Erik Kroes 👀

People that answer questions with "what AI told them".

I'm happy that works for you. Thanks for the effort. But no thanks.

Be right back. Taking a shower.

I made a clickable span and now I feel dirty 😬

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For me it's RSS > bsky/mastodon. Optionally LinkedIn and Pixelfed.
And other channels vary much more. Reddit, discord, slack..

I'm in writing mode. I've been working on an "introduction to accessibility" for a bit now. One that's so good everybody wants to share it, and I'll never have to repeat myself (🤞🏿).

If anybody wants to proofread. You're very very welcome.

So you had to stab them? That's sad...

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Hurray! 🎉

You can now put Accessibility Club Summit 2026 on your calendar!
https://accessibility.club/event/accessibility-club-summit-2026

My multicolored LEGO UCS Millennium Falcon Discover topics like lego star wars, lego, Star Wars, Creativity, staff picks, and the magic of the internet at Imgur, a community powered entertainment destination. Lift your spirits with funny jokes...

This image was found on imgur.com/a/multicolor..., but more variations can be found floating on the web.

A lego spaceship (star wars millennium falcon) built with a very creative selection of pieces and colours.

Comparing Design Systems/Accessibility with Lego again:

- You can't guarantee people build great things with great parts.
- You can't expect people to build great things with terrible parts.

Make building accessible the most evident way of building. Do your thing but make it inclusive by default.

Thank goodness expertise transfers so easily.

Hehe. That would be a creative way to fix things with money!

"Let me buy this so the website doesn't bother me anymore!"

(It would probably still bother you.)

The original is with ad buttons. But I filter out all ads already 😬

linktree is proof we fail at webdesign

people arguing against separation of concerns

that's no way to start a week 😢

An image with 2 panels. In the first it compares a tiny planet Mercury to the enormous sun. The second looks like the first, but in this case it's a tiny button to close a popup, and an enormous fingertip.

I will ha.. strongly dislike your popup when:

- Escape doesn't close it
- Clicking the background doesn't close it
- The close button is sized like this

It's potentially a lot right? I thought I'd just... start somewhere.

FYI/seen on the web: arial-label is not an actual attribute.

Also, thanks for the effort and this is where automated testing shines. 🙏🏿

I'm looking forward to move to more EU-based digital products and services. Any experience with specific offerings, or approaches to do this?

Does anyone know of an accessible tool for doing 1 question surveys?

It seems a really simple problem, but all the solutions I’ve found are wildly inaccessible… I’d rather not build one myself if I can avoid it!

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Let me know when you find out. Last time I checked, Microsoft Forms was the worst. Google had issues as well, but I found them less troublesome.
For the Dutch meetup we use airtable right now. Not perfect, but the least terrible. There's an example here: airtable.com/appOF0NAsfPK...

That's @laurakalbag.com on this platform.

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Have your heard yet?

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Accessible inline collapsible How to offer depth to a text without linking elsewhere.

Updated the inline collapsible. CSS addition. Improved JavaScript. And variations using the popover-attribute!

https://www.erikkroes.nl/blog/accessible-inline-collapsible/

Accessible inline collapsible How to offer depth to a text without linking elsewhere.

My little quest for today was an accessible inline collapsible.

I need it for the extensive introduction to accessibility that I'm writing for inklusivo. And this is how I made it:

https://www.erikkroes.nl/blog/accessible-inline-collapsible/

<dfn>.

Building something with <dnf> is what I said.

But it got filtered. Sorry.

building something with

not because it's so well-supported but I like it as an element 😬

Unicorns exist Some thoughts on the concept of the "accessibility unicorn".

Some thoughts on the concept of the "accessibility unicorn". They exist, but there are still some fairy tales to be aware of.

https://www.erikkroes.nl/blog/unicorns-exist/

Almost like it's not actually simple? 😬

Hi, I'm self-employed.

The search for tools...

I'm building a dashboard tool for displaying and tracking accessibility audits and assessments.
What tools would you prefer?

Important factors: accessible and non-us. or maybe open source

Dear developer/manager,

Your accessibility testing tool can indeed find some issues. That's great for finding major barriers and steering a roadmap. Great for awareness as well!

Users and compliance need more than a tool can find. To confirm and conform, you'll need people (educated on this topic)