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Alt textJuly 15, 2026 · 6 minute read

The alt text a checker cannot write

A rule can tell you an image has no alt attribute. It cannot tell you whether the alt should be empty, or should read like a sentence. That gap is the whole reason accessibility needs judgement.

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Renata Cho

Head of Accessibility Research

KeyboardJune 24, 2026

Your keyboard is the fastest accessibility test you have

Put the mouse down and press Tab. In two minutes you will find barriers that took a checker zero, because the worst keyboard problems are invisible to anything that does not try to use the page.

Elena Marsh · 5 minute read

ColorJune 3, 2026

Contrast is not a checkbox

Meeting the contrast ratio is necessary and not sufficient. The failures that hurt most are the ones where color is the only thing carrying the meaning, and a ratio never sees those.

Devin Okafor · 5 minute read