Aaron Gustafson

I co-authored an ASSETS ’26 paper on accessibility in AI-generated HTML form components. We looked at 26,100 outputs—and why how we evaluate them matters. www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/pro...

Do you or someone you know live in Missouri? This is required watching/listening before election day. Thanks @angryblacklady.blacksky.app! youtu.be/SbhbxrW3NlU?...

Accessibility Assistant for Figma v53 connects annotation, assessment, issue tracking, and handoff in a project-based workflow. www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/acc...

Just 8 days left to submit your application to present at Axe-con 2027! www.deque.com/axe-con/call... #axecon #a11y

Back in 2014, I decried CSS variables, but my perspective has largely changed. Here’s what I missed, how I use them now, and why fallbacks still matter. www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/i-c...

For the last year or so I've been randomly smelling what seems to be really strong hand sanitizer, but now I'm starting to think it's actually body spray. Why on earth would anyone want to smell like that all day?

If we improve the web for AI agents, we should begin with the semantics authors already provide for people—not create a parallel layer that can leave them behind. www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/web...

If we improve the web for AI agents, we should begin with the semantics authors already provide for people—not create a parallel layer that can leave them behind. www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/imp...

I’ve spent the better part of the last 2 years both using coding models and trying to help these models deliver higher quality code and I honestly could not agree more with Zach here… www.zachleat.com/web/ai-websi...

If AI is conscious then its use is slavery.

Almost giddy, hearing two of my favorite people - @jonstewartdaily.bsky.social & @kedseconomist.com - talk about the economy player.fm/series/the-w...

I keep coming back to tabbed interfaces. www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/tab...

Not surprised, but still… 🤬 www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

First time for everything: a book launch event hosted by Seattle's incredibly cool mayor! So excite for this stop.

As a reminder: Howard Dean was disqualified from office because he got a little too excited at a political rally and made an awkward whooping noise, but somehow these assholes just keep on getting elected.

"We should never forget that Dolly Parton chose not to be a billionaire."

Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social That Fetterman interview! Thank you. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Within 3 minutes of my 10yo switching the smart speaker to a male voice, it told Kelly to “take a breath” 😱 If it tells her to calm down one more time I think it's gonna end up in the street. To be clear, this was its response when she casually swore while laughing. She wasn't even talking to it.

I always appreciate the moral clarity of “Deep State” Kuba & it was perfectly on display on the latest episode of “What Fresh Hell” www.youtube.com/live/lDz0B1W... - supporting someone’s rights does not require supporting their political project. - condemning amoral behavior must be universal.

“AI does not fix a broken process; it accelerates whatever process you already have. If accessibility is already in the workflow, AI can help scale inclusion. If it’s not, AI will scale the same barriers teams are already shipping.” @aaron-gustafson.com www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/can...

Israel’s unhinged National security minister Ben Gvir says Bibi should tell Trump ‘no’: “Lebanon should be our playground. We should target all of it. Thousands of Lebanese mothers should cry and not one 🇮🇱 mother… Iranians have to be bombed & bombed…”

Happy Juneteenth! 161 years ago today, the last enslaved people in Galveston, Texas were finally freed. Let us celebrate our ancestors’ strength and resilience, and remind ourselves of the work we still have to do to create the future they dreamed of.

Making accessibility a project requirement and still having the coding model treat a11y fixes as optional? It’s not you. It’s the model.

@hegemommy.bsky.social I missed hearing your voice in my headphones this week 💜

Last week at Microsoft Build, Jessie Lorenz, Carie Fisher, and I talked about how to build accessibility into AI-assisted software development from planning through code review and release....

I highly recommend listening to Jon Stewart’s interview with @quinnslobodian.com on this week’s @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social It’s a fascinating, historical perspective on the modern era, amid the machinations of Elmo. player.fm/1CGPJgp

I honestly find it amazing how little credence is given to the fact that local constituencies pick the candidates they prefer and those candidates attributes will differ across the country. The top-down, one-size-fits-all magic bullet candidate thinking has got to fucking stop.

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It’s kinda amazing that the party that practically deified the legendarily adulterous JFK is clutching their pearls so tightly regarding Platner’s behavior, even going so far as to suggest Collins is a better choice… again, despite her own infidelity. It’s all just so disingenuous.

I just learned that some people think “undocumented” (in reference to a person) means “there is no record that they exist” as opposed to “they lack the proper documentation authorizing them to reside and/or work in a given country.”

A useful look at GitHub’s accessibility agent experiment and what it takes to make these systems genuinely helpful rather than merely busy.

AI is inheriting the web’s accessibility debt. If we want a different outcome, we need to change the training data, the defaults, and the incentives.... www.forbes.com/sites/keelyc...

This poor little guy was trapped in my pepper.

At Ability Summit 2026, I moderated a panel on shifting accessibility left in the age of AI with Yumeng Ma, Dylan Barrell, Navin Thadani, and Ed Summers. www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/fix...

There is so much excellent class & cultural analysis in this episode. It’s well worth your time. www.youtube.com/live/z8zMqCc...

Need two form fields to match? `form-matching-fields` adds simple validation for confirmation fields.

Cancer drug Revlimid is one of the bestselling pharmaceutical products of all time, with total sales of over $100 billion. It’s also extraordinarily expensive, costing nearly $1,000 for each pill, even though that pill costs just 25 cents to make. (Published May 2025)

I just want to share that this was a very real CAPTCHA I encountered nearly 20 years ago and chronicled on Flickr. Happy Friday!

Is it me, or was Bob Flanagan the original looksmaxxer?

Jeff Bezos just gave an interview where he revealed his economic philosophy — and it's pure, uncut trickle-down economics with a fresh coat of paint. 🧵 buff.ly/tmpCmE0 1/7

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AI is moving fast, and accessibility needs to move with it. This is a chance to shape how AI and accessibility evolve together 💕 Excited to be speaking with @aaron-gustafson.com at Microsoft Build where we’ll explore how accessibility is shaping the future of AI 🚀

Spending the day reflecting on the writings of MLK Jr. on Israel, economic disparities in the U.S. & abroad, etc. With the exception of apartheid South Africa, so little has changed since he wrote these words. And some that had changed is roaring back. 💔 store.thekingcenter.org/products/the...

"A developer who builds accessible interfaces is more skilled. Say this out loud. Repeat it often. A developer who creates accessible interfaces isn't doing extra work; they're doing the work the right way." newsletters.feedbinusercontent.com/3c2/3c2d0562... 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I’m very excited by `focusgroup`: less bespoke roving-`tabindex` code, more consistent keyboard UX, and a healthier platform overall.