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Who is actually responsible for Web Accessibility?

Who is responsible for making sure software is accessible? If your short answer is the front-end development team, I'm sorry to say that your software…

Accessibility Testing: Best Practices

Accessibility testing requires more than an automated scanner. A scanner catches roughly 30-50% of WCAG issues. The rest requires manual testing with …

Scaling agentic A11y with browser-side scans

Fanning out agents to read every component file is a tempting shape for accessibility review. It demos well in a small project. In a real codebase wit…

Audit WCAG 2.1 accessibility on every pull request (free GitHub Action)

I build web apps and I always mean to audit accessibility before shipping, and I never do. axe-core DevTools is great but it's a browser extension I h…

How to Build Accessible Custom Dropdowns (Comboboxes) That Actually Work

Originally published on the AccessGuard blog . After our post on accessible modals resonated with so many of you, we wanted to tackle another notoriou…

Protovoters: Free, accessible voter files for democracy

Build voter files from public data and connect them to a wide range of geospatial software. Open alternative to private databases like NGP VAN and Nat…

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. …

🚀 Just Published: ReactTailwindAccessKit

I’m excited to share a new open-source project that focuses on building accessible, modern UI components using React + Tailwind CSS. 🔗 GitHub Repo: ht…

WCAG: Making the internet more accessible

We at Centro Labs recently finished making LocalMate WCAG 2.2 Level AA Compliant. It's not something that shows up on a demo reel or has any flashy co…

A Stranger Audited My AI Product for Free. Here's What They Found.

Three weeks ago I left a comment on a Dev.to article. Today, that comment turned into a full accessibility audit of my product — published publicly, w…

CSS Breakpoint Units - design with pixels and get fluid UX for free while automatically solving two of the oldest accessibility problems.

I've created many NPM packages and invented many hacks focused on helping us all easily create beyond what's typically considered possible. It drives …

My keyboard can't speak my language: Here's how i fixed it

Nigeria is a country of hundreds of languages. One of them is Yorùbá, spoken by tens of millions of people across the world. But despite how widely sp…

Introducing @accesslint/jest: progressive accessibility testing for Jest

This post is for the team rolling out accessibility testing: developer tooling, CI platform, design systems, frontend tooling, or their engineering ma…

Unicode Variation Selectors (2007)

I built an accessibility compliance SaaS in a day with Claude Code

TL;DR — I'm not a primary coder. I spent ~12 hours on Saturday with Claude Code and shipped axle : an accessibility compliance CI that scans every PR …

As We May Code: Why Software Is a Human Problem Dressed in Logic

On interfaces, accessibility, wicked problems, and the illusion that machines can write code for us. The first time I used NotebookLM, I fed it an ess…

Tech Note: Sidenotes

Trusted Tester Study Group 5: Links, Images, and the Clock is Ticking

Edit: please ignore the mistake in the thumbnail Links and images are usually an easy win for web accessibility. Then why do they require 2 and 5 test…

RGAA 4.1: France's Web Accessibility Standard Explained for Non-French Teams

RGAA 4.1: France's Web Accessibility Standard Explained for Non-French Teams Meta: RGAA is France's legally mandated accessibility framework (106 crit…

I built a local screen reader that reads your screen aloud — no cloud, no API keys

I got tired of switching between reading and listening, so I built sttts — a local pipeline that watches any region of your screen, OCRs it, and speak…

How I automated 62% of Europe's RGAA accessibility criteria

In Europe, web accessibility became mandatory in June 2025 under the European Accessibility Act (EAA) . But the EU doesn't define how to test — each c…

WICK-A11Y v3.0.1: Cypress v16 Ready - Upgrade Without Fear (Fully Backward Compatible)

ACT 1: EXPOSITION Ok, Cypress v16 is coming, and our always-friendly Cypress environment variables are going to be revamped. Why? Security reasons. Cy…

🧑‍💻 Alt Text vs ARIA Labels — What Developers Often Miss

Most developers know the basics of Alt Text for images. But when building modern apps with complex UI, alt text alone is not enough . That’s where ARI…