Dion

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UI designer and developer. Love CSS, accessibility, and design systems. Occasional illustrator and beatmaker, eternal etymology nerd and probably presently pondering the origin of a citrus fruit or something.

Front-end developer at Mastodon. He/Him. No AI.

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DionDec 3

Two plushtodons enjoying their oat caramel lattes. (Yes, they do use their trunks to sip.)

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DionAug 21, 2025

#a11y folks, what's your take on this UI pattern that's quite common on social platforms:

A button with a verb label (e.g. "Follow") that, after the button was pressed, changes to an adjective describing the status (e.g. "Following"), rather than being explicit about the action it'll perform when pressed again (e.g. "Unfollow").

Do you find this problematic in practice?