Ben Myers

Tag, You’re It: Blog Questions 2025

Don’t Use aria-label on Static Text Elements

Subtitles, Closed Captions, and Open Captions: What’s the Difference?

Lost in Translation: Tips for Multilingual Web Accessibility

Build a Blogroll with Eleventy

I’m a Spotless Giraffe.

How I Write Alt Text for Code Snippets on Social Media

The Curious Case of “iff” and Overriding Screenreader Pronunciations

The Web Needs a Native .visually-hidden

Create Shareable Automatic Captions for Live Online Events with Web Captioner

A First Look at the Websites and Software Applications Accessibility Act Bill

Style with Stateful, Semantic Selectors

How I Doubled My Lighthouse Performance Score in One Night

How to Fix Your Low-Contrast Text

Build a Twitch Chatbot for Sharing Your Content Using Algolia Search

Ben’s Humane Guide to Technical Blogging

On the ‹dl›

Takeaways From “Adapting Comics for Blind and Low Vision Readers: A Roundtable Discussion”

Takeaways From Axe-Con 2021

I Finally Understand Eleventy’s Data Cascade.

RSS Readers: Yet Another Case for Semantic Markup

Implement a Skip Link for Navigation-Heavy Sites

aria-label, aria-labelledby, and aria-describedby: What’s the Difference?

Out With The Old, In With The New

Maintaining Focus Outlines for Windows High Contrast Mode

Lexical and Dynamic Scope

CSS Can Influence Screenreaders

New Year, New Terminal: Alias Your Directories the Unix Way

New Year, New Terminal: Alias Your Directories the Windows Way

What Is ARIA?

The Accessibility Tree

How (Not) to Build a Button

How Domino’s Could Topple the Accessible Web – Part 1: Public Accommodations