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Front-end Dev / Recording Artist / Speaker / Certified A11y Professional (CPACC) / Scuba Diver / Psychologist / Muso Shinden Ryu / PHA F&AM / rightbadcode.com
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The water felt great!
#scuba
Me floating on the surface of the water wearing scuba gear
January 4, 2026 at 9:29 PM
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I really would like to know where these people were when they Shazamed my song.
Stat that shows my song was Shazamed 3 times in Romania
December 27, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Diving Through Neon didn't do to bad in my book. Thanks for listening.
Spotify wrapped showing Diving Through Neon as my top album for 2025 with 49.8 thousand streams
December 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Me looking at accessibility issues that I'm about to deal with
Boxer Anthony Joshua drawing his fist back just before he breaks jake paul's jaw.
December 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Just submitted my first Chrome extension for review.

#Accessibility #A11y
A modal window that reads "Pending Review Your item has been submitted and is currently going through a compliance review. This review may take up to a few business days to complete. Please check the developer dashboard for the most current state of your item’s review. Note: Unpublishing your item will not cancel the review. If you unpublish, you won’t be able to re-submit your item until the current review has been completed. Why is my item pending review?"
December 21, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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Bars!
Pope Francis holding a mic with the words "I bomb atomically, Socrates' philosophies and hypotheses can't define how I be dropping these mockeries"
December 20, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Reading a post by @benmyers.dev and yeah, I read this with a pirate accent.
An accordion heading the reads "Here there be chonky tables"
December 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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This is how I imagine Bobby Caldwell singing "Don't Stop Believin"

#Oli_Howe_Keys
December 18, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Hey Devs,
Just a heads up... This is what digital ableism looks like. Don't do this. And if you do, you must add a styled focus indicator to replace the one you hid.

Focus Visible (Level AA)
www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/U...

#Accessibility #A11y #WebDev
css that removes the outline from a focusable element. Doing so makes it impossible for a keyboard user to know where they are in navigating the content using a keyboard.
December 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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The vertical spacing of the dots is making my eye twitch
six dots labeled Braille are not even spaced
December 17, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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This year on Bluesky I wrote 935 posts and 965 replies. I received 6,392 likes, whereas 99 was from my most popular post, and apparently I love saying "accessibility" and 😂!

www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...
A social bubble graph that shows my top interactions and stats on Blusky
December 17, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Thanks for the review of my accessibility course. @sumudusiriwardana.bsky.social

#Accessibility @oreilly.bsky.social
A review of my accessibility course This is one of the clearest and most beginner friendly introductions to web accessibility I have come across. It walks through accessibility and inclusion in plain language, then connects those ideas to the WCAG guidelines in a way that actually makes sense and does not feel intimidating. This course is a solid starting point for anyone new to accessibility, including non technical team members who want a clear, grounded understanding of the basics.
December 16, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Rocked my Accessibility fail ugly sweater tonight at the Holiday party. It was a big hit with everyone who knew HTML. Even one person who is learning HTML was giddy that she understood why this is bad.

#Accessibility #A11y #UglySweater #RightBadCode
An ugly Christmas sweater with text that reads "<span onclick="fail()">A11y</span> is as ugly as this sweater"
December 6, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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When a company chooses to use an overlay or widget to "fix" accessibility issues. They don't fix issues, they cover them up.

#Accessibility #A11y #RightBadCode
December 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Having "Offer every visitor a personalized browsing journey while adhering to WCAG guidelines" on your site when there are 32 detectable errors via automation and an additional 30 errors found after manual testing is comedic. Issues that the widget can't fix, mind you.

#Accessibility #A11y
The results of an automated accessibility scan that shows 32 detectable accessibility errors
December 2, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Take the new #Affinity app for a spin
launch screen for the Affinity app with text that reads, "Launching Affinity Your Canva sign-in was successful. You may now close this window and get started with Affinity!"
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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it feels like a lot of people are at this point when it comes to dealing with nonsense, and it's great!
A meme showing a single character on one side is yelling at a group of people on the other side. The group is not really interested in what the other has to say, so one of the characters in the group gives a thumbs-up. afterwhich, the group ignores the one who was yelling and goes back to their conversation
November 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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@aspleenic.bsky.social ... Bruh. 🤣
2 cell cartoon with Batman in the top cell and Spider-man in the bottom cell. Batman is prank calling Spider-man. Batman says to Spider-Man while holding a phone, "Hey is Uncle Ben home? Spider-Man replies, "No. He's at the theater with your parents!"
October 21, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Yep. It happened again 😂🤦🏽‍♂️ 🤮
A giraffe leaning over a fence towards a fedding deck.
October 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Shout out to @makotoueki.bsky.social for my "Best slide design" award. These are actually my favorite flavor of #KitKat

@a11yto.bsky.social #A11yTOconf
A box of Uji Matcha KitKat
October 17, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Another successful talk in the books! Thanks for having me @a11yto.bsky.social

#A11yTOconf #A11y
I'm standing on stage presenting at a conference. The first slide from my presentation is on screen with the text "The Anatomy of an Accessible Chat Interface"
October 17, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Freaking overlay strikes again
Lines of text are being blocked by an accessibility overlay icon
October 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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It still baffles me why this team didn't make these images of the Windows high contrast themes the actual buttons to choose a theme.

#UI #UX
A menu of 4 different high contrast images that represent the four themes available to choose.
September 24, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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I heard TikTok has a new buyer, and the new UI is fire!

"Nothing beats a Jet2 holiday"
A Southwest jet rendered in a very dated Windows 3.1 window.
September 17, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Reading an article, I was curious about the"story text" menu and wondered why they didn't just make the text more accessible by default. Then I saw the asterik next to "width" tied to "subscribers only". Not 100% on what "width" does, but A11y functions should never be behind a paywall.

#a11y
A supplemental menu that provides the reader with three different options to control how the text renders. The options are size, width, and links. The option "width" has an asterisk which is associated with the words "subscribers only"
September 16, 2025 at 2:50 AM