Adrian Roselli, pH0

So I’ve still got time!

I will be at #SOTB2026 on Saturday, Jet-lagged and confused.

If you feel I’ve wronged you, that’s your chance to seek satisfaction. Heck, I may print cards of satisfaction and just leave them on my lap so I can nap during lunch.

YouTube video by Nostalgic Nebula Twin Peaks Day

I hate linking YouTube, but ran out of time to pull this down.
www.youtube.com/shorts/2PXJ1...

Happy Twin Peaks Day!

🆕 Using ARIA
W3C Discontinued Draft 24 February 2026

perma home of the Rules of #ARIA

#HTML #a11y

www.w3.org/TR/using-ari...

The “Average Accessibility Defects” number goes down with some guidance, but right back up with expert guidance.

Wondering if experts try to coach it (versus hand-wavy requests) and LLM’s corpus of stolen data doesn’t have the material to make what’s asked of it.

mastodon.social/@SteveFaulkn...

Me dragging an image into the Teams PWA UI, and given no option to add alt text.

Me attaching image into Teams PWA UI, still no option.

Me pasting the image. Yeah, sure, Teams lets me add alt text.

Who is the fucklechuck who came up with this UI?

Horizontal Scrolling Containers Are Not a Content Strategy I should clarify that I am not talking about carousels. That said, because users often consider horizontal scrolling containers to be carousels, I will be talking about carousels. Also, this post is w...

“Horizontal Scrolling Containers Are Not a Content Strategy”
adrianroselli.com/2025/08/hori...

I’m just a boy, standing in front of a designer, asking them to love users.

#UX #accessibility #a11y

Kagan really said, “99 problems but a tariff ain’t one.”

Oh hell yes, recommendations from fellow celiacs FTW.

Thank you!

They look good.

Well I’ve got maps with places that may or may not lie!

Anyone have tips for #GlutenFree eateries in / near City of #London, Barbican, Farringdon, etc?

I’m comfortable finding my own (or just limiting what I eat), but any suggestions welcome.

Long Alt TL;DR: Keep your image alternative text brief, devoid of special characters, empty of URLs, and ideally in one language. Here We Go Sometimes you can have too much alternative text, particularly for a...

Mastodon doesn’t support closed caption files. Bluesky does, but the sizing is poop.

But you can use open captions _and_ link to a transcript.

Embedding a transcript as alt text instead of linking it? Probably don’t do that for reasons: adrianroselli.com/2024/04/long...

Yes, this is a sub-toot.

Found another in an old Jira ticket: vigorously animated hugging bear emoji.

On the same page as: hopping mad thumbs-up emoji.

Billionaire Les Wexner tells US lawmakers he was 'naive' and 'conned' by Epstein | Flipboard BBC News - American billionaire businessman Les Wexner, who is alleged to have played a key role in helping Jeffrey Epstein build his wealth, has described himself as "naive, foolish and gullible" for...

It really seems like the ratio of billionaires who were ‘conned’ by Epstein is dramatically higher than the ratio of the general populace.

Maybe there’s something about billionaires that makes them such easy marks. Some trait or failing. Some moral gap.

flipboard.com/@bbcnews/top...

Another Web Access Overlay Company Sued by a Small Business Another class action lawsuit has been filed by a small business that purchased an overlay monthly subscription, yet still got hit with a lawsuit claiming its website was not accessible. This suit agai...

From @LFLegal@mastodon.social, a magistrate just has recommended the suit against UserWay (Level Access) from BloomsyBox move forward.

BloomsyBox sued UserWay for violation of the Delaware Consumer Fraud Act.

More info, links:
www.lflegal.com/2025/02/user...

#overlays #UserWay #LevelAccess

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Granted, some lingo is a team trying to reinvent the same old pattern while pretending it’s new.

That’s how we get drawers and bottom-sheets which are typically dialogs.

Or cards and tiles which are usually just divs.

Or toasts and growls which are shitty messages.

Stop Using ‘Drop-down’ TL;DR: Stop using the word drop-down. Instead choose a term that accurately describes the control you want. I have worked both with native platform developers and web developers. While control names m...

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• Drop-down: adrianroselli.com/2020/03/stop...
• Grid: adrianroselli.com/2024/07/be-c...
• Menu: adrianroselli.com/2023/05/be-c...
• Pop-up: adrianroselli.com/2021/07/stop...

#HTML #accessibility #a11y

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Client explaining spec: “Clicking the drop-down opens a product grid menu with pop-ups to choose colors.”

Me: “Wut.”

Technical pedantry is important in UI and digital accessibility work. As practitioners we have to translate lingo all the time.

Suggestions…

#HTML #accessibility #a11y

Oh I like that.

Cleric: The beholder invited us. I’m going to bring him a fruit basket.

Wizard: That’s not what he meant.

DM: It’s November, there’s no fresh fruit.

Cleric: Oh. I’m not bringing a beholder a basket of gourds. That’s not right.

Wizard: No, you should. And carve one to look like him.

Oops, hit ‘send’ too soon.

Anyway, I think your approach is far more fun to write.

In the past, on the hell site, I sometimes posted alt text instead of images because it amused me to see people ask what happened to the image.

The one I use most frequently in email: animated Simpsons-yellow skin tone thumbs-up emoji.

Somebody once thought the email client was writing that automatically because it couldn’t show the image they expected to see.

mas.to/@ChanceyFlee...

w3c.social/@w3cdevs/116...

beige.party/@Lana/116065...

Ring cancels Flock deal after dystopian Super Bowl ad prompts mass outrage “This is definitely not about dogs,” senator says, urging a pause on Ring face scans.

All this means is Amazon / Ring won’t again make the mistake of telling us, with or without puppies, that it’s continuing to grow its panopticon in service of the surveillance state.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Flock will just change its name.

“I unfortunately have to balance that with my current job which involves advocacy. I can’t, as I’ve explained, just totally put away my day job,” he said. Carl is a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, a conservative think tank.

So the Claremont Institute pays Jeremy Carl to be antisemitic and racist?
www.cnn.com/2026/02/12/p...

That’s gotta be a fascinating job description.

You’re suggesting the LLM is up to the task when you’re really admitting it failed and you’re too lazy to take it further.

Less critical folks won’t understand that and shitty managers pre-disposed to justifying their sunk costs will reference it as a win.

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If you’re vide-coding MVPs (or pre-MVPs?) that you have no intention of taking further and instead releasing them as proofs of concept and moving on to your next soon-to-be-abandoned MVP, understand that you’re a patsy. A shill.

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Level-Setting Heading Levels TL;DR: Avoid setting heading levels greater than six (6). This applies whether using aria-level or the proposed headingstart headingoffset HTML attribute. Use HTML <h#> elements whenever possible. ARI...

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• adrianroselli.com/2020/01/my-p...

If all goes well, the LLM thieves won’t 503 my site!