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product designer in biotech, software engineer • prev. @github Copilot • giving a 🦆 about accessible, responsible and inclusive web https://bento.me/alenanik
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"There is no business that can be successful, without successful users." - @vitalyf.bsky.social www.deque.com/axe-con/sess... #axecon

When CEO is hanging out in my Figma file I can’t design a simple rectangle

New in Chrome DevTools: Accurately emulate CPU performance of a low/mid tier phone with Automatic CPU throttling calibration! 📲 This feature calculates slow-downs for your specific device. Wanted this for years! We just shipped it.

Any time I read about the struggles of crafting "agentic" AI I immediately envision a stadium full of semantic-minded accessibility engineers wordlessly screaming without end.

Advocating for accessibility is only going to get harder from this point 💔

Adding table of contents into long README is accessibility feature

Not gonna lie, juggling onboarding, designing for two launching features, and being pregnant isn’t exactly the easiest combo. 😬 (Thank goodness axe-con 2025 is online, so I can watch it while dying on the sofa)

"Disabled users don't use my website" is a cop-out and a lie. There's no way to know how many assistive technology users are using your site. You can't confidently exclude a large portion of the world's population that has a disability by claiming none of them use your site.

One nice accessibility feature in Firefox and their font and color customisation settings (for web and PDFs opened in Firefox) for text, backgrounds and links ✨ #a11y support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cha...

Prototyping in code > prototyping in Figma. Sorry not sorry 😅

I have feelings about AI & the web & my experience being trans "in tech" in 2025 - so I screamed some thoughts onto my personal web log. I hope for all of us a more queer & humane future. Keep building communities & dreaming better paths. https://www.miriamsuzanne.com/2025/02/12/tech-ai-wtf/

🚀 🆕 style-observer: A robust solution for observing CSS property changes in JS. Developed with @d12n.me’s help over the last month. Made possible by the pioneering work of @bram.us, Artem Godin, @janeori.propjockey.io and many others! Blog post: lea.verou.me/blog/2025/st... Docs: observe.style

No one tells that you stop sleeping before the baby arrives because the baby is having parties every night and won’t stop kicking

Designer-PM feelings are so real. I’m still talking to “my PM” daily and I left that job half a year ago 😂

Looking for books recommendations on research and strategy 👀 (after this next purchase: www.mulebooks.com/just-enough-...)

Loved Slacks approach to accessibility testing as a team responsibility ✨ “At Slack, customer love is our first priority and accessibility is a core tenet of customer trust.” 💜 slack.engineering/automated-ac...

“You are only getting better that things you do the most”

Health insurance website: The calendar “picker” is not accessible via keyboard, colour contrast is failing, buttons are empty and… (wait for it) the form is time sensitive. 😳 At this point just let it be the regular text input!

New post: “Which VoiceOver?” adrianroselli.com/2025/02/whic... Just because something behaves a certain way in VoiceOver doesn’t mean it behaves that way in VoiceOver. #a11y #accessibility

People I meet say: - Oh you are a designer now, so much creative work right? My actual work: - Can we have a default size option or max size of amazon s3 bucket, so the user doesn't have to choose the size?

Vi el directo. Imposible no pensar en las mujeres en tecnología y los eventos “tech”viendo a lo que se enfrentan las científicas. Que necesario hacer que seamos visibles 💜

A few good points on what do do and think about before ordering an accessibility audit. It’s important to have user journeys very clear so nothing is missed. #EAA #a11y “Before you buy an accessibility audit “ 🔗 cerovac.com/a11y/2025/02...

In hashtags, it helps if each new word starts with a capital letter. Otherwise, sighted users could see a string of letters and not immediately know where one word ends and a new word begins. Capitalized words also help screen readers properly read out the hashtag.

Check the contrast between two hex values from Raycast 🌈 www.raycast.com/jameslyons/sip

The US Web Design System deletes info on inclusive design, in response to the Executive order "Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs...". github.com/uswds/uswds-... Why not use the Inclusive Design principles instead: inclusivedesignprinciples.info #accessibility #a11y #inclusion