A11Y

Why the project started leaning harder on rules, release discipline, and explicit boundaries instead of good intentions.

Packaging, release handoff, and build cleanup stopped being side work once the project got big enough to ship properly.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…