UX is dad you say

Technological operational proficiency and literacy are spectrums, just like most of everything else.

Typically when someone drops that line on you it's because the person doesn't want to consider ways of interacting that don't align with how they personally use things. I wish there was more complexity here, but it usually just boils down to short-sighted selfishness.

The statement also forces you to be on the defensive. The real truth is that you can have experiences that are both accessible and support efficient actions for complex interactions. That's just good design.

Attempting to reframe it that way in a professional setting won't exactly go well, though.

Accessibility is the origin of human-centered design Discover 10 human-centered innovations that started with real people’s needs and evolved into UX principles that is shaping today’s most inclusive products.

Its a statement that is reflective of an overwhelmingly ableist mindset, which is unfortunately still society's default.

It's also deeply ironic given how much contemporary computing is evolved directly from assistive tech. makeitfable.com/article/acce...

A thing you'll have to eventually contend with as an web accessibility person is someone pushing back against your advocacy with the claim that it will negatively affect "power users".

That statement implies disabled people can't be expert operators of technology, which is anything but true.

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Stay Away From Accessibility Overlays All the costs with none of the compliance!

Many people with far greater knowledge than I possess have discussed accessibility overlays, but I think the more voices and inputs in the public corpus the better.

Accessibility overlays are harmful and make things worse, not better. Avoid them.

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#Accessibility #a11y

Theoretically you can do a lot of things.

What the hell, ughhh.

Towards the end of her life (she died in 1967), my grandmother told my dad, "I went to school in a pony and trap, and now they're sending men into space. I've lived quite long enough."

Nearly 60 yrs later, her great grandson is still waiting for step-free access at our local railway station.

The "we're all trying to find the guy who did this" meme, with OpenAl's logo pasted over the face of the man wearing the hot dog costume.

"133,589,803 ARIA attributes were detected—over 133 per page on average! ARIA code increased 27% in just one year and is over 6 times higher than it was in 2019." webaim.org/projects/mil...

what if the Artemis II flyby of the unseen areas of the moon reveal a gigantic buttcrack

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forget it, Jake, it’s context collapse

It's TWO VAST AND TRUNKLESS LEGS OF STONE Tuesday!

Pretext review Another distraction from improving user experience

Normally, I'd fire up another episode of Wireframe for this news, but I'm still recovering from surgery so a blog post will have to do.

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Forbidden noodles My obsession with food-based taxonomy continues..

Updated one of my favorite posts on my site with a new addition, which, honestly, are the astrophysicists okay? ericwbailey.website/published/fo...

YES!

Also Asia! Hi!

I'd love a worker cooperative structure, where the employees have direct ownership.

Also love to see it be an option where a business can't sustain unrealistic growth models. Instead of getting sold off to some org that will strip mine it, its instead offered to its employees.

Once again finding myself thinking about how much of the Internet's infrastructure should be co-ops.

Endgame for the Open Web - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

You must picture Sam Altman holding a knife to Tim Berner-Lee's throat. We are in a truly existential level of danger when it comes to the survival of the open web, across every front. This year is when it all comes to a head. www.anildash.com/2026/03/27/e...

two buttons on a website: “apply on jooble” “Apply on bebee”

it’s on jooble dude just log in to bebee

have orb will ponder

I too have played Tetris

cssDOOM DOOM rendered entirely in CSS. Every wall, floor, barrel, and imp is a div, positioned in 3D space using CSS transforms.

CSS is DOOMed!

I've build DOOM in CSS and every wall, floor, barrel, and imp is a div, positioned in 3D space using CSS transforms.

cssdoom.wtf

Try it out! But... not every browser can handle it. This is taking the browser to its limit. Chrome has some issues. Safari too. Bugs will be filed.

Applying accessibility fixes with stealth for the greater good This is not an article that Steve, the author, thinks should exist in a healthy industry, but the shape of our industry — especially right now — makes this sort of article very necessary and hopefully...

This is not an article that Steve, the author, thinks should exist in a healthy industry, but the shape of our industry — especially right now — makes this sort of article very necessary and hopefully helpful to you in your job.

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