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journal / a11y-cat-22-cutting-seams-into-the-runtime
This was probably inevitable. The only question was whether I was going to admit it early enough. By mid-April, A11Y Cat’s runtime had become too large…
journal / a11y-cat-16-language-headings-and-structure
These are the kinds of features that sound small until you try to make them useful on real pages without being annoying. Language, headings, and structure…
journal / a11y-cat-21-measuring-detection-quality
This was a big shift in what “tested” meant to me. There is a difference between testing that a tool runs and testing that it keeps…
journal / a11y-cat-14-the-tool-got-wider-before-it-got-deeper
A lot of the middle history is me adding more surfaces around the main scan because real review work kept asking for them. If I had…
journal / 13-moving-toward-on-device-ai
The later AI work feels much less like “let the model help everywhere” and much more like “if AI is here, it needs to fit inside…
journal / 11-release-vs-test-extension
This is one of those engineering details that sounds boring until you realise it is protecting the truth of the whole release story. One of the…
journal / a11y-cat-20-diagnostics-and-boundaries
This is one of the clearest places where the repo stopped treating failure handling as an afterthought. A lot of browser tools quietly act embarrassed when…
journal / 09-the-extension-pivot
Once I started looking at the extension commits closely, it stopped feeling like “another way to launch the tool” and started feeling like a different phase…
journal / 08-the-bookmarklet-hit-a-wall
This was one of those moments where the main limitation was not the audit logic. It was how the tool reached the page at all. I…
journal / a11y-cat-19-history-baselines-and-local-state
This is where the project starts moving from “run a scan now” toward “use the tool as part of an ongoing review process.” There is a…