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Scott O'Hara @scottohara.me · 17/09/2026

Steve has released the chat that we had about 2 months ago as a podcast episode. Do with this information what you will.

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Scott O'Hara @scottohara.me · 15/09/2026

Doesn’t seem to matter since the ai should have read the instruction to never nest buttons in links, and it still did it anyway. Can’t put up guardrails for ai if the ai be like “naw. Imma do what I want anyway, you dumb meat puppet”

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Scott O'Hara @scottohara.me · 15/09/2026

Currently reviewing buttons that were nested inside of hyperlinks so the hyperlinks would “look like buttons” Good job everyone. Drain a lake to make a ball of dumb

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Scott O'Hara @scottohara.me · 27/08/2026

Maybe the capital one app? There’s definitely one of those in there which is nonsense

Slide to send “button” where a knob needs to be dragged from the left to right side of the control to send money

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Scott O'Hara @scottohara.me · 25/08/2026

But don’t use inert if they should actually be disabled, instead. :)

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Scott O'Hara @scottohara.me · 21/08/2026

and i say i wonder because i have not tried out the control myself. and i just assume it doesn't :)

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Scott O'Hara @scottohara.me · 21/08/2026

beyond the role issue, wondering how that actually passes the keyboard SC... seems to me people read up to the "operable through a keyboard interface". and then just stop instead of noticing it is immediately followed by **without requiring specific timings for individual keystrokes**

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Nic Chan @nicmakesstuff.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I'm helping a former client of mine source candidates for a fulltime remote developer position, based in the US! I'd love to continue working with them but I can't due to my location. You'd be working on Audiom, an audio-based map viewer that allows blind and low vision people to access maps.

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Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · 17/08/2026

Well, GitHub is down again (day that ends in y), but when it is back up: New Repositories now have a new default Issue label for "Accessibility". This update addresses a longstanding gap and helps to normalize accessibility as a primary consideration.

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Scott O'Hara @scottohara.me · 04/08/2026

I’ve been watching parks and rec. and it is not. Swanson would not allow this sort of discourse

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Scott O'Hara @scottohara.me · 04/08/2026

Chickens vs ducks. Ducks are just better (apparently) He had a diagram of the need for duck space vs chicken space.

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Scott O'Hara @scottohara.me · 04/08/2026

Watching the local town zoning board meeting for reasons I don’t need to get into. But the current topic is how ducks are just better pets & that more duck pets should be allowed & why are there any other channels but this in tv? People arguing for the need for more duck pets. Tax dollars at work.

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Scott O'Hara @scottohara.me · 23/07/2026

Someone I know writes “I quit” emails to save for later. Then they do some more work And then they write some more “I quit” emails that they save in their drafts folder.

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Scott O'Hara @scottohara.me · 15/07/2026

one of the great lies of modern web technology

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Scott O'Hara @scottohara.me · 14/07/2026

But seriously. Pinched nerves are no fun. Sorry

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Scott O'Hara @scottohara.me · 14/07/2026

The pinched nerve in my back would beg to disagree. It’s saying the nerve in your neck is cramping on its style GET IT!!?!?!?? Oh my god unfollow me

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Scott O'Hara @scottohara.me · 08/07/2026

this week has been pretty shit so far. thanks tech.

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Scott O'Hara @scottohara.me · 08/07/2026

He seems very much like he could be reformed into a single column layout to me. The guy had like zero bone density at this point. That’s right. I turned this into a web design joke. Sigh

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Scott O'Hara @scottohara.me · 06/07/2026

How do I know the human race is doomed? Because the best we could think up for indicating a smoke alarm was close to losing its battery was having it make a noise that seems to come from all directions in the house so you never know which smoke alarm is chirping and oh my fucking god it’s 1:25 am

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Scott O'Hara @scottohara.me · 04/07/2026

same same. but also, clearly i haven't been writing (publicly)

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Léonie Watson @tink.uk · 04/07/2026

The 11th WebAIM Screen Reader Users Survey is open until 31 August: webaim.org/projects/screenreadersur… If you use a screen reader, it'll take about 10 minutes to contribute to the body of knowledge around screen readers, which ones are used, and how.

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Jacques Newman @jacquesnewman.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

focusgroup has shipped in chromium 150! developer.chrome.com/blog/new-in-... Its been a long time coming, glad to have been able to get this out the door! Also note that there polyfill ready to go: www.npmjs.com/package/@mic...

developer.chrome.com

New in Chrome 150 | Blog | Chrome for Developers

CSS text-fit property, Focusgroup declarative keyboard navigation, and CSS background-clip border-area.

