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#accessibility / #a11y advocate, post enjoyer. 🌐 ericwbailey.website ✉️ ericwbailey.website/newsletter

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Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · 2h
The 11th edition of the @webaim.bsky.social Screen Reader User Survey is now live! This is a vital resource into better understanding how people who use screen readers actually operate your website or app. webaim.org/projects/scr... My commentary on it as a thread 🧵 #a11y
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WebAIM: Screen Reader User Survey #11 Results
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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 29/09/2026
A letter from us. We want the best for USWDS, and we're ready to help. fedscoop.com/websites-jeo...
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Websites ‘in jeopardy’ amid U.S. Web Design System takeover, coalition tells GSA
The letter comes after administration officials changed leadership for the system, implemented new AI tooling, and shut out members of an open-source community.
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Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · 29/09/2026
tfw you know more effort went into aligning the input and container border radii than 90% of the underlying infrastructure
The America.gov landing page chat input with 100% rounded corners, placed in a square container whose borders match the curve. Inside the square is a stock photo of a man on an escalator. Above it is the headline, "Hello, America." and a subhead of "Whatever you need from government, start here." Cropped screenshot.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed
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Anna E. Cook @annaecook.com · 27/09/2026
Once again the Trump regime is attempting to skirt federal laws and hope AI can just magically do things. This will not work but they do not care. fedscoop.com/trump-team-a...
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A Trump team wants to automate U.S. Web Design System accessibility testing. Experts are worried.
GitHub community and accessibility experts are concerned about a reversal of progress amid potential AI reliance and plans to “automate as much accessibility testing as possible.”
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Manuel Matuzović @matuzo.at · 28/09/2026
This advent calendar is your chance to share your knowledge with a large audience. You have 5 more days to submit your ideas. First-time authors are welcome!
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Josh Black @josh.black · 27/09/2026
Finally got a post up on the GitHuh blog github.blog/engineering/... 👀
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Improving site performance by shipping more CSS
How we fully migrated github.com away from CSS-in-JS.
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Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · 25/09/2026
Now that hosting is done and I've got a night's sleep and the adrenaline past me, a little love letter to Inclusive Design 24: The goal of the conference isn't profit or advertising, it's access, education, and enablement. #a11y #id24 inclusivedesign24.org/2026/schedule/
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Inclusive Design 24 (#id24)
A free 24-hour online community event on accessibility and inclusion
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 23/12/2025
As a starting point I think the CEO of every company offering chatbots should be *personally* liable for all the text their chatbots produce. as though it was a direct conversation with them
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Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · 24/09/2026
"They should dedicate themselves to engaging and listening to the disability community about what problems need solving and what does and doesn’t work." #a11y newmobility.com/nobody-asked...
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Nobody Asked for a Crab Chair
In our last installment of “Good Intentions Gone Wrong: When Disability Engineers Go Bad,” we highlighted a particularly egregious Swiss wheelchair design featuring superfluous drones. Thankfully…
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Ahmad Shadeed @ishadeed.com · 24/09/2026
✍️ New Article: Detect when elements overlap with CSS Can CSS tell when two elements overlap? At first, I thought this was not possible, but it turned out it can be done with scroll-driven animations and anchor positioning. ishadeed.com/article/css-...
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Detect when elements overlap with CSS
Detecting when two elements overlap using only CSS anchor positioning and scroll-driven animations.
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Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) @inclusivedesign24.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Our first Inclusive Design 24 talk is a panel discussion with Lainey Feingold, Léonie Watson, Shilpi Kapoor, Meena Das, Jutta Treviranus, and Sheri Byrne-Haber, all speaking about Digital Accessibility Ethics as a a new framework to advance accessibility. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVTG... #id24 #a11y
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Panel: Digital Accessibility Ethics: a new framework to advance accessibility #id24 2026
This session will introduce the Digital Accessibility Ethics Framework and show how it is applied to several aspects of tech and accessibility. These include procurement, development, leadership,…
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Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · 23/09/2026
Inclusive design teaches us about alternate input modalities, and loves to use "holding a newborn with one hand" as an example, but I think there is also room for "your needy dog thinks using the trackpad is petting the laptop and gets jealous."
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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 23/09/2026
put // comments in CSS in interop 2027 u cowards
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xirclebox @xirclebox.com · 23/09/2026
It's almost that time inclusivedesign24.org/2026/schedule/
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Inclusive Design 24 (#id24)
A free 24-hour online community event on accessibility and inclusion
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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · 20/09/2026
There's lots I haven't yet understood about atproto, but I simply won't do the standard.site thing whilst it offers a worse UX than… not doing it.
