Caitlyn Mayers

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@matuzo winkel 43 for Apple pie. The pancake bakery for pancakes just down from winkel. The pantry for the best Dutch food. Pllek (a quick ferry across the river) for waterside food and drink. L’antica pizzeria di Michele and florentine brunch in de pijp.
@steven_aquino may I also recommend this read. While it may be a more accessible creation process, the outputs are generally not accessible. https://gbbns.co/journal/accessibility-problem-isnt-design/
The Accessibility Problem Isn't Design. It's Engineering. | gbbns.co

Accessibility failures aren't design oversights — they're engineering failures. The full-stack hiring trend, AI-generated code with no context, and a compliance-first mentality have combined to create a crisis hiding in plain sight. Here's what's actually going wrong, and what fixing it actually looks like.

Chris Gibbons
@annaecook 🤣🤣🤣
@mattmay @annaecook don’t make me tap the sign

Shit’s really going off the rails when MTG is a voice of reason.

What the fuck are we doing here, people? This is batshit.

Every time I get a text to confirm my restaurant reservation, I type the number of people in the party instead of just … 1. Why are brains?

When you work in the glue layers of a design team like I do, your work is most often small iterations towards better vs. major refactors of your infrastructure layer. I recently led the rare major initiative to refactor the Wonder Blocks color palettes and semantic tokens schema at Khan Academy and am so proud of this work!

I even built you a little tool where you can enter color values to generate a primitives palette and semantic tokens using this schema.

https://blog.khanacademy.org/how-we-rebuilt-khan-academys-color-system-from-the-ground-up/

How We Rebuilt Khan Academy’s Color System from the Ground Up

Inside the new Wonder Blocks color system: a scalable, accessible semantic token architecture built to power Khan Academy’s reimagined UI.

Khan Academy Blog
@steven_aquino I _really_ love my LG washer/dryer unit
When someone realizes their Gen AI code is causing a bunch of accessibility bugs and needs me to explain why
The market is dropping. Does that mean we can hold Pam Bondi accountable for fucking up the handling of the Epstein Files now?