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Sara Soueidan

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🇱🇧 Frontend UI engineer, speaker, and educator teaching developers how to build accessible interfaces correctly at the engineering level. Learn Practical Accessibility practical-accessibility.today 🕸️ sarasoueidan.com

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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 20h
There's a defeatist vibe rn and I think there's an inevitability feeling washing over us. There is no inevitability. If you're in a position to speak up against the direction the industry is taking, I'd say now is the time to do that. I certainly try because I cannot be fired and it does help!
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Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · 21h
Have an ACCESSIBILITY.​md file in your GitHub repo? It now shows up on the project root! Don't have one? Why not take some time today to create one. #a11y ericwbailey.website/published/gi...
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GitHub repository landing pages now show an accessibility tab, if provided
I’m excited to see how people use this new addition to the platform.
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Luke Murphy @lurkmoophy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We're only a handful of tickets to making it bigger than last year (which was our biggest year since I can't remember when). BUY BUY BUY
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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 02/10/2026
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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 02/10/2026
Excellent! Thank you for sharing the link, Jim!
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 02/10/2026
Can Your AI Pass The Accessibility Test? is another good read about this, and emphasises including feedback from disabled users. In the era of "synthetic user research", I do worry that developers might use agents in place of user research with real people. www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/can...
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Can Your AI Pass the Accessibility Test? :: Aaron Gustafson
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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Daniela Kubesch @dnikub.dev · 01/10/2026
I already have the new “Accessible UX Research” book by Dr Michele A. Williams, classics such as the „Web Accessibility Cookbook“ by @matuzo.at, and “Inclusive Components” by @heydonworks.com and having an eye on the “Practical Accessibility” course by @sarasoueidan.com 👀
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Daniela Kubesch @dnikub.dev · 01/10/2026
If you’d have some education budget to blow before end of the year, what #web #accessibility related things would you spend it on? 💸 Any #courses, #books, etc. to recommend? (Conferences excluded unfortunately)
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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 02/10/2026
We've been saying for years that WCAG is the floor and it does not guarantee a website is usable by people. 😢 Not to mention AI's technical implementation limitations. Maybe it's not Cassidy's intention but this paragraph makes a11y sound like a fully automatable task, which it isn't.
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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 02/10/2026
Thank you for the link! I enjoyed the overall thought behind the post, but this part killed the message for me 'it’s easier than ever to implement things in a “correct” and accessible way with AI tools. You can tell your agents to be WCAG-compliant, and it can just do it'
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Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · 01/10/2026
Funny, one of the reasons I left GitHub is because the powers that be think they can "solve" it by automating it away. That completely ignores the "functional but unusable problem." This creates a scenario where bots can operate something and the people that need the accessible experience cannot.
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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 30/09/2026
State of this dev 2026: 🫩
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Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · 01/10/2026
Some more reading on this from people smarter than me, if you're interested: www.techpolicy.press/the-web-is-b...
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The Web Is Being Made Accessible for AI, Not People
Jonathan Zong and Frank Elavsky critique how AI-driven infrastructure changes obscure accessibility and reveal whose needs society chooses to prioritize.
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Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) @inclusivedesign24.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A week ago today, Inclusive Design 24 #id24 was in full swing. inclusivedesign24.org/2026/schedule/ Missed it live? No worries, all videos are available for free on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/inclusivedes... #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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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 01/10/2026
"When I do generate content using #AI, I find that the requirement to check it for accuracy negates any time saved during the writing part." This has always been my experience with tools that are aimed to do the work on your behalf, including #CSS frameworks (when they were most popular).
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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 01/10/2026
Kilian is doing great work ✨ This is one of the advantages of products (and courses 😉) that are created by developers for developers. The creator knows the pains and needs and tailors the product to those needs.
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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 01/10/2026
