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journal / 04-why-i-spent-so-much-time-on-demos
At first glance it looks like I got distracted by GIFs. Looking back, I think I was trying to make the tool legible. February 16 is…
journal / a11y-cat-18-why-provenance-started-mattering
At some point the output itself was no longer enough. I needed the tool to say where a result came from and how it had been…
journal / a11y-cat-17-why-i-split-issue-types
This was one of the more important mindset changes in the whole repo, and it was not really about UI labels. It was about honesty. For…
journal / a11y-cat-15-contrast-and-honesty
I thought this would be one of the simpler checks. It really was not. Contrast keeps showing up in A11Y Cat’s history because it is one…
journal / a11y-cat-12-getting-honest-about-screen-reader-claims
This part of the history is uncomfortable in a useful way. It shows me correcting a story that was too easy to overread. Screen reader support…
journal / a11y-cat-10-splitting-core-from-delivery
I thought this would be a cleaner refactor than it was. The history makes it pretty obvious that it was important, but not painless. Once the…
journal / a11y-cat-07-why-i-built-a-local-assistant-backend
By the time I came back to AI in April, I seemed much less interested in “chat” and much more interested in keeping the tool from…
journal / a11y-cat-06-when-i-got-serious-about-verification
April 7 feels like the moment I stopped just adding things and started asking what I could actually prove. The commit that stands out most to…
journal / a11y-cat-03-turning-the-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…
journal / a11y-cat-02-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…