Scott O'Hara

An Open Letter to the People Writing Lengthy Posts About “Why I’m Going Back to Twitter”, by @dansinker@omfg.town: https://dansinker.com/posts/2026-10-12-open-letter/?ref=frontenddogma.com #openletters #twitterx #socialmedia

Going through the Interop list of features interop-rank.fxdx.dev and selecting and ranking the ones I want to see across browsers in 2027. I chose 15 features. At the top of my list are #HTML #a11y features `focusgroup`, ariaNotify(), `headingoffset` and `headingreset`.

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.

Steve has released the chat that we had about 2 months ago as a podcast episode. Do with this information what you will.

🎙️ Aaron Gustafson pokes the fire podcast now available on the platform of your choice. Video and article to follow 🖖🏽 rss.com/podcasts/fir...

Currently reviewing buttons that were nested inside of hyperlinks so the hyperlinks would “look like buttons” Good job everyone. Drain a lake to make a ball of dumb

👀 W3C WAI invites you to comment on the updated W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0 Working Draft #a11y #W3C #disability #Standards www.w3.org/TR/wcag-3.0/

I'm helping a former client of mine source candidates for a fulltime remote developer position, based in the US! I'd love to continue working with them but I can't due to my location. You'd be working on Audiom, an audio-based map viewer that allows blind and low vision people to access maps.

Well, GitHub is down again (day that ends in y), but when it is back up: New Repositories now have a new default Issue label for "Accessibility". This update addresses a longstanding gap and helps to normalize accessibility as a primary consideration.

Are you a screen reader user who relies on F6 navigation? Maybe you have an opinion on navigating landmarks on web pages via a proposed `focuslandmark`? github.com/openui/open-... #HTML #accessibility #a11y

this week has been pretty shit so far. thanks tech.

How do I know the human race is doomed? Because the best we could think up for indicating a smoke alarm was close to losing its battery was having it make a noise that seems to come from all directions in the house so you never know which smoke alarm is chirping and oh my fucking god it’s 1:25 am

The 11th WebAIM Screen Reader Users Survey is open until 31 August: https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey11/ If you use a screen reader, it'll take about 10 minutes to contribute to the body of knowledge around screen readers, which ones are used, and how.

focusgroup has shipped in chromium 150! developer.chrome.com/blog/new-in-... Its been a long time coming, glad to have been able to get this out the door! Also note that there polyfill ready to go: www.npmjs.com/package/@mic...

mastodon.radio/@VE3RWJ/1168... WebAIM is inviting screen reader users to take part in Screen Reader User Survey #11. • Closes: 31 August 2026 • Duration: Approximately 5–10 minutes • Results published: September 2026 webaim.org/projects/scr... #a11Y #blind #accessibility

“I’m a fucking delight”

steve talked to me i said things. they were mostly nonsense, but maybe you'd appreciate some of that? the photo used for steve's post befuddles me to this day

Blink: Intent to Ship: aria-actions

/me puts on ARIA WG hat, cracks knuckles, sits down in front of new CSS-Tricks article about ARIA. Oh. Ok then. This is pretty good. “The Siren Song of `ariaNotify()`” css-tricks.com/the-siren-so... #ARIA #accessibility #a11y

Icon-only options in a customizable <select> break three things: ❌️ users who don't recognize the icon have no help ❌️screen readers have nothing to announce ❌️browsers w/o support show an empty dropdown There's just 1 fix for all three cases: keep the text Learn more:

Here's some thoughts and feelings about needing to vibe code to do accessibility design work. ericwbailey.website/published/th...

NVDA 2026.2 Beta 3 is now available for testing! Download from www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-20... Changes in Beta 3: - Can open Magnifier settings on secure screens - Fixed following focused cell in Excel - Improved Magnifier settings names & layout #NVDA #NVDAsr #Update #NewVersion #PreRelease

Hey you … yes YOU! If you were planning to submit a talk idea for Inclusive Design 24 #id24 in September, better hurry! The call for presentations closes this Sunday night (UTC) inclusivedesign24.org/2026/ #a11y #accessibility #inclusiveDesign

had a very fruitful WCAG-EM 2 working session today with @stevefaulkner.eurosky.social and Jeroen at the Ministry, addressing the last issues, feedback, and comments. We're getting closer to Note publication!

At what point does toast with x spread or topping on it become an open face sandwich? Seems like arbitrary nonsense to me.

Happy Friday everyone. Here’s the game I’ve created for the month of May; keithcirkel.co.uk/wordnt. It’s a daily nonsense word puzzle, with a meta game: a quest for the best new made up word. Guess the made-up word of the day. Then define it. Upvote other definitions.

Everyone is trying to be fast in getting their AI product to market. And by going fast, it’s not only breaking things but making y’all look fucking foolish.

Watching the boys. And lol this isn’t satire anymore…

lol websites that put up a paywall overlay but don’t know shit about accessibility so I can use a screen reader to read all the content behind their would-be modal dialogs Again. Lol.

Roll up, roll up: call for papers is open!

"Maybe don't fuck with shit if you don't need to" - @scottohara.me Maybe the best design principle :)

It’s today again.

The Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Task Force has published its rules, letting you filter automated rules: www.w3.org/WAI/standard... It’s only partial coverage of 31% of SCs: adrianroselli.com/2025/04/auto... Automation is good, but limited. Understand those limits. #accessibility #a11y

Initial prototype of a `<toolbar>` element is coming along. Largely piggybacks off the focusgroup code so it's actually quite simple to do. Lots to discuss and tweak before it's finished but got to start somewhere.

2/2 (Important note: it is a draft, far from completed, and we have lots of work planned. Feedback is welcomed!)

The latest Working Draft of WCAG 3 is out today! w3.org/TR/wcag3/ In this version, we've: - moved lots of requirements to “Developing” phase, - wrote down how to test, - mapped reqs to user needs (using DAF), - split out 'applies when' and 'except when' to massively increase readability 1/2

I appreciate linkedin continuously sending me emails that people are waiting for my response, because it means I’ll always have some email to delete when I open my inbox.

Just had to remind myself that 2024 was not last year Pros/cons to that reminder….

Friendly reminder to use aria-label as a last resort. Use a visual label if you can! And if you need to use an aria-label to add supplementary text to already visual text, make sure the full visual text is included in the aria-label, at the start of the string.

How broken is today's frontend culture? A friend points out that the median *mobile* page is now larger than a copy of DOOM (2.6 MiB vs. 2.48 MiB), the 75th percentile page is more than 2 DOOMs, and the P90 mobile page is 4.5x the size of DOOM: httparchive.org/reports/page...