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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A good rule of thumb: If the press release (or stenographic news reporting masquerading as journalism) says that an "AI" did something, that's deliberate obfuscation. Software doesn't do anything of its own accord, but folks sure like to talk about it as if it does: >>

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How to talk about "AI" without adding to the anthropomorphization

Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie In our op-ed for Tech Policy Press ("We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI'"), we made the case against the...

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Alena Nikolaeva @alenanik.github.io · 09/09/2026

tengo ganas de estudiar magisterio infantil

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Alena Nikolaeva @alenanik.github.io · 25/08/2026

when your company is using gitlab 🫠

GitHub contributions chart is half-empty starting from May

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Alena Nikolaeva @alenanik.github.io · 10/08/2026

What's the best use of AI for accessibility you've tried in real projects beyond "fix this" working on production projects? I've only done `a11y-review` skill, generating some tests for CI, document accessibility issues at Linear when found, and that's pretty much it. Looking for creative ideas.

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Alena Nikolaeva @alenanik.github.io · 03/08/2026

My baby is almost 1.5 and she is passionate about her piano, pushing buttons, dancing, drawing on the walls, picking leaves from the floor and Peppa Pig. By now she's the most interesting person I know 😆

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Alena Nikolaeva @alenanik.github.io · 31/07/2026

Free feature idea I have for Slack: allow to turn off DMs, so people work in public channels

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Alena Nikolaeva @alenanik.github.io · 18/06/2026

Just as SECURITY.md defines how to handle vulnerabilities, ACCESSIBILITY.md defines the inclusive state of a project. It is a human and machine-readable manifest that tracks a project’s commitment to a11y through metrics, guardrails, and automated enforcement. ❤️ github.com/mgifford/ACC...

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Alena Nikolaeva @alenanik.github.io · 12/05/2026

Okay so today someone was talking to themselves and Claude in the thread. We need a break.

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Alena Nikolaeva @alenanik.github.io · 27/04/2026

It's been YEARS (more than a decade) for me not working with Russian speaking folks and my new PM speaks Russian. Fun fact, my brain is wired up differently for Spanish, English and Russian and wow speaking automations and agents in Russian is really hard 🫠

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Alena Nikolaeva @alenanik.github.io · 01/03/2026

the best parenting hour is 15:00 on Sunday, when the baby is asleep, and you are not too dead, to do a little portfolio work/coding/playing/researching

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Alena Nikolaeva @alenanik.github.io · 23/02/2026

I've been a little quiet online but active offline. I'd be travelling with my baby to Barcelona (her for the first time) and will be teaching accessibility at LCI (Visual Arts and Design School) in English and Spanish 🚀

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Alena Nikolaeva @alenanik.github.io · 09/02/2026

"Nothing replaces the time with the customer"

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Alena Nikolaeva @alenanik.github.io · 01/02/2026

I got married last Saturday and was completely disconnected from the world. I still have a week of marriage leave left, and I'll spend it preparing material for an a11y workshop for a design school in BCN. I love teaching young designers: forms, labels, color contrast, and all of the fun things ❤️

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Alena Nikolaeva @alenanik.github.io · 15/01/2026

The end of the year was really fun

GitHub Conntributions calendar. A lot of activity from mid September till end of the December

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Alena Nikolaeva @alenanik.github.io · 10/01/2026

“In the practical, this means designers will have more LLM-based features integrated into their tooling. These tools will promise to do their job for them […]. This will further widen the divide between the work and its human-facing impact.” mantisandco.com/resources/gu...

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Eric Bailey's predictions for the future of accessibility | Mantis & Co.

Explore how Eric Bailey predicts compliance deadlines and automated tools risk creating performative accessibility that fails users.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

One of my goals for bsky has been to rebuild Design Twitter. But what we got instead was something better: Design Bsky.

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Alena Nikolaeva @alenanik.github.io · 30/12/2025

“In the coming year, I expect WCAG 2.2 to become the default expectation in procurement language, RFPs, and accessibility evaluation.” 🔗 2026 Predictions: The Next Big Shifts in Web Accessibility webaim.org/blog/2026-pr...