Relevant to my course students who get a free Polypane trial (and recurring discount) with their purchase! 👇🏻 Polypane is fantastic browser for us devs and the #a11y features make it even more valuable for our work 🙌🏻
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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 30/09/2026
Some of them are taking a break hoping that the AI bubble will eventually burst and people will realize it's only capable of so much. I hope I'm right.
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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 30/09/2026
I'm in good company ☺️
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Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · 30/09/2026
I'm glad they capture disability types. It's a great reminder that screen reader use is not exclusively for fully blind individuals, and also not exclusively for vision-related disabilities. I wish more people knew this. webaim.org/projects/scr...
A bar chart. The y axis is 0% through 100%, with stops that increment by 25. The x axis values are "Blindness", "Low Vision/Visually Impaired", "Cognitive", "Deafness/Hard-of-Hearing", "Motor", and "Other. Blindness' value is 83.2%. Low Vision/Visually Impaired's value is 18.0%. Cognitive or Learning's value is 3.0%. Deafness/Hard-of-Hearing's value is 7.5%. Motor's value is 1.9%. Other's value is 3.0%. Cropped screenshot.
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Sara Joy ☠️ @sjoy.lol · 30/09/2026
The State of Devs results are out and the state of devs is more tired than wired: 2026.stateofdevs.com
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State of Devs 2026
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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 30/09/2026
I have a non-tech and non-education Plan B too. I'm also thinking of taking up drawing again, which I stopped ever since web dev became my primary creative outlet.
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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 30/09/2026
New on the blog
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In response to “The death of web development education”
I read Mat​hia⁠s S​chäf⁠er’s excellent post, titled The death of web development education. I was thinking about how I can contribute to the conversation and really struggled to articulate the problem. The most effective way I can contribute, in my opinion, is a crude sketch I just did of Piccalilli‘s Stripe chart for all time…
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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 30/09/2026
A heartfelt thank you to each & every one who has shared their experience & recommended the course. I’m forever grateful to you all. 🫶🏻 More to come! 💪🏻
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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 30/09/2026
I made some minor design & content structure tweaks to the Practical Accessibility website (ahead of its 3rd anniversary). practical-accessibility.today One of the changes I made was creating a dedicated page for the many reviews & testimonials that the course has received over the past 3+ years.
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The Practical Accessibility Course
A get-right-down-to-it online course for Web designers and developers who want to start creating more accessible Web user interfaces and digital products today
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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 30/09/2026
Uhm... OK... I've thought this is how everybody does it. 😅 So we are outliers? 🥳
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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 29/09/2026
😂
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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 29/09/2026
I love the purple vibe! 💜 I'm in the group of people who generally prefers light themes for reading and writing. I use a high-contrast dark theme for coding only. I might want to try yours out for that!
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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 29/09/2026
I do the biggest chunk of my blog and course writing in my code editor, which currently is VSCode. My favorite color theme for writing happens to be an #accessibility-focused theme called "dislexic", created for dyslexics (with optional astigmatism) marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...
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dislexic - Visual Studio Marketplace
Extension for Visual Studio Code - A brightly coloured VS Code theme set on a light red background for dyslexics (with optional astigmatism).
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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 29/09/2026
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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 28/09/2026
Don't get me wrong: I would personally like to have the ability to style the title attribute. But even if I did, I'd rarely ever use it because I rarely ever use the title attribute (only to provide a name to <iframe>s)
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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 28/09/2026
Here's an article by @scottohara.me that sums up the most important things to know about the title attribute a11y: www.24a11y.com/2017/the-tri... — I pulled this from my course as it's one of the recommended resources I list in the accName computation chapter.
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The Trials and Tribulations of the Title Attribute - 24 Accessibility
Scott O’Hara returns, examining the accessibility pitfalls of HTML’s title attribute, its inconsistent support & when it should & shouldn’t be used.
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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 28/09/2026
There's even a note in the HTML spec that specifically calls the a11y/usability problem with `title` out html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/do...
