In the vein of "public libraries could never be created today," a pitch for a calculator would get you thrown out of the boardroom. What do you mean, it just maths? Where are the ads supposed to go? How does it send usage telemetry back if it doesn't even have wifi? There isn't even a leaderboard.

Rich Burroughs@somewhattolerable.com · 19h ago

Another massive difference is that a calculator isn’t answering your questions in a way that’s specifically designed to get you to continue using the calculator.

aamtest: Testing accessibility in WPT blogs.igalia.com/mrego/aamtes... This blog post covers the work @igalia.com has been doing to add a new type of tests in WPT, which allow testing the platform accessibility APIs directly. Thanks to NLnet Foundation for sponsoring this work.

Wrote a thing on why we should have interactive lists on the web: sarahmhigley.com/writing/inte... If anyone has their own interactive list use cases that aren't covered, send them to me! I'm putting together an ARIA spec PR this month.

The web needs interactive lists | Sarah Higley

A plea to developers: if this gets created, let's not fuck it up. This is a slightly more spec-heavy post than usual, but hopefully still useful.

sarahmhigley.com

not many people wreak things other than havoc

📝 Really enjoyed this talk. Alex covers lots of great topics, like - When did “modernize” come to mean updating something that’s only ~5 years old? - Do technological choices have values tied to them? (Spoiler: they do) - HTML is amazing. My notes here: blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/talk-no...

Standards In Progress: Making Video Posters Accessible, Responsive, and an Element scottjehl.com/posts/respon...

Standards In Progress: Making Video Posters Accessible, Responsive, and an Element | Scott Jehl, Web Designer/Developer

Hot on the heels of recent video standards work, there's a new HTML proposal to make poster images responsive and accessible

scottjehl.com

“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature.” he mumbled to himself, inspecting source.

fwiw lots of tech companies have this clause too for dev/ops too bad software devs are too busy dumping OSS into the wood chipper to unionize and fight similarly for rights over their own work

Michael Iantorno☔️✊@michaeliantorno.com · 4d ago

"Currently, if an employee makes anything creative in their free time, with their own resources, Hasbro can claim ownership. What we do in our free time should not be dictated by the company, and what we make in our free time should belong to us.“

“Put my thinking hand on the feeling stove,” and other completely unhinged things I blurt out in therapy.

Safari bugs always appear at the exact intersection of: rare enough to ignore and annoying enough to haunt you

Undocumented decisions don't stay undecided. They get decided by whoever or whatever is building next. Nathania explores why cognitive accessibility belongs in your design system, and why it's every role's responsibility 👇 https://hubs.li/Q04ydHVV0

hi, my name is Eric and I can't stop buying Bluetooth speakers

What is time? Somehow Inclusive Design Communities is 4 years old. A book I wrote for a more inclusive design and tech industry (including higher education) is still relevant and still available in paperback and ebook across many countries! Happy birthday, IDC! samkapila.com/books/

Inclusive Design Communities, the book » Sameera Kapila

Sameera Kapila is a product design leader, a speaker, and the author of Inclusive Design Communities.

samkapila.com

I took a short break, but now it's Web Weekly time again! 🥂 I'm just about to write edition 200. 😱 If you're into WebDev, Frontend work, and browser "stuff", you should check it out. 👇 webweekly.email

It’s a real shame that folk a decade ago weren’t warning developers against utterly insane things like CSS-in-J —  oh.

GitHub@github.com · last wk.

GitHub.com has fully moved off CSS-in-JS to CSS Modules, resulting in 55% less server-side render time and 25% faster component init. https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/improving-site-performance-by-shipping-more-css/

Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy

There's a defeatist vibe rn and I think there's an inevitability feeling washing over us. There is no inevitability. If you're in a position to speak up against the direction the industry is taking, I'd say now is the time to do that. I certainly try because I cannot be fired and it does help!

Have an ACCESSIBILITY.​md file in your GitHub repo? It now shows up on the project root! Don't have one? Why not take some time today to create one. #a11y ericwbailey.website/published/gi...

GitHub repository landing pages now show an accessibility tab, if provided

I’m excited to see how people use this new addition to the platform.

ericwbailey.website

SpotCheck: An accessibility bookmarklet toolkit for Chrome, Firefox, and Edge from my talented friend Homer Gaines! www.spotcheck.tools?mc_cid=d93b7...

SpotCheck: an Accessibility Bookmarklet Toolkit

SpotCheck is a free accessibility toolkit for testing common accessibility issues. Each tool is mapped to the WCAG 2.2 success criteria it covers.

spotcheck.tools

A week ago today, Inclusive Design 24 #id24 was in full swing. inclusivedesign24.org/2026/schedule/ Missed it live? No worries, all videos are available for free on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/inclusivedes... #a11y #accessibility #inclusiveDesign

Inclusive Design 24 (#id24)

A free 24-hour online community event on accessibility and inclusion

inclusivedesign24.org

today's hardware designers could never conceive of what Kazuo Kawasaki was doing in 1996

State of this dev 2026: 🫩

The 11th edition of the @webaim.bsky.social Screen Reader User Survey is now live! This is a vital resource into better understanding how people who use screen readers actually operate your website or app. webaim.org/projects/scr... My commentary on it as a thread 🧵 #a11y

A letter from us. We want the best for USWDS, and we're ready to help. fedscoop.com/websites-jeo...

Websites ‘in jeopardy’ amid U.S. Web Design System takeover, coalition tells GSA

The letter comes after administration officials changed leadership for the system, implemented new AI tooling, and shut out members of an open-source community.

fedscoop.com

tfw you know more effort went into aligning the input and container border radii than 90% of the underlying infrastructure

I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed

Once again the Trump regime is attempting to skirt federal laws and hope AI can just magically do things. This will not work but they do not care. fedscoop.com/trump-team-a...

A Trump team wants to automate U.S. Web Design System accessibility testing. Experts are worried.

GitHub community and accessibility experts are concerned about a reversal of progress amid potential AI reliance and plans to “automate as much accessibility testing as possible.”

fedscoop.com

This advent calendar is your chance to share your knowledge with a large audience. You have 5 more days to submit your ideas. First-time authors are welcome!

Manuel Matuzović @matuzo.at · 3w ago

Friends, it's that time of the year: Once again, I'm asking you to help me create another amazing HTMHell Advent Calendar by writing about HTML. The CFP is open until October 3! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Finally got a post up on the GitHuh blog github.blog/engineering/... 👀

Improving site performance by shipping more CSS

How we fully migrated github.com away from CSS-in-JS.

github.blog

Now that hosting is done and I've got a night's sleep and the adrenaline past me, a little love letter to Inclusive Design 24: The goal of the conference isn't profit or advertising, it's access, education, and enablement. #a11y #id24 inclusivedesign24.org/2026/schedule/

Inclusive Design 24 (#id24)

A free 24-hour online community event on accessibility and inclusion

inclusivedesign24.org