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A journey that started more than a year ago is now a reality. I have partnered with O'Reilly Media to release my first accessibility course titled "Accessibility Unlocked".

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Accessibility Unlocked: Learn the Basics of Web Accessibility in Short, Easy-to-Follow Videos | Homer Gaines, CPACC
A journey that started more than a year ago is now a reality. I have partnered with O'Reilly Media to release my first accessibility course titled "Accessibility Unlocked". What you'll learn and how...
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This is your reminder to check up on your people, especially the quiet ones. Folks are not as ok as you might think.
January 14, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Me: repositions app on the Mac desktop so I can see another app.

MacOS: oh you want the app to be fullscreen

Me: NO! 🤦
January 14, 2026 at 3:49 PM
I've been asked why I use buttons and links as examples when talking about accessibility. It's because they are the easiest things to author and yet, I still see code like this... This is from the parent site of company that's built an AI tool that boasts 100% compliance.

#Accessibility #HTML
January 12, 2026 at 1:56 PM
This morning was eventful. I'm exhausted
January 11, 2026 at 7:38 PM
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Oh my god. Open it, click thru until you see it, and then keep going at least another eight photos
January 11, 2026 at 6:41 PM
To the designer and developer of this site that requires me to fill out a form with 11px font size, I just wanna talk.
January 11, 2026 at 6:07 AM
42 to 7 #Indiana is destroying #Oregon

#Big10 #PeachBowl
January 10, 2026 at 2:51 AM
Thought about going to the #BrowserStack event, but their form only accepts work emails.
January 7, 2026 at 4:02 AM
Dude has his backpack in his lap just before takeoff and the attendant asks him to place it under the seat. He gets an attitude. What is wrong with people? It's literally air passenger 101.
January 6, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Jack of all trades, master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one.
January 5, 2026 at 3:58 AM
The water felt great!
#scuba
January 4, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Spent about an hour underwater today and it felt great! The water was around 83 degrees. Saw a huge stingray, several turtles, walleye, a spotted moray, and a huge lobster.

#STX #StCroix #ScubaDiver
January 3, 2026 at 7:32 PM
The last thing I did in 2025 was drive on the left side of the road
January 1, 2026 at 4:11 AM
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December 31, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Just saw a dude wearing a shirt that said "wokeness breeds weakness". If he really understood the term, he'd know that he thinks being informed and educated is a weakness.
December 31, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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December 31, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Introducing Flint: a fast, friendly linter.

Flint is an experimental linter made to validate several hypotheses: hybrid linting, streamlined rich configuration, thorough docs & plugins, and tooling coordination.

Expect to hear more about Flint over the next month. ❤️‍🔥

www.flint.fyi/blog/introdu...
Introducing Flint
[Experimental] A fast, friendly linter. ❤️‍🔥
www.flint.fyi
December 30, 2025 at 9:40 PM
What's more troubling is that the audit tool I was asked to check out had accessibility issues itself. Many of them were the usual suspects, like low contrast, interactive controls without focus rings.
December 29, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I was sent a link to an automated accessibility scanner to check out. I tested a site that had an animation that played longer than 5 seconds. The tool reported a perfect score, but it missed lack of controls for the animation, which is a WCAG failure.

www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/U...

#A11y
Understanding Success Criterion 2.2.2: Pause, Stop, Hide | WAI | W3C
www.w3.org
December 29, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Yesterday's low was 57 degrees and we had the windows open. Today, the low will be 21.
December 29, 2025 at 1:42 PM
LMBO!!!
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I really would like to know where these people were when they Shazamed my song.
December 27, 2025 at 2:38 AM
This is makes two weekends in a row that there has been a head-on collision at the intersection in our neighborhood.
December 27, 2025 at 2:23 AM