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It’s my bookaversary — 3 yrs since Against Technoableism launched! Thanks to editors of @wwnorton.com + special shout-out to their art dept for such a fun and fitting cover. Available in paperback ($12), audiobook, and ebook! wwnorton.com/books/978132...

Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

When bioethicist and professor Ashley Shew became a self-described "hard-of-hearing chemobrained amputee with Crohn's disease and tinnitus," there was no returning to "normal." Suddenly well-meaning p...

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don't be nice.

Don't be nice

Sometimes, it's more important to be good than it is to be nice.

roe.dev

Our schedule for this year's edition is available for reading ahead of the event! Why not check out and see if any talks are of interest to you? #id24 #accessibility #InclusiveDesign inclusivedesign24.org/2026/schedule/

Inclusive Design 24 (#id24)

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

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The Front-End Community is Still Alive and Beautiful I thought about dropping an addendum into my last post to say just how overwhelmed I am, in the best possible way, by the way all of you in the... https://geoffgraham.me/the-front-end-community-is-still-alive-and-beautiful/

I have a lot of feelings about the whole CSS-Tricks debacle. Here's me trying to be constructive about it. ericwbailey.website/published/cs...

CSS-Tricks could be a co-op

The web will calcify without voices sharing what they know.

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Fewer startups, more co-ops. Fewer founders, more communities.

Kevin's one of my favorite people and what he says here is incredibly sweet... and accurate.

Kevin Powell@kevinpowell.co · 3d ago

I hadn't posted over on the second channel in a while now, but I felt that it was important to talk about what's going on with @digitalocean.com and @css-tricks.bsky.social as the site has now gone quiet for a second time. youtu.be/9_upvxCAUzM

We've got 24 hours of free, live talks streamed out to the entire internet for free with no log in required! Check out our schedule, and hope you can attend! #id24 #accessibility #InclusiveDesign inclusivedesign24.org/2026/schedule/

Inclusive Design 24 (#id24)

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

inclusivedesign24.org

“Anna, you’re overreacting they’re not systemically dismantling accessibility and disability rights and punishing people who do that work!” No sorry bestie my pattern recognition is spot on this time www.hr-brew.com/stories/depa...

Department of Labor changes disability hiring rules for federal contractors

The government is ending a 7% representation goal and will no longer collect disabled worker data, concerning advocates.

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For @motherjones.com, I looked into how Meta could be using disabled people to promote its Meta glasses to the masses. As one expert told me, “companies have used accessibility...as a Trojan horse for a tool that poses significant privacy and security threats.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Is Meta using disabled people to promote its glasses?

AI glasses are a double-edged sword for disabled people, who face unique risks from surveillance.

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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...

HTMHell Advent Calendar

Hello, my dear friends of high-quality markup! We're getting closer to the last quarter of 2026, which means that the HTMHell Advent Calendar is getting closer, too. Last year, once again, you contrib...

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Meta and X have been quietly downranking external links for ages, but we're now entering a new era of open hostility toward the open web. It's a great time to build your own website, free from any billionaires demanding a tithe for things that have always been free.

Suw@suw.bsky.social · 5d ago

Fucking hell. Facebook is now limiting the number of links that a page or professional profile can include in a post to TWO PER MONTH, unless you pay them $7.99 a month. Fucking assholes.

pleased to announce that after years of training that I am now a 1 → 0 designer

Me: I’d like a slice of pizza Server: that comes with three sides Me: I know what shape it is

📝 If you’re maximizing a bottle for throughput, I think you’ve misunderstood the bottle. Probably the same for us humans. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/bottlen...

Hi everyone, The NVDA Satisfaction Survey 2026 is now open: www.nvaccess.org/survey2026 The survey is anonymous; we encourage you to add comments. We want to hear from as many as possible. Please feel free to pass this on to others. #NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Survey #Feedback #Accessibility

The US Web Design System is load-bearing infrastructure for thousands of government websites. It makes it easy for small teams with no resources (i.e. most .gov teams) to make usable, accessible websites that work for everyone. Today, it's as close as it's ever been to being replaced with AI slop.

We should have been writing articles and having fun with CSS, but instead... We can't do much against big corporations (except wait), so let's give Geoff some support. Share (or try) his HTML/CSS course: thebasics.dev 100% human-made by the one who edited 86945 CSS articles!

Geoff Graham@geoffgraham.me · 6d ago

📝 Why CSS-Tricks Has Been Quiet Lately (cc: @digitalocean.com @css-tricks.bsky.social ) geoffgraham.me/why-css-tric...

the most exhausted imaginable “yes, this”

Max Read@maxread.info · 6d ago

i don't like that i feel like we're all getting dragged against our will into an all-media all-the-time LessWrong thread, an insanely annoying and disorienting experience that most people do not have sufficient experience or mental preparations to deal with

a little too unintentionally real, Workday

sure is fascinating to hear that DigitalOcean can’t pay a few writers at the same time that they’re handing millions of dollars to DHH for a pile of shitty bash scripts

Geoff Graham@geoffgraham.me · 6d ago

📝 Why CSS-Tricks Has Been Quiet Lately (cc: @digitalocean.com @css-tricks.bsky.social ) geoffgraham.me/why-css-tric...

50 days until Midterm elections & SCOTUS is expected to decide whether to allow the administration to adopt new rules for mailin ballots. Disabled voters chose mail ballots at higher rates than any other demographic. If the rules are upheld it will prevent many of disabled people voters from voting

Return to Sender: Accessible Voting and the Fight Over Mail-in Ballots - Crystal Preston-Watson

Federal law has promised disabled voters a private, independent ballot since 1965. This fall, the one method that reliably delivers it is the one under attack.

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it is easier to exploit a world where the sacred and whimsical is removed and this also applies to digital honk honk

Oops. I invented a new CSS shrink-wrap technique and blogged about it. blog.codepen.io/2026/09/11/s...

Shrink-wrap Text with `position-anchor`

Normal text wrapping can leave big gaps in your container, which can become even more exaggerated with the new-ish CSS values of text-wrap: balance and text-wrap: pretty. You almost certainly want …

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In 1999, we surfed the Web. Now we comb through it like a fantasy hero. Which posts are treasure, and which are deadly Mimics? What's real, and what's an impersonator trying to steal my attention? Worse: reading all this bland AI monoculture text leads to us thinking bland AI monoculture thoughts.

AI hypervigilance is now an omnipresent cognitive load for your users

AI may make your job easier, but that effort has just been shifted onto your users. They are noticing it and they hate it.

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Saturn consuming his own tokens is this anything

PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,

now that's what I call WCAG, vol. 3