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Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · 21/09/2026
accidentally got a mallard reaction when cooking and now my kitchen is full of ducks
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kattsdogma.bsky.social @kattsdogma.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
[a horse walks into a bar] bartender: what can i get you horse: what no that’s not how this format goes you’re supposed to say why the long f… you know what nvm just show me where i can get some water bartender: i could but then i can’t make you drink horse: what
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Craig Abbott @craigabbott.co.uk · 18/09/2026
New blog post. Some thoughts on why accessibility work might often rock your confidence: www.craigabbott.co.uk/blog/2026/th... #accessibility #a11y
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The Dunning-Kruger effect in accessibility - Craig Abbott
Why your confidence in accessibility could be a sign of how little you know
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Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) @inclusivedesign24.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Inclusive Design 24 is this week! 24 hours of free, live-streamed talks about inclusion and accessibility. You can check out this year's schedule here: inclusivedesign24.org/2026/schedule/ #id24 #a11y #accessibility #InclusiveDesign
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Inclusive Design 24 (#id24)
A free 24-hour online community event on accessibility and inclusion
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Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · 20/09/2026
oh shit oh fuck they found me
A truck with a license plate that reads, “WAI”.
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Ashley Shew @ashleyshoo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s my bookaversary — 3 yrs since Against Technoableism launched! Thanks to editors of @wwnorton.com + special shout-out to their art dept for such a fun and fitting cover. Available in paperback ($12), audiobook, and ebook! wwnorton.com/books/978132...
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Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
When bioethicist and professor Ashley Shew became a self-described "hard-of-hearing chemobrained amputee with Crohn's disease and tinnitus," there was no returning to "normal." Suddenly well-meaning p...
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danielroe @danielroe.dev · 19/09/2026
don't be nice.
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Don't be nice
Sometimes, it's more important to be good than it is to be nice.
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Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) @inclusivedesign24.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Our schedule for this year's edition is available for reading ahead of the event! Why not check out and see if any talks are of interest to you? #id24 #accessibility #InclusiveDesign inclusivedesign24.org/2026/schedule/
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Inclusive Design 24 (#id24)
A free 24-hour online community event on accessibility and inclusion
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Geoff Graham @geoffgraham.me · 18/09/2026
The Front-End Community is Still Alive and Beautiful I thought about dropping an addendum into my last post to say just how overwhelmed I am, in the best possible way, by the way all of you in the... geoffgraham.me/the-front-end-commun…
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The Front-End Community is Still Alive and Beautiful
I thought about dropping an addendum into my last post to say just how overwhelmed I am, in the best possible way, by the way all of you in the front-end community have shown up to show support, both for me and for CSS-Tricks. I started to do that but then felt a new post...
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Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · 18/09/2026
I have a lot of feelings about the whole CSS-Tricks debacle. Here's me trying to be constructive about it. ericwbailey.website/published/cs...
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CSS-Tricks could be a co-op
The web will calcify without voices sharing what they know.
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Mark Tomlinson @marktomlinson.dev · 18/09/2026
Fewer startups, more co-ops. Fewer founders, more communities.
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Geoff Graham @geoffgraham.me · 17/09/2026
Kevin's one of my favorite people and what he says here is incredibly sweet... and accurate.
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Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) @inclusivedesign24.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We've got 24 hours of free, live talks streamed out to the entire internet for free with no log in required! Check out our schedule, and hope you can attend! #id24 #accessibility #InclusiveDesign inclusivedesign24.org/2026/schedule/
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Inclusive Design 24 (#id24)
A free 24-hour online community event on accessibility and inclusion
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Anna E. Cook @annaecook.com · 17/09/2026
“Anna, you’re overreacting they’re not systemically dismantling accessibility and disability rights and punishing people who do that work!” No sorry bestie my pattern recognition is spot on this time www.hr-brew.com/stories/depa...
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Department of Labor changes disability hiring rules for federal contractors
The government is ending a 7% representation goal and will no longer collect disabled worker data, concerning advocates.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
For @motherjones.com, I looked into how Meta could be using disabled people to promote its Meta glasses to the masses. As one expert told me, “companies have used accessibility...as a Trojan horse for a tool that poses significant privacy and security threats.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Is Meta using disabled people to promote its glasses?
AI glasses are a double-edged sword for disabled people, who face unique risks from surveillance.
