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Automated WCAG Testing Is Grrreat!

https://adrianroselli.com/2025/04/automated-wcag-testing-is-grrreat.html

Published: April 10, 2025 13:59

I’m a big fan of using automation in WCAG testing. I use bookmarklets, dev tools, browser features & reporting, and a pile of third-party products from assorted vendors. These save me time and effort, letting me focus on more tricky cases. But……

Tweaking Text Level Styles, Reprised

https://adrianroselli.com/2025/04/tweaking-text-level-styles-reprised.html

Published: April 6, 2025 01:24

In 2017 I wrote Tweaking Text Level Styles (terrible name in retrospect) and I made regular updates over the years. Stop reading it. Remove it from your bookmarks. Unlink it from your posts. Print it onto paper and then burn it. Demo <mark> <del> <ins> <s>…

Mainlining Mains

https://adrianroselli.com/2025/04/mainlining-mains.html

Published: April 3, 2025 20:20

Sometimes you run into a main landmark where you don’t expect one. Like Main Street USA in Hong Kong Disney. So you grab a snack in a diner that serves no hot dogs. You can buy little American flags in the heart of Hong Kong and clothes telling Hong Kong…

Tag, You’re It

https://adrianroselli.com/2025/03/tag-youre-it.html

Published: March 22, 2025 17:03

Eric tagged me into this chain letter of a post. From what I can glean, you are supposed to steal the headings and treat them as questions. Why did you start blogging in the first place? Three key reasons: So I wouldn’t have to keep repeating myself; to…

CSUNATC 2025 Recap

https://adrianroselli.com/2025/03/csunatc-2025-recap.html

Published: March 16, 2025 17:42

This post only covers my impressions and experiences from CSUNATC. Others probably had dramatically different experiences. Talk Types The talks seemed to fall into three broad categories this year: product pitches, vendor room sessions (which were product…

Don’t Use Fake Bold or Italic in Social Media

https://adrianroselli.com/2025/03/dont-use-fake-bold-or-italic-in-social-media.html

Published: March 6, 2025 00:50

I posted something on Mastodon that uses Unicode math symbols to produce fake bold and fake italic text. I used YayText.com to generate it, but I am not linking it because you I don’t want you to use it. I embedded the post, but you can go to it directly…

Be Wary of Accessibility Guarantees from Anyone

https://adrianroselli.com/2025/03/be-wary-of-accessibility-guarantees-from-anyone.html

Published: March 2, 2025 23:55

TL;DR: anyone promising you that a total solution to digital accessibility is coming, and they are the ones bringing it, may be lying. Background In 2016 I wrote Be Wary of Accessibility Guarantees from Vendors. At the time I was cautioning readers about…

1.4.10: Adversarial Conformance

https://adrianroselli.com/2025/02/1-4-10-adversarial-conformance.html

Published: February 23, 2025 20:57

This post is part of RSS Club, rewarding those who still use RSS to read and/or share content. These posts are embargoed from my regular post feed and the socials for an arbitrary period of time. You can see all the RSS-only posts at…

Generic LLM Chatbot Attestation

https://adrianroselli.com/2025/02/generic-llm-chatbot-attestation.html

Published: February 16, 2025 19:58

This post is part of RSS Club, rewarding those who still use RSS to read and/or share content. These posts are embargoed from my regular post feed and the socials for an arbitrary period of time. You can see all the RSS-only posts at…

Which VoiceOver?

https://adrianroselli.com/2025/02/which-voiceover.html

Published: February 4, 2025 12:45

You may have seen this as a thread on Mastodon (my primary social short-form platform) or on BlueSky. Imagine these as the opening to a series of conversations between a vendor or client or boss or PO or whomever and me. Variations on Real Life…