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Léonie Watson

@tink.uk
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Accessibility engineer, Director of TetraLogical, Chair of W3C Board of Directors, W3C WebApps WG co-chair, writer and speaker, screen reader user, tequila drinker and crime fiction junkie.

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Léonie Watson @tink.uk · 28/09/2026
I've been re-elected to the W3C Board of Directors for another term: www.w3.org/news/2026/consortium-mem… Thank you to everyone who voted - the open web only stays open because people show-up!
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Léonie Watson @tink.uk · 24/09/2026
Two great points from Sheri Byrne-Haber at Inclusive Design 24 #id24 "Procurement is the secret sauce for every organization because it lets them vote with their pocket books" "You are liable for the organizations you choose to do business with" #accessibility #ethics
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Léonie Watson @tink.uk · 24/09/2026
"AI represents the most confounding ethical dilemma when it comes to disability" ~ Jutta Treviranus at Inclusive Design 24 #id24 This. So much. #AI #inclusion#ethics
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Léonie Watson @tink.uk · 24/09/2026
Boom! Inclusive Design 24 @InclusiveDesign24@bsky.social #id24 2026 is live! Schedule with automatic time conversion, here: inclusivedesign24.org/2026/schedule #accessibility #inclusive #design #free
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Léonie Watson @tink.uk · 24/09/2026
Inclusive Design 24 #id24 @inclusivedesign24@bsky.social kicks-off at 12:30 UTC! it's 24 free talks about everything #accessibility and #inclusive #design No idea when UTC is? The schedule has you covered, with automatic time conversion: inclusivedesign24.org
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beyond tellerrand @beyondtellerrand.com · 21/09/2026
“Generative AI can seem astonishingly real, but like the spoon in The Matrix, it’s just an illusion.” Léonie Watson (@tink.uk), beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2025. beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusse... #btconf #mondayMixtape
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Léonie Watson @tink.uk · 21/09/2026
Inclusive Design (@InclusiveDesign24@bsky.social) #id24 is on 24 September. A #free 24-hour online event for the global community, with no registration, but built-in time conversion so you know just when to show up: inclusivedesign24.org/2026/schedule #accessibility #inclusion
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Léonie Watson @tink.uk · 18/09/2026
We've rounded up all the resources the @TetraLogical.com team has put together and put them all in one place (with more to come): tetralogical.com/resources #accessibility #resources
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Léonie Watson @tink.uk · 17/09/2026
RNLI volunteer lifeboat crews & lifeguards have saved more than 147,000 lives since 1824. Now they're being targeted by Fascists in black shirts & balaclavas for rescuing migrants. I've donated to the RNLI to support them. rnli.org/support-us/give-money/dona… #Portsmouth #resistance
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Léonie Watson @tink.uk · 17/09/2026
If you only read one thing this week, make it "Sustainable accessibility: compliance, culture, and capability", by Craig Abbot on the @TetraLogical.com blog: tetralogical.com/blog/2026/09/14/su… #accessibility #governance #sustainability
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Léonie Watson @tink.uk · 16/09/2026
-Accessibility Roles and Responsibilities is a new addition to the Foundations series on the @TetraLogical.com blog, courtesy of Mayi Wilson: tetralogical.com/blog/2026/09/08/ro… #accessibility #team
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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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Léonie Watson @tink.uk · 26/08/2026
"In the velvet darkness of the blackest night Burning bright, there's a guiding star No matter what or who you are." #RIP Tim Curry
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Léonie Watson @tink.uk · 21/08/2026
Should native app screen titles be headings? Graeme Coleman takes a proper look: tetralogical.com/blog/2026/07/22/sh… #app #accessibility #WCAG
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Léonie Watson @tink.uk · 21/08/2026
Is your board getting accessibility governance right? tetralogical.com/blog/2026/08/10/bo… #CorporateGovernance #accessibility
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Léonie Watson @tink.uk · 13/08/2026
Article 50 of the EU AI Act, and what it means for you, by @craigabbott.co.uk www.craigabbott.co.uk/blog/2026/art…
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deconspray @deconspray.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
36 years after the ADA, accessibility stands at a crossroads. The next chapter depends on innovation, action, and inclusion. www.dennisdeacon.com... #Accessibility #ADA36 #DigitalAccessibility #Inclusion #DisabilityRights #A11y #ADAAnniversary
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Thirty-Six Years Later: The ADA at a Crossroads - Dennis Deacon
The ADA turns 36 amid quiet enforcement erosion. A look at the threats facing disability rights today, and why persistence still wins.
