Weekly notes on digital accessibility by Utku Demiryakan: news, inspirations, original articles and the album I listened to while writing.
An "accessible" POS that announced my PIN, digital-only services in Belgium, AI agents on inaccessible sites, retiring "decorative" images, and how we wrote alt texts at Turkish Airlines.
Created while listening: Remi Wolf – Mud
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Accessibility Notebook was born at a time when I was questioning what it means to create content by hand and to make original contributions on top of what already exists. That is why I wrote every issue of Notes myself. AI helped me with grammar and spell checking.
I created some of the cover images myself, but I have AI generate my stick figures from prompts I write. AI also translates the In Detail articles I write in Turkish. The other texts on this website were prepared by AI and me together, and keeping this website going would be very hard for me without AI. I wanted to state all of this openly.
My commitment is this: at its core, Accessibility Notebook will stay hand-curated and sincere. If I can no longer keep it that way, I will stop.
