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• Post #4400095

  “The ‘Disability Dongle’: Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and you.” by @WeirdWriter@caneandable.social: https://sightlessscribbles.com/disability-dongle/ I’ve attached my disability dongle meme because yes. #accessibility #a11y

• Post #4204934

  Dislike. “Media Library infinite scrolling is now enabled by default, with a per-user opt-out” https://make.wordpress.org/core/2026/07/23/media-library-infinite-scrolling-is-now-enabled-by-default-with-a-per-user-opt-out/ “Enable infinite scrolling in the Media Library grid view by default” https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/65564 #accessibility #a11y #WordPress

• Post #4185908

  I updated “Don’t Disable Form Controls” with a suggestion on what to do with submit buttons: https://adrianroselli.com/2024/02/dont-disable-form-controls.html#SubmitInstead And no, making them read-only is not it, so don’t: https://adrianroselli.com/2024/11/avoid-read-only-controls.html #HTML #accessibility #a11y #ARIA #CSS #JS #hashbrowns

• Post #4185907

  With alt. Also top of page 2: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.njd.601006/gov.uscourts.njd.601006.12.0.pdf What you get when the agents & agency get incentives to detain and the detainee is sent to a private prison that gets paid to detain him. The government scamming taxpayers and counting on racism to let it go unnoticed.

• Post #4185906

  Went to a show with a lot of hippies in the crowd for the first three acts and was afraid I’d have to do all the skanking for the ska final act but then the 2 tone started and skankers came out of the woodwork and I may have thrown out my hip.

• Post #4185905

  Deque in February 2025: https://adrianroselli.com/2025/03/be-wary-of-accessibility-guarantees-from-anyone.html#Foreground:~:text=committed%20to%20achieving%20100%25%20automation%20or%20so%20close%20that%20the%20difference%20won%E2%80%99t%20matter%20for%20digital%20accessibility%20testing%20in%20the%20very%20near%20future%2E Deque in July 2026: https://www.deque.com/blog/new-report-shows-volume-of-ai-generated-code-is-significantly-increasing-accessibility-debt-risk/#:~:text=Organizations%20are%...

• Post #4185904

  I know nothing about LabX Media Group. Is my decades-old subscription to Scientific American about to bring me enshittified content instead? Anyone have experience with LabX Media Group beyond what I can find on its site? “LabX Media Group Acquires Scientific American, Expanding Global Science Media Portfolio” https://www.prweb.com/releases/labx-media-group-acquires-scientific-american-expanding-global-science-media-portfolio-302807304.html

• Post #4185903

  Are you a screen reader user who relies on F6 navigation? Maybe you have an opinion on navigating landmarks on web pages via a proposed `focuslandmark`? https://github.com/openui/open-ui/issues/1472#issuecomment-5062013011 #HTML #accessibility #a11y

• Post #4185902

  I missed that Georgetown not only purged posts from its former provost, it also took down the entire blog. So this banger exists only in the Wayback: “Eating our Seed Corn” (about ‘AI’) https://web.archive.org/web/20240703032246/https://blog.provost.georgetown.edu/eating-our-seed-corn/ Found because I was updating a post on my site and this link was dead.

• Post #4185901

  This is one way to get rid of your Real Doll overstock: “New York School District Shells Out $58K for a Robot Teaching Assistant” https://www.pcmag.com/news/a-robotic-teaching-assistant-is-heading-to-a-new-york-state-school I’m driving through Salamanca this weekend. Well, I might route around it, actually.

• Post #4185900

  /me starts reading post on building an accessible modal dialog using `<dialog>`. /me comes to this sub-head about five paragraphs in. Me: “Ok then.” /me ignores remaining 2,000 words, closes tab, adds site to block list. Me: “That was a good use of everyone’s time.”

• Post #4185899

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@SteveFaulkner/116991169497136323 A was a big fan of the original aViewer, so I look forward to trying this one. Probably on a VM to start.

• Post #4185898

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/116992048337520434 I appreciate this both acknowledges the error and credits the resources. Something I’d like to see more of from browsers (looks askance at Chrome). Key takeaways: • `aria-label` is code smell, • testing in only VoiceOver is always insufficient (as is testing in only one SR in general, but VO compounds it).

