talk and articles
- 🎤 Recognise
- my five-minute presentation about accessibility, from Interaction Design Association (IxDA) Dublin’s Defuse (Design for Use) event in 2025
- đź‘Ą Good designers, bad websites: a proposal
- my article—based on my Recognise presentation—for the iconic A List Apart website
- đź“š Microdata for books
- my article illustrating how to use HTML’s microdata features to convey a lot of programmatically determinable information with little effort, as part of the HTMHell Advent Calendar 2024
- ♿️ trilogy of web accessibility articles for the 24 ways advent calendar
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- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines—for People Who Haven’t Read Them (2017) (Airbnb’s Inclusive Design Lead has used this in workshops in San Francisco & Beijing!)
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1—for People Who Haven’t Read the Update (2018)
- Future Accessibility Guidelines—for People Who Can’t Wait to Read Them (2019)
references
- 🌿 Authors Apart
- tracking the authors’ preferred ways of making their books available since A Book Apart closed
- 🪜 Authors’ Simple Steps
- tracking the authors’ preferred ways of making their books available since Five Simple Steps closed
- 🥋 combat applications of Jiu-Jitsu principles
- a handy table for those of us who’ve read Rener Gracie’s The 32 Principles of Jiu-Jitsu
tools
- đź“’ Tabulater
- A tool that takes unstructured text and generates semantically correct, accessible HTML tables using the Claude Platform API.
- 🧺 Should you hang out your washing today?
- quick, plain advice on whether today’s weather will dry your clothes outside
- ⚔️ The Art Of War by Sun Tzu
- a handy way to read the ancient Chinese military treatise
- 🧮 Compound Interest Calculator
- a simple calculator for compound interest, with a conversational interface