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Karl Groves @karlgroves.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Time zones are hard. Meetabl handles them so your invitees see slots in their local time, every time — no math, no missed meetings.

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Gerard K. Cohen @gerardkcohen.me · 31/08/2026

In 2027, I want engineers to hate accessibility slop as much as they hate AI slop.

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Gerard K. Cohen @gerardkcohen.me · 31/08/2026

Hehehehehe, I like the cut of your jib

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Gerard K. Cohen @gerardkcohen.me · 28/08/2026

You need to think like a PM. How else are they going to know how many people actually need the accessible version to justify the cost of generating the second version????

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Gerard K. Cohen @gerardkcohen.me · 26/08/2026

Next week, I will be speaking at AI TechWorld 2026 in Santa Clara, CA about When Browsers Think: Engineering for Agentic AI. Message me if you would like a free pass to attend.

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Karl Groves @karlgroves.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Accessibility skills are in demand. Get trained for free with AFixt's live online series: WCAG, ARIA, auditing, forms, and more. Led by Karl Groves. Details:

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Gerard K. Cohen @gerardkcohen.me · 25/08/2026

I remember standing up at work and saying "Prince died!" and someone said "Prince of what?" and I just went home.

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Gerard K. Cohen @gerardkcohen.me · 24/08/2026

How many times have you heard "AI is not going away, so might as well start using it" from people? Can we try "Accessibility/disability is not going away, so might as well start doing it" and see what happens? 😂

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Gerard K. Cohen @gerardkcohen.me · 14/08/2026

In case you missed it, aria-busy is not your friend! aria-busy is a misunderstood and misused property. Learn what it really does and whether or not you should be using it. Link in the comments.

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Gerard K. Cohen @gerardkcohen.me · 07/08/2026

The benefit of AI solving accessibility issues is directly related to your level of acceptance. Like, if you don't care if things actually work for people then you'll be extremely successful! Ask me how I know 😉

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Gerard K. Cohen @gerardkcohen.me · 23/07/2026

Oh wow. I just witnessed an engineer fix an issue with a custom select by just replacing with a native select. 🤯 Maybe this is a sign... I should play the lotto?

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Karl Groves @karlgroves.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

What if your whole team understood accessibility? AFixt's free live training makes that possible. Courses for every role, every skill level. Sign up:

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Gerard K. Cohen @gerardkcohen.me · 13/07/2026

"the Houston kid with big dreams,the dancer,the performer,the songwriter,the woman who has experienced the highs & lessons of the industry,& the artist who’s still hungry enough to keep pushing forward. After years of proving she belonged in the room, Crystal Tamar is finally kicking the door open"

Highly stylized photo of Crystal Tamar, dressed in all black - tanktop, baggy leather pants, and chunky boots, with silver chains around her neck. She is sitting on a shiny reflective surface that looks like she is floating on water.

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Gerard K. Cohen @gerardkcohen.me · 13/07/2026

So wild to me that everyone is out here trying to figure out the best way to use AI. We see trends happening organically. Feels like AI providers should be providing best practices instead of everyone crowdsourcing. What does it meaaaaaannn???

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Gerard K. Cohen @gerardkcohen.me · 13/07/2026

I interviewed with a huge AI company recently... Of course it was a typical code test. The interviewer was very nice, but told me that they hardly write code by hand anymore and apologized that they had me doing it. They admitted that they still haven't figured out how to interview for/with AI yet.

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Gerard K. Cohen @gerardkcohen.me · 09/07/2026

Orgs don't force accessibility training, but learning IS going to happen. Either once up front or repeatedly at the end fixing bugs. Which do you think saves time? PS: I have online courses available on Pluralsight. 10+ years of experience distilled into 8 hours. www.pluralsight.com/authors/gera...

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Karl Groves @karlgroves.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Just 6 days until Accessibility Basics on July 15-16, 2026! It covers assistive technologies including JAWS, NVDA, and VoiceOver. Don't miss it — register free:

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REFACTR.TECH @refactr.tech · 09/07/2026

🎥 New on YouTube: Homer Gaines on the anatomy of accessible chat interfaces. 25 years of accessibility work. WCAG basics for chatbots. role="log" vs aria-live. Why icon-only send buttons fail voice control. If you build chat UIs, watch this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQzW...

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Shell Little @shellelittle.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

As for me, the G4E team was responsible for outreach and connecting studios to disabled gamers and experts so I don't foresee any more consulting work from Xbox. I hope all of them land on their feet, please HIRE THEM! And any studios interested in accessibility consultant work, just lmk! #gamea11y

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Gerard K. Cohen @gerardkcohen.me · 07/07/2026

I literally spit out my drink reading this. So good 😆

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Gerard K. Cohen @gerardkcohen.me · 07/07/2026

We all secretly hope for this. I stopped when realizing that resulting settlements and NDA's bring little to no change. Sometimes waiting to get sued IS the plan. 🤷‍♂️ I noticed in other areas the only sign was new mandatory training, usually unrelated to my role. Sadly, this never happens for a11y.

