Ben Myers

Here's my summary of why websites are offline right now, and why nerds are laughing at the number 4. I've attempted to explain the jargon in use, so those interested but not working in tech have a chance at understanding what's going on.

You read ONE Homeric epic and suddenly your charts’ axes are forever skewed.

> The function of a system is its output, and no matter what utility individuals find in the tech, the widespread adoption and deployment should be considered and regarded firstly as a threat to the labor force. henry.codes/writing/it-d...

why… is my ~5-years-old <dl> article #1 on hackernews?

View transitions, anchor positioning, ​@scope, focusgroup, invokers, popovers, container queries, grid, relative colors, style-able selects, and more. The web feels like it’s getting so good at exactly the moment our collective worst practices are getting calcified as the default.

📝 Wishcessibility What do recycling and accessibility have in common? www.nicchan.me/blog/wishces...

While this absolutely sucks, we are going to see a lot more places implementing universal global age verification over this next year, because the number of states and countries legally requiring it has gotten to the point no one can keep up anymore.

Today is the last day for ACA open enrollment. Senate Republicans had every chance this week to extend ACA tax credits and chose not to — while families are stretching every dollar just to make ends meet. Healthcare should never be a luxury in America.

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

*new role has a script called `test:turbo`* *runs it* Time elapsed: 1303 seconds (21 minutes) Dead.

Hey! @lflegal.bsky.social, @rejinae.bsky.social, and @chanceyfleet.bsky.social gathered 36 authors to write about ethics in digital accessibility. Chapters, authors (I’m one of them), pre-order: www.routledge.com/Digital-Acce... Out 26 March 2026. #DigitalAccessibilityEthics #accessibility #a11y

It’s my liiiife It’s Nerf or nothin’.

If you’ve been waiting to get the audio version of my book Black Disability Politics (narrated by @imanibarbarin.bsky.social), it’s currently deeply discounted on @libro.fm! libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Gotta love how quickly pull request best practices get abandoned the moment accessibility work is involved.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states. Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

I think this is a common kind of scammy rhetorical construction that makes people mad, because it sets up a world in which the thing cannot fail, it can only be failed. I actually associate this most with diets, but it also appears a lot for Agile.

when im captioning someone's words, i caption all of their words, aside from most speech disfluencies such as uhs and ums. for example, i dont change "gonna" to "going to" or whatever else to "fix" their speech. it's racist, ableist, and classist to do so. i side-eye captioners who do that.

TIL: The Japanese Blind ICT Network (JBICT) runs AT surveys (kind of like WebAIM’s). dragonscave.space/@Piciok/1153... #accessibility #a11y

For anyone who pays attention to high contrast / forced colors mode styles: I wrote up an explanation of why forced-color-adjust: none is nearly unavoidable and how it sets up your codebase for downstream bugs: sarahmhigley.com/writing/forc...

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

I heard a rumour that they're releasing HTML6 next week, which deprecates semantics and introduces 3 new types of div. Can't wait!

Using images with alt text to show code is not very helpful. • A typical user would need to know about the alt text to copy it. • A low-vis user cannot scale it, and it won’t honor text prefs. • A blind user has to parse a wall of text they cannot pause. Paste code. Maybe a URL to longer code.

Time to submit comments to oppose a republic plan to rollback rules that help people with #disabilities get hired by federal contractors. Comments (they can be short!) due this Tuesday Sept. 2. All the info you need is here: www.lflegal.com/2025/08/comm... Thx @dredf.bsky.social

This was pushed out with a rushed security review, a coerced and unwilling engineering team, and in full opposition to our supposed company values. If you don't want it, tell them. Social media and support forums. Leadership won't listen to employees. github.blog/changelog/20...

New on the blog: “CSS-only scrollspy effect using scroll-marker-group and :target-current” www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/css-scr... — A short post about the new #CSS scroll-target-group property, how to use it with :target-current, and important #accessibility considerations to keep in mind. #a11y

No one ever tells you just how much of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is just straight up detours where Verne just lists out every kind of mollusk or shark or coral or whatever.

I have been back and forth over the span of 5 years about whether to publish this article. All opinions and experiences in this post are my own, or from people I personally know, backed up with recent reports and statistics.

#CatsOfBluesky

📝 Please, can we have ARIA Notify Live regions suck and I hope we get a better solution soon! www.nicchan.me/blog/please-...

Me sitting in on an important coordination meeting for the team I moved to last week and have little context for:

“Don’t talk to me or my son ever again.”

I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?

This is one of the biggest impacts of a protest. Seeing actual physical proof in front of your eyes that other people do not want this, and getting out of "silence = complicity" by being loud together. It's a lot easier to fight when you know you won't be alone against a powerful foe.

Due to the Coriolis effect, loading spinners in the Southern hemisphere spin the other way.

Another thing. Trump team trying to roll back 40+ year old regulations saying new construction has to be accessible. Here’s my piece today about how to file comments against this attack on #DisabilityRights: www.lflegal.com/2025/06/ener.... Will digital #accessibility be next?