Accessibility-First Web Development: A Practical Framework
Here's a question most businesses never think to ask when they're building a website: can everyone actually use this? Not just the people on a fast la…
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I built a free WCAG scanner because I kept shipping accessibility regressions
The pattern that pushed me to build this: I'd fix an accessibility issue, ship, and a few deploys later it would quietly come back. A contrast tweak u…
Color Contrast Failures: The Number One Accessibility Issue and How to Fix It
Color contrast failures are the single most common accessibility issue on the web. The WebAIM Million study found them on 83.6% of home pages tested. …
Accessible Forms in React Native: A Complete Reference Guide
Forms are everywhere in mobile apps - authentication flows, data entry, support requests, onboarding... If your app has a login screen, a form is like…
SVG Icon Accessibility: Decorative vs Meaningful Icons
SVG icons are everywhere in modern interfaces: buttons, menus, alerts, dashboards, empty states, navigation bars, and product UIs. They look small. Th…
Keyboard Navigation Testing: A Developer Complete Guide to WCAG Operability
Keyboard accessibility is one of the most important — and most neglected — aspects of web accessibility. An estimated 2.5 million Americans have motor…
Website Accessibility Audit: The Complete Guide (WCAG 2.2)
A **website accessibility audit is a structured review of a website against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) — the technical standard c…
AI-generated accessibility, an update — frontier models still fail, but skills change the game
A few months ago I shared early results from the A11y LLM Eval project, a benchmark that measures how accessibly LLMs generate UI code. The previous p…
How to Fix Common WCAG Color Contrast Failures
Color contrast is the most frequently reported WCAG violation in automated audits. WebAIM's 2024 analysis of the top 1,000,000 home pages found that l…
Accessibility Guardian — AI-Powered WCAG Auditor That Thinks
This is a submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge: Build with Gemma 4 What I Built Accessibility auditing tools like axe-core are great at finding WCAG v…
Who Am I Writing For?
Recently, I was asked a question that really made me take a step back. “With all these AI tools, aren't they just to give users what you would write a…
The true carbon cost of dark mode and whether it actually saves energy
Dark mode can save energy. It can also save nothing. In some cases it can even increase energy consumption. The outcome depends on three factors: the …
Structure, Code, and Accessibility: Building with Purpose
Most of my work starts with a simple idea: if something is clear, predictable, and well-structured, it becomes more accessible to more people. That pr…
Dark Mode in Firefox Extensions: Respecting System Preferences
Dark Mode in Firefox Extensions: Respecting System Preferences Firefox users who prefer dark mode shouldn't have to manually toggle it in every extens…