Blog category: Accessibility

Writings centred around Frontend and Accessibility with the odd personal post. Recently featured in a few places:

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• 100, 150, or 200? Debunking the Alt text character limit

  The arbitrary limit can be built into input fields and automated tooling

  Published: 6th November 2025

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• Your accessibility score is lying to you

  Automation misses most issues, and can make teams think they’re done

  Published: 27th October 2025

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• Swedish government starts to audit eCommence websites

  Government launches Accessibility inspections for retailers

  Published: 21st October 2025

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• Stop inviting overlay employees and bad actors into Accessibility spaces

  It hands them blueprints for exploitation, legitimacy and control

  Published: 9th October 2025

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• Why are NHS trusts buying Accessibility overlays?

  These trusts are wasting public money on useless overlays

  Published: 1st October 2025

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• Use of Colour (Level A) WCAG 1.4.1 - Accessibility Design tips

  Simple, actionable tips

  Published: 23rd August 2025

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• Why does big tech not run Accessibility bug bounties?

  10 reasons why this would be great

  Published: 23rd August 2025

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• FashionNova fined $5.15M, Vueling Airlines €90,000

  While Carrefour, Agir, Auchan, E.Leclerc have been serviced notice under the EAA

  Published: 16th August 2025

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• Link Purpose (In Context) WCAG 2.4.4 - Accessibility Design tips

  Simple, actionable tips

  Published: 14th August 2025

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• 4 stages of Accessibility Maturity

  From intention to integration

  Published: 14th August 2025

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• Tone policing and respectability politics

  How these techniques derail Accessibility work, and what to do about it

  Published: 9th August 2025

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• Accessibility pushback

  Talking openly and debunking some common pushback

  Published: 8th August 2025

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• Does our website have until 2030 to become accessible?

  TL;DR - No

  Published: 9th June 2025

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• Figma sites, this isn’t empowerment. It’s miseducation

  Do better

  Published: 17th May 2025

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• Calendly and Accessibility Problems

  Some fixable issues

  Published: 12th December 2024

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• My friend lost their 3 year degree asking for software to help with ADHD

  The unfortunate reality

  Published: 12th December 2024

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• Understanding the European Accessibility Act (EAA)

  I’ve lots of questions

  Published: 10th December 2024

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• Buttons and Links

  A common Accessibility misstep

  Published: 8th December 2024

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• Building an Accessible Tab Component in React, Vite and Storybook for a Design System

  Technical take home test

  Published: 1st November 2024

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• 20 uncomfortable messages that I would tell my younger self

  about working within Digital Accessibility

  Published: 14th September 2024

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• Doughty Street Chambers and Accessibility Overlay use

  Law firms that should know better

  Published: 13th September 2024

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• Why Svelte?

  Which JavaScript framework should I pick?

  Published: 17th November 2023

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• The Accessibility Overlay Scandal

  It's pretty grim

  Published: 24th September 2023

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• 5 accessibility defects LinkedIn could resolve to make content more accessible

  It's the role of the platform to prevent accessibility issues

  Published: 23rd September 2023

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• Talking more about the law and accessibility

  Let's amplify the voices of individuals that have taken action

  Published: 22nd September 2023

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• Always add supporting text to icons within designs

  It benefits voice control users

  Published: 14th September 2023

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• How to make web animations more accessible?

  Have you heard of prefers-reduced-motion?

  Published: 14th September 2023

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• 20 objections to accessibility and ways to counter them

  Some suggestions

  Published: 8th September 2023

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• Audiobooks on the Google Play Store are 67.83% more expensive

  Why should people with disabilities have to pay more?

  Published: 6th September 2023

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• Target had to pay $6,000,000 due to web accessibility failures

  Precedent for other companies

  Published: 5th September 2023

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• Scandinavian Airlines were fined $100,000 for accessibility bugs

  They faced legal action in two different markets

  Published: 5th September 2023

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• Apple Books and the disability tax

  Audiobooks can be on average, 114% more expensive

  Published: 3rd September 2023

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• 95% of Frontend Developer jobs do not mention Accessibility and WCAG

  I reviewed 100 jobs in the UK in July 2023

  Published: 2nd September 2023

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• Can AI help with digital web accessibility?

  Some thoughts

  Published: 11th August 2023

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• How many HTML errors are there on the Vonage homepage?

  Short accessibility review

  Published: 6th August 2023

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• How accessible is the Fenwick homepage?

  Reviewing the online store front

  Published: 4th August 2023

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• Allbirds and accessibility

  Reviewing the homepage

  Published: 3rd August 2023

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• How accessible is the Google store?

  Reviewing the homepage

  Published: 30th July 2023

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• Ableism and on-going learning

  Shifting perspective within accessibility

  Published: 23rd July 2023

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Some of this content can also can be found on Substack and Medium.

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