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“The goal isn’t to leave Google. “The goal is to build a business that could if it has to, and no longer has to care whether it does.” — @brianalvey.com brianalvey.com/2026/07/31/a...

★ Required reading for makers of websites: Matuzo’s HTML boilerplate in 2026. Every element that world-class front-end dev, author, a11y auditor & web standards speaker @matuzo.at uses for the basic structure of an HTML document … with explanations. Updated from his classic 2021 boilerplate.

Missing important titles in your web UX and content design collection since we were forced to shutter A Book Apart? Our authors have your back! Authors Together: The classic books published by A Book Apart.

❦ @alistapart.com author Liam Nugent’s Lanark is a new font inspired by the lettering of Scottish writer, artist and polymath Alasdair Gray. Includes U&lc, numbers, and punctuation. One weight in OpenType, .woff and .woff2. liamnugent.gumroad.com/l/lanark-font

New @alistapart.com author Shrey Shah takes us on an amazing interface design journey, showing what happens when assumptions based on constraints become invisible. alistapart.com/article/desi... #ux #uxui #uxdesign #AListApart 2/2

“let’s make it easier to recognise accessibility issues while we’re designing.”

My latest piece for @alistapart.com:

I worked with @mikepick.bsky.social for years. He’s a gifted art director, UX & graphic designer, and a capable illustrator too. His designs for Type Network, the W3C at 25, Scientific American, Seed Magazine, @alistapart.com, An Event Apart, and the World Science Festival 1/2

Web design should be inclusive and accessibility for everyone. These personas are perfect for helping us to recognise accessibility issues. So, dear web designers, meet your users: alistapart.com/article/good... thank you, @alandalton.bsky.social

Designers are good people. Some designs exclude people anyway. Alan Dalton offers a practical fix: accessibility personas that help you recognize problems while you're designing, not after. Homework included. alistapart.com/article/good...

Designers are good people. Some designs exclude people anyway. Alan Dalton offers a practical fix: accessibility personas that help you recognize problems while you're designing, not after. Homework included. alistapart.com/article/good...

Today I published the second update of this month to the Practical Accessibility course content. I have at least two or three more updates coming this April. As I promised, I want to keep the course as up-to-date and as relevant to your work as possible. Get access @ practical-accessibility.today

Just as a reminder — all these cool fonts are available to use on @codepen.io as well.

New on the Squarespace Engineering Blog! Squarespace & Web Standards: How We Helped Bring HTML Video & Audio Lazy-Loading to Today’s Browsers. I'm real proud of the teamwork that went into this. Stay tuned for part 2 next week, which will cover dev best practices for using this new HTML standard.

This is the #overlay company that fabricated clients, testimonials, and ratings: adrianroselli.com/2025/07/acce... Its failure to do alt text correctly for this Bluesky post should tell you all you need to know. #a11y #accessibility #WCAG

A List Apart thanks our sponsor, Northwestern Information Design and Strategy, School of Professional Studies. Ready to advance in content strategy, UX/UI, data communication, or learning design? Explore Northwestern’s online MS in Information Design & Strategy. sps.northwestern.edu/ala

Bubbles, bubbles, toil and trouble. Return with us to January, 2006, where we evaluated the hype around “Web 2.0.” #OldGold #AListApart alistapart.com/article/web3...

A List Apart founder @zeldman.bsky.social on our latest obsession with how much and how fast. zeldman.com/2026/02/16/t...

Is mobile-first CSS always the best option? Patrick Clancey explores the pros and cons and lays out an alternative.

 alistapart.com/article/mobi... #mobilefirst #CSS #AListApart

Destress your blogging life with an editorial calendar. You can create one in five minutes using any spreadsheet tool. Here’s how. wordpress.com/blog/2025/01... #blogs #blogging

A gift from the wonderful @stephaniewalter.bsky.social. #ColorTheory #palettes #resources #tools #InclusiveDesign #a11y #color #colors

Creating a content model with design-system thinking could capsize your customers’ omni-channel strategy. Avoid that outcome by creating content models that are semantic and that also connect related content. A Content Model Is Not a Design System by Mike Wills alistapart.com/article/a-co...

★ Designing Safer Web Animation For Motion Sensitivity by Val Head September 08, 2015 alistapart.com/article/desi... #a11y #OldGold @vlh.bsky.social #vestibular #VestibularDisorder #vertigo #migraines #nausea #health #ux #ixd #ui #animation #design

Know your design history: @craigmod.com (Flipboard, Art Space Tokyo) introduces Bibliotype, an HTML baseline typography library for tablet reading. #OldGold #typography #KnowYourHistory #design alistapart.com/article/a-si...

