
journal / making-a11y-cat-trustworthy
Making A11Y Cat Trustworthy
What I learned while debugging an accessibility scanner with AI agents, and why evidence matters more than pass/fail theatre.
- Published
- Apr 28, 2026
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- 24 mins
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journal / making-a11y-cat-trustworthy
What I learned while debugging an accessibility scanner with AI agents, and why evidence matters more than pass/fail theatre.

journal / why-im-not-building-a11y-cat-around-paid-accessibility-apis
A practical look at WAVE API, axe-core, Playwright, Pa11y, IBM Equal Access, and why a local scanner is the more honest foundation for A11Y CAT.

journal / cat-crawler-why-i-built-it-what-i-learned
Why I built Cat Crawler, what it is good at, what it taught me, and the improvements I would make next.
journal / a11y-cat-agents-workflow-best-practices-for-developers
What it takes to use agents without letting the work slip into vague claims, fake certainty, or sloppy release habits.
journal / wordpress-ai-accessibility-reality
A look at the way people are talking about WordPress and AI, and why accessibility still gets flattened or ignored in that conversation.

journal / a11y-cat-25-what-this-project-is-now
A plain account of where the project stands now, what it can actually prove, and where the limits still are.
journal / a11y-cat-24-governing-the-work-as-hard-as-the-code
Why the project started leaning harder on rules, release discipline, and explicit boundaries instead of good intentions.
journal / a11y-cat-23-packaging-and-handoff-tooling
Packaging, release handoff, and build cleanup stopped being side work once the project got big enough to ship properly.