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All Accessibility Digital Life

Cognitive accessibility in web design

Cognitive accessibility is about designing for clarity, and clarity works for everyone.

National AccessAbility Week 2026

National AccessAbility Week 2026: May 31 to June 6

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When personalization shrinks the world

One click. That’s all it took for my feed to decide who I am.

An illustration split into two contrasting halves: on the left, a detailed red robot on a red background marked with a large yellow 'X'; on the right, a detailed blue robot on a yellow background marked with a large green checkmark.

Living in the contradiction

A personal look at the contradiction of AI as both loss and creative possibility.

A 3D stylized rendering of a desktop workspace setup in pastel colors.

A new WCAG 3.0 draft drops May 21

What to expect from the new WCAG 3.0 draft and how it differs from WCAG 2.1 AA.

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Is “fluency in Gen-Z humor” a real thing?

A fun AI experiment about the idea of Gen‑Z humor fluency.