Does anybody I know have a tattoo that they got for a band they love and would be interested in writing a couple of sentences about why you got it and what it means to you for a zine article for @nothingsoundsgood.bsky.social?
Colin
@htmlandbacon.com
Front-end developer working in Government. Inclusive design advocate, html and taco fan. https://htmlandbacon.com/
I’ve decided to start doing a monthly newsletter. It’s not going to be huge, just sharing things I’ve found interesting each month, with the main focus being accessibility, of course! If you’re interested you can sign up at the following link: buttondown.com/craigabbott #accessibility #a11y
Monthly Newsletter, by Craig Abbott
One email a month, about interesting accessibility related things I’ve found on the web. Craig speaking at Access:Given conference.
buttondown.com
I can't remember who predicted this class of happening @sonofsuntzu.bsky.social - but here it is in the wild.
The Register@theregister.com · last wk.Word worm crawls into Copilot, spreads chaos
State of Devs 2026, by @sachagreif@front-end.social (@devographics.com): https://survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey/state-of-devs/2026?ref=frontenddogma.com #surveys #career
State of Devs 2026
Take the State of Devs survey
survey.devographics.com
I wanted to embed terminal recordings in my blog, so I built astro-asciinema. It lets you import a local .cast file and render it with a simple @astro.build component. hedger.ch/posts/2026/a...
Terminal recordings for Astro with astro-asciinema
Making asciinema recordings feel like native Astro assets, including when the site changes theme.
hedger.ch
As promised, the accessibility work never ends no matter my role. Wrote a piece for zeroheight on a problem I keep running into: systemic accessibility gaps between base and product design systems. zeroheight.com/blog/how-acc...
How accessibility gets lost between base and product design systems - zeroheight
Anna E Cook explains how product design systems can close accessibility gaps with better defaults, clearer docs, and smarter deviations.
zeroheight.com
Briefly lifting out of some docs work to get lost in admonitions docs zensical.org/docs/authori...
Zensical
Adaptive systems for evolving ideas – Zensical creates scalable Open Source systems for technical writing that always keep you in the flow
zensical.org
worked on something to help me build CLI experiences, decided to share it with the world ✌️ CLI Designer is a browser WYSIWYG tool: replay a real terminal session, lint against best practices, and export a runnable spec.
CLI Designer — Design your CLI before you build it
Model commands, script terminal sessions, lint against clig.dev, and hand off to engineering — all in the browser.
cli-designer.netlify.app
The GOVUK design system team have today added the interruption page pattern and component: design-system.service.gov.uk/patterns/int... - based on previous work by teams across government. 🎉 This is a great example of where it is sometimes helpful to add some friction into a digital journey.
Interruption pages
Pause the user journey to give them important information
design-system.service.gov.uk
This is exciting, the GOV.UK Design System now has the Interruption Page pattern: design-system.service.gov.uk/patterns/int... We first used this pattern on GOV.UK Verify: designnotes.blog.gov.uk/2015/09/21/h...
Helping users understand GOV.UK Verify - designing with data
GOV.UK Verify is the new way to prove who you are online, so you can use services on GOV.UK safely, and securely. It lets people safely sign in and use government services using a certified company. N...
designnotes.blog.gov.uk
The only thing a date picker for a date of birth field is useful for is knowing what day of the week I was born on
Playing with css vars, colour themes and a prototype kit plugin for ease of use "Browser toggle - GOVUK prototype kit plugin" htmlandbacon.com/words/2026-0...
Sometimes it's easier to spot a bad service, than it is a good one. As part of our new sister company, the Bad Service Corporation, we've launched a training video on the 15 Principles of Bad Services. good.services/writing/the-15-principles-of-bad-services
‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios
![That’s probably the most famous scene in the movie, the campfire scene.
I know. He said, “You can’t punch a horse.” I said, “You’ll never see it again.” I kept saying, “You’re absolutely right. It’s out!” Then, when he left, I crumpled up all his notes, and I tossed it in the wastepaper basket. And John Calley, who was running [production at] Warner Bros. at the time, said, “Good filing.” That was the end of it. You say yes, and you never do it.
That’s great advice for life.
It is. Don’t fight them. Don’t waste your time struggling with them and trying to make sense to them. They’ll never understand.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yvbszlkc7d75ixkid5g2zmw7/bafkreiar4z6n6pfk7wob2gznv6l6euw7ltxbetgto5drfd4wqzjalldp5m)
i've noticed that some programs have switched the save icon from a floppy disk to a folder. this sucks. i get that nobody uses floppy disks anymore, but visual language isn't supposed to reflect reality
Playing with govuk frontend colour functions - ended up a bit Wonka
I saw a great introduction to CSS Grid Lanes, aka Masonry Layouts, by @patrickbrosset.com at CSS Day 2026. I liked the versatility of its use cases, but I was also concerned that it's inaccessible by default. matuzo.at/blog/2026/gr...
Your Grid Lanes will likely fail WCAG 2.4.3 - Manuel Matuzovic
I’m a frontend developer, consultant, accessibility auditor, blogger, teacher, and book author from Austria.
matuzo.at
Astro 7 is here! A new Rust compiler, a new Rust Markdown/MDX processor, Vite 8 and more. Get ready for 60%+ faster builds. astro.build/blog/astro-7/
Astro 7.0 | Astro
Astro 7.0 brings faster builds with Vite 8, a new Rust compiler, Advanced Routing, background dev server support, and structured logging.
astro.build
Want to use a high quality HTML design system? frontend.design-system.service.gov.uk/using-govuk-...
Using GOV.UK Frontend without GOV.UK branding
frontend.design-system.service.gov.uk
Upcoming npm v12 will disable preinstall, install, and postinstall scripts from dependencies unless allow-listed. You can prepare for this change using npm v11 now: github.com/orgs/communi...
Preparing for npm v12: install scripts and non-registry sources become opt-in · community · Discussion #198547
Hi everyone — sharing this so maintainers, application developers, and CI operators have time to prepare for behavioral changes landing in npm v12 (estimated July 2026). Everything below is already...
github.com
A couple of people are no longer able to attend Pixel Pioneers on Friday and would like to gift their ticket to someone who would otherwise not be able to join us. 👉 First come, first served: Reply here, or email us, and tell us why you need to be at Pixel Pioneers!
Most of my conversations seem to be me saying "and what outcome are you trying to achieve...." Might have it tattooed on my forehead.
AI Doesn't Fix Accessible Systems. It Depends on Them. @annaecook.comCook calls out the fantasy that AI or generative UI will save us where UX has “failed”.
AI Doesn't Fix Accessible Systems. It Depends on Them. — Anna E. Cook
Why AI depends on the foundation accessible design systems build — and how "AI will fix accessibility" is producing the opposite outcome at industry scale.
annaecook.com