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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…
journal / a11y-cat-01-how-this-started-as-a-bookmarklet
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…
journal / a11y-cat-release-discipline-and-trust
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…
journal / a11y-cat-bounded-ai-assist
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…
journal / a11y-cat-finding-handoff-and-evidence-bundles
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,…