On inclusive personas and inclusive user research – Eric Bailey
Personas as a contemporary practice are inherently tokenizing and reductionist.| ericwbailey.website
Personas as a contemporary practice are inherently tokenizing and reductionist.| ericwbailey.website
Here’s a sampling of some of the newsletters I look forward to.| ericwbailey.website
It turns out you can just pay people to do things.| ericwbailey.website
It is a proxy phrase, often born of an inability or unwillingness to articulate other concerns.| ericwbailey.website
Design systems are organized in an imperative, top-down, hierarchical way.| Eric Bailey
Could spoiling a joke be an accessibility issue? You better believe it.| Eric Bailey
Slack went from IRC-but-with-WebKit to critical piece of business infrastructure almost overnight. I’m a big fan. It freed us from the tyranny of passive aggressive email chains, and when practiced with good etiquette quickly became my favorite way of communicating via text at work (and also not at work).| Eric Bailey
My partner is a teacher. One of their students, a sixth grade girl, was recently diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes.| Eric Bailey
Improving The Accessibility Of Your Markdown marks the hundredth post I’ve written. 100 is a bit of an arbitrary number, but we’ve mostly decided to be a base 10 society, so it also represents an opportunity to take pause.| Eric Bailey
My obsession with food-based taxonomy continues. Here are all the forbidden noodles I am aware of:| Eric Bailey
If you're reading this and have already signed a contract with accessiBe, it unfortunately might be too late to get out of it.| Eric Bailey
There is a tweet from a suspended Twitter user that shows a “ham biscuit sign” in its dark and lit-up state. Here’s a screenshot of it:| Eric Bailey
There are a few schools of thought when it comes to organizing your CSS declarations. Each approach uses an underlying concept to impose a specific declaration order.| Eric Bailey
As the press deadline approached closer and closer, the man became more and more exasperated. Eventually, he wound up pacing in my cubicle, watching me frantically click on things. With the press running in less than an hour, he blurted out something that completely threw me:| Eric Bailey
I write a lot, and a lot of my writing is published on other sites. One of the functions of my site is to serve as an archive, so I can keep track of what I’ve done where.| Eric Bailey
A thing you should know is that you get put on a lot of lists.| ericwbailey.website
Attempting to reframe our efforts as miscategorized participants in imperfect, trauma-generating systems.| ericwbailey.website
The rubric I use to evaluate these products remains very similar to how I scrutinize overlays.| ericwbailey.website
We don’t live in a purely deterministic world of technology anymore.| ericwbailey.website
GitHub has updated the page template used to list Commits on a repository. Central to this experience is an interactive list component that I was responsible for architecting. This work was done alongside input from James Scholes, whose guidance was instrumental to the effort’s success.| Eric Bailey
Former United States president and war criminal George W. Bush gave a speech in Australia, directing a v-for-victory hand gesture at the assembled crowd. It wasn’t received the way he intended.| Eric Bailey
One thing I’ve been doing for The A11Y project is managing its social media efforts. Since doing so, I’ve slowly grown its Twitter followers to 10,000+.| Eric Bailey
I have a lightning talk I deliver internally at my job. It is intentionally delivered to non-accessibility practitioners, so mainly engineers, designers, project managers, and product folk.| Eric Bailey
I created the a11y-syntax-highlighting library seven years ago, forked from xiaozi’s solarized-prism-theme for PrismJS.| Eric Bailey
You can’t solve culture with technology.| ericwbailey.website
Links do so, so many things.| ericwbailey.website
Yikes.| ericwbailey.website
Describe the most important thing first.| ericwbailey.website
I am the original author of the browser extension Millennials to Snake People. The code that powers this extension is public and transparent.| Eric Bailey
A lot of work goes into making every page and view of a website or webapp look consistent with every other page or view. It’s just good design.| Eric Bailey
I remember feeling numb learning that my writing had been sucked up by OpenAI.| ericwbailey.website
I am not a fan of Windows Recall the same way I am not a fan of most AI.| ericwbailey.website
I contributed two pages to Multipage Version, Mat Marquis’ new zine.| Eric Bailey
Browsers are a failure of imagination.| ericwbailey.website
I swear this isn’t a sponsored post.| Eric Bailey
Inclusive design advocate, writer, developer, and speaker| ericwbailey.website
The idea of “solving” alternate text descriptions by automating them away so that they are not a consideration is a bad frame.| ericwbailey.website
A few years ago I made a New Year’s Eve resolution to stop overthinking assholes…| ericwbailey.website
Creating and using an oh shit banner treatment requires investment in process as much as, if not more than it does a technical implementation…| ericwbailey.website
I am able to extensively modify my instance’s UI to suit my specific needs because of deliberate architectural decisions Mastodon’s maintainers have made…| ericwbailey.website
Liking an idea does not mean the idea is exempt from criticism…| ericwbailey.website
A website is a manifestation of an organization’s politics…| ericwbailey.website
