Chris Gibbons

Now we're talking! "...the industry pretends the problem is about awareness. It isn’t about awareness. It’s about who’s writing the front-end code, and whether they’re qualified to write it." I couldn't agree more, @gbbns.co! gbbns.co/journal/acce...

Four pieces on why accessibility keeps failing. Engineering. Design. Organisations. And what it actually looks like when it works, sort of. gbbns.co/journal/what... #Accessibility #Rant

Agencies/consultancies that don’t have the skills, or awareness. Enterprises buried in process. And then there’s “phase 2”: the politest way to deprioritise accessibility indefinitely. Part 3 of the series is up. gbbns.co/journal/orga... #Accessibility #Rant

The brief never mentioned disabled people. The crit never raised it. The award didn’t ask. And the designer never found out who couldn’t use what they designed. Rant, part 2 - gbbns.co/journal/desi... #Accessibility #Rant

Same pattern, every team. Designer annotates everything. Design system specifies focus states, heading structure, the lot. Engineering ships something broken anyway. Not an awareness problem. A skills gap the industry built deliberately. Rant here - gbbns.co/journal/acce... #Accessibility

🥁 Drumroll please! Our #CampDigital 2025 schedule is now live! 🚀 Check out our full agenda of talks and workshops, including our keynotes @herahussain.bsky.social, @richardpope.org and @axbom.com, and book your tickets for 3rd July at: www.nexerdigital.com/campdigital/... #Design #Digital #UX

HERO vs ZERO I'm in a state of shock & still trying to process yesterday's shameful, traitorous debacle in the WH: A DAY THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY. Our standing in the world has plummeted overnight, but the repercussions will be felt forevermore. #SlavaUkraini🇺🇦 #ShameOnUS🇺🇸

Enjoying embracing the dry January challenge, it’s only been 4 days, which I know is nothing, but, head already feels clearer and sleep is better - despite horrible flu/chest infection.

Looking forward to a couple of days in Edinburgh with the team. Nice way to round off a throughly decent 2nd half of 2024.

Thank you 2024, you’ve been better than last year, lots of good things happened, I’ve learned lots, reconnected with the industry, and had a blast. Thanks to all that have made it the year it’s been, here’s some swears about it - gbbns.co/journal/2024...

Anyone fancy proof reading a sweary, grammar confused nightmare of a blog post for me?

Any decent block-lists out there?

@jhey.dev @seaotta.bsky.social How are you getting on the BenQ halo lightbar? I’m toying with getting one, but want honest folks feedback.

Bluesky does have email based 2FA and you can (should) turn it on now. Not as good as being able to use an authenticator app, but better than nothing

Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria is running high this morning. Fingers crossed for a good day ahead.

Amazed at just how easy it was to use my own domain as my handle! Hopefully folks can still find me 👀

If I change my handle to be my custom domain, does it also update any starter packs I’m tagged in?

My @perfnow.bsky.social slides will be up soon, but TL;DR: the web is losing, in part because frontend has been captured by charlatans. It's hurting users, and keeping the web from competing. To stave off irrelevance, the open web must deliver for users.

Currently I have a production site on 11ty v1, is it worth the effort upgrading it to v3, or moving it entirely over to Astro?

Watching the news, and boy is it depressing. Listening to the incoherent, tangent driven, ramblings of an absolute power-mad maniac 😢

America 💔

RTO mandates are all well and good, until you’ve the point where you’ve been trying to get home for nearly two hours, and still have at least an hour left, all because the infrastructure in your country is awful.

Home from an amazing weekend in The Lakes with my amazing girlfriend, absolutely did not want it to end.

One of the biggest issues faced this year has been how “design leaders” still don’t get accessibility. Good design is nothing if folks can’t use it. That’s not a difficult concept to take in, yet some “design leaders” still need you to justify it. Go figure.

Remember the first time you created that index.html, opened in the browser, and it felt like magic? Blake Watson wrote a free online ebook on how to build HTML websites htmlforpeople.com

It’s only after stoping to reflect on the year, in prep for an end of year post, I’ve realised how fucked up some of it actually was, but equally how it’s helped me grow. Thankful, as ever, for my amazing support network. Can’t wait to finish it. Already excited for next year.

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #246,257!

First day back after a *much* needed two weeks off, and for the first time in a long while, I'm actually looking forward to going back - though the 05:20 alarm was somewhat of a shock 😂

It still amazes me, in the era of cloud computing and scalability, how shambolic services like #TicketMaster still are…

Loving the influx of new followers on here, hoping to start reconnecting with folk and learning, like in the old days of the dead bird site.

Out of office set, for the first time in two years I feel like I can truly relax.

Looking forward to the beginning of a new chapter tomorrow.

Well I might have lost the battle, but I’ll win the war.

This weeks vibes.

Friends! It’s Monday. And this week is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (#GAAD)! You know what that means. 📢 I'm having a GAAD SALE Starting today, you can get the Practical Accessibility course at 25% OFF 🎁⤵️ practical-accessibility.today The sale ends on May 20th. ⏳ #a11y

Anxiety flare up, caused, ironically, by putting the fact I have anxiety/ED/depression on a form and now having to wait a call to discuss it.

Hi folks 👋

@sconner.net Great talk, mate. Really enjoyed it, and super relevant to what I’m doing right now.

Thinking of an IxDF subscription to help with the sideways move to design… thoughts, folks?

Disappointing that bluesky doesn't have birthday balloons.

There's nothing worse (well for me at least) than a shitty event (which youve been waiting for) occuring and then the wait... The wait until it triggers my eating disorder. The last couple of days haven't been great, and I've felt utter shame, but I know I can get back to "normal".