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Manuel Matuzović @matuzo.at · 17/09/2026
Friends, it's that time of the year: Once again, I'm asking you to help me create another amazing HTMHell Advent Calendar by writing about HTML. The CFP is open until October 3! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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HTMHell Advent Calendar
Hello, my dear friends of high-quality markup! We're getting closer to the last quarter of 2026, which means that the HTMHell Advent Calendar is getting closer, too. Last year, once again, you contrib...
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Ky @ky.fyi · 16/09/2026
Meta and X have been quietly downranking external links for ages, but we're now entering a new era of open hostility toward the open web. It's a great time to build your own website, free from any billionaires demanding a tithe for things that have always been free.
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Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · 16/09/2026
pleased to announce that after years of training that I am now a 1 → 0 designer
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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Me: I’d like a slice of pizza Server: that comes with three sides Me: I know what shape it is
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Jim Nielsen @jim-nielsen.com · 16/09/2026
📝 If you’re maximizing a bottle for throughput, I think you’ve misunderstood the bottle. Probably the same for us humans. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/bottlen...
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Bottlenecks Get a Bad Rap
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
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NV Access @nvaccess.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hi everyone, The NVDA Satisfaction Survey 2026 is now open: www.nvaccess.org/survey2026 The survey is anonymous; we encourage you to add comments. We want to hear from as many as possible. Please feel free to pass this on to others. #NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Survey #Feedback #Accessibility
Stylized survey image with NV Access logo on top.  Then the word "SURVEY" above checkboxes numbered 1 -3 with a big tick in the second box.  Sunburst images in orange and turquoise on sides
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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 15/09/2026
The US Web Design System is load-bearing infrastructure for thousands of government websites. It makes it easy for small teams with no resources (i.e. most .gov teams) to make usable, accessible websites that work for everyone. Today, it's as close as it's ever been to being replaced with AI slop.
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CSS by T. Afif @css-only.dev · 15/09/2026
We should have been writing articles and having fun with CSS, but instead... We can't do much against big corporations (except wait), so let's give Geoff some support. Share (or try) his HTML/CSS course: thebasics.dev 100% human-made by the one who edited 86945 CSS articles!
Screenshot of the provided link
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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 15/09/2026
the most exhausted imaginable “yes, this”
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Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · 15/09/2026
a little too unintentionally real, Workday
You have submitted. Toast dialog notification from a cropped screenshot.
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Rick Baymax @maincharacter.today · 14/09/2026
sure is fascinating to hear that DigitalOcean can’t pay a few writers at the same time that they’re handing millions of dollars to DHH for a pile of shitty bash scripts
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Crystal Preston-Watson @scopicengineer.com · 14/09/2026
50 days until Midterm elections & SCOTUS is expected to decide whether to allow the administration to adopt new rules for mailin ballots. Disabled voters chose mail ballots at higher rates than any other demographic. If the rules are upheld it will prevent many of disabled people voters from voting
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Return to Sender: Accessible Voting and the Fight Over Mail-in Ballots - Crystal Preston-Watson
Federal law has promised disabled voters a private, independent ballot since 1965. This fall, the one method that reliably delivers it is the one under attack.
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Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · 14/09/2026
it is easier to exploit a world where the sacred and whimsical is removed and this also applies to digital honk honk
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Shaw @shaw.city · 12/09/2026
Oops. I invented a new CSS shrink-wrap technique and blogged about it. blog.codepen.io/2026/09/11/s...
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Shrink-wrap Text with `position-anchor`
Normal text wrapping can leave big gaps in your container, which can become even more exaggerated with the new-ish CSS values of text-wrap: balance and text-wrap: pretty. You almost certainly want …
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
In 1999, we surfed the Web. Now we comb through it like a fantasy hero. Which posts are treasure, and which are deadly Mimics? What's real, and what's an impersonator trying to steal my attention? Worse: reading all this bland AI monoculture text leads to us thinking bland AI monoculture thoughts.
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AI hypervigilance is now an omnipresent cognitive load for your users
AI may make your job easier, but that effort has just been shifted onto your users. They are noticing it and they hate it.
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Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · 12/09/2026
Saturn consuming his own tokens is this anything
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Mikel Reparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,
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Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · 11/09/2026
now that's what I call WCAG, vol. 3
A disclosure in an expanded state whose title reads "Plain language summary of 'Introduction'". Immediately below it is the text, "This summary is non-normative. Cropped screenshot from the latest WCAG 3.0 draft.
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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Brian laying down with a news headline that says 
"Coming up more problems"
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