I've been trying to rebuild my website for… I don't even know. It's been at least 18 months!

I get about 80% done and decide I hate it. I no longer like the design, or I feel like the architecture is a mess. So, I just rip it all up and start over. I really annoy myself when I do this, because I know I need to fail fast and iterate etc.

Looking back over my blog posts, almost a decade ago, I wrote what can Baloo teach us about design?. Perhaps I should have re-read this first, re-used a template, and saved myself 18 months worth of anguish!

Anyway, the entire point of me telling you this, is that doing a newsletter has been on my priority list for a really long time! However, it's only now I've finally deployed a new design that I've actually been able to build in the capability to do it.

So, "Hello world!" And, welcome to issue #1!

Things I found interesting in July 2026

Accessibility

• Accessibility in the age of AI
  Ela Gorla

• CSS animations, human rights, and big accessibility at the AB Web Meetup
  Hidde de Vries

• Building accessibility into a canvas-based product
  David Winslow and Elynn Lee

• Accessibility is resistance
  Léonie Watson

• What If Accessibility Is Actually A Data Strategy?
  Dennis DuFour

• AI Chatbots Are Inaccessible, and I Can Prove It
  Kessler West

• Android screen recording with TalkBack audio,
  Patrick H. Lauke

AI

• Figma accessibility skill
  Intopia

• Honey (I Shrunk the AI)
  Green-PT

• How to talk about "AI" without adding to the anthropomorphization
  Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie

• Two-thirds of workers are so fed up with ‘AI slop’ that they ‘feel nostalgic for pre-AI work’
  Emma Woollacott

• OpenAI says AI models escaped containment to hack Hugging Face
  Felix Ng

• Anthropic says its Claude models ‘gained unauthorized access’ to other organizations’ systems
  Ashley Capoot

Other stuff

• Updated Web Sustainability Guidelines