Sarah Higley

Sarah Higley

@codingchaos.bsky.social

An inveterate oddball who writes about accessibility online. Offline I'm trying to start a crow army in my backyard, but so far all they do is yell at me for peanuts. https://sarahmhigley.com/

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Adrian Roselli
@aardrian.bsky.social

Replying to @aardrian.bsky.social

[5/4] It’s a post now: adrianroselli.com/2026/02/hono... 712 words, but the images are huge (dimensions, not file size). I also captured fresh images (last night’s were an old version of my demo). #HTML #CSS #accessibility #a11y

adrianroselli.comHonoring Mobile OS Text SizeIf your users scale the text size in Android or iDeviceOS, that doesn’t always affect the size of text on a web page. It’s a function of browser and authored code, as opposed to a standardized approach. That may be changing. Support The current state of affairs in the three…
Sarah Higley
@codingchaos.bsky.social

There are so many people who take the time to really listen and care and do things well. And then something like CSS carousels comes along and a11y folks end up spending their time and energy on damage control instead of their own a11y spec improvements.

Sarah Higley
@codingchaos.bsky.social

Adrian is wrong about exactly one thing in his post, which is that “when the caret is no longer a stick” is an *excellent* pun. Added to this: in my experience running user tests with low vision users, customizing the caret is actually pretty common as an accessibility affordance.

Adrian Roselli@aardrian.bsky.social

You will soon be able to style text cursors (carets) to animate their size and color. It seems the spec doesn’t account for user preferences, so maybe don’t do it yet. adrianroselli.com/2025/09/cust... #CSS #accessibility #a11y

adrianroselli.comCustom Carets and Users: When The Caret Is No Longer a Stick (Yes, That’s a Poor Attempt at a Pun)Animated example First, let’s define caret. For the scope of this post, I am not talking about the ^ symbol, which evolved from the circumflex. I’m also not talking about the proofreader mark, sometim...

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Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁
@frank.computer

I've been thinking about accessibility overlays and what it means for personalization quite a lot the past couple of years. I've drafted up some thoughts on it: www.frank.computer/blog/2025/04...

frank.computerAccessibility overlays are good for business (just not yours)Accessibility overlays are for suckers. But they are ruining the spirit and reputation of one of the best things about computers: personalization. So why do businesses love them?

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