In September '23, UAE President bin Zayed called Netanyahu to deliver a harsh warning. Netanyahu did nothing. An extensive investigation, conducted for a new book, reveals the PM's failures surroundin...

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Last week at Microsoft Build, Jessie Lorenz, Carie Fisher, and I gave a short talk on a question every AI-enabled product team should be asking: can your AI pass the accessibility test? The core poin...

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Learn about the experimental general-purpose accessibility agent that GitHub is piloting.

96% of web pages fail accessibility. AI now writes a growing share of code, and it's inheriting every one of those bad habits, but there is an opportunity to change it.

At Ability Summit 2026, I had the pleasure of moderating a panel on a topic that feels more urgent by the day: how we prevent accessibility defects before they are baked into AI-assisted workflows and...

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Sometimes the simplest form pattern ends up being the one you repeat ad infinitum: “Type it once, then type it again.” We do it for password confirmations, email verification, and any flow where a...

When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked ...

“The radical King was a democratic socialist who sided with poor and working people in the class struggle taking place in capitalist societies. . . . The response of the radical King to our catastroph...

Do you use a keyboard to navigate websites? If so, you've probably run into countless accessibility issues where groups of inputs or widgets are not easy, or even possible to get to with just the keyboard....

Radio buttons are built into web browsers. Why are we using a UI library that wraps another UI library that rebuilds radio buttons from scratch? Why does rendering a radio button require multiple dependencies...

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This article showcases iOS display settings that people expect native mobile apps to adapt to and support their individual needs. Note that web content displayed inside native mobile apps generally do...

Tracking the state of support for CSS features within and across the shadow DOM to provide visibility into feature parity, usage details, and outstanding issues and bugs.

I gave Claude Code a 5-page PDF form, and in just over an hour, it had turned it into an 8-step web application using components, tokens, and utility classes from the NYS Design System by talking to our...

I gave Claude Code a 5-page PDF form, and in just over an hour, it had turned it into an 8-step web application using components, tokens, and utility classes from the NYS Design System by talking to our...

A really common user interface pattern is a big clickable area, such as a card. Sometimes you need controls within that card that are also clickable. There's lots of ways to do it wrong, but fret not,...

AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

You may have spotted that MDN has a new frontend. There's plenty happening under the surface, so let's unpack the technologies we chose, the architectural decisions we made, and why we did a rebuild at...

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Building a modern custom select with base-select.

Eric Bailey explains why automated checks can't catch all accessibility issues in a design system and how teams can fix them, step by step.

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