excellent* pun. Added to this: in my experience running user tests with low vision users, customizing the caret is actually pretty common as an accessibility affordance.

Adrian Roselli, pH0@aardrian.bsky.social · 11mo ago

You will soon be able to style text cursors (carets) to animate their size and color. It seems the spec doesn’t account for user preferences, so maybe don’t do it yet. adrianroselli.com/2025/09/cust... #CSS #accessibility #a11y

Sarah Higley @codingchaos.bsky.social · 11mo ago

For anyone who pays attention to high contrast / forced colors mode styles: I wrote up an explanation of why forced-color-adjust: none is nearly unavoidable and how it sets up your codebase for downstream bugs: sarahmhigley.com/writing/forc...

forced-color-adjust: none is an unavoidable foot gun | Sarah Higley

A very long treatise on why text backplates were a bad idea. Most of the time.

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Sarah Higley @codingchaos.bsky.social · last yr.

Carving weird little guys onto mugs to deal with existential angst

Unfired clay mug with a light purple to green gradient, dark green thin leaves, and an upside down, belly up black tardigrade that somehow looks like it’s smiling

The same mug, from another angle. The handle is to the right and a side-facing tardigrade reaches toward and grasps one of the dark green plant tendrils

A different more squat mug with a light purple to reddish gradient, light green leaves, and three tardigrades popping down from the rim, out from the handle, and up from the bottom

Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁@frank.computer · last yr.

I've been thinking about accessibility overlays and what it means for personalization quite a lot the past couple of years. I've drafted up some thoughts on it: www.frank.computer/blog/2025/04...

Accessibility overlays are good for business (just not yours)

Accessibility overlays are for suckers. But they are ruining the spirit and reputation of one of the best things about computers: personalization. So why do businesses love them?

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Sarah Higley @codingchaos.bsky.social · 2y ago

Dark patterns, literally 🤪

Screenshot of the iPhone confirmation screen to turn off Apple Intelligence in dark mode. After a block of white text telling you what you’ll miss out on, there is a medium gray button with nearly unreadable red text that says Turn Off Apple Intelligence. After that is an easily readable button with white text that says Cancel

Screenshot of a color contrast checker showing a contrast ratio of 1.45 to 1 for the red text against a gray background used in the previous photo’s turn off apple intelligence button

Devon Persing @devonpersing.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Accessibility Operations Guidebook is out! devonpersing.netlify.app/book/

The Accessibility Operations Guidebook | Devon Persing

Lessons in making accessibility work more practical and sustainable for you and your organization.

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Sarah Higley @codingchaos.bsky.social · 2y ago

I suppose my inaugural post should be about accessibility or something for bRaNdiNg, but I'm going with this lil guy instead:

A photo of an unfired clay jar about 8 inches high and 6 around with an abstract texture around the middle and a domed lid. On the lid is a cute little lizard wrapped around the dome, peering forward at you. Its tail curls up into a round handle for the lid.

A top view of the same ceramic jar, looking down at the lizard so you can see how its body is sculpted in more detail. Some blue plastic and paper towels are in the background.