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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. …

Styling and Color

Prologue A while ago, I decided to develop a fully accessible main navigation component in React and write a series of articles documenting the steps …

Navigating With Tabs

Prologue A while ago, I decided to develop a fully accessible main navigation component in React and write a series of articles documenting the steps …

CSS if(): Inline Conditionals for Smarter Styling

Originally published on danholloran.me There's a moment every CSS developer knows: you want to tweak a single property based on some condition — a vie…

Your app can save someone from having a panic attack (a real-life story)

As I'm observing engineers, I notice that most of them share the same characteristic: unending loads of curiosity. You, software developers, are deepl…

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…

Why I stopped fighting the browser

A while ago I was about to install another dropdown library. I'd already added one for modals and one for tooltips. Somewhere between npm install and …

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…

My Accessibility Stack and the future on Wayland

I Built an Accessible React Component Library from Scratch — Here's What I Learned

Why I built it Every time I started a new React project I'd reach for a UI library and hit the same wall. The big ones (MUI, Chakra) bring too much op…

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…

Frontend Engineering Beyond Pixels: The Architecture of Digital Accessibility

From a high-level perspective, frontend engineering functions as the translation layer between raw, machine-readable data and human interaction throug…

Switching to Colemak

AccessLens — a blind person's lanyard, powered by Gemma 4 on-device

This is a submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge: Build with Gemma 4 What I Built AccessLens is an Android app that turns a Pixel 8 worn on a lanyard in…

Why Working Memory is a Defining Challenge of Dyslexia

L.E.N.S. — A private photography coach for blind and low-vision artisans

L.E.N.S. (Local Edge Native Studio) is a voice-guided photography coach that runs Gemma 4 E4B locally through Ollama — so a maker can verify and impro…

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…

Building a Clinical Speech-Therapy App With a Real SLP: 4 Lessons From PhoenixSteps

Originally published on the AstroLexis blog . Cross-posted here for the community. My son's speech-language pathologist became my co-founder. PhoenixS…

What I Learned About MND, Voice Banking, and Why Assistive Tech Is Personal

As part of my volunteering with AbilityNet , I recently attended a training session on motor neurone disease (MND) — and it quietly shifted how I thin…

You Got an ADA Demand Letter. Now What?

ADA-related demand letters targeting websites have grown roughly 14% year-over-year since 2018. If you just received one, here's what to do — and what…

WCAG 2.2: Every New Success Criterion Explained

WCAG 2.2 (published October 2023) introduced 9 new success criteria. Most of them target real-world friction points — touch targets, focus visibility,…

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…

We shipped an on-device Japanese braille reader — here's why offline-first was non-negotiable

The problem sitting in plain sight There's braille on train handrails, elevator buttons, and pill boxes all over Japan. Most people walk past it every…

Accessible error messages: the patterns that work across JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver

You added aria-live="assertive" . You set aria-invalid="true" . You tested in Chrome with a mouse. The error message works perfectly. Then a JAWS user…

Why ADA Lawsuits Are Now Targeting Small Web Agencies — And What Developers Need to Know

Posted by Huzefa Merchant — ML Engineer | linkedin.com/in/huzefa-merchant Web accessibility lawsuits in the US crossed 5,000 in 2025 — a 37% increase …

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…

Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2026: A Small-Business Action Plan for the Week Leading Up to May 21

Global Accessibility Awareness Day is on May 21 this year. It is the third Thursday in May, the way it always has been since 2012, and it is the one d…

Theming in the Modern Age

Prologue A while ago, I decided to develop a fully accessible main navigation component in React and write a series of articles documenting the steps …