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Steve Faulkner
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Accessibility is political✊ Working for the web, anywhere and everywhere 🖖🏽
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Steve Faulkner @stevefaulkner.bsky.social · Jan 13
next 5 in the hot seat:
👉🏽 @yatil.net
👉🏽 @sarasoueidan.com
👉🏽 @mattmay.bsky.social
👉🏽 @heydonworks.com
👉🏽 @brucel.bsky.social

#accessibility #WebStandards #AI etc
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quarkquent.bsky.social
The only way to defeat reform and defeat Trump is by defeating Putin
February 18, 2026 at 11:33 AM
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steady5063.bsky.social
When it comes to automated #Accessibility, a lot of teams will go the simple route, like Axe.
Did you know that in #PlayWright you can take your #A11y testing further? Check it out!

#DEVCommunity @dev.to

dev.to/steady5063/a...
Accessibility Testing with Playwright Assertions
Playwright has become one of the most popular testing frameworks for web applications. During it's...
dev.to
February 19, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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ericwbailey.website
I wrote for @zeroheight.com about the types of things automated accessibility checks can't detect when auditing and evaluating your design systems for accessibility. #a11y zeroheight.com/blog/design-...
Design systems can’t automate away all of your accessibility considerations - zeroheight
Eric Bailey explains why automated checks can't catch all accessibility issues in a design system and how teams can fix them, step by step.
zeroheight.com
February 19, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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tink.uk
The @TetraLogical.com team has released a new set of videos to help everyone design and build more accessible websites; Accessible Building Blocks for Web:
https://tetralogical.com/blog/2026/02/06/accessible-building-blocks-for-web-videos/

#accessibility #a11y #UX #design #build #code
February 18, 2026 at 8:57 AM
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themorrancave.bsky.social
For years, the FDA website warned of products and remedies claiming to treat autism that were being marketed deceptively and can be harmful.

Just a few:
•hyperbaric oxygen therapies
•chlorine dioxide
•raw camel milk.

Now, under RFK Jr, that advisory is gone.

New, @megomatz.bsky.social
Chlorine Dioxide, Raw Camel Milk: The FDA No Longer Warns Against These and Other Ineffective Autism Treatments
The FDA has taken down a webpage warning about therapies and products making “false claims” of treating autism. It’s part of a series of actions the agency has taken under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...
www.propublica.org
February 18, 2026 at 11:04 AM
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The perpetual grudge of assembly language coders against the compiler crowds!
February 18, 2026 at 1:34 PM
stevefaulkner.bsky.social
👁️‍🗨️ An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me by Scott Shambaugh

"We, like many other open source projects, are dealing with a surge in low quality contributions enabled by coding agents."

#AI #reputation #quality

theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…
theshamblog.com
February 18, 2026 at 11:53 AM
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buellerl.bsky.social
Views may differ, but #freespeech is vital to our democracy. Please share this out.
youtu.be/tEmZ37hkMFk?...
TRUMP TRIED TO STOP THIS... BUT IT LEAKED!
YouTube video by Keith Edwards
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February 17, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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londonwebstandards.org
If you couldn’t get an In-person ticket, Online tickets for #SotB26 are still available to purchase!
You can watch the live stream, restart talks, and join the Discord server to talk to other attendees and speakers.

2026.stateofthebrowser.com/tickets/
Tickets | State of the Browser
More information and buying options for tickets.
2026.stateofthebrowser.com
February 18, 2026 at 10:04 AM
stevefaulkner.bsky.social
👀 "AI can be very confidently wrong, and if the text seems clear, it’s possible to miss that it’s clearly nonsense."

#AI #nonsense

rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/202...
Generative AI has broken the subject matter expert/editor relationship – Rachel Andrew
rachelandrew.co.uk
February 18, 2026 at 10:25 AM
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stevefaulkner.bsky.social
@heydonworks.com and I will talk more soon in part 2
February 14, 2026 at 10:23 AM
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rbreich.bsky.social
If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.

The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”

It’s about control.
February 15, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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ashleyzacharias.bsky.social
It's great to live in a country (Canada, Japan, UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Italy, etc.) where citizens don't worry about if the next election will be canceled, if they will be allowed to register to vote, if they will have to stand in line for hours to vote, or if their vote will be counted.
February 15, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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dashannestokes.com
We're no longer a functioning democracy. Don't expect a democratic election.
February 14, 2026 at 8:12 PM
stevefaulkner.bsky.social
Epstein the only man that would have made Jimmy Saville jealous

#politics #uk #labor

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Keir Today! Gone Tomorrow?
YouTube video by Jonathan Pie
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February 15, 2026 at 11:10 AM
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aardrian.bsky.social
If you can, please also identify known WCAG conformance errors.

We don’t want another toast escapade where research failed to identify barriers & risks. Encoding broken patterns into the web platform helps no one.

Respond to Keith or post to: github.com/openui/open-...

#accessibility #a11y #HTML
February 13, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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ashleyzacharias.bsky.social
The President of the United States raped underage women.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has seen the proof in the Epstein files and doesn't care.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
February 14, 2026 at 4:30 AM
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brucel.bsky.social
Interop 2026 Focus Areas Announced www.igalia.com/news/interop... - your chums at @igalia.com nvite you to inhale from their bong of knowledge.
Interop 2026 Focus Areas Announced | Igalia
Igalia is an open source consultancy specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and cl...
www.igalia.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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brucel.bsky.social
This is to collect research for HTML input pickers such as date, time, datetime and colour. "Please send us examples of good (or bad) ones. Even if they have extra functionality that doesn't exist yet (e.g. date ranges, perhaps we can add that in)." github.com/openui/open-...
Research Issue for pickers · Issue #1371 · openui/open-ui
This is to collect research for pickers such as date, time, datetime and colour. Please send us examples of good (or bad) ones. Even if they have extra functionality that doesn't exist yet (e.g. da...
github.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:06 PM
stevefaulkner.bsky.social
but You do, the fucker won the vote
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 6d
Sanders: The American people do not want this country to be an authoritarian society or an oligarchy. We have our differences, that’s what democracy is about—we argue it out. We don’t throw people who disagree in jail. We don’t intimidate the media. We don’t send ICE agents to shoot people.
February 14, 2026 at 2:25 PM
stevefaulkner.bsky.social
@heydonworks.com and I will talk more soon in part 2
February 14, 2026 at 10:23 AM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
Palantir, a US spy-tech firm, has been given access to millions of NHS patient records.

Its founder has said the NHS should be 'ripped up'.

Join me in calling on the government to end the dangerous Palantir contract.

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
you.38degrees.org.uk
February 13, 2026 at 10:26 AM
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brucel.bsky.social
A conservative network led by Michael Gove and Nigel Farage’s senior adviser James Orr has spent more than half a million pounds of profits from refining Russian oil funnelled through Viktor Orbán to platform far right and anti-trans campaigners in the UK goodlawproject.org/putins-megap...
Putin’s megaphone: Orbán’s far-right push into UK universities is fuelled by Russian oil | Good Law Project
Good Law Project has uncovered a network funded by Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán, that uses profits from refining Russian oil to platform far right and anti-trans campaigners in the UK
goodlawproject.org
February 12, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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stevefaulkner.bsky.social
Fireside chat (part 1) with @heydonworks.com

#a11y #captioning #AI #HTML #Norwich #Partridge

html5accessibility.com/stuff/2026/0...
Heydon with mohawk leaning over the back of a seat at SOTB 2023
February 12, 2026 at 7:01 PM