A11Y

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

The command surface ended up becoming one of the most practical parts of the project. Instead of one fuzzy assistant prompt box with no real boundaries,…

This matters to me a lot because accessibility tooling gets dishonest here very quickly. A product runs a scan, says something grand about screen readers, and…

I have always liked heading structure because it gives a page away almost immediately. You can tell when a page has been thought through and you…

Contrast checks are easy to make look more certain than they really are. Real pages have gradients, overlays, images, pseudo-elements, shadows, and mixed backgrounds. Once you…

People love the flashy parts of accessibility tooling, but some of the most useful checks are the ones that sound ordinary: headings, metadata, language, alt text,…