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WebAIM: 2026 Predictions: The Next Big Shifts in Web Accessibility

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Alena Nikolaeva @alenanik.github.io · 18/12/2025

Cognitive research often highlights foundational issues like clarity, predictability, hierarchy, and friction points that affect all users but become visible sooner with the cognitive audience. Cognitive accessibility toolkit by Fable ✨ makeitfable.com/tutorial/cog...

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Cognitive accessibility toolkit

This toolkit will help you make the most of cognitive accessibility research with Fable Engage.

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Caroline Jarrett @cjforms.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

We are getting to the season of end-of-year reflections, so it’s time to post my annual reminder. If you helped someone this year or let someone else help you, then you’ve had a good year. That’s enough.

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Alena Nikolaeva @alenanik.github.io · 08/12/2025

“Automated tools can quickly flag non-descriptive link text such as “click here” or “read more” […] But automation alone can’t determine whether context makes a vague link meaningful or if a link’s purpose is truly clear to users.” www.dennisdeacon.com/web/accessib...

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Testing Methods: Link Purpose (In Context) - Dennis Deacon

Learn how WCAG 2.4.4 Link Purpose (In Context) improves clarity and navigation through a hybrid of automated, AI, and manual testing.

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Adam Argyle @nerdy.dev · 05/12/2025

Fit width text in 1 line of CSS `text-grow: per-line scale;` nerdy.dev/css-text-grow (prototype in Canary 165+)

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Alena Nikolaeva @alenanik.github.io · 02/12/2025

Ramp table UI is honestly so good. Fully functional with the keyboard (not fully accessible as there are a few color contrast failures, but it’s functional), and the focus ring is styled. ✨

Requests table in Ramp website. 4 tabs: all, needs action, pending, drafts. Table lists Requests. Other columns: Frequncy, Payment methods, Start date, Auto-lock date. Main CTA Request in yellow-green color is in the right top corner. A button “Cuatomize columns” is focused with the focus ring shown in black.

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Hidde @hidde.blog · 02/12/2025

“we hear often we must make special solutions for people with disabilities, that accessibility is expensive and that it hampers innovation… that's all wrong: we can do inclusive design, it can be cost effective and lead to lots of innovation”—Alejandro Moledo del Rio of the European Disability Forum

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Scott Riley @scott.is · 01/12/2025

are you excited for MINDFUL DESIGN ADVENT? what is #MindfulDesignAdvent i do not hear you ask? it’s a daily dose of some course related stuff in a transparent attempt to convince you it is good and to buy it! for day one, you can watch the INTRO (wow!!!) for FREE (huh?!!) piccalil.li/mindful-desi...

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Welcome to Mindful Design

A lesson from the Mindful Design course

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Enoc @cspe.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

@cassidoo.co writes: "I’ve been thinking a lot about the internet lately, like as a concept. I don’t know where everyone went... When the algorithms are determining everything we should be seeing, it’s a much less personal internet" In response I made powrss.com to rediscover the personal web.

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Alena Nikolaeva @alenanik.github.io · 02/11/2025

“The standard back button is the best way to do this as it is familiar to the user. Many users will try the back button first.”

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Alena Nikolaeva @alenanik.github.io · 28/10/2025

Magic Patterns isn’t doing what I need, Claude prototypes feel off, and Figma Make isn’t there yet for handling complex interactions. What else is there?

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Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · 16/10/2025

“Accessibility is not optional. It’s required. We all know that. But we still have to tell other people that.” — @xirclebox.com #A11yTOconf #a11y

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Alena Nikolaeva @alenanik.github.io · 08/10/2025

Getting back to work from maternity leave, design engineering (more engineering than design), organizing my wedding, helping my mom to come to Spain 🫠 beyond TIRED

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SergioEfe @sergioefe.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

No conocía este término, pero me gusta bastante. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majorit...

The term Majority World refers to countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, and Indigenous peoples. It is an alternative to terms considered to be derogatory such as "Third World" or "Developing World."

