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  • Bookmarklet for finding incorrect use of aria-owns

    Bookmarklet for finding incorrect use of aria-owns

    This post restored from the Wayback Machine. It was originally published on March 8, 2020. We’ve discovered the hard way that our products have incorrectly used the aria-owns attribute. With the recent Chrome updates, this has triggered the pages to break the customer experience with JAWS and NVDA. I created the following bookmarklet to highlight… Continue reading


  • Accessibility, Globalization, and Internationalization: Designing for a World Wide Web

    Accessibility, Globalization, and Internationalization: Designing for a World Wide Web

    This post is based on a presentation I gave in 2019 for Intuit’s Accessibility Week in Bangalore, India: Accessibility, Globalization, and Internationalization. When we talk about building global products, we often throw around acronyms like G11n (Globalization), I18n (Internationalization), and A11y (Accessibility). Too often, these are treated as separate silos. But the truth is, if… Continue reading


  • W3C Workshop on Permissions and User Consent

    This is a restored article from a workshop I attended in 2018. I still incorporate elements I learned from this day. Some links have been lost in time, these link to archived versions on Internet Archive. The problems with web permissions – W3C User consent and permissions working group Jo Franchetti developer advocate at Samsung… Continue reading


  • Open Government Data – A virtual revolution

    Open Government Data – A virtual revolution

    This was originally written for the Yahoo Developer Blog in 2010 and is being restored from the Internet Archive. Open Government Data – A virtual revolution There’s a tremendous amount of government data available on the internet today. It’s an open data revolution led by the United States and the United Kingdom. This data ranges… Continue reading