I was walking in a hallway and someone said ‘hey come meet Max! We read to him 3x a week and give him some yarn to play!’

Max is a red octopus (retired)

@jaredwhite Thanks for reading it!

@tylersticka Oh man, I kinda want to try this lesson 😀

I wrote about why I'm tired of reading about takes on quality. https://ericwbailey.website/published/quality-is-a-trap/

I think my favorite thing with LLM-forward browser concepts I've seen is a way to make information retrieval not only slower, but also potentially inaccurate.

@NicMakesStuff plead the fifth 😶

@NicMakesStuff Thanks, Nic! And while I have ya, hate/loved your latest "You're not a front-end developer until you've..." post 😀

ARIA! It exists and on a long enough timeline you'll need to use it. Here's how to get into the right headspace to do so! #a11y https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/06/what-i-wish-someone-told-me-aria/

A good reminder that people don’t sue when an experience isn’t WCAG conformant, they sue when they have access issues. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/chase-ordered-pay-150-neurodivergent-customer-app-dark/

@bednarz you know about the Norway bug, right? 😅

@vees same

"well, someone has to write the non-deterministic Markdown table formatter," is up there on the list of incredibly cursed things I've had to type

"Many of these features are in what you might call the “infrastructure stage”: they’re well-defined and ready to use in theory, but screen reader and browser support remains uneven." https://webaim.org/blog/up-and-coming-aria/

fellas, have you ever accidentally fallen into the pure, platonic realm of idealistic hyperobject avatars and felt a sense of cosmic insignificance due to the failure of your fleeting corporeal form?

Reminder that our call for presentations is still open until the end of the month (31 May 2025) ... if you have an idea for a talk, now's the time to submit it!

The 2025 edition of Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) will take place on the 25 September 2025.

https://inclusivedesign24.org/2025/

#id24 #inclusiveDesign #inclusiveDesign24 #accessibility #a11y

@sarajw @superterrific Nice! Mine just arrived in the mail too 🙌

@sarajw Aw, nice! Hoping mine shows soon. @superterrific

*slaps the accessibility tree*
"What’s it going to take to get you in this composite widget today?"

I wrote about an alternate idea for organizing design systems. https://ericwbailey.website/published/organizing-a-design-system-via-folksonomy/

"It performed exactly as I'd expect a Large Language Model to perform when asking it about accessibility, producing a lot of generalised information that is potentially useful, but falling short when asked to be specific or confronted with nuanced problems." https://www.craigabbott.co.uk/blog/deque-axe-assistant-first-impressions/