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Léonie Watson @tink.uk · 27/07/2026
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TetraLogical @tetralogical.com · 22/07/2026
Should a native app screen title be a heading? The answer is more complicated than you might think. Graeme Coleman explores what works, and what doesn’t, across mobile platforms. tetralogical.com/blog/2026/07... #Accessibility #MobileAccessibility #A11y
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Should native app screen titles be headings? - TetraLogical
Many screens in native apps include a screen title that summarises the contents of the screen, but these titles are often not identified as headings to screen readers. In this post, we look into some ...
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Léonie Watson @tink.uk · 22/07/2026
Playing with Green PT - an AI with sustainability and privacy, plus European data sovereignty and a remarkably screen reader accessible website too: greenpt.com
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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 17/07/2026
Meet the @ffconf.org speakers (part 1) - @cydstumpel.nl answered a few of our questions, we spotlight @tink.uk's excellent talk from 2024 and followed up with her recent post and few other good reads: ffconf.org/articles/202...
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Meet our speakers (part 1), AI & Accessibility, and Polyfills
FF Conf - the UK's best web conference in Brighton.
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Léonie Watson @tink.uk · 14/07/2026
#AccessibilityIsResistance tink.uk/accessibility-is-resistance
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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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Manuel Matuzović @matuzo.at · 24/06/2026
I saw a great introduction to CSS Grid Lanes, aka Masonry Layouts, by @patrickbrosset.com at CSS Day 2026. I liked the versatility of its use cases, but I was also concerned that it's inaccessible by default. matuzo.at/blog/2026/gr...
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Your Grid Lanes will likely fail WCAG 2.4.3 - Manuel Matuzovic
I’m a frontend developer, consultant, accessibility auditor, blogger, teacher, and book author from Austria.
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Léonie Watson @tink.uk · 25/06/2026
Well, it finally happened... I refused a cup of tea this afternoon. I know, right? It's 35C outside and almost 32C in my office. I am not designed to cope with this reality.
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Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) @inclusivedesign24.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Thank you to all the lovely folks who submitted a talk proposal for the next Inclusive Design 24. We worked through nearly 100 submissions for our initial selection. We'll be in touch in the coming days to let you know! #id24 #inclusiveDesign #accessibility #a11y
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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 24/06/2026
> inaccessible by default I don't like the smell of this…
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Oliver Lindberg @oliverlindberg.com · 24/06/2026
Huge thanks also go to our sponsors @tetralogical.com, @debugbear.com, and @zeroheight.com, plus community sponsors Grandmalytics, @scott.is's Mindful Design, @set.studio, and @vivaldi.com. An event like this isn't possible without your support! 🙏
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Léonie Watson @tink.uk · 22/06/2026
With the first follow-up, Designing accessible documents, already out: tetralogical.com/blog/2026/05/28/de…
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Léonie Watson @tink.uk · 22/06/2026
With the first follow-up, Designing accessible documents, already out: tetralogical.com/blog/2026/05/28/de… #accessible #usable #documents
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Léonie Watson @tink.uk · 22/06/2026
With the first follow-up, Designing accessible documents, already out: tetralogical.com/blog/2026/05/28/de… #accessible #usable #documents
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Léonie Watson @tink.uk · 22/06/2026
With the first follow-up, Designing accessible documents, already out: tetralogical.com/blog/2026/05/28/de… #accessible #usable #documents
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Léonie Watson @tink.uk · 22/06/2026
Introduction to creating accessible documents by Catriona Morrison kicks-off a new series on the @TetraLogical.com blog: tetralogical.com/blog/2026/05/13/cr… #accessible #usable #documents
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Léonie Watson @tink.uk · 21/06/2026
Just finished the audio book of Everybody Loves Our Dollars - How Money Laundering Won , read by the author Oliver Bullough. Print version info: guardianbookshop.com/everybody-love… If you think the money being spent on AI is a crime...
