The Accessible Usability Scale (AUS) is a free tool to measure the usability of a digital product for assistive technology users.

Shopify is legitimately angry at drive-by ADA lawsuits, as outlined in its recent post The small business shakedown: Why thousands of entrepreneurs are getting buried in lawsuits. Like thousands of small business owners across the United States, Clay*, an online store owner, was sued without warning for his website allegedly…

Adam Silver – interaction designer - London, UK

Adam Silver – interaction designer - London, UK

OpenAI has announced it’s launched a new browser, Atlas, with ChatGPT built in. For those familiar with ARIA, OpenAI outlines what to expect (I left the code as I found it, other than removing the target): We’ll continue to make Atlas better, and our roadmap includes multi-profile support, improved developer…

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

In most organisations, design documentation often includes annotations, but accessibility-specific ones are still rare. That’s a missed opportunity. Annotating designs for accessibility helps everyone involved understand what needs to be built, tested, and maintained.

Apple bent the knee for months, leaving many commentators to ask why. But the reasons are not mysterious: Apple wants things that only the government can provide, things that will defend and extend its power to extract rents, rather than innovate. Namely, selective exemption from tarrifs and an end to the spectre of pro-competition regulation and the threat of real browsers in the US, the EU, and around the world.

A explanation of the primary threat to accessibility on the web, and a call to action for the web standards community

Description This is a reprise of this request made for Interop2025. Scroll containers need to be focusable by default. I have spent a few years banging on about ensuring scrolling areas on a page a...

Taking action and Doing The Right Thing is often difficult, always exhausting, but it is what we must do, together.

We all know the feeling — you’re feeling a little sluggish at work.

“Artificial intelligence” is a failed technology. It’s time we described it that way.

Description This is a reprise of this request made for Interop2025. Scroll containers need to be focusable by default. I have spent a few years banging on about ensuring scrolling areas on a page a...

I’m increasingly of the belief that the most effective way to fix accessibility issues in the sites and apps that we build is just do it. Don’t ask. Don’t have a lengthy discussion about it and ask the client or PM how they want to proceed or “if they want to fix it.” Just fix it. Can’t fix it with the current design? Change the design. Need a different interaction pattern?