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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…

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:…

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…

Matt Mullenweg Orders Accessibility Revert

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…

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…

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…

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…

Application CSS must not use transition: all (Web HIG tip #6)

transition: all looks convenient until a new property starts animating and the UI jumps in ways you never meant. Web HIG tip #6 (Quick #85, HIG-MOT-…

Designing for people reading in their second language

Most people using the products I work on are preparing for a US licensing exam in a language that isn't their first. Many are studying after a full…

The spoon-dial: capacity-aware financial UI for neurodivergent users

Financial dashboards are built for peak attention. Dense grids, live tickers, twenty widgets competing for one pair of eyes. For the roughly 1.3 bil…

SaaS File Uploads: Make Selection, Errors, and Success Clear

A useful file upload tells people what they can choose, what the system is doing, and whether their file is ready to use. Build those three parts to…

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…

Why I built Animal Sudoku without a single ad

Screen time for children is broken. Most free games trade a childs focus for ad revenue. Flashing banners and loud interruptions shatter concentrati…

Building an Accessible Visual Scaling Game with Astro and React Islands

I recently built a browser game where the player's answer is a visual ratio rather than a typed number. The static pages use Astro, while the playab…

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…

Remote Chat Failover Needs a Tab-Stop Origin Banner, Not a Skeleton Overlay

I was halfway through a keyboard-only pass on a streaming chat when the local path died. A skeleton overlay covered the composer, my focus jumped, a…

EN 301 549 is about to move to WCAG 2.2. Six criteria, one date, and one requirement that disappears.

If you are working to the European Accessibility Act, the standard you are working to is EN 301 549 V3.2.1 (2021-03) , and it adopts WCAG 2.1 . That…

The Web HIG: a versioned behavioral contract for humans, CI, and AI agents

Your design system probably nails color, type, and button variants. WCAG covers accessibility conformance. Your framework docs cover routing and dat…

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…

Agent Clarifying Questions Need a Focus Handoff, Not a Noisier Live Region

Last Tuesday I asked a browser agent to draft an accessible confirmation dialog, and it started streaming tokens immediately. I kept focus in the co…

Why Your Loading Spinner Flickers, and the Two Rules That Fix It

Every Flutter app has this somewhere: bool _loading = false ; Future < void > _signIn () async { setState (() = > _loading = true ); try {…

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…

WebMCP: Make Your Website Agent-Ready Without Screen Scraping

AI agents can already operate websites by reading text, inspecting accessibility trees, and clicking visible controls. That works, but it asks the a…

The outline: none Debate Has Been Over Since 2020

A design review flags it every time: a button gets clicked, and a chunky blue ring slaps itself around the edge for half a second. "Can we remove th…