Under construction

Well, August was a bit of a blur.

We’re renovating, so I’ve spent most of my weekends laying floors, fitting skirting boards, wardrobes, and doing various other jobs I can’t get out of, because of the sheer amount of money I’ve wasted on power-tools! And, With every ache and pain in my body, I’ve never felt more middle aged!

Anyway, here is issue 2!

New posts from me

I managed to publish two new blog posts in August.

• Accessibility: Start with “why”,
  In this post, I focus on “why” we do accessibility, and why leading with compliance often fails. I believe starting with “why” is how we improve the culture in our organisations.

• Article 50 of the EU AI Act, and what it means for you,
  AI now leaves watermarks in generated text. In this post, I explore what that might mean for you if you write using AI tools.

Things I found interesting on the web

Accessibility

• Is your board getting accessibility governance right? ,
  Léonie Watson

• AFixt Comments on the WCAG 3 Conformance Model,
  Karl Groves

• Blind Egyptian entrepreneur’s AI app helps others ‘see’ the world,
  Mariam Rizk, Sherif Fahmy and Mohamed Ezz

• How accessibility gets lost between base and product design systems,
  Anna E. Cook

• AI Weeds Out Job Applicants With Disabilities, Lawsuit Claims,
  Jean Marbella

AI

• A free AI model is winning over developers. And nobody knows whose servers it runs on,
  Ana Maria Constantin

• OpenAI’s rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought,
  Hayden Field

• Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution,
  Ashley Belanger

Development

• Customisable Select Elements,
  MDN

• Why I don’t recommend Tailwind CSS,
  Andros Fenollosa