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Adrian Roselli

@aardrian.bsky.social

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One hoopy frood who really knows where his towel is. Active at toot.cafe/@aardrian.

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Adrian Roselli @aardrian.bsky.social · Apr 15

Relaunched on Threadless!

The four principles of WCAG, plus more. You can pay money for them!

Available in black or white, set in Neue Helvetica Heavy or Atkinson Hyperlegible. You can choose shirt colors.

Black Helvetica:
aardrian.threadless.com/designs/pour...

#a11y #accessibility

Stacked vertically in black Helvetica on a neon green tee: “Perceivable & Operable & Understandable & Robust & Punch Nazis.”

Stacked vertically in white Helvetica on a women’s fitted scarlet tee: “Perceivable & Operable & Understandable & Robust & Punch Nazis.”

Stacked vertically in black Atkinson Hyperlegible as a 3 inch sticker on a laptop: “Perceivable & Operable & Understandable & Robust & Punch Nazis.”

Stacked vertically in white Atkinson Hyperlegible on a black bound notebook: “Perceivable & Operable & Understandable & Robust & Punch Nazis.”

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Adrian Roselli @aardrian.bsky.social · 9m

“Pastry charts — you know, donut and pie charts.”
— Doug Schepers at #a11yTO / #a11yTOConf

Adrian Roselli @aardrian.bsky.social · 2h

Kicking off #a11yTOConf / #a11yTO day one with an impressive television display in the CBC atrium.

This year’s host is the puppet!

A 10 story atrium with a stage backed up to a green wall of elevators, surrounded with trusses and framing holding around 60 televisions of assorted sizes and orientations, loosely collected around a main presentation screen.

On the main screen is a puppet of a white man in a shirt and tie being very excited.

Adrian Roselli @aardrian.bsky.social · 4h

These kids, oh, & Senator, don’t have a talk show to cancel or a university to defund, so it’s not like the Republican party would know how to penalize them even if it disagreed.

“JD Vance dismisses bipartisan outrage over racist and offensive Young Republican group chat”
apnews.com/article/vanc...

JD Vance dismisses bipartisan outrage over racist and offensive Young Republican group chat

The public release of a Young Republican group chat that included racist language, jokes about rape and flippant commentary on gas chambers has prompted bipartisan calls for those involved to be remov...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

NEW: Despite federal law, disabled students in Idaho sometimes can’t access playgrounds, lunchrooms, classes and bathrooms.

With added funding, school districts are still unable to make necessary fixes.

Disabled Idaho Students Lack Access to Playgrounds and Lunchrooms. Historic $2 Billion Funding Will Do Little To Help.

Despite federal law, disabled students can’t access playgrounds, lunchrooms, classes and bathrooms. With added funding, school districts are still unable to make necessary fixes.

www.propublica.org

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Adrian Roselli @aardrian.bsky.social · 1d

How many times do members of your political youth organization have to say they love Hitler, without anyone stopping them and telling them it’s wrong, before we can plausibly refer to it as Hitler Youth?
Because I think we’re there.

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Adrian Roselli @aardrian.bsky.social · 1d

“‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat”
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

This is the organized, sanctioned youth wing of today’s Republican party. Taking cues from current leadership and setting the agenda for future leadership. These are The Baddies.

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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TetraLogical @tetralogical.com · 1d

Many people still misunderstand screen readers — who uses them, how they work, and what inclusive design really means.

Ela Gorla has unpacked the most common myths on the TetraLogical blog:

tetralogical.com/blog/2025/10...

#Accessibility #InclusiveDesign #ScreenReaders

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Adrian Roselli @aardrian.bsky.social · 1d

Gloomstalker successfully entangles the dragon when it landed to blast the cleric. Party swarms it and kills it.

Cleric: “So my plan to draw the dragon to the ground worked! Well done, team!”

Party collectively sighs at cleric.

Adrian Roselli @aardrian.bsky.social · 1d

Cleric, failing to negotiate with a junior red dragon, casts Invisibility on himself and runs into the tall grass.

Dragon watches invisible cleric’s trail in the grass.

Dragon, muttering: “Why are humans so stupid.”

Dragon flies to end of trail in grass, breathes fire over it.

Cleric: “AAAAAGH!”

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Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · 13d

"Again and again, accessibility as a topic in web standards is treated as simultaneously too trivial for specialists' technical opinions to be given weight, but also too difficult to get right without a specialist volunteering to tackle the tricky details." alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-t...

