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Sarah Higley
@codingchaos.bsky.social
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An inveterate oddball who writes about accessibility online. Offline I'm trying to start a crow army in my backyard, but so far all they do is yell at me for peanuts.

https://sarahmhigley.com/
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codingchaos.bsky.social
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
October 2, 2025 at 11:41 PM
codingchaos.bsky.social
Adrian is wrong about exactly one thing in his post, which is that “when the caret is no longer a stick” is an *excellent* pun.

Added to this: in my experience running user tests with low vision users, customizing the caret is actually pretty common as an accessibility affordance.
September 22, 2025 at 10:25 PM
codingchaos.bsky.social
For anyone who pays attention to high contrast / forced colors mode styles:

I wrote up an explanation of why forced-color-adjust: none is nearly unavoidable and how it sets up your codebase for downstream bugs:
sarahmhigley.com/writing/forc...
forced-color-adjust: none is an unavoidable foot gun | Sarah Higley
A very long treatise on why text backplates were a bad idea. Most of the time.
sarahmhigley.com
September 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
codingchaos.bsky.social
Carving weird little guys onto mugs to deal with existential angst
Unfired clay mug with a light purple to green gradient, dark green thin leaves, and an upside down, belly up black tardigrade that somehow looks like it’s smiling The same mug, from another angle. The handle is to the right and a side-facing tardigrade reaches toward and grasps one of the dark green plant tendrils A different more squat mug with a light purple to reddish gradient, light green leaves, and three tardigrades popping down from the rim, out from the handle, and up from the bottom
July 4, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Reposted by Sarah Higley
frank.computer
I've been thinking about accessibility overlays and what it means for personalization quite a lot the past couple of years. I've drafted up some thoughts on it:

www.frank.computer/blog/2025/04...
Accessibility overlays are good for business (just not yours)
Accessibility overlays are for suckers. But they are ruining the spirit and reputation of one of the best things about computers: personalization. So why do businesses love them?
www.frank.computer
April 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
codingchaos.bsky.social
Dark patterns, literally 🤪
Screenshot of the iPhone confirmation screen to turn off Apple Intelligence in dark mode. After a block of white text telling you what you’ll miss out on, there is a medium gray button with nearly unreadable red text that says Turn Off Apple Intelligence. After that is an easily readable button with white text that says Cancel Screenshot of a color contrast checker showing a contrast ratio of 1.45 to 1 for the red text against a gray background used in the previous photo’s turn off apple intelligence button
February 17, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Reposted by Sarah Higley
devonpersing.bsky.social
The Accessibility Operations Guidebook is out! devonpersing.netlify.app/book/
The Accessibility Operations Guidebook | Devon Persing
Lessons in making accessibility work more practical and sustainable for you and your organization.
devonpersing.netlify.app
October 22, 2024 at 3:21 PM
codingchaos.bsky.social
I suppose my inaugural post should be about accessibility or something for bRaNdiNg, but I'm going with this lil guy instead:
A photo of an unfired clay jar about 8 inches high and 6 around with an abstract texture around the middle and a domed lid. On the lid is a cute little lizard wrapped around the dome, peering forward at you. Its tail curls up into a round handle for the lid. A top view of the same ceramic jar, looking down at the lizard so you can see how its body is sculpted in more detail. Some blue plastic and paper towels are in the background.
October 21, 2024 at 9:10 PM