Hello, World! I'm Sarah.

I'm a web developer working on making the internet more accessible to all. During the day I do that over at Microsoft, and at night I... mostly sleep. Sometimes extra thoughts squeeze out in between work and sleep, and those mostly end up here.

Latest Posts

• Aria-activedescendant is not focus October 16, 2024

  Who, what, when, where, and why is aria-activedescendant. Or: two focus outlines in a trenchcoat approach you in a dark alley and offer you a combobox.

• An oversimplified guide to setting up Mastodon November 12, 2022

  A very simple step-by-step guide to creating a Mastodon account, with a focus on accessibility.

• Grids Part 2: Semantics January 7, 2021

  A dive into table and grid semantics, why they matter so much to screen readers, and your options for repairing or augmenting basic table markup.