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Adrian Roselli, pH0 @aardrian.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

mastodon.radio/@VE3RWJ/1168... WebAIM is inviting screen reader users to take part in Screen Reader User Survey #11. • Closes: 31 August 2026 • Duration: Approximately 5–10 minutes • Results published: September 2026 webaim.org/projects/scr... #a11Y #blind #accessibility

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Chris Smart (@VE3RWJ@mastodon.radio)

#WebAIM are inviting people who use screen readers to take part in their Screen Reader User Survey #11. Their User Surveys are widely used across the web #accessibility field to inform development dec...

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Scott O'Hara @scottohara.me · 30/06/2026

“I’m a fucking delight”

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Scott O'Hara @scottohara.me · 30/06/2026

ALSO, jeeezy creezy i've aged since that photo was taken...

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Scott O'Hara @scottohara.me · 30/06/2026

steve talked to me i said things. they were mostly nonsense, but maybe you'd appreciate some of that? the photo used for steve's post befuddles me to this day

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Adrian Roselli, pH0 @aardrian.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

/me puts on ARIA WG hat, cracks knuckles, sits down in front of new CSS-Tricks article about ARIA. Oh. Ok then. This is pretty good. “The Siren Song of `ariaNotify()`” css-tricks.com/the-siren-so... #ARIA #accessibility #a11y

I am excited about ariaNotify(), y’know, in a measured, cautious way. It finally gives us a way to address a use case that has plagued the web — and me, personally — for years, in a shockingly easy way. So easy, in fact, that it makes ariaNotify() just a little bit dangerous.
I mean, not for us though, right? Because we’re all gonna be cool about this, right?
Right.

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Saron Yitbarek @saron.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Icon-only options in a customizable <select> break three things: ❌️ users who don't recognize the icon have no help ❌️screen readers have nothing to announce ❌️browsers w/o support show an empty dropdown There's just 1 fix for all three cases: keep the text Learn more:

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The golden rule of Customizable Select

Customizable select is coming to Safari 27.

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NV Access @nvaccess.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

NVDA 2026.2 Beta 3 is now available for testing! Download from www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-20... Changes in Beta 3: - Can open Magnifier settings on secure screens - Fixed following focused cell in Excel - Improved Magnifier settings names & layout #NVDA #NVDAsr #Update #NewVersion #PreRelease

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NV Access | NVDA 2026.2beta3 available for testing

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Scott O'Hara @scottohara.me · 11/06/2026

sounds like a recent bug. never heard of that happening before. i'd say file an issue...

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Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) @inclusivedesign24.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Hey you … yes YOU! If you were planning to submit a talk idea for Inclusive Design 24 #id24 in September, better hurry! The call for presentations closes this Sunday night (UTC) inclusivedesign24.org/2026/ #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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Scott O'Hara @scottohara.me · 29/05/2026

Have you seen what some people have been piling onto their avocado toast?

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Hidde @hidde.blog · 29/05/2026

had a very fruitful WCAG-EM 2 working session today with @stevefaulkner.eurosky.social and Jeroen at the Ministry, addressing the last issues, feedback, and comments. We're getting closer to Note publication!

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Scott O'Hara @scottohara.me · 29/05/2026

At what point does toast with x spread or topping on it become an open face sandwich? Seems like arbitrary nonsense to me.

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Keith Cirkel @keithamus.social · 29/05/2026

Happy Friday everyone. Here’s the game I’ve created for the month of May; keithcirkel.co.uk/wordnt. It’s a daily nonsense word puzzle, with a meta game: a quest for the best new made up word. Guess the made-up word of the day. Then define it. Upvote other definitions.

keithcirkel.co.uk

Wordn't

Guess the made-up word of the day. Then define it. A daily nonsense word puzzle.

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Scott O'Hara @scottohara.me · 28/05/2026

Closing tag detected without opening tag Cannot compute with my stupid meat brain.

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Scott O'Hara @scottohara.me · 28/05/2026

Everyone is trying to be fast in getting their AI product to market. And by going fast, it’s not only breaking things but making y’all look fucking foolish.

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Scott O'Hara @scottohara.me · 28/05/2026

This sort of makes light by omission the more serious problem of nesting interactives like links in buttons or buttons in options, that often mess up expected keyboard behavior or can mess up interactions / announcements with AT

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Scott O'Hara @scottohara.me · 24/05/2026

Watching the boys. And lol this isn’t satire anymore…

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Scott O'Hara @scottohara.me · 16/05/2026

initially read that as "that looks good english" and i laughed at what i wanted the joke to be. which i still attribute to you. hilarious, you. :)

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