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Adrian Roselli, pH0 @aardrian.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I’ve been mulling my own WCAG3 post, but my TL;DR on Karl’s post is essentially the same as I would have written: “WCAG 3 is not ready for you to use as a compliance framework. Not even close.” afixt.com/why-now-is-n... #accessibility #WCAG #a11y

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Why Now Is Not the Time to Think About WCAG 3 - AFixt

If you work in accessibility or are responsible for compliance at your organization, you’ve probably heard about WCAG 3.0. The W3C has been developing it for years, and the most recent Working Draft w...

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Alena Nikolaeva @alenanik.github.io · 17/09/2025

Let me tell you that the birth and pregnancy was not traumatic, what is really traumatic is leaving your 4 months old and sitting infront of the screen for 8 hours instead. Back to work on Monday 💔

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Sara Joy ☠️ @sjoy.lol · 17/09/2025

Fought my way through to level 35 and for now I'm like, nope! Fun though: neal.fun/not-a-robot/ Thanks @neal.fun 😄

Alena Nikolaeva @alenanik.github.io · 17/09/2025

Here's where accessibility reveals its hidden superpower: it forces you to understand the purpose of everything in your product. 🔗 “Accessible by Design: Building Inclusive Digital Products from the Ground Up” www.nira11y.com/post/accessi...

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Accessible by Design: Building Inclusive Digital Products from the Ground Up

Here's where accessibility reveals its hidden superpower: it forces you to understand the purpose of everything in your product. You can't write meaningful alt text without knowing exactly why an imag...

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Alicia Jarvis 🇨🇦 @a11yalicia.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size > Reduce Transparency For those who updated to #iOS26 today

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Alena Nikolaeva @alenanik.github.io · 12/09/2025

We were 🤏 this close to having 4 days workweek in Spain. Can’t get over the fact that due to some votes it’s no longer happening 💔

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Alena Nikolaeva @alenanik.github.io · 11/09/2025

“How often users will see an animation is a key factor in deciding whether to animate or not.” emilkowal.ski/ui/you-dont-...

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You Don't Need Animations

Why you are animating more often than you should.

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alex @dremenec.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

Generally we think of alt-text as the domain of those with accessibility needs. However alt-text is useful for many reasons, which benefit your viewers, as well as you, the creator!

An infographic. There are six panels.

1. "Slow internet. Alt text is shown in place of unloaded images." a drawing shows a phone with poor signal, and alt text is visible where the image should have loaded.

2. "Findabillity. Alt text helps to search content." A drawing shows someone searching 'dog with banana' and a post is shown underneath without the words 'dog' or 'banana'. It is implied to be part of the alt text.

3. "Screen readers. Alt is read out to people using text-to-speech software". There is a drawing of the output a screen-reader would show when viewing an image with alt text on bluesky.

4. "Translation. Alt text can be translated". A drawing shows a post being translated. The alt text is also translated into german.

5. "Readability. Text in images can be made legible" There is a drawing of some truly awful handwriting inside a speech bubble. The alt text clarifies what the text is supposed to say.

6. "Disambiguation. Description helps clarify intent." There is a drawing of a post with a picture of a creature. This is styled after the famous optical illusion of a rabbit and a duck. The alt text clarifies that the animal is a rabbit. It definitely looks more like a duck.

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 10/08/2025

good chill day plan: open the wikipedia app, tab over to 'places', find articles about stuff near you that don't have photos. walk there, take some photos, learn about the stuff, improve the pages.

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Alena Nikolaeva @alenanik.github.io · 07/09/2025

Parece una locura que diga esto y que sea verdad: he descansando estas vacaciones con un bebé de 3 meses y he dormido más que nunca en mi vida 😳

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Ariel Salminen @arielsalminen.com · 05/09/2025

What 15 years of design debt looks like

A really confusing parking payment machine that has dozens of options that all seem to have a different user interface and no consistency whatsoever.

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audora 🌙 @ohklio.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Repair psychic damage from the labor department AI slop with beautiful Soviet work safety posters

An orange poster with a stylized allow human figure being flattened between 2 large green bottles. The label in Russian reads "alcohol is the cause of injuries at work."

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