I am vaguely annoyed these are called ‘enhancements’. Animated GIF alt: App menu → Settings → AI Controls → “Block AI Enhancements” (toggle). Then scroll down and find Translations. Change from “Blocked” to “Available”.

My book, Accessibility For Everyone, is now free and online as a website. accessibilityforeveryone.site The book was first published by A Book Apart in 2017 but it holds up! It covers web accessibility for designers, developers, content folks, and really everyone who works in tech.

Beware the faux bold (and how to fix it): "I don’t know if it’s just me, or if something’s happened in the last few months, but I keep seeing faux bolds everywhere. The fix is tiny and simple." #CSS clagnut.com/blog/2438

The proximity principle is based on the idea that our minds seek to organize and bring order out of chaos, which makes it easy for us to navigate the world. Neointeraction Design explains: https://neointeraction-design.medium.com/proximity-principle-in-visual-design-1b425de55fcd

When AI can generate good-looking work instantly, “good” can’t carry the weight it used to. Change the conversation to reflect what design has always been at its best: goals-aligned, research-informed, constraints-aware, and outcomes-focused. @pseudoroom.bsky.social shares how.

Add repeatable form field groups with automatic numbering and native form participation.

Noticing when you use "it's not that bad" to deny your or others reality is part of how you practice disability justice.

My latest piece for @alistapart.com

Having both a Design Manager and a Lead Designer on the same team is beautiful, but can be messy. To make it work without creating confusion, overlap, or “too many cooks,” check Michel Ferreira’s Holistic Framework for Shared Design Leadership. Illustration: Tom Shannon for @alistapart.com. #ala25

Our most-used words in 2025 were (no surprise): 1. "content" (9×) 2. "design" (6×) 3. "webdevelopment" (5×) 4. "webdesign" (5×) 5. "html" (4×) See which words you used the most here: anisota.net/harvest

"Ultimately, many of these edits and punts were made in light of the CSS Working Group’s three primary goals for this spec. It needed to be:" Powerful • Robust • Performant

It being that time of year, I went to 24 Ways to bask in the knowledge there. Here’s a 2019 Rob Weychert post that still resonates: A Modern Typographic Scale. 24ways.org/2019/a-moder... #design #typography #UXUI #TypographicScales

“To recoup their existing and announced investments, AI companies will have to bring in $2 trillion, more than the combined revenue of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia and Meta. “And they have to bring in that $2 trillion before all those GPUs burn out…which is, again, about 2–3 years.”

November 30 is #BlueBeanieDay, supporting web standards and accessibility, the building blocks empowering a people-first web. Remember how good that web felt? It still does. Join us! Pop on a blue beanie and smile.

A happy #BlueBeanieDay to you and yours, celebrating an open and accessible web. ( #pixelart design for @alistapart.com )

Know your design history: @craigmod.com (Flipboard, Art Space Tokyo) introduces Bibliotype, an HTML baseline typography library for tablet reading. #OldGold #typography #KnowYourHistory #design alistapart.com/article/a-si...

When you think about it, the phrase “earning a living” is really quite vile. 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22233

Receipts: a brief list of prominent articles proclaiming the death of the web. zeldman.com/2025/10/25/r...

Built on good old robots.txt, the new open content licensing standard Really Simple Licensing (RSL) adds licensing and royalty terms. Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, and wikiHow are some of the major brands adopting the standard in hopes AI companies will pay. www.theverge.com/news/775072/...

📢 New post: I wrote about improving at designing type in fits and starts while working on a lowercase for my font Citywide. Progress isn’t always quick, but I’m really enjoying the make mistakes 🔁 get a little better loop. jasonsantamaria.com/blog/learnin...

Back in 2007 I started freelancing under the name Made by Elephant. Was doing some domain cleanup and was curious what the logo would look like if I did it today. Fun little Wednesday warmup exercise. (Old on the left, new on the right)

As designers, “our role is to improve experiences for all users, always. But products operate in financial ecosystems. Without a viable business, there’s no user experience to champion.” – Andy Budd andybudd.com/archives/202...

While Hitler plotted and Europe crumbled, a motley crew of mathematicians, philosophers, architects, and economists met weekly to invent Computer Science. Mark Bernstein mines this forgotten history for lessons that just might save today’s web from its worst impulses.

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They say AI will replace the web as we know it, and this time they mean it. Here follows a short list of previous times they also meant it, starting way back in 1997.

I probed an LLM’s responses to HTML code generation prompts to assess its adherence to accessibility best practices. The results showed key areas where better training data is needed.