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Five accessibility bugs worth a ticket today

Most audit findings are noise you can schedule. These five are not, and fixing them now saves the retrofit every team postpones for a quarter.

chrisJuly 4, 20261 min read

It is almost always one of four things, and only one of them is your fault.

chrisJanuary 3, 20261 min read

Ask what it costs to leave, not what it costs to adopt. The adoption number is the small one.

chrisDecember 22, 20251 min read

Stop arguing that it matters in general. Show what it costs here, on this page, this quarter.

chrisDecember 10, 20251 min read

If your content is public and your first paint matters, probably. If you are behind a login, probably not.

chrisNovember 28, 20251 min read

Three options, in descending order of how much the marketing team will like them.

chrisNovember 16, 20251 min read

Coverage is a map of what you executed, not of what you verified. Chasing the percentage produces tests that assert nothing.

chrisNovember 4, 20251 min read