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  RE: https://aus.social/@onsman/117427821054021103 Permalink: https://onsman.com/weekly-reading-list-12-october-2026/

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  Trump’s new press secretary, who has repeatedly asserted she is an attorney, seemingly isn’t. Not in California, not in China. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/10/13/katie-zacharia-calls-herself-lawyer-legal-experts-arent-sure/ Archive: https://archive.is/4nVBc It’s a continued requirement that you have to be unethical to work in this administration.

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  This explains why the product shots looked so weird on the models — plaids with perfect lines, weird folds, and odd artifacting when zoomed. The cardboard cut-out model was just the uncanny bonus. Ok, tab closed. (I cropped the photo to show the message buried in the bottom left.)

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  Nic Steenhout on ‘AI’ screen reader testing: https://nicolas-steenhout.com/ai-screen-reader-testing/ I added it to my post about speech viewer logs (with some bonus nuggets from Weston Thayer): https://adrianroselli.com/2020/08/speech-viewer-logs-of-lies.html#Update09 (anchor) #accessibility #a11y

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  Aaron Gustafson made a web component for sortable tables: https://www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/sortable-tables-with-progressive-enhancement/ I’m a fan (given many other terrible efforts). Especially the row grouping. If you use it, I noted 3 things to consider / adapt: https://adrianroselli.com/2021/04/sortable-table-columns.html#Update01 (anchor) #HTML #accessibility #a11y

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  “Accessibility-first screen reader prediction” is not a solution, folks. Parsing a DOM and building your _own_ accTree to then *emulate* how desktop screen readers _might_ announce a page as if *maybe* using read-all just ends up putting more burden on human testers. Never mind missing the bugs, features, heuristics, and more built into a DOM parser and screen reader engine. Unless your goal is satisfy a dashboard while removing humans from your #accessibility testing. #a11y #ScreenReader

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  Yeah, this is administration is totally not in Putin’s pocket. “More Trump Allies Aided Pro-Russian Balkan Government” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/us/politics/trump-russia-srpska-elections-wiles.html “Exclusive: Musk approached Trump to slow down Starlink in Ukraine” https://archive.is/YreHR#selection-2965.4-2965.69

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  See how many visible WCAG violations you can find in this 25 second clip from https://corpowid.ai/blog/the-eu-ai-act-and-accessibility-how-they-intersect-in-2026 ! One hint — my window is 1,280px wide. You don’t have to share. We don’t do free audits for #overlay companies here. As always, adding overlays adds risk, adds barriers, adds harm. #a11y #accessibility

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  Only 8 hours until @inclusivedesign24@indieweb.social! 7½ if you drop in on the pre-show. #id24 https://inclusivedesign24.org/2026/schedule/

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  Nextdoor keeps trying to get me to “Discover [my] neighborhood,” but it does so by using slop photos for my city and neighborhood that have no relation to reality (and make the not-my-street look a little gross). Strong signal to not join the platform that can’t be arsed to use existing imagery. #Buffalo

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  “The ‘Disability Dongle’: Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and you.” by @WeirdWriter@caneandable.social: https://sightlessscribbles.com/disability-dongle/ I’ve attached my disability dongle meme because yes. #accessibility #a11y

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  Dislike. “Media Library infinite scrolling is now enabled by default, with a per-user opt-out” https://make.wordpress.org/core/2026/07/23/media-library-infinite-scrolling-is-now-enabled-by-default-with-a-per-user-opt-out/ “Enable infinite scrolling in the Media Library grid view by default” https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/65564 #accessibility #a11y #WordPress

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  I updated “Don’t Disable Form Controls” with a suggestion on what to do with submit buttons: https://adrianroselli.com/2024/02/dont-disable-form-controls.html#SubmitInstead And no, making them read-only is not it, so don’t: https://adrianroselli.com/2024/11/avoid-read-only-controls.html #HTML #accessibility #a11y #ARIA #CSS #JS #hashbrowns

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  With alt. Also top of page 2: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.njd.601006/gov.uscourts.njd.601006.12.0.pdf What you get when the agents & agency get incentives to detain and the detainee is sent to a private prison that gets paid to detain him. The government scamming taxpayers and counting on racism to let it go unnoticed.

