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Léonie Watson's personal website. Writing about the web, accessibility, and other things.

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121 from 1 Feb 2009 to 13 Jul 2026
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2026 1

  1. Accessibility is resistance!

2025 3

  1. Tag, you're it
  2. Sticky pork belly slices
  3. Using Ray-Ban Meta glasses

2024 3

  1. Slow cooker French onion soup with cheese toasts
  2. Stranger Things The First Shadow with audio description (AD)
  3. Nielsen needs to think again

2023 1

  1. Adventures with BeMyAI

2022 3

  1. Addressing concerns about CSS Speech
  2. Why we need CSS Speech
  3. Perceived affordances and the functionality mismatch

2021 5

  1. Thoughts on skin tone and text descriptions
  2. Patrick H. Lauke's goulash
  3. Notes on synthetic speech
  4. AccessiBe and data protection?
  5. Thoughts on screen readers and image recognition

2020 5

  1. Playing with Envision Glasses
  2. Everybody be Coil. You... Be Coil
  3. How screen readers navigate data tables
  4. The difference between aria-label and aria-labelledby
  5. Amelia Bellamy-Royds' vegetarian (or not) chilli - tink

2019 2

  1. Pork rillettes - tink
  2. The difference between keyboard and screen reader navigation - tink

2018 3

  1. Using the aria-roledescription attribute - tink
  2. Accessible SVG flowcharts - tink
  3. Eric Meyer's cinnamon chicken - tink

2017 7

  1. Regaining sight? - tink
  2. Playing with the Accessibility Object Model (AOM) - tink
  3. Accessible SVG line graphs - tink
  4. Accessible SVG tables - tink
  5. Using a custom domain with multiple GitHub repositories - tink
  6. Quick guide to the ARIA specifications - tink
  7. Using the aria-current attribute - tink

2016 7

  1. Accessible emoji - tink
  2. Using Narrator dev mode - tink
  3. And yet somehow we’re all still here - tink
  4. Understanding semantics - tink
  5. Proposed ARIA password role - tink
  6. Using the ARIA application role - tink
  7. Flexbox & the keyboard navigation disconnect - tink

2015 10

  1. Mulled cider - tink
  2. Adrian Rosellli's strawberry & balsamic sorbet - tink
  3. Using the aria-owns attribute - tink
  4. Losing sight - tink
  5. Fixing the Jaws cursor in Firefox - tink
  6. Using the Web Speech API to simulate CSS Speech support - tink
  7. Crème brulée - tink
  8. Time to revisit accesskey? - tink
  9. Accessibility support for CSS generated content - tink
  10. Using Schema.org with microdata - tink

2014 8

  1. Accessible timeout notifications - tink
  2. Henny Swan's 5 spice beef 5 ways - tink
  3. Using the aria-controls attribute - tink
  4. W3C TPAC lightning talks - tink
  5. Scrambled eggs on toast - tink
  6. Understanding screen reader interaction modes - tink
  7. Thoughts on screen reader detection - tink
  8. Inaccessible Cyber Streetwise website - tink

2013 7

  1. Potato dauphinoise - tink
  2. Jaws, IE & the forms region bug - tink
  3. Joseph O'Connor's spaghetti & meatballs - tink
  4. Screen readers, ARIA & HTML5 (too much information) - tink
  5. Graham Armfield's aubergine pasta - tink
  6. Solving the longdesc problem - tink
  7. Screen reader support for HTML5 sections - tink

2012 19

  1. Eggs benedict (with real Hollandaise sauce) - tink
  2. Jaws scripts for the HTML5 `main` element - tink
  3. Accessible forms with ARIA live regions - tink
  4. Cheeseburgers & sweet potato wedges - tink
  5. Using the HTML5 `placeholder attribute - tink
  6. Useful Windows 8 Narrator commands - tink
  7. Useful Windows 8 shortcut keys for keyboard users - tink
  8. Enhancing ARIA landmarks with aria-labelledby - tink
  9. Using tabbed interfaces with a screen reader - tink
  10. Jeremy Keith's pork chop with anchovies - tink
  11. David Sloan's venison casserole - tink
  12. Jared Smith's cheesy bacon potatoes - tink
  13. Windows 8 Narrator overview - tink
  14. Dennis Lembree's beer fondue - tink
  15. Gez Lemon's broccoli pesto pasta - tink
  16. Wendy Chisholm's chocolate pudding - tink
  17. Bruce Lawson's Plaa menow (fish in lime) - tink
  18. John Foliot's salsa - tink
  19. Bacon & marmalade sandwiches - tink

2011 13

  1. Using the HTML5 `nav` element - tink
  2. Caramelised onion chutney - tink
  3. Using HTML5 headings - tink
  4. Chargrilled basil chicken - tink
  5. Design like you give a damn! - tink
  6. Marking up the current page with HTML5 links - tink
  7. How do ARIA landmark roles help screen reader users? - tink
  8. Text descriptions and emotion rich images - tink
  9. Advice for life - tink
  10. Slow cooked chicken casserole - tink
  11. CSUN 2011 web highlightse - tink
  12. NVDA needs us - tink
  13. Papa Sangre game review - tink

2010 6

  1. Leek & potato soup - tink
  2. Screen reader support for HTML tables - tink
  3. Elsewhere - tink
  4. Warm bacon and potato salad - tink
  5. Screen reader support for disabled & read only form fields - tink
  6. Contacting organisations about inaccessible websites - tink

2009 15

  1. Confit of duck - tink
  2. Windows 7 accessibility features - tink
  3. Google Wave screen reader accessibility - tink
  4. KNFB Reader review - tink
  5. Accessibility 2.0 - tink
  6. Standards.Next cognition & accessibility - tink
  7. Jaws 11 ARIA drag & drop support - tink
  8. Vinux (Linux for blind & partially sighted people) - tink
  9. Slow roast pork & wholegrain mustard mash - tink
  10. Chorizo, Taleggio & polenta bake - tink
  11. Screen reader support for ARIA live regions - tink
  12. Accessible Twitter applications - tink
  13. Jaws scripts for accessibility links - tink
  14. Guide to emoticons - tink
  15. Guide to WCAG - tink

Undated 3

  1. Page not found - tink
  2. You're offline - tink
  3. Thanks - tink