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What this site is for
Mostly notes from real work, plus the projects I keep coming back to.
Articlejournal / a11y-cat-03-turning-the-panel-into-a-command-tool
A11Y-Cat: When I turned the audit panel into a command tool
This was one of the first moments where the project stopped feeling like a passive report and started feeling like a browser-side helper. One of the biggest early jumps in A11Y Cat happens on…
Articlejournal / a11y-cat-02-more-than-an-axe-wrapper
A11Y-Cat: The first version was already trying to be more than an axe wrapper
I do not think I realised how much product shape was already in the first version until I looked back properly. When people describe small accessibility tools, they often collapse them into one sentence:…
Articlejournal / a11y-cat-01-how-this-started-as-a-bookmarklet
A11Y-Cat: How this started as a bookmarklet instead of a bigger app
I did not start by building a platform. I started by trying to make the quickest useful thing I could actually run on a page. The first version of A11Y Cat was very direct.…
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journal / a11y-cat-release-discipline-and-trust
Release discipline ended up being part of the product, whether I liked it or not
At some point I realised the release process was not just admin around the edges. It was part of the credibility of the product itself. If the packaging, extension build, permissions story, test gates,…
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journal / a11y-cat-bounded-ai-assist
A11Y-Cat: I was interested in AI, but only once I had fenced it in properly
AI in accessibility can be useful, but it becomes sloppy very fast when people let it wander into judgement. I was not interested in that. I was interested in bounded help: summarising, explaining, grouping,…
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journal / a11y-cat-finding-handoff-and-evidence-bundles
A11Y-Cat: I learned very quickly that finding an issue is only half the job
A finding that dies inside a panel is not worth much. Real accessibility work has to move. It gets handed to engineers, QA, delivery people, clients, and sometimes auditors. If the evidence falls apart…

