Billy GregoryICYMI #a11yTOConf 2026 is happening Oct 22/23 in the Barbara Frum Attium at CBC. More info on tickets and speaking opportunities in the coming weeks!
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a11yTOSave the date! #a11yTOConf returns to the Barbara Frum Atrium at CBC on Oct 22–23, 2026. Two days of learning + connection with accessibility pros worldwide, with a renewed focus on technical talks and actionable takeaways. More soon!
Adrian Roselli, pH0If you saw my tees at #a11yTOConf and wondered where you could squander money on them…
The POURP shirt:
https://aardrian.threadless.com/designs/pourpn-atkinson-hyperlegible-white-text/mens/t-shirt/classic
The W*C*A*G shirt (brown version):
https://aardrian.threadless.com/designs/w-c-a-g/mens/t-shirt/classic
It was a pleasure seeing all of you at #a11yTOConf this week. Thank you for coming and safe travels home.
Philip Kiff@eric Eric's talk was peppered with great quotations and references to influences.
I've experienced burnout and one of the quotes that particularly struck home with me was from Dr. Amelia Nagoski, co-author of Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle:
"This is a larger systemic issue that has to be addressed, which is why the cure for burnout is not self care — can never be self care. The cure for burnout has to be all of us caring for each other."
Eric Bailey @eric closed out the day with a powerful talk that combined personal narrative, systemic warnings, and thoughtful analysis with expressions of community care and hope.
An interesting companion piece to Hitomi Yokata's talk this morning. Drawing on the discourse of harm reduction, he adapted the principles to trauma-informed design.
Going to be thinking about this one for a long time.
In his talk, "Tiny CSS, Big Impact," Mike Mai @mikemai2awesome showcased minimal CSS code snippets that leverage native browser behaviours and default base styles to make big impacts on accessibility.
Very cool.
I am once again reminded that my CSS skills have not kept up with the state of browser defaults and latest CSS properties! Looking forward to incorporating a few of these snippets in my own code.
Adrian Roselli @aardrian was "Talkin' Tables" at #a11yTOConf today. From simple to complex tables, sticky headers , and sortable columns, he (tried!) to cover it all!
His site has links to tons of detailed table code snippets and recommendations:
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/10/talkin-tables-at-a11yto-conf.html
Very cool demo by Quintin Balsdon demonstrating "Ally Keys: A hardware tool for Mobile Keyboard Accessibility"
By plugging in a dongle, and a bit of configuration, you can use the ally-keys website to help you enter keyboard, gesture, and switch commands to a connected iPhone or wherever.
It's like having an external hardware mobile keyboard, "but here's the twist: It has no keys!"
During her talk, "Trauma-Informed Design Research: Creating Safety in User Engagements on Sensitive Topics" on Day 2 of the #a11yTOConf , Hitomi Yokota quoted from Resmaa Menakem:
"Trauma decontextualized in a person looks like personality.
Trauma decontextualized in a family system looks like a family trait.
Trauma decontextualized in a people looks like a culture."
https://conf.a11yto.com/playlist#Trauma-Informed-Design-Research
