Michael Spellahhhhcy 🎃

Your friendly reminder that accessibility overlays are awful. Please don't use them. shouldiuseanaccessibilityoverlay.com

*me trying to get out of a meeting* “i have to go patch my php”

James Tallerico goes after Elon Musk on Twitter. 👌

Did Elon Musk just threaten the American population? I think we'll take his space ships for that. Vote like hell, people!

Is it me or does it feel like we are all in some kind of collective limbo until, for good or ill, the election has passed?

More accessibility information isn't always better. Sometimes forcing complex content through aria-describedby makes it worse. aria-details offers another path. www.maxdesign.com.au... #Accessibility #DigitalAccessibility #ARIA #WCAG #A11y #InclusiveDesign #WebDevelopment

shout out to a real one

Republican politicians are *obsessed* with schoolchildren coming home a different gender because of pro-trans teachers, WHICH NEVER HAPPENS. But they are completely indifferent to schoolchildren not coming home *at all* because of guns, WHICH HAPPENS ALL THE TIME!

Need sortable tables? My table-sortable web component adds accessible, customizable sorting to ordinary HTML tables—and they still work when JavaScript doesn’t. www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/sor...

You’ll laugh! You’ll cry! You’ll dance! You’ll cry some more! youtu.be/3TNpOD6bov8?...

Hey yo @bsky.app you should render embedded code blocks in our posts: ```html <p>Like this</p> ```

Wrote a thing on why we should have interactive lists on the web: sarahmhigley.com/writing/inte... If anyone has their own interactive list use cases that aren't covered, send them to me! I'm putting together an ARIA spec PR this month.

we didn’t appreciate these images enough.

It's Artificial Intelligence. It's Twitter. It's the Gulf of Mexico. It's Lake Ontario. It's the Department of Defense. It's the Kennedy Center.

Anybody in my circles who calls it Super Intelligence is crusin' for a brusin'.

I think the thing the "but AI can one-shot it bro" commenters on these videos don't get, is while I am showing how to do something with CSS, it goes a little beyond that. I'm exploring what's possible these days, and often looking at how we can make things that aren't so straight-forward.

Queen.

I desire for you all to stop posting screenshots here of random blue checks from x. Its not Twitter anymore. Let it go.

October is ADHD awareness month! I've selected resources to help you make your website more accessible for people with different cognitive disabilities, including ADHD, autism, etc. Here you go: stephaniewalter.design/blog/neurodi...

Good listen. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Think <figcaption> makes your video accessible? Think again. Schalk Neethling examines what assistive tech actually gets. schalkneethling.com/... #Accessibility #WebAccessibility #A11y #HTML #WCAG #ScreenReaders #InclusiveDesign

America doesn’t have a polarization problem America has a right-wing extremism problem

“I want to read words written by my fellow humans, from their hearts and minds, through the effort of trying to clearly express what it is they’re trying to communicate, because in that effort, they figure out what it is that they actually think and want to say.” andreabadgley.blog/2026/09/24/b...

I think one of the undercurrents of our fractured political reality is that basically everyone has come to realize that the people who rule the world do not possess any particularly impressive level of intelligence or capability

The Trump White House official app is fraught with trackers. The White House app covertly collects excessive user data and shares it with third-party trackers while sidestepping federal security rules. For example, the app includes scripts to monitor a user's location several times per minute.

We never had "Fake News" until we got a "Fake President"

I expect this will be a failed tool...just like our current president. krcrtv.com/news/nation-...

The CFP is open for 10 more days. So far, I have only 11 submissions, but I need at least 24. So, please share your ideas! First-time authors are very welcome!

If you think you’re alone in being miserable about being Claude‘s condom, you’re not www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/c... Once you get past the loud minority — those who are dead behind the eyes, but smiling for the cameras — no one who is forced to use LLMs all day is happy in this industry

Quick Accessibility Tip: Keyboard. Keyboard. Keyboard. Want to have a massive impact on accessibility for your product, right away? Do sprint demos/reviews with a keyboard only. No mouse. #accessibility #ProductManagement #a11y #inclusion

The COVID years seem downright nostalgic these days.

Only 9 days until #ID24! 😍 24 talks about accessibility in 24 hours, for free! inclusivedesign24.org/2026/

Some are suggesting you deliberately write inaccurate or confusing alt text, because they say this confuses AI scrapers that are analyzing images. The purpose of alt text is to help people who cannot see the image. Deliberately misrepresenting the image is a gross misuse of alt text. Don't do it.

All of us when we learned about AI potentially killing us all.

Okay everyone. Here’s the YouTube interview with @jimmykimmel.com and @jamestalarico.bsky.social You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...

AI can't do accessibility because it doesn't understand context but AI is also gonna end humanity. Like the rest of you...I'm super confused.

Time for me to suit up and protect the voters of Lomita, CA.

I dunno, man. Like, can't we get on an upward trend of good things? The 10% risk AI causing an extinction event kinda broke me this week.

Trump was not at 9/11. That is all.

Entertainment has shown us the future could be like Star Trek, it has also shown us the future could be like Mad Max. So why the fuck are we choosing Mad Max?

Gas went up under Biden because Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. Then they gradually went down in 2023/2024. Gas then went back up because Trump started a war of choice with Iran that he’s losing after being persuaded by Netanyahu and Hegseth. Blaming Biden right now is absurd.

New America? Your move, Google.

So now we’re supposed to hate Canada and love Putin? That’s where we are at with this corrupt gangster government?

Huge congratulations to the US-based Wikimedia Foundation employees who voted with 92% support in favor of unionizing, and shoutout to the tireless work of the organizers.