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Alena Nikolaeva

@alenanik.github.io

product designer @seqera.io, software engineer β€’ prev. @github.com Copilot β€’ giving a πŸ¦† about accessibility, responsible and inclusive web https://own.page/alenanik

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I raise

06.03.2026 17:14 πŸ‘ 139 πŸ” 36 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 6
TinyFingers - Let your child smash your keyboard and mouse! TinyFingers is a fun and interactive website that allows children to freely play with their keyboard and mouse. Perfect for developing hand-eye coordination and learning the alphabet.

Really sweet website for when your baby wants to help you to work tinyfingers.net

05.03.2026 15:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

the best parenting hour is 15:00 on Sunday, when the baby is asleep, and you are not too dead, to do a little portfolio work/coding/playing/researching

01.03.2026 14:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I've been a little quiet online but active offline. I'd be travelling with my baby to Barcelona (her for the first time) and will be teaching accessibility at LCI (Visual Arts and Design School) in English and Spanish πŸš€

23.02.2026 13:42 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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axe-con Digital Accessibility Conference | Deque Join us to learn how to build, test, monitor, and maintain digital accessibility. Hosted on February 24-25, 2026, axe-con is completely free and virtual.

Next week πŸš€
www.deque.com/axe-con/

18.02.2026 08:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"Nothing replaces the time with the customer"

09.02.2026 14:26 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I got married last Saturday and was completely disconnected from the world. I still have a week of marriage leave left, and I'll spend it preparing material for an a11y workshop for a design school in BCN. I love teaching young designers: forms, labels, color contrast, and all of the fun things ❀️

01.02.2026 10:05 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1
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European Accessibility Act: guΓ­a prΓ‘ctica para diseΓ±adores LiderΓ© la accesibilidad en WordPress.com para cumplir la Ley 11/2023. Te cuento quΓ© funcionΓ³, quΓ© no, y cΓ³mo adaptar tu producto aunque llegues tarde.

Por primera vez las empresas privadas tienen la obligaciΓ³n legal de garantizar que sus productos digitales sean accesibles.

uifrommars.com/european-acc...

23.01.2026 16:08 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A basura ❀️

19.01.2026 14:25 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

+1 lo mismo me ha pasado

19.01.2026 14:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
GitHub Conntributions calendar. A lot of activity from mid September till end of the December

GitHub Conntributions calendar. A lot of activity from mid September till end of the December

The end of the year was really fun

15.01.2026 09:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Eric Bailey's predictions for the future of accessibility | Mantis & Co. Explore how Eric Bailey predicts compliance deadlines and automated tools risk creating performative accessibility that fails users.

β€œIn the practical, this means designers will have more LLM-based features integrated into their tooling. These tools will promise to do their job for them […]. This will further widen the divide between the work and its human-facing impact.”

mantisandco.com/resources/gu...

10.01.2026 20:02 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

One of my goals for bsky has been to rebuild Design Twitter. But what we got instead was something better: Design Bsky.

30.12.2025 22:49 πŸ‘ 106 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 4
WebAIM: 2026 Predictions: The Next Big Shifts in Web Accessibility

β€œIn the coming year, I expect WCAG 2.2 to become the default expectation in procurement language, RFPs, and accessibility evaluation.”

πŸ”— 2026 Predictions: The Next Big Shifts in Web Accessibility

webaim.org/blog/2026-pr...

30.12.2025 13:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Cognitive accessibility toolkit This toolkit will help you make the most of cognitive accessibility research with Fable Engage.

Cognitive research often highlights foundational issues like clarity, predictability, hierarchy, and friction points that affect all users but become visible sooner with the cognitive audience.

Cognitive accessibility toolkit by Fable ✨

makeitfable.com/tutorial/cog...

18.12.2025 08:08 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We are getting to the season of end-of-year reflections, so it’s time to post my annual reminder.

If you helped someone this year or let someone else help you, then you’ve had a good year.

That’s enough.

17.12.2025 11:21 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

I used to read meeting notes, now that they are AI taken I never do ☹️ it’s just another huge task to make sense of it

17.12.2025 12:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Could you merge it on 31st at around 9 pm?

09.12.2025 08:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Testing Methods: Link Purpose (In Context) - Dennis Deacon Learn how WCAG 2.4.4 Link Purpose (In Context) improves clarity and navigation through a hybrid of automated, AI, and manual testing.

β€œAutomated tools can quickly flag non-descriptive link text such as β€œclick here” or β€œread more” […] But automation alone can’t determine whether context makes a vague link meaningful or if a link’s purpose is truly clear to users.”

www.dennisdeacon.com/web/accessib...

08.12.2025 14:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Fit width text in 1 line of CSS
`text-grow: per-line scale;`

nerdy.dev/css-text-grow

(prototype in Canary 165+)

05.12.2025 06:48 πŸ‘ 333 πŸ” 55 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 12
Requests table in Ramp website. 4 tabs: all, needs action, pending, drafts. Table lists Requests. Other columns: Frequncy, Payment methods, Start date, Auto-lock date. Main CTA Request in yellow-green color is in the right top corner. A button β€œCuatomize columns” is focused with the focus ring shown in black.

Requests table in Ramp website. 4 tabs: all, needs action, pending, drafts. Table lists Requests. Other columns: Frequncy, Payment methods, Start date, Auto-lock date. Main CTA Request in yellow-green color is in the right top corner. A button β€œCuatomize columns” is focused with the focus ring shown in black.

Ramp table UI is honestly so good. Fully functional with the keyboard (not fully accessible as there are a few color contrast failures, but it’s functional), and the focus ring is styled. ✨

02.12.2025 09:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

😳 dark

02.12.2025 09:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œwe hear often we must make special solutions for people with disabilities, that accessibility is expensive and that it hampers innovation… that's all wrong: we can do inclusive design, it can be cost effective and lead to lots of innovation”—Alejandro Moledo del Rio of the European Disability Forum

02.12.2025 09:09 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Welcome to Mindful Design A lesson from the Mindful Design course

are you excited for MINDFUL DESIGN ADVENT? what is #MindfulDesignAdvent i do not hear you ask? it’s a daily dose of some course related stuff in a transparent attempt to convince you it is good and to buy it! for day one, you can watch the INTRO (wow!!!) for FREE (huh?!!) piccalil.li/mindful-desi...

01.12.2025 10:31 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Necesitamos modo incΓ³gnito para que no se joda el algoritmo

03.11.2025 10:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
powRSS home screen

powRSS home screen

@cassidoo.co writes:

"I’ve been thinking a lot about the internet lately, like as a concept. I don’t know where everyone went...
When the algorithms are determining everything we should be seeing, it’s a much less personal internet"

In response I made powrss.com to rediscover the personal web.

29.10.2025 22:07 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œThe standard back button is the best way to do this as it is familiar to the user. Many users will try the back button first.”

02.11.2025 19:16 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah 🀘

28.10.2025 21:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Same same! Heard good things, never tried and just do my little code / prototypes with Claude

28.10.2025 21:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

And a piece of paper! Those were good times

28.10.2025 20:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0