Eric Bailey

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Posts

On inclusive personas and inclusive user research

Newsletters that regularly hit my inbox these days

You MUST listen to RFC 2119

Quality is a trap

Organizing a design system via folksonomy

Article pitch for your consideration

Tag, you’re it

Harm reduction principles for digital accessibility practitioners

Evaluating overlay-adjacent accessibility products

Stanislav Petrov

GitHub’s updated Commits page and the interactive list component

Don’t forget to localize your icons

Making content-aware components using CSS’ <code>:has()</code>, grid, and quantity queries

Accessibility preference settings, information architecture, and internalized ableism

a11y-syntax-highlighting has been updated

Basic keyboard shortcut support for focused links

These three links spell out a big uh oh for where things are headed when placed in context with each other

Dungeons & Dragons taught me how to write alt text

Short note: Disavowing Snake People 3.0: Slither with a Hiss

Free idea: design token ugly mode

Consent, LLM scrapers, and poisoning the well

Workplace discrimination: another terrible thing Windows Recall might enable

Multipage Version Zine, Issue 1

<code>contrast-color()</code> is a good thing, but also solving the problem at the wrong layer

I love my slightly smart tiny TV

Invisible success

A perceived contradiction to internalize when working on design systems

Thoughts on embedding alternative text metadata into images

On Jakob Nielsen, AI hype, and accessibility

Oh shit banners

I restyled my Mastodon instance

Accessibility annotation kits only annotate

Websites, politics, and preferences

Zombie Slack channels

Websites are like bridges

GitHub now has a setting to underline links

Equivalent experience can cut both ways

Use of the design system should factor into promotion packets

A year at GitHub

Formative posts

My jeans’ metadata may outlive the company that sold them

The five types of people who produce inaccessible code

<code>display: contents</code> considered harmful

Global Accessibility Anger Day

Don’t use custom CSS scrollbars

Sandcastles

Sabbath mode and assistive technology features

I doubled-down on RSS

My Mastodon strategy

Modern Health, frameworks, performance, and harm

Centerless

Swearing and automatic captions

<code>aria-label</code> is a code smell

Yes, accessibility is also a backend concern

Visit for a surprise

Re: Selling your extension

Dot website

Saying thank you

Where do you start measuring distance from when the origin is the bottom of a block of text?

The optics of pair programming

All the user-facing states

#WorstWorkWednesday

It needs to map back to a role

The case for adding validation state to your design tokens

Comic Sans is a good typeface, actually

Tribble

Maralinga bomb test

Chinese rooms, wasps, slime molds, and the problem of other minds

Where do you put spacing on design system components?

Your CSS is an interface

Spear phishing with Slackbot for fun and profit

Insulin dump

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thoughtbot.com, dark mode, and other user preferences

What they don’t tell you when you translate your app

Forbidden noodles

accessiBe and the false David vs. Goliath narrative

A bad accessibility trend I’ve noticed

Ham biscuit on

Organize your CSS declarations alphabetically

The lawnmower button

Don’t use custom CSS mouse cursors

How I grew The A11Y Project to 10k followers on Twitter

Listing posts in Eleventy when you publish offsite

To subset or not subset fonts

I love my not-smart TV

How to make an ineffective 404 page

Minor version bump

Give me a definition for the word dashboard

Implicit cultural norms and accessible social media

My typical day

Accessibility auditing and ego