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New Jan 14, 2026
Live Region Support
This post does not discuss whether live regions are good, nor is it a post about the best way to use them. This post only covers how they are exposed to the audience who experiences them ā screen...
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New Jan 9, 2026
Brief Note on Application Keyboard Shortcuts
Identifying keyboard shortcuts for an application is mostly an internationalization problem. It’s also not a new problem. A recent (to me) example is the WordPress Gutenberg team starting to...
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New Jan 6, 2026
How I Evaluate an ACR (VPATĀ®)
ACRs are Accessibility Conformance Reports, which are the output of a VPAT, or Voluntary Product Accessibility Template maintained by ITIC, or the Information Technology Industry Council (which is why...
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New Dec 29, 2025
My Use of āAIā on this Site
I’m using this post to acknowledge my past practices and establish future ones on this site related to āAIā. I have not, and will not, use LLMs to write, draft, review, or otherwise participate...
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New Dec 2, 2025
You Canāt Make Something Accessible to Everyone
This post’s title is unpleasant, but it’s important to acknowledge the reality of the human condition and limitations in technologies. Even purpose-built assistive tech. Broadly, when...
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New Dec 1, 2025
Web Design / Dev Advent Calendars for 2025
The advent calendar I wanted to use for the photo hasn’t arrived yet, so enjoy this box of tree. Web developers around the world have for years given a nod to Saturnalia solstice Isaac Newtonās...
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New Nov 22, 2025
The Value of Selecting Selects by Value
This is meant to use voice control to test select menus (and other fields, but the title would be less weird) by their value because their accessible names are hidden. I’m sharing results of...
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New Nov 12, 2025
Pre-order āDigital Accessibility Ethicsā
Lainey Feingold, ReginƩ Gilbert, and Chancey Fleet gathered 36 authors across 10 countries and a commonwealth to write 32 chapters about ethics in digital accessibility. I am one of those 36 authors....
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New Nov 4, 2025
Shopify Needs a Mirrorfy
Shopify is legitimately angry at drive-by ADA lawsuits, as outlined in its recent post The small business shakedown: Why thousands of entrepreneurs are getting buried in lawsuits. Like thousands of...
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New Oct 22, 2025
OpenAI, ARIA, and SEO: Making the Web Worse
OpenAI has announced it’s launched a new browser, Atlas, with ChatGPT built in. For those familiar with ARIA, OpenAI outlines what to expect (I left the code as I found it, other than removing...