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Léonie Watson @tink.uk · 21/06/2026
It's taken two days and a large G&T in the garden, but I think I've sufficiently recovered from being introduced to @brucel.bsky.social's gold hotpants to make it through to Monday 😂
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 13/06/2026
“A button without a name does not work. A form field without a label does not work. A page that cannot be navigated non-visually does not work.”
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 13/06/2026
“But accessibility is not a favour. It is not a nice extra. It is not a charitable flourish added after the real work is done. It is part of whether the thing works.” www.applevis.com/forum/access...
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If Accessibility was treated like engineering or a right, not a favour! | AppleVis
If accessibility were treated like engineering, we would not still be writing newsletters in 2026 saying: “Here are the five most common accessibility issues. Please try harder.” We have known these i...
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Hannah Graham @drhannahgraham.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
A wee group of angry balaclava and mask-wearing anti-immigration guys tried to stop the good people of Glasgow showing solidarity with migrants and standing up to racism and fascism. Well, the far right are far outnumbered... #RefugeesWelcome #MigrantsWelcome #NeighboursNotStrangers #Glasgow
Photo of a small group of mostly men wearing black, with masks and balaclavas, surrounded by a Police Scotland cordon in the bottom of the photo, in the foreground. In the background, a very large colourful crowd of people with saltires, trade union banners, and hand-made signs in support of migrants and against racism have turned up to gather to show solidarity, and the far right guys were hoping to thwart that. They didn't.
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Léonie Watson @tink.uk · 13/06/2026
memories of Hockney's A Bigger Splash have stayed with me since I stopped seeing the world. The sunlight reflecting off translucent blue water, makes me feel good. David Hockney #RIP www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hockne…
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Stef Walter @stephaniewalter.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
There’s a corner of the internet where you can enjoy a massive multiplayer online rave, with a retro video game vibe, different areas for different music styles, and, I love that such websites still exist. WARNING sound + flashing lights once you enter hallucinate.site/
Screenshot of a retro-style multiplayer online rave game, with a DJ on a central stage, a crowd dancing under blue lights, avatar customization controls on the left, and movement controls at the bottom. The style is 90's video games, little cubes, very pixelated.
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Tommi 🤯 @tommi.space · 10/06/2026
@tink.uk opening #TheWebYouWant: > AI is compensating for where the web has failed The most insightful, critical, and sincere account of LLM usage for “computer vision” and sight accessibility I have heard so far. #AI #LLM #a11ty #accessibility #Web #WebA11ty
Photo of keynote presentation on big screen, portraying a pink abstract image connecting dots and lines, on white background, and the text “AI is compensating for where the web has failed”
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Léonie Watson @tink.uk · 08/06/2026
Looking forward to kicking off The Web You Want with a little good humoured provocation in my keynote 😇 It's on Wednesday in Amsterdam and tickets are #free so come and join us? the-web-you-want.org #TheWebYouWant
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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
“This is not a hypothetical. You are less free now. Your security, dignity, and safety is in the hands of nasty, petty, monumentally stupid bigots. They can take it from you at a whim.”
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The End of Trans Rights in the UK Is the Start of Democratic Collapse
It's never just one minority.
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Léonie Watson @tink.uk · 18/05/2026
Noodling over ideas for my talk... see you there 💜
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Léonie Watson @tink.uk · 17/05/2026
My brain finally came up with the reason the title of the 2026 #Eurovision winning song from Bulgaria, Bangaranga, sounded so familiar... it's almost identical to the battle-cry of The Lost Boys in the 1991 Spielberg film Hook, Bangarang!
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Léonie Watson @tink.uk · 16/05/2026
There's as much chance of getting this right as winning a game of 52 Card Pick-up, but PerlBod and I are calling it for #Sweden, #Austria, #Belgium for the top three at #Eurovision 2026.
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Léonie Watson @tink.uk · 16/05/2026
#DanceAwayYourInnerAnimal 💜 #Austria #Eurovision
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Léonie Watson @tink.uk · 16/05/2026
The live AD has outdone itself... #Norway described as wearing "shiny black Argyle pattern salopettes". The mind boggles, it really does. #Eurovision
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Léonie Watson @tink.uk · 16/05/2026
For reasons I cannot fathom, #Lithuania makes me think of a silver jellybean. #Eurovision
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Léonie Watson @tink.uk · 16/05/2026
#Sweden with a solid four-to-the-floor all the way to the drop at #Eurovision.
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