Building Privacy-First Patient Education Interfaces
Healthcare websites increasingly use interactive forms, educational questionnaires, visual explainers, and decision-support interfaces to make compl…
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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:…
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…
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…
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 I turn any handful of colours into a readable theme
Open the theme picker, choose Flatland from the base16 list, and the cards on the page lose their edges. Text and links are fine, but every border a…
We audited every new page at 320px, and the console snippet that should have run first
CogniPrep has been shipping a long content release: 28 assessment providers' worth of practice tests, 26 tests in the final wave alone, and the publ…
Fix the 4 Lighthouse accessibility failures that show up on almost every site
Disclosure: This post was written with AI assistance by an AI agent operating on behalf of Jason Sanchez, and reviewed against the WCAG 2.2 success…
Building an Accessible Angular Combobox: What the ARIA Checklist Doesn't Tell You
Your combobox passes the audit. It still doesn't work with a screen reader. I've been building frontends for 13 years, and I've used a lot of open s…
The people an accessibility overlay is for rate it worse than everybody else
The pitch is close to irresistible. One line of JavaScript, no engineering work, no audit, and a legal problem becomes a subscription line item. If…
Focus Management in the Next.js App Router: Field Notes on the Route Change That Loses Focus, inert, and Native dialog
Headline: The Next.js App Router announces client-side route changes to screen readers through its built-in route announcer, but it never moves keyb…
Help Us Build an Open, Offline Hands-Free Desktop
YazSes started with a simple idea: Hold a key, speak, and have your words typed into almost any desktop application — locally, without sending your…
How to Write Alt Text: Image Description Rules + Examples
Originally published at AccessGuard . Alt text is one of the oldest accessibility features on the web The alt attribute has been part of HTML since…
Building web-tui-kit: a framework-independent browser UI with a stable contract
Building web-tui-kit: a framework-independent browser UI with a stable contract I recently open-sourced web-tui-kit , a browser UI design system ins…
SaaS Signup Forms: Make Errors Easy to Fix
Make a signup error useful by naming the field, explaining the problem, and showing the next action. Keep valid entries in place and test the path f…
Charts.css vs ProvChart vs FSCSS (st-core): three ways to chart without a JS chart library
JavaScript chart libraries are powerful, and heavy. For many pages you only need a trend, a bar comparison, or a simple gauge. Shipping 40-150 KB of…
Code Dictator vs Wispr Flow vs Claude Code vs Copilot CLI: Free Voice Dictation for AI Coding in VS Code
Voice input for AI coding assistants got crowded fast in 2026. If you're picking a tool, here's a direct, feature-level comparison — including where…
Chat File Consent Needs a Request Snapshot, Not a Sticky Include Checkbox
I tabbed onto Retry after a sluggish timeout, and VoiceOver still described the composer as empty. The Network panel told a much less comforting sto…
Getting started with iOS VoiceOver: a beginner's guide
VoiceOver is the screen reader built into every iPhone and iPad. If you build, design, or test anything that runs on an iPhone, you should know how…
Agentic Accessibility - Can AI help us ship more accessible code?
Many All of us are coding with AI these days. There is a lot of momentum; code is being produced at lightning-speed, and at immense scale. While man…
La Liga's Web Accessibility Table: How Do Clubs Actually Score?
I should start by saying that I'm not a web accessibility expert. I work in web development and deal with accessibility features regularly, but I've…
Amparo: applying for food aid without reading a single word
This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Generosity Edition What I Built Every year an enormous amount of aid money goes unclaimed. Not because i…
Fix Silent 30s AI Stream Timeouts with a Client Watchdog
Your AI stream can die silently at exactly 30 seconds because the proxy's read timeout kills idle connections—not because the model stopped. I trace…
What an Embeddable Paycheck Calculator Taught Me About Iframes, Privacy, and Honest UX
Most “embed this tool” features are really small integration projects: install a script, create an account, obtain a key, add a container, and hope…
Web Accessibility in 2026: A Compliance Guide
Web accessibility stopped being optional. The European Accessibility Act has been enforced since June 28, 2025, and it reaches any business that sel…
Solution to Challenge 4 - Accessibility testing
Challenge #4 is done — here's my solution to Practice Real-World Testing Scenarios for QA: Challenge 4 - Accessibility testing 1) Manual testing I a…
Optimizing Keyboard Navigation in Complex Web Apps: Techniques and Debugging Tools
Ever found yourself tabbing through a complex web app only to get trapped inside a modal, or worse, see the focus jump erratically like it’s playing…
A CSS Hover-Reveal Pattern for Technical Specs
The problem on the Gate Seal page The Gate Seal product page for a maritime client needed to present detailed specifications without turning the lay…