Saw the "OMG why are 40 & 50 year old people even ON social media?" post & my first thought was, "What do you think *should* happen, kid? Should we all just do a Logan's Run?" & then I realized this child has never once in their life heard of Logan's Run & I turned to dust & my ghost is typing this.
I also need a "make documentation" badge
Move slowly and maintain things - white text on green round badge
Badge rediscovered
Early weeknotes from me. How the sausage is made (and documented):
frankieroberto.github.io/nhsnotes/pos...
The best thing I’ve read today:
”Accessibility isn’t a spell you cast at the end of a sprint.”
- @annaecook.com
AI agents will join up government before government joins up government. This may be a mixed blessing.
Blog post. with some reflections about my recent agentic adventures:
loosemore.com/2026/02/25/a...
The “Average Accessibility Defects” number goes down with some guidance, but right back up with expert guidance.
Wondering if experts try to coach it (versus hand-wavy requests) and LLM’s corpus of stolen data doesn’t have the material to make what’s asked of it.
mastodon.social/@SteveFaulkn...
Little reminder that axe-con, organised by @deque.com is this week!!
It's a free online, two days (February 24 25) event, with a very nice line up of talks about accessibility and inclusive design.
Want to learn about accessibility? Register, check them live, or catch the replays!
#Accessibility
[blogpost] A decade later - 10 year anniversary of launching the 'new' ONS website
digitalbydefault.com/2026/02/21/a...
I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point.
I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion
People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it
Heck yeah!
Announcing The CSS Selection!
📰 www.projectwallace.com/the-css-sele...
📚 100,000 websites
⏱️ 100+ metrics
🔖 7 chapters
The biggest deep-dive ever into real-world use of CSS across the globe. Dive in and find out some hidden gems. Also, see how much of 'the new CSS' is actually used!
The designer’s happy path is only a fraction of the real experience. On zeroheight’s blog, I share a practical checklist to design components that survive loading, error, empty and offline states, real content, and diverse users.
Less Figma fantasy. More reality!
So I know a lot is going on right now, but I do want to share this:
I’m excited to share the launch of the new Microsoft Inclusive Design website 💙
This project is my love letter to the community and practice that’s shaped my work for nearly a decade.
inclusive.microsoft.design
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So much work is doomed from the start because of the assumption you can successfully chop up it up into discrete parts in advance, then try and create coherence through governance retrospectively. ‘Workstreams’. ‘Pillars’, all that nonsense, is, more often than not, based on a flawed assumption.
SDinGov 2026 Call for Sessions is open: govservicedesign.net/call-sessions
Conference theme: Democratising Design
/ @sdingov.bsky.social
I heard jQuery is the furure
Hitting some form of productivity on a Friday afternoon is wild.
That sounds amazing!
Happy Gov Camp to all who celebrate!! #ukgc26
Technical design *is* business process design *is* team design *is* service design *is* user centred design. If you insist that one is superior to another or that you don’t need to concern yourself with all aspects, you’re doing your organisation and your users a disservice. This course looks great!
4 for the excellent use of tripe!
“In the practical, this means designers will have more LLM-based features integrated into their tooling. These tools will promise to do their job for them […]. This will further widen the divide between the work and its human-facing impact.”
mantisandco.com/resources/gu...
Thank you for wanting to share it 🥺
Focus State editions will be posted on the feed on my site, you can see the first edition there and share! annaecook.com/focus-state
✏️ 5 accessibility checks to run on every component zeroheight.com/blog/5-acces...
I guest-posted on zeroheight's blog about accessibility of components!
(note: WCAG compliance is claimed on full pages/processes only)
i love the beginning of the year because everyone starts blogging. and if you (yes you) were thinking about starting, this is your sign
Delighted to contribute to the HTMLHell advent calendar. I explained how screen readers don’t always announce what’s visually on screen - through the medium of burritos:
www.htmhell.dev/adventcalend...
Thanks to experts @matuzo.at and @hidde.blog for making sure the burrito was structurally sound.
Cognitive research often highlights foundational issues like clarity, predictability, hierarchy, and friction points that affect all users but become visible sooner with the cognitive audience.
Cognitive accessibility toolkit by Fable ✨
makeitfable.com/tutorial/cog...
A few years back, I nearly wrote "The Fallacy of Federated Design Systems." Then @nathanacurtis.bsky.social beat me to it. But what happens when you try it anyway?
At Spotify, I watched federated fail twice, resulting in a huge number of barely reused components and damaged trust in design systems.