A threat model for accessibility on the web - Alice

A explanation of the primary threat to accessibility on the web, and a call to action for the web standards community

alice.boxhall.au

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Adrian Roselli @aardrian.bsky.social · 5d

Fika is mostly about an afternoon break with coffee and pastry, often social. I typically do it with cappuccino and pastries or cookies in cooler weather, fizzy espresso soda with pretzels in the summer. Alone, since I do not work in an office.

Adrian Roselli @aardrian.bsky.social · 5d

Fuck yeah.

The same scene, except the mug is empty other than some foamy film, the bowl has only crumbs, and the tray has a few visible coffee rings.

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Adrian Roselli @aardrian.bsky.social · 5d

It took two days, but finally had my first fika at the new place. All my gear was spread across boxes and bins over five rooms and three floors, but I did it! Tiny victories.
#espresso #coffee

A foamy cappuccino in a glass mug next to a tiny bowl with equally tiny biscotti, on my fika tray, on a small wooden table, on a stone patio in a grassy yard, with a low sun making stark long shadows.

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Adrian Roselli @aardrian.bsky.social · 5d

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Adrian Roselli @aardrian.bsky.social · 5d

This seems concerning…
sfba.social/@ucaccessnow...
#accessibility

UC Access Now (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image American Assoc of People with Disabilities (AAPD) has an urgent action call: https://aapd.quorum.us/campaign/144194/ #USpol #Fascism #Disability #Accessibility

sfba.social

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Frontend Dogma @frontenddogma.com · 6d

Custom Carets and Users: When the Caret Is No Longer a Stick (Yes, That’s a Poor Attempt at a Pun), by @[email protected]:

https://adrianroselli.com/2025/09/custom-carets-and-users-when-the-caret-is-no-longer-a-stick-yes-thats-a-poor-attempt-at-a-pun.html

#forms #accessibility #wcag

Custom Carets and Users: When The Caret Is No Longer a Stick (Yes, That’s a Poor Attempt at a Pun)

Animated example First, let’s define caret. For the scope of this post, I am not talking about the ^ symbol, which evolved from the circumflex. I’m also not talking about the proofreader mark, sometimes rendered as ‸, ⁁, or ⎀. I am talking about the navigation symbol (or insertion caret),…

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Adrian Roselli @aardrian.bsky.social · 8d

TIL: The Japanese Blind ICT Network (JBICT) runs AT surveys (kind of like WebAIM’s).
dragonscave.space/@Piciok/1153...

#accessibility #a11y

Paweł Masarczyk (@[email protected])

The Japanese Blind ICT Network (JBICT) is currently running their fifth annual survey on Assistive Technology usage preferences of users with visual impairments. As I discovered it only this year, nat...

dragonscave.space

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Adrian Roselli @aardrian.bsky.social · 8d

mastodon.social/@laura_carls...

Laura Carlson (@[email protected])

Today's Web Design Update: https://groups.google.com/a/d.umn.edu/g/webdev/c/EXUIluLQUDg Featuring @[email protected], @[email protected], @karlgroves, @lloydi, @[email protected]...

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Adrian Roselli @aardrian.bsky.social · 8d

Barbarian: “I look through the notes on the table.”

DM: “Make an Investigation check.”

Cleric: “I give you Guidance.”

Barbarian: “I roll 23.”

Cleric: “Wow. What's your Investigation bonus?”

Barbarian: “Oh. Right, I forgot to add my bonus. 22.”

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Sarah Higley @codingchaos.bsky.social · 13d

I feel this post deep in my bones, Alice gets right to the heart of why working on a11y in standards can feel like killing your soul by degrees.

And also why it’s hard to stop.
alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-t...

A threat model for accessibility on the web - Alice

A explanation of the primary threat to accessibility on the web, and a call to action for the web standards community

alice.boxhall.au

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Adrian Roselli @aardrian.bsky.social · 9d

It’s nice to have hobbies.

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 9d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Adrian Roselli @aardrian.bsky.social · 9d

I want a nap.

Adrian Roselli @aardrian.bsky.social · 9d

Holy shit, that was a link.

Weird how the lack of link underlines made me miss that. Weirder still that someone came up with that as an issue name (someone who is working on this).

Adrian Roselli @aardrian.bsky.social · 9d

Glad you filed that.

What’s funny is how that was broadly a niche concern. Right up until the CSSWG decided to pull this carousels trick.