Johnny Taylor

@johnnydaux
36 Followers
72 Following
358 Posts
I’m more than a disabled web developer, but not much more. Plus, as evidenced by my continued existence, I'm also a plant powered, stubbornly "buoyant," antifascist!
My Personal Pagehttps://johnnydaux.org
I help organizehttps://a11yto.com/organizers
Johnny TaylorApr 20
c.reider Apr 17
oof, this knocked the wind out of me
cc: @RadicalGraffiti
Johnny TaylorApr 3
Adrian Roselli, pH0Apr 3

Links need more than just a color change to distinguish them.

If your solution is `font-weight: 500`, don’t be surprised when you get dinged for 1.4.1 Use of Color.

`500` often renders no differently than the default (`400`). It’s adversarial conformance.

Use an underline.

#accessibility #a11y

Johnny TaylorApr 3
annaecookApr 3

In case it wasn’t clear:

If your designs aren’t accessible they aren’t going to work.

Your average user does not exist.

This is an incorrect bias is built on an ableism.

People have disabilities.

You need accessibility or your designs will not work at scale.

Full stop.

Johnny TaylorMar 24
Stef WalterMar 24

Educating accessibility overlay companies from the inside doesn’t work.
This is what Chris Yoong tried: he joined an overlay company, checked the product, put together a presentation to explain why it was harming people. They could have pivoted. Instead, they decided to double down, and changed their rationale to keep the same for profit. In case you wondered.

https://chrisyoong.com/blog/educating-accessibility-overlay-companies
https://chrisyoong.com/blog/educating-accessibility-overlay-companies

I tried to educate an Accessibility overlay company from the inside

This is what happened.

Johnny TaylorFeb 23
Max LeibmanSep 2, 2025

Trans rights are human rights.

Boost if you agree.

Block me if you disagree.

Johnny TaylorFeb 23

"I think saying '#WCAG is difficult to read' and posing it as something which is optional, really makes people who work in this industry not want to read WCAG. It makes them almost hostile against it. And that means that misunderstandings are happening consistently. Let’s read WCAG and when you’ll struggle, here are good resources and people that help you understand."

#a11y #accessibility

https://yatil.net/blog/wcag-is-difficult-to-read-dont-read-it-is-a-self-fulfilling-prophecy

“WCAG is difficult to read, don’t read it” is a self-fulfilling prophecy · Eric Eggert

First things first: Yes, WCAG (the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) are not easy to read. This is not the point that I try to make …

Eric Eggert
Johnny TaylorJan 31
Flock of Cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 ❄️Jan 30
Good advice from ophthalmologist, very funny creator, and seemingly all-around good dude Dr Glaucoflecken on how to be prepared if you find yourself in any of the places where you might get pepper sprayed in the United States (💀)
Johnny TaylorJan 25
mandy brownJan 24
Abolition is the only way.
Johnny TaylorJan 20
Steve FaulknerJan 19

AI captions do not conform to #WCAG they usually require a lot of work to make them usable

The highest-risk areas for real harm are: (1) named entities/numbers, (2) multi-speaker attribution, (3) timing/readability, and (4) hallucinated “corrections.”

#deaf #multimedia #justsayin #a11y

Johnny TaylorJan 8
BroadwaybabytoJan 8

What happened to Renee Nicole Good is not an anomaly or a rare phenomenon.

The only unusual factor is that she was white.

A Black man named Keith Porter was shot & killed by ICE on New Year’s Eve.

Marimar Martinez was shot five times by an ICE officer in Chicago who went on to brag about leaving seven holes in her body. She survived but has a hole in her arm forever.

Silverio Villegas González was shot dead in Franklin Park Illinois when he panicked and tried to run.

Then there’s the more than 30 people who’ve died in the camps.

No accountability. No punishment.

Keep speaking out. Let’s make sure this officer is held responsible.

#abolishice #ice #uspol #minneapolis #fascism #immigration #reneenicolegood