Stef Walter

Several traditional Dutch windmills with large wooden blades on a waterfront. One prominent dark green windmill stands in the foreground next to wooden docks and buildings. Tall dry reeds line the water's edge under a clear blue sky with scattered white cloud

A giant wooden sculpture of Miffy (a large white bunny) dressed in traditional Dutch clothes with a colorful floral chest patch and striped skirt, and the traditional yellow wooden sandals.

Why is everything squeaking in the Netherlands, from bike chains to flags, trains?!?! With the amount of deep-fried food you would expect someone could grease those?
Also no newsletter this week due to me enjoying windmills and cheese.

Be Cute, Do Crime Capybara Sticker Be Cute, Do Crime — Capybara Edition!This capybara knows how to take it easy and still get into a little mischief. This adorable guy is living his best life, chilling in a water barrel, while proudly ...

The fox is the little gift I add to the orders so I don't currently sell it.
But you can check the other stickers on my shop including a capybara shop.stephaniewalter.design/b/be-cute-do...

A ball of pale creme yarn, a blue crochet hook and a long narrow creme crochet swatch with small holes, including a specific one that creates little Vs between different rows

In case you were wondering the "dc/FPTC2tog, dc in next 3 sc, FPTC/TC2tog, ch 1, skip over ch1-sp, rep" is complex but very satisfying!

Accessibility is Delicious: Food analogies for digital inclusion I'm always looking for ways to talk about digital inclusion without reference to legal hammers. This post gathers some yummy analogies for accessibility that can be used to raise awareness and help de...

Hungry for more accessibility analogies and metaphors related to baking? @lflegal.bsky.social has compiled some great ones. These help make thinking about accessibility more accessible to people, as they put things in terms they can relate to and understand.

www.lflegal.com/2020/05/acce...

Lots of great quotable lines from @deque's Axe-con, including this gem from @stephaniewalter.bsky.social: "You can't sprinkle eggs on the cupcake after baking it. Fixing accessibility later is messy, slow, ineffective!"

www.deque.com/axe-con/sess...

Oooh this could be fun. I'm a serial procrastinator so I know I won't actually move my fingers into building it without a real deadline ahha

YouTube video by DeadOrAliveVEVO Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) (Official Video)

Behold the vestibular disorder anthem that has been stuck in my head for 3 days. If I have to suffer with an earworm, I don't want to suffer alone.

Also can we bring those haircuts and make-up back?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGNi...

10 minutes to live, you can still register (or catch up the replay)

Honestly I could do a whole 40 minutes talk on the topic of building complex accessible color palettes for B2C products but I wonder what conference would want it. It's either too niche or people will think it's too beginner as a topic

Especially once you get the red for error green for success yellow for warning and blue for info there's not a lot left for the brand colors to play with 😅

We are going for blue and yellow brand, so the info needs to be another share of blue and the error another shade of yellow

In this case it was more like "it's easier to borrow yours without permission since it already works than put into the work of building our own palette"
But yeah programmatically speaking it's trickier to automate. I'm working with MUI at the moment it's nice but I'm still tweaking a lot

Yaaah, the yellow lover team hehe

And if you don’t use Figma, I’ve added links to web-based tools so you can follow along too.

What to expect:
- Six accessible yellow and purple palettes, ready to use
- Step-by-step guide to building palettes in Figma
- A 19 minutes video tutorial to make my whole process easy to follow

👉 Read the full article + tutorial on my blog: stephaniewalter.design/blog/yellow-...

What limits your choices is a lack of knowledge, and / or creativity. I can't do anything about creativity, but, I can help you with accessibility knowledge.

I built six WCAG-tested palettes to show that accessibility doesn’t limit creativity.

Accessibility: Yellow, Purple and the Myth of “Accessibility Limits Color Palettes”

I won't have time to debunk the old "yellow is not accessible" myth in my axe-con talk.
But, you are lucky: I already wrote a whole article on how accessibility does NOT limit color choices.
stephaniewalter.design/blog/yellow-...

#Accessibility #AccessibleColors #YellowColor

that's a hot take...

🎉 Looking for new work.

15 years front-end dev + Design Systems specialist.

I help folks build, maintain & transform design systems.

I'm also available for focused projects, front-end builds, codebase modernisation.

Short to long term.

Let's chat - stu@alwaystwisted.com

reposts appreciated <3

He sucks duck dicks by the duck dock. (Corkscrew duck dicks by the duck dock, to be anatomically precise.)

The answer is "almost anything in the kitchen in a certain quantity, or if left too long without proper storage might become toxic".

Also isn't it funny how the same thing that used to kill people in sausages is now injected under the skin for cosmetic surgery purposes?

Word of advice: maybe don't annoy the woman with a poison locket, a sharp pointy hairpin, and a black cat attitude.
She's clearly reading assassin fantaisy, is a big fan of Maomao, and researched "how to poison someone with things you can find in the kitchen" just to know if that TV show plot holds.

Thanks for the mention. Also I really like this format of newsletters mixing narrative and articles it's quite nice!!

Introduction slide to the talk How to Convince People to Care and Invest in Accessibility by Stéphanie Walter at axe-con 2026, with an illustration of a woman smiling and watering yellow-leafed plants, one of which is in a pot marked with the universal accessibility symbol. Yellow flowers and purple leaves surround her.

Also, I've prepared a talk to help designers, who are tired of having accessibility pushed later, or ignored.
February 25, 9am ET (3pm CET) I'll open the design track at #axecon with my talk "How to Convince People to Care and Invest in Accessibility" : www.deque.com/axe-con/sess...

axe-con Digital Accessibility Conference | Deque Join us to learn how to build, test, monitor, and maintain digital accessibility. Hosted on February 24-25, 2026, axe-con is completely free and virtual.

Little reminder that axe-con, organised by @deque.com is this week!!
It's a free online, two days (February 24 25) event, with a very nice line up of talks about accessibility and inclusive design.
Want to learn about accessibility? Register, check them live, or catch the replays!

#Accessibility

Remember the "Artificial Lack of Intelligence" episode of Silicon Valley where Gilfoyle removes his code?
Well...

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(it doesn't have to be in English either, if your art is in your native language and you can explain in a couple of sentences what it's about in English, I'll be happy to help promote it too)

Also, in a world taken over by AI imagery, I want to use my blog and newsletter to promote people crafting amazing things. So, if you are a crafter, an artist, an illustrator, who doesn't use AI to generate your work, and want to be featured, reach out.

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Pixels of the Week – February 22, 2026 AI hype pressure, why chatbot-first UX often fails and an amazing pink moth

My curated weekly newsletter is out.
This week, we look at AI hype pressure in design and dev work, why chatbot-first UX often fails, plus a pink moth break, embroidery insect art, and a reminder to use prefers-reduced-motion

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Have a nice week!

ooh those look nice, thanks!!