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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 · 10/08/2026

she is a very young developer working days and nights drinking 3 🍼 bottles per day

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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 · 14/05/2026

thats new "talking to myself" but in public

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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 · 17/12/2025

I used to read meeting notes, now that they are AI taken I never do ☹️ it’s just another huge task to make sense of it

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

Could you merge it on 31st at around 9 pm?

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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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Alena Nikolaeva @alenanik.github.io · 03/11/2025

Necesitamos modo incógnito para que no se joda el algoritmo

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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

Same same! Heard good things, never tried and just do my little code / prototypes with Claude

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

And a piece of paper! Those were good times

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

❤️ Love it! Watched it live and that piece was stunning

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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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Alena Nikolaeva @alenanik.github.io · 21/09/2025

Spanish grandma made it to NYT. I don't have one but I'm proud

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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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