15 posts filed under Accessibility, newest first.
I pulled up the list of headings on a client's page and got the company name and three things at level four, with the actual subject of the page missing from the list entirely because somebody had built it out of a div.
A customer saved a client's returns page as a PDF and got back a column of questions with white space under every one of them, which is what an accordion does when it meets a printer.
I deleted a focus trap last October and was extremely pleased with myself, then read the dialog element's documentation properly and found the one method call that had been doing that job, and 4 others, since 2022.
Somebody at a client's office emailed to say the order filters sent them back to the beginning every time they used them, and the fix was deleting the 180 lines I had written to do that job badly.
A client's site was flashing white on every load for anyone whose operating system is dark, and the declaration that fixed it also closed the unreadable checkout dropdown I'd had filed under Chrome being weird for months.
I pressed Tab once on a client's homepage and focus went straight into the support chat launcher below the footer, because somewhere in the markup that widget injects there was a positive number.
An accordion with keyboard support, correct announcement and no JavaScript at all, which most of us reimplemented by hand for about a decade before noticing.
I took my phone out to the front steps to look at a page I'd built, couldn't read a word of it, and then found that every pair of colors on it cleared the threshold with room to spare.
I applied a filter on a client's product listing with the keyboard and the next Tab put me on the site logo, which is the browser doing exactly what it's supposed to do with a focused element that stopped existing.
An operating system setting that has been sitting there since 2018 telling you somebody gets motion sick, and the two-line stylesheet that is the whole of respecting it.
A client asked what it would take for their site to go dark along with their laptop, I said half a day, and then I searched the stylesheet for white and got 61 results.
A parallax hero I was pretty pleased with gave a coworker a headache that lasted the rest of the afternoon, and they were the one who said sorry.
A group of radio buttons has a question attached to it, and the question needs to be in the markup rather than in a heading that happens to sit nearby.
Every image on the site had an alt attribute, the checker reported zero errors, and not one of those attributes told anybody anything because filling in a field and writing a sentence turn out to be different jobs.
The abbreviation element is one of about four places in HTML where the title attribute is the actual content rather than a decoration, and it is still unreachable for anybody not holding a mouse.