Zombie Slack channels are indicative of a culture that does not know how to communicate with itself…| ericwbailey.website
That’s it, that’s the post…| ericwbailey.website
On getting old as a person who makes digital experiences.…| ericwbailey.website
I'm done with the performative allyship and toxic positivity…| ericwbailey.website
There is now choice where there was none before.…| ericwbailey.website
A network of interlinked, thought-provoking content that has made a lasting effect on the site’s owner…| ericwbailey.website
This is the thought process that kicks in when I look at a something as mundane and everyday as a pair of pants…| ericwbailey.website
The “more options” button is emblematic of how something can be technically usable by everyone, but also how its use is also confusing for all involved…| ericwbailey.website
The fifth type has been me more than I care to admit…| ericwbailey.website
display: contents has a long and storied history when it comes to accessibility.…| ericwbailey.website
I’m not sure I’d recommend doing what I did, but I do think RSS is an incredibly powerful, under-appreciated, and under-utilized technology.…| ericwbailey.website
A lot of the following is an attempt of a highly motivated individual trying to recapture what I once had.…| ericwbailey.website
A thank you email feels like a personal and selfless act in a web that feels increasingly built to not facilitate this kind of interaction…| ericwbailey.website
Kill your ego, separate yourself from the work, and keep things boring and predictable…| ericwbailey.website
If it is important enough to need words, it is important enough to use text content.…| ericwbailey.website
While a custom CSS scrollbar may seem flashy and fun, consider that it may present a significant, unnecessary barrier to access…| ericwbailey.website
There’s a secret mode that comes with almost all large ovens, refrigerators, dishwashers, and other large kitchen appliances…| ericwbailey.website
Performance, accessibility, and usability are more than just inconvenient truths you can pretend don’t exist. They have a direct impact on the quality of someone’s life…| ericwbailey.website
My sense of identity and community have been challenged in multiple, overwhelming ways recently. I don’t know what to do about it…| ericwbailey.website
Accessibility is a holistic practice that touches every aspect of creating a digital experience. This means it is also a backend web development consideration…| ericwbailey.website
There’s hundreds of thousands of web extensions out there, each with an owner who has their own thoughts and motivations.…| ericwbailey.website
This is one of those situations where everyone assumed their way of doing things is the way everyone does things.…| ericwbailey.website
I had a culture shock moment when I offered to pair at my new, post-thoughtbot job. I've now come to understand some of the nuance that lives within the offer…| ericwbailey.website
User-facing state is what someone experiences when they interact with (or try to interact with) an element in some capacity…| ericwbailey.website
Does this all sound compelling to you? Interested in running your own #WorstWorkWednesday meeting?…| ericwbailey.website
Without accurate, relevant names, roles, and values present, it can be incredibly difficult, if not impossible for someone to use your digital experience. That’s exclusion. Hard stop…| ericwbailey.website
Naming things is hard…| ericwbailey.website
Perception of Comic Sans as an inferior typeface is a bit of a self-reinforcing phenomenon in the design community, and that’s a problem.…| ericwbailey.website
This is real, this happened. There is no way to emotionally understand the totality of this experience.…| ericwbailey.website
I think about these things a lot. Now you are thinking about these things too.…| ericwbailey.website
While creating mature components in Sketch and Figma both take a lot of upfront work, the way a designer interacts with the component differs based on design choices the app developers made about how components are constructed.…| ericwbailey.website
The more we move these kinds of concerns into the abstract, the more obscure and inaccessible they become..| ericwbailey.website
The how part of dark mode has been thoroughly addressed. Instead, I’m going to talk a little bit about the why..| ericwbailey.website
Forget inverting binary trees, translating or localizing a digital experience is one of the most difficult things you can do with software..| ericwbailey.website
While a custom CSS cursor may seem flashy and fun, consider that it may present a significant, unnecessary barrier to access.| ericwbailey.website
Tech teaches you to think in binary. The real world is anything but.| ericwbailey.website
Implicit cultural norms and accessible social media have come up in conversation a few times with different groups in the past week, so I want to talk about it.| ericwbailey.website
Mega Man games are light on plot, but do a lot of showing not telling. This happens to be my favorite form of storytelling, so of course I spent too much time thinking about the Mega Man universe.| ericwbailey.website
Radium was discovered in 1898 by Polish chemist Marie Sklodowska Curie. To produce radium, you need to extract it from pitchblende, an ore that contains uranium.| ericwbailey.website
The observation, “The term ‘a11y’ isn’t very accessible.” seems to pop up like clockwork. Most of the time, I bite my tongue when I see this surface-level remark and move on.| ericwbailey.website
