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

• forced-color-adjust: none is an unavoidable foot gun September 17, 2025

  A very long treatise on why text backplates were a bad idea. Most of the time.

• 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.