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  Went to a show with a lot of hippies in the crowd for the first three acts and was afraid I’d have to do all the skanking for the ska final act but then the 2 tone started and skankers came out of the woodwork and I may have thrown out my hip.

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  Deque in February 2025: https://adrianroselli.com/2025/03/be-wary-of-accessibility-guarantees-from-anyone.html#Foreground:~:text=committed%20to%20achieving%20100%25%20automation%20or%20so%20close%20that%20the%20difference%20won%E2%80%99t%20matter%20for%20digital%20accessibility%20testing%20in%20the%20very%20near%20future%2E Deque in July 2026: https://www.deque.com/blog/new-report-shows-volume-of-ai-generated-code-is-significantly-increasing-accessibility-debt-risk/#:~:text=Organizations%20are%...

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  I know nothing about LabX Media Group. Is my decades-old subscription to Scientific American about to bring me enshittified content instead? Anyone have experience with LabX Media Group beyond what I can find on its site? “LabX Media Group Acquires Scientific American, Expanding Global Science Media Portfolio” https://www.prweb.com/releases/labx-media-group-acquires-scientific-american-expanding-global-science-media-portfolio-302807304.html

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  Are you a screen reader user who relies on F6 navigation? Maybe you have an opinion on navigating landmarks on web pages via a proposed `focuslandmark`? https://github.com/openui/open-ui/issues/1472#issuecomment-5062013011 #HTML #accessibility #a11y

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  I missed that Georgetown not only purged posts from its former provost, it also took down the entire blog. So this banger exists only in the Wayback: “Eating our Seed Corn” (about ‘AI’) https://web.archive.org/web/20240703032246/https://blog.provost.georgetown.edu/eating-our-seed-corn/ Found because I was updating a post on my site and this link was dead.

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  This is one way to get rid of your Real Doll overstock: “New York School District Shells Out $58K for a Robot Teaching Assistant” https://www.pcmag.com/news/a-robotic-teaching-assistant-is-heading-to-a-new-york-state-school I’m driving through Salamanca this weekend. Well, I might route around it, actually.

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  /me starts reading post on building an accessible modal dialog using `<dialog>`. /me comes to this sub-head about five paragraphs in. Me: “Ok then.” /me ignores remaining 2,000 words, closes tab, adds site to block list. Me: “That was a good use of everyone’s time.”

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@SteveFaulkner/116991169497136323 A was a big fan of the original aViewer, so I look forward to trying this one. Probably on a VM to start.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/116992048337520434 I appreciate this both acknowledges the error and credits the resources. Something I’d like to see more of from browsers (looks askance at Chrome). Key takeaways: • `aria-label` is code smell, • testing in only VoiceOver is always insufficient (as is testing in only one SR in general, but VO compounds it).

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  Guess I’m not using Bluesky while in Texas for Disability:IN.

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  The ADHD I mean D&D gaming group has been playing for an hour and still hasn’t actually started the adventure.

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  So. `<search>`. ’Bout time. https://twitter.com/htmlstandard/status/1639083303117651968 PR: https://github.com/whatwg/html/commit/c598ff023f081dd3f03b2e43177a632fb7dc92ec Closes https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/5811 Which makes me sad because I miss Carolyn.

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  RE: https://aus.social/@onsman/116516635044763562 Permalink: https://onsman.com/weekly-reading-list-may-4-2026/

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  Tomorrow: https://adrianroselli.com/2025/11/pre-order-digital-accessibility-ethics.html #DigitalAccessibilityEthics

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  I’m now afraid this shit-crony will come back to Buffalo to lick his turd-crony wounds and leave poop-crony stains all over town again as he works to crony-up once more. Thanks to this case, I now know that in NY, calling someone a “crony” is non-actionable rhetorical hyperbole. Crony. https://bsky.app/profile/joshuajfriedman.com/post/3ml54ifdlrk2x

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