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Gerard K. Cohen @gerardkcohen.me · 07/07/2026

What kind of Jedi-mind trick is it when companies actively ignore accessibility until they can't, and then try to make accessibility the culprit? How is it my fault??? 🤷‍♂️

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Gerard K. Cohen @gerardkcohen.me · 02/07/2026

I wish there was a social media platform that had an accessibility team to handle stuff like this... <oops>

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Gerard K. Cohen @gerardkcohen.me · 02/07/2026

Unbelievable! How come nobody saw that coming??? 😒

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Karl Groves @karlgroves.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Accessibility Basics is coming July 15-16, 2026. A two-day course covering WCAG standards, assistive technologies, legal requirements, and universal design. Prepares you for IAAP CPACC certification. Seats are limited to 500 — register now:

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Gerard K. Cohen @gerardkcohen.me · 01/07/2026

Working in accessibility for 10+ years has been hard. It's not fragmented platforms or changing landscape. It's working with people who know the right thing to do but look the other way. Frustration/ anger vs empathy/grace extended, hoping they'll make it right, has been the most exhausting.

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Andrew Hedges 🦔 @segdeha.com · 22/06/2026

Have you ever been listening to a song and asked yourself, “Is this Yacht Rock?” No? Uh, you can skip the rest of this post. 😂 Is It Yacht Rock? is like #Shazam, but specifically for #YachtRock. Check it out the next time you’re listening to smooth music! 🛟 apple.co/4agHwp7

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Gerard K. Cohen @gerardkcohen.me · 22/06/2026

This is your app?? I love it!! Downloading now

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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 22/06/2026

In urgent need of funds. If you know of anyone looking for contract/freelance web development work please send them my way! I specialize in accessibility, design systems, & documentation. Open to full stack as well! Email: inquiries@semanticfish.com Website: semanticfish.com

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Gerard K. Cohen @gerardkcohen.me · 19/06/2026

One thing I am hoping for with AI - Let the tech bro's advocate for 4-day work weeks as a way to budget token use. 🤔

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Gerard K. Cohen @gerardkcohen.me · 19/06/2026

If you know me personally then you know my wife, and you forget about me. 😂 She released a new single today and I’m very proud of her. It’s technically a retelling of the night we first met almost 25 years ago. Enjoy! ditto.fm/whachoo-doin

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Gerard K. Cohen @gerardkcohen.me · 18/06/2026

I hear people say "We want to be accessible but..." and list any number of reasons. Accessibility should always be an "and" not a "but." It is not a competing priority, contradictory outcome, or tradeoff. It's up to you to think outside the box you created for yourself and find ways to be inclusive.

Still from the movie Pee-wee's Big Adventure: Pee Wee Herman and his friend Simone looking contemplative as they discuss life-long dreams inside the mouth of a huge dinosaur structure. In an attempt to encourage his friend, Pee-wee says "Everyone I know has a big but. Let's talk about your big but"

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Gerard K. Cohen @gerardkcohen.me · 17/06/2026

The irony of this is just too much for a Wednesday morning 😂 I just can't stop snickering.

Screenshot of Yahoo Finance headline titled "15 companies that have said they're doing AI-related layoffs" with photos of 3 horrible bosses. It is dated "25 years ago" and mentions companies like Snap, Block, Wix, and Gitlab that didn't even exist 25 years ago.

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Gerard K. Cohen @gerardkcohen.me · 10/06/2026

How did we go from criticizing people that photoshopped their images to accepting to AI images?🤔

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Gerard K. Cohen @gerardkcohen.me · 05/06/2026

I'm fully expecting this ending

Tommy from the movie Goodfellas, with 2 guys behind him, on his way to be "made"

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Gerard K. Cohen @gerardkcohen.me · 03/06/2026

With Copilot costs going up, how expensive is AI really going to be when you've burned through your token budget and STILL have just as many, if not more, accessibility issues to fix at the end? 🤔 Nothing changes, just more expensive. Make it make sense.

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Gerard K. Cohen @gerardkcohen.me · 02/06/2026

Get ready for heading level 50-11

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Gerard K. Cohen @gerardkcohen.me · 01/06/2026

Great time speaking at AI Dev Summit. It was encouraging to find so many AI-forward people were concerned about accessibility. During Q&A, I made the statement "Solve for humans first then you will solve for AI. It won't work the other way around" and got the loudest applause. I was moved.

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Gerard K. Cohen @gerardkcohen.me · 30/05/2026

But, but ... what if it's a disabled link?? 😱

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Gerard K. Cohen @gerardkcohen.me · 29/05/2026

Rare vent: Roles for accessibility, but not a single conversation about it in the interview process. Sigh. Evaluating based on what everyone else can do, but not what only I can do. Sigh.

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Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · 28/05/2026

I'll be delivering a talk about ARIA's history and structure, as well as providing guidelines and busting myths for #WebExpo in about two hours' time. If you've got FOMO you can read the article that this talk was sourced from: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/06/what... #a11y

What I wish someone told me when I first started using ARIA. WebExpo 2026. Slide with a design that uses large white type on a dark blue background.

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Gerard K. Cohen @gerardkcohen.me · 26/05/2026

This is for everyone, even if you don't work in accessibility. It's time to start thinking past "average" and expanding our scope of awareness. If you're a tester, invite an engineer. If you're an engineer, invite a designer. Everyone invite their managers. Managers, invite your team.

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Gerard K. Cohen @gerardkcohen.me · 21/05/2026

I had the great opportunity of speaking and sharing my thoughts on AI and Accessibility at Miro today for Global Accessibility Awareness Day, along with the legend Cynthia Shelly. Thank you so much Phil Strain for the invite and my ex-tweep Peter Gould for hosting. #GAAD

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