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Why does a sprite selection border disappear in Windows high contrast?
Disclosure: This draft was generated with AI and checked against the cited primary sources, with a separate AI editorial review. It was prepared for…
We pointed AI testing agents at our own apps. 36/100, 79 issues. Here is what they found and what we fixed.
Disclosure first: I work on Preetest (Yamama Software, Saudi Arabia). This post is about running our own product on our own apps. Every number below…
RTL Is Not a Mirror Toggle: A Practical Checklist for Multilingual Web Tools
RTL Is Not a Mirror Toggle: A Practical Checklist for Multilingual Web Tools Most teams treat right-to-left support as a CSS cleanup task: flip a fe…
What Software Can Show Us About Neurodivergent Minds
People have compared minds to machines for as long as we've had machines: clockwork, telephone switchboards, and then computers. It's an old compari…
Building Privacy-First Patient Education Interfaces
Healthcare websites increasingly use interactive forms, educational questionnaires, visual explainers, and decision-support interfaces to make compl…
Live Captions and Post-Session Transcripts Explained: 2 Access Boundaries Users Need
Short answer: For a live property-management poll, give attendees captions when speech affects a decision they must make now; create a post-session…
AI Accessibility Testing Tools vs Manual WCAG Audits: What Actually Catches What
I ran axe DevTools on a client's site last spring and it came back green. Zero critical violations. The owner forwarded me an email that same week:…
⏭️ لینک «پرش به محتوای اصلی» (Skip to Main Content): چرا و چگونه؟
سلام همکاران توسعهدهنده! 👋 امروز میخواهیم در مورد یکی از سادهترین اما حیاتیترین ویژگیهای دسترسیپذیری (Accessibility) صحبت کنیم: لینک پرش به مح…
If you are a human, what are you looking for here?
I have been moderating the tag #a11y for a couple of months and I noticed that it is flooded with repetitive, redundant and not useful post about ac…
Semantic HTML and Accessibility: Lessons from Building My First Portfolio
Introduction Building a website involves more than making content appear in a browser. A good website should have a clear structure, communicate mea…
Web Accessibility with Firefox DevTools: Auditing ARIA, Contrast, and Keyboard Navigation
Web accessibility ensures that websites work for all users — including those using screen readers, keyboard-only navigation, or other assistive tech…
Building a reading ruler that floats over every Android app: touch pass-through, Android 12's opacity cap, and masks
I make ReadFocus+, a small Android app that floats a translucent strip (a "reading ruler") over the screen, mainly for people with dyslexia or ADHD…
A Skip Link That Doesn't Land Is Not a Bypass: WCAG 2.4.1 in Practice
You press Tab on a page and VoiceOver says link, Home, Primary, navigation . Not the content. On a real site that header can hold dozens of links, a…
A11y Memoirs, episode 2. The Devil is in the Details
Welcome back to A11y Memoirs! This series is based on my personal experience of building accessible components for the Vaadin design system. If you…
SRT vs VTT: Which Caption File to Use, and How to Convert
SRT and VTT both hold timed captions as plain text. Here is how they differ, which one YouTube, Vimeo and a video tag want, and how to convert betwe…
Three accessibility bugs in a four-option quiz, and the markup that fixed them
I spent last night making a quiz usable with a keyboard and a screen reader. It is a nine-question drill with four options per question, a live scor…
Keep the focus ring: a keyboard check for landing pages
A landing page isn't finished when the buttons work with a mouse. Try reaching the same buttons without one. Press Tab from the top of the page. You…
Color Contrast in Accessibility
Color alone should never carry information. Users with color blindness—or anyone using a phone in bright sunlight—need sufficient contrast and alter…
Progressive Disclosure in Creative Forms: Keep the Draft, Hide the Options
Disclosure: This article was prepared with AI writing assistance from first-party product design rules and inspected interface code. It describes de…
A developer policy edited our footer, deleted a row from our pricing table and changed one word in a checkbox
Nakodo uses YouTube API Services, so before asking for an audited quota I read the Developer Policies against our own public pages instead of agains…
Respect reduced motion (Web HIG tip #9)
A slide-in panel looks smooth to most people. For someone with a vestibular disorder, it can bring on dizziness or nausea. Their OS already has a "R…
Right-to-left is not a flag you flip
The first time I shipped an Arabic locale, I thought the work was translation plus one TextDirection . The translation was the easy half. What took…
Lichess Introduces Chess Board Image Upload Feature with ChessQueries Lite v4 ML Model for Automatic Position Detection
Introduction Lichess, a leading online chess platform, has just rolled out a game-changing feature: chess position image recognition . This innovati…
How to Test a Shopify Store Across Accept, Reject, and GPC States
A practical workflow for testing Shopify pixels, cookies, app-injected tracking, consent behavior, GPC, and accessibility across real browser sessio…