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#accessibility / #a11y advocate, post enjoyer.

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Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · Oct 17
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liedra.net
Ah yes, we could never have predicted this, never www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Teens flock to alternative apps after social media ban
The Commonwealth's long-awaited social media ban for under-16s came into effect this month. But some experts note a rise in alternatives to popular platforms as teens find ways to stay active on socia...
www.abc.net.au
December 22, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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winston.cc
people in power really hate it when you continue to demand concrete information rather than abstract platitudes
December 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
ericwbailey.website
less Cassandra Complex and more Cassandra Simple plz
December 19, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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*whispers* This job is 5 jobs. www.a11yjobs.com/jobs/RLZUO-s...
Apply for the Senior Accessibility SME job at Grammarly. Join the top accessibility job board today!
Discover top jobs in digital accessibility, including web accessibility, ARIA, WCAG, Section 508, ADA compliance, and more. Join the A11y community with roles on a11yjobs.com.
www.a11yjobs.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM
ericwbailey.website
Ugly chuckling to myself realizing that one of the main reasons tech companies aren’t trying to push thin clients on consumers during the RAM shortages is because of America’s chronic underinvestment in internet infrastructure.
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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vale.rocks
A rant in the face of the industry's continued neglect and outright hostility towards digital accessibility and care for users.

vale.rocks/posts/access...

#WebDev #Accessibility #a11y #FrontEndDevelopment
You Can't Opt-Out of Accessibility
Shiny exclusion all the way down.
vale.rocks
December 18, 2025 at 4:59 AM
ericwbailey.website
“Nominalistic determinism strikes again!” exclaimed Ignatius J. Thatguy
December 18, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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ericportis.com
Read Erika's beautiful description. Think about how you would describe this amazing photograph to a friend.

The alt text is: "Image may contain Gail Graham Blazer Clothing Coat Jacket Formal Wear Suit Face Head Person and Photography"
erikahall.bsky.social Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 9d
I can't stop looking at this one. The framing is incredible. The lighting is so harsh. She's standing between a lamp and a light switch looking small in a big room twiddling her thumbs. Her blouse matches the lampshade. The woman on the phone in a dark room that pulls focus is just magnificent.
Photo of Susie Wiles, an older woman in a green suit with her hands clasped in front of her standing next to a doorway in the white house where she is the chief of staff. Photo by photographer Christopher Anderson for Vanity Fair.
December 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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kevmarmol.bsky.social
Well this is good news for #a11y

Germany rejects Accessibility overlays for EAA compliance and says regulators won’t audit any website that uses an accessibility widget

chrisyoong.com/blog/germany...
Germany rejects Accessibility overlays for EAA compliance
Regulators won’t audit any website that uses an accessibility widget
chrisyoong.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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aardrian.bsky.social
The Nu HTML Checker has gotten a bunch of updates to validate ARIA. Try it:
validator.w3.org/nu/

Or run it locally:
validator.github.io/validator/

If you find issues with ARIA validation, _report them_:
github.com/validator/va...

#HTML #ARIA #accessibility #a11y
Ready to check - Nu Html Checker
validator.w3.org
December 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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caseyexplosion.bsky.social
Hi, I'm the CEO of Glorbo, the company who enjoys near unprecedented goodwill in our field, I'm here today to talk to you about our pivot to using the Magic 8-Ball powered by children's bones that everybody hates, I've given myself psychosis listening to the 8-ball aaaaeeeeeiiiiooouuuu
December 17, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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[[ social model of disability intensifies ]] axesslab.com/inaccessible...
Inaccessible Fuel and Charging Stations: Wheelchair user insights and the EAA | Axess Lab
Wheelchair users experience accessibility challenges at fuel and charging stations that most people never notice. The issue isn’t our disabilities, but the way fuel and…
axesslab.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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tylersticka.com
On day 15 of this year’s #HTMHellAdventCalendar, I “break” down (pun intended) an aspect of #HTML we often take for granted: Line breaks!

htmhell.dev/adventcalend...

#WebDesign #WebDev #CSS #Typography
Them’s the Breaks - HTMHell
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.
htmhell.dev
December 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
ericwbailey.website
It always strikes me how cognitive disability-friendly design is just… good design. makeitfable.com/community-co...
The most common cognitive barriers in digital experiences
When it comes to cognitive accessibility, many common design patterns create friction. Here are some common challenges that make digital experiences harder to use for this audience.
makeitfable.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:48 PM
ericwbailey.website
"Any plans for the holiday break?"
Me, slowly sliding a heavily bookmarked copy of the 2nd edition D&D Monster Manual away from arm's reach.
"I'll probably just do some reading, I dunno."
December 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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inbn.dev
I've spent six years trying to cultivate the impression that component.gallery is some unbiased reference site, all so I can drop the 1600 word “carousels are awful and if you use them you should feel bad” rant.

component.gallery/components/c...
🎠 Carousel
A means of displaying multiple slides of content, one or more at a time. Navigation between slides can be controlled via swiping, scrolling, or buttons.
component.gallery
December 11, 2025 at 9:56 PM
ericwbailey.website
A two panel comic. The second panel shows Dipper Pines from the show Gravity Falls excitedly saying, "This is worthless!" while holding a strip of paper. The first panel shows a close-up shot of the strip of paper, which has been edited to show an email from Dribbble that is titled, "Introducing the new Dribbble Pro".
December 11, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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rachelhands.com
Time is owned by Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, which is currently trying to sell its AI tool to ICE in order to triple their recruitment. just a thing I think about sometimes while I’m at work, implementing his product for nonprofits.
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15d
Time Magazine puts the "architects of AI" on its Person of the Year cover time.com/7339685/pers...
December 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
ericwbailey.website
There is nothing as permanent as a temporary solution, and anyone who makes websites for a living knows that swapping out a prototype for production code is a lie. This is going to fuck over so many people with access needs. www.fastcompany.com/91458333/fed...
The goverment is vibe coding now
The federal government has been using Figma products since the Spring. Now, it's adopting the company's AI prototyping tool, Figma Make.
www.fastcompany.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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richterscale.bsky.social
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
sardonicus.eu Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 16d
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
a shot of a god botherer in a car, next to him on the passenger seat is a skull in an ornate box
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
ericwbailey.website
"This is not a mere inconvenience. It is a functional blocker to employment, education, and independence." blindaccessjournal.com/2025/12/when...
When Download Links Aren’t Links: A Critical Accessibility Failure in AI Tools Blind People Depend On – Blind Access Journal
blindaccessjournal.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
ericwbailey.website
kicked out of film crit class for suggesting that the end of Grease makes the movie's genre magical realism
December 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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thisemailfindsyou.bsky.social
I hope this email finds you interesting and pleasant to chat with.
December 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
December 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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knowler.dev
Happy Baseline newly available day for CSS @scope now that it's in Firefox 146!
December 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM