Gerard K. Cohen

I’m excited to announce that my latest accessibility course, Foundations of Accessible Web Design, is now available! www.pluralsight.com/courses/foun... This course is for EVERYONE! Design, Content, Developers, QA, and anyone that wants to learn how to make the web more accessible using WCAG v2.2

Time zones are hard. Meetabl handles them so your invitees see slots in their local time, every time — no math, no missed meetings.

In 2027, I want engineers to hate accessibility slop as much as they hate AI slop.

Next week, I will be speaking at AI TechWorld 2026 in Santa Clara, CA about When Browsers Think: Engineering for Agentic AI. Message me if you would like a free pass to attend.

Accessibility skills are in demand. Get trained for free with AFixt's live online series: WCAG, ARIA, auditing, forms, and more. Led by Karl Groves. Details:

How many times have you heard "AI is not going away, so might as well start using it" from people? Can we try "Accessibility/disability is not going away, so might as well start doing it" and see what happens? 😂

The benefit of AI solving accessibility issues is directly related to your level of acceptance. Like, if you don't care if things actually work for people then you'll be extremely successful! Ask me how I know 😉

Crystal interviewed on hometown CW39 in Houston. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zna1...

Oh wow. I just witnessed an engineer fix an issue with a custom select by just replacing with a native select. 🤯 Maybe this is a sign... I should play the lotto?

What if your whole team understood accessibility? AFixt's free live training makes that possible. Courses for every role, every skill level. Sign up:

Auto-playing video violates WCAG unless muted AND has controls to pause. Learn more from AFixt.

Orgs don't force accessibility training, but learning IS going to happen. Either once up front or repeatedly at the end fixing bugs. Which do you think saves time? PS: I have online courses available on Pluralsight. 10+ years of experience distilled into 8 hours. www.pluralsight.com/authors/gera...

Just 6 days until Accessibility Basics on July 15-16, 2026! It covers assistive technologies including JAWS, NVDA, and VoiceOver. Don't miss it — register free:

🎥 New on YouTube: Homer Gaines on the anatomy of accessible chat interfaces. 25 years of accessibility work. WCAG basics for chatbots. role="log" vs aria-live. Why icon-only send buttons fail voice control. If you build chat UIs, watch this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQzW...

As for me, the G4E team was responsible for outreach and connecting studios to disabled gamers and experts so I don't foresee any more consulting work from Xbox. I hope all of them land on their feet, please HIRE THEM! And any studios interested in accessibility consultant work, just lmk! #gamea11y

What kind of Jedi-mind trick is it when companies actively ignore accessibility until they can't, and then try to make accessibility the culprit? How is it my fault??? 🤷‍♂️

Accessibility Basics is coming July 15-16, 2026. A two-day course covering WCAG standards, assistive technologies, legal requirements, and universal design. Prepares you for IAAP CPACC certification. Seats are limited to 500 — register now:

Working in accessibility for 10+ years has been hard. It's not fragmented platforms or changing landscape. It's working with people who know the right thing to do but look the other way. Frustration/ anger vs empathy/grace extended, hoping they'll make it right, has been the most exhausting.

Have you ever been listening to a song and asked yourself, “Is this Yacht Rock?” No? Uh, you can skip the rest of this post. 😂 Is It Yacht Rock? is like #Shazam, but specifically for #YachtRock. Check it out the next time you’re listening to smooth music! 🛟 apple.co/4agHwp7

In urgent need of funds. If you know of anyone looking for contract/freelance web development work please send them my way! I specialize in accessibility, design systems, & documentation. Open to full stack as well! Email: inquiries@semanticfish.com Website: semanticfish.com

Happy birthday @karlgroves.bsky.social!

One thing I am hoping for with AI - Let the tech bro's advocate for 4-day work weeks as a way to budget token use. 🤔

If you know me personally then you know my wife, and you forget about me. 😂 She released a new single today and I’m very proud of her. It’s technically a retelling of the night we first met almost 25 years ago. Enjoy! ditto.fm/whachoo-doin

I hear people say "We want to be accessible but..." and list any number of reasons. Accessibility should always be an "and" not a "but." It is not a competing priority, contradictory outcome, or tradeoff. It's up to you to think outside the box you created for yourself and find ways to be inclusive.

The irony of this is just too much for a Wednesday morning 😂 I just can't stop snickering.

How did we go from criticizing people that photoshopped their images to accepting to AI images?🤔

With Copilot costs going up, how expensive is AI really going to be when you've burned through your token budget and STILL have just as many, if not more, accessibility issues to fix at the end? 🤔 Nothing changes, just more expensive. Make it make sense.

Great time speaking at AI Dev Summit. It was encouraging to find so many AI-forward people were concerned about accessibility. During Q&A, I made the statement "Solve for humans first then you will solve for AI. It won't work the other way around" and got the loudest applause. I was moved.

Rare vent: Roles for accessibility, but not a single conversation about it in the interview process. Sigh. Evaluating based on what everyone else can do, but not what only I can do. Sigh.

I'll be delivering a talk about ARIA's history and structure, as well as providing guidelines and busting myths for #WebExpo in about two hours' time. If you've got FOMO you can read the article that this talk was sourced from: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/06/what... #a11y

This is for everyone, even if you don't work in accessibility. It's time to start thinking past "average" and expanding our scope of awareness. If you're a tester, invite an engineer. If you're an engineer, invite a designer. Everyone invite their managers. Managers, invite your team.

I had the great opportunity of speaking and sharing my thoughts on AI and Accessibility at Miro today for Global Accessibility Awareness Day, along with the legend Cynthia Shelly. Thank you so much Phil Strain for the invite and my ex-tweep Peter Gould for hosting. #GAAD

I know some feel there's nothing to celebrate So I'll say today we ACKNOWLEDGE the needs of over 1 billion people in the world with disabilities & help raise awareness I DO want to celebrate everyone that's working to advocate for accessibility.The world's a better place due to your work.Thanks!🫡

Just pushed a new HTML summary report for axe-reporting-utils (v2.0.0) that takes multiple scans and puts them together for a summary report! Check it out! #Accessibility #A11y www.npmjs.com/package/axe-...

This one is for everyone, not technical at all. If you're a tester, invite an engineer. If you're an engineer, invite a designer. If you're designer, invite a PM. If you're a PM, invite a manager (EM/DM). If you're a manager, invite your whole team! May 27 @ 12pm ET a11ytalks.com/posts/2026-may

We are exactly 3 weeks away from Global Accessibility Awareness Day on May 21. It's not too late to start planning events for your team/ organization. Reach out if you need some ideas or a presenter to speak to your people. #GAAD

Finally! Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech will be published in one week on May 6. Thank you to everyone who has pre-ordered (it helps!) Links to pre-order, bios of our 39 authors (from 10 countries!) and full table of contents at accessibilityethics.org

So, according to the commercial... AgentForce by SalesForce has given Williams-Sonoma the incredible ability to provide (checks notes...) recipes??? The future is already looking brighter! 😆

Mike Paciello – talks accessibility – fireside @mikepaciello.bsky.social #a11y #section508 #WAI #WCAG #overlays #history html5accessibility.com/stuff/2026/0...