Developer Tools

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 the clearest places where the repo stopped treating failure handling as an afterthought. A lot of browser tools quietly act embarrassed when…

This is where the project starts moving from “run a scan now” toward “use the tool as part of an ongoing review process.” There is a…

I can see the enthusiasm in this stage, but I can also see that I had not settled the trust story yet. The first AI phase…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…