• Post #4150498

  Guess I’m not using Bluesky while in Texas for Disability:IN.

• Post #3662295

  The ADHD I mean D&D gaming group has been playing for an hour and still hasn’t actually started the adventure.

• Post #2505331

  So. `<search>`. ’Bout time. https://twitter.com/htmlstandard/status/1639083303117651968 PR: https://github.com/whatwg/html/commit/c598ff023f081dd3f03b2e43177a632fb7dc92ec Closes https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/5811 Which makes me sad because I miss Carolyn.

• Post #2236649

  RE: https://aus.social/@onsman/116516635044763562 Permalink: https://onsman.com/weekly-reading-list-may-4-2026/

• Post #2236647

  Tomorrow: https://adrianroselli.com/2025/11/pre-order-digital-accessibility-ethics.html #DigitalAccessibilityEthics

• Post #2236646

  I’m now afraid this shit-crony will come back to Buffalo to lick his turd-crony wounds and leave poop-crony stains all over town again as he works to crony-up once more. Thanks to this case, I now know that in NY, calling someone a “crony” is non-actionable rhetorical hyperbole. Crony. https://bsky.app/profile/joshuajfriedman.com/post/3ml54ifdlrk2x

• Post #2236645

  https://bsky.app/profile/sarasoueidan.com/post/3ml4es4kxqs2c

• Post #2236643

  Trying to explain the WCAG 2 conformance model to a WCAG testing team in as few words as possible. (Ref if unknown to you: https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Understanding/conformance) #accessibility #a11y

• Post #2236642

  My sixth level cleric, Ned, likes to sell swag. He already has tees and stickers and notebooks: https://aardrian.threadless.com/designs/ned But now he’s handing out autographed Woodford Reserve bourbon (signed “N€D #6”). He ships it in church caravans and will use Detect Lie on you if he thinks you tattled.

• Post #2236641

  RE: https://toot.cafe/@aardrian/116528011675724654 Yesterday.

• Post #2236640

  I appreciate this “Accessibility Best Practices for Your Project” guide from GitHub: https://opensource.guide/accessibility-best-practices-for-your-project/ I would share it more readily if the links were underlined. So I filed a PR to fix that: https://github.com/github/opensource.guide/pull/3656 #accessibility #a11y #OpenSource

• Post #2232834

  Available now. Today. “Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech” Info: https://AccessibilityEthics.org/ Links to other sellers: https://adrianroselli.com/2025/11/pre-order-digital-accessibility-ethics.html#CtA (anchor) Add to your StoryGraph to-read pile: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/42da2fec-4ee9-462f-adbd-6396dc112a19 #DigitalAccessibilityEthics

• Post #2229518

  I'm thrilled people are discovering the HTML `<output>` element: • https://denodell.com/blog/html-best-kept-secret-output-tag • https://matthiasott.com/notes/the-html-output-element I still refer people to Scott’s 2019 explainer: https://www.scottohara.me/blog/2019/07/10/the-output-element.html I have a test page (because I use it in projects) in case you want to try it: https://codepen.io/aardrian/pen/rNQMXPY #HTML #accessibility

• Post #2175924

  I assume he’s going to announce that Saudi Arabia needs to be expelled from NATO as well? https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trumps-abrupt-u-turn-plan-re-open-strait-hormuz-came-backlash-allies-rcna343845

• Post #2110215

  [1/5] I heard about https://AccessibilityFirewall.com/, promising “No code changes. No overlay. No JavaScript.” It uses “edge” in the same way the Overlay Community Group does. Red flag emoji. So I ran it through its own “Live Remediation Engine”: https://webcraft.inc/#audit-section Hmmm… #accessibility #a11y

• Post #2079158

  4 hours! #ID24 https://inclusivedesign24.org/2023/

• Post #2062656

  I was tagged into a conversation on overlays on LinkedIn (a platform I avoid) and apparently the Overlay Community Group is having its desired effect since some folks believe it will create overlay guidelines. It won’t. It’s just chaff. https://adrianroselli.com/2022/09/accessibility-at-the-edge-w3c-cg-is-an-overlay-smoke-screen.html #a11y