Bogdan on Digital Accessibility (A11y)

Accessibility is a requirement for the web and apps we shop with, but not the systems we work in.

Manually typing passwords is a burden and is slowly being abstracted or going away.

Deliberate typo in the title, you know, with all the AI hype out there.

Some countries have already begun to 'show their teeth' regarding accessibility ignorance, but many others are still waiting.

Google Lightouse measure accessibility scores for quite some time.

Canvas element in HTML enables tremendous possibilities - from two dimensional graphic interfaces to amazing three dimensional experiences, directly in the browser.

If you use AI agents - you still need to be able to take over manually.

Staying curious and learning more about AI and where it can help with accessibility, I see a lot of work done with bolting it on instead of shifting it left.

Perhaps well-intended, the auto-scrolling content can be a real nightmare for multiple groups of users.

Regressions happen, but proper processes can prevent a lot of it.

Thanks to Michael Fairchild and Microsoft, we now have some accessibility benchmarks for a selected range of AI models - where they were tested with automatic accessibility tools after generating sample code.

Model Context Protocol (MCP) is not perfect, but it is a good start - as it can provide reality for Artificial Intelligence (AI).

5 years of Web Accessibility Directive went fast.

Long story short - all political party websites have issues, some are really obvious and all are excluding some groups of people.

Please make sure you consider all users when developing countdowns, timers and similar dynamic information or risk making some experiences horrible.