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journal / a11y-cat-command-system-for-real-testing
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,…
journal / a11y-cat-screen-reader-support-without-fake-at-testing
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…
journal / a11y-cat-heading-structure-tells-on-pages
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…
journal / a11y-cat-honest-contrast-checking
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…
journal / a11y-cat-boring-checks-that-save-audits
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,…
journal / a11y-cat-self-exclusion-and-route-aware-state
This sounds small until you have seen a tool audit itself into nonsense. The minute you inject a panel, controls, overlays, and support markup into the…
journal / a11y-cat-every-finding-should-show-its-working
A neat list of issues is not enough for me. I wanted provenance. I wanted to know where the result came from, what checked it, what…
journal / a11y-cat-finding-types-and-trust-boundaries
This was one of the biggest turning points in the build. I stopped treating every finding as if it belonged in the same bucket. That is…
journal / a11y-cat-bookmarklet-and-extension-entry-points
One of the earliest decisions in A11Y Cat was not glamorous at all. I did not want a tool that only worked in the perfect setup.…