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HTML Standard
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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 28/09/2026
Here's an article by @scottohara.me that sums up the most important things to know about the title attribute a11y: www.24a11y.com/2017/the-tri... — I pulled this from my course as it's one of the recommended resources I list in the accName computation chapter.
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The Trials and Tribulations of the Title Attribute - 24 Accessibility
Scott O’Hara returns, examining the accessibility pitfalls of HTML’s title attribute, its inconsistent support & when it should & shouldn’t be used.
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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 28/09/2026
I may be missing your point I think. My thinking is that it took long to convince (most, I hope?) devs to not use the attribute because the tooltip is not accessible to all users. Making it styleable is like signaling that the only usability issue was with the visual styling, if that makes sense.
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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 28/09/2026
I have 11 specifications and documents open in my browser now as I continue working on what was supposed to be a very simple #accessibility course chapter update, which *is*, as usual, turning into a complete chapter rewrite because of my silly perfectionist brain. 😮‍💨
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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 28/09/2026
Was just thinking how its usage would skyrocket if it becomes styleable.
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Craig Abbott @craigabbott.co.uk · 28/09/2026
I’m looking forward to seeing all the companies who are replacing juniors with AI, complaining in 5 years time that there is a lack of senior talent in the industry. As they say, “you reap what you sow”.
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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 28/09/2026
‘The Anthropic scientists [..] said that their A.I. had taken “the first steps of a biological discovery on its own.” [Dr. Mestre] disputed that claim. “They are the same systems we have been studying for years” And they are the same enzymes, he said, that he had described to Anthropic’s A.I.”’
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 27/09/2026
"...that AI systems are becoming so powerful that nobody – including the companies that developed them – can stop them, is a stratagem to avoid responsibility for whatever harm their products may cause, depriving meat-and-bones humans of any recourse to law."
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Bramus @bram.us · 25/09/2026
The time to ramp up your scroll-driven animations skills is **NOW** Go check scroll-driven-animations.style for and free 10-part video course created by yours truly, as well as a bunch of tools and demos.
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Scroll-driven Animations
A bunch of demos and tools to show off Scroll-driven Animations
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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 25/09/2026
😂 I'm still baffled! I was unmuting using the Space key—which is what I usually do in Zoom—before we went live. But when the live stream started that didn't work anymore. It was embarrassing but you also forgetting to unmute made it feel funny 🙈
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Manuel Matuzović @matuzo.at · 24/09/2026
I'm speaking live right now! www.youtube.com/live/h3JhFyO...
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Manuel Matuzović / 19½ Things You Didn’t Know about Accessibility in HTML and CSS #id24 2026
YouTube video by Inclusive Design 24 #id24
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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 24/09/2026
. @matuzo.at's talk is up in approximately 15 minutes. Join us and bring your questions! Please post them with the hashtag #id24. We collect questions and ask the speaker at the end of the talk. 🙋
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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 23/09/2026
haha so adorable!
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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 23/09/2026
of course!!! 🙌🏻
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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 23/09/2026
Hey Ric! The schedule on the website automatically adjusts to your local time zone. I won't be giving a talk but I will be introducing two other talks and doing the Q&A at the end of each of them. They start at 7am UTC. And yes, I'll be participating from Lebanon. The whole event is remote/online ☺️
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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 23/09/2026
I'm happy and honored to be taking part in this year's #id24! I'll be guest-hosting two presentations: @matuzo.at 's and Christof Hassler's—tomorrow morning (UTC) Check the schedule for your time zone: inclusivedesign24.org/2026/schedule/ & join the event online ✨
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Inclusive Design 24 (#id24)
A free 24-hour online community event on accessibility and inclusion
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Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 22/09/2026
I don't miss Sass, I miss named breakpoints. We can almost get there with raw CSS. 🤏 www.abeautifulsite.net/posts/named-...
:root {
  --viewport: 'desktop';

  @media (max-width: 64em) {
    --viewport: 'tablet';
  }

  @media (max-width: 37.5em) {
    --viewport: 'mobile';
  }
}

@container style(--viewport: 'mobile') {
  /* Styles for the mobile bucket */
}
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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 23/09/2026
Aw thank you 🙈
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Shy Bunny Says Aww Shucks
Alt: Shy Bunny Says Aww Shucks
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