Aaron Gustafson

1 week ago | aaron-gustafson.com | Aaron Gustafson

This site is undergoing an open redesign, so if it looks strange, that’s why. Published14 Apr 2025 by Reading Time1 minFiled Underaccessibility AI/MLReactionsLike this? Earlier this month I joined Jeremy Osborne and Andrew Miller to talk about the benefits and harms of AI as it relates to accessibility. It was livestreamed on a few platforms, but I wanted to drop links to the transcript and archival video in case you’re interested. https://www.youtube.com/live/7ObB4jM-QXU

1 month ago | aaron-gustafson.com | Aaron Gustafson

Michael F. Buckley posted a somewhat imflamatory piece to the UX Collective blog over on Medium and I had some strong reactions to it I wanted to share. You should read it first before continuing. First off, I agree with his core message: designers should understand the medium they are working in, be it web or an OS-specific UI. That’s where my agreements end, however. They pat themselves on the back, believing they’ve mastered digital design.

2 months ago | aaron-gustafson.com | Aaron Gustafson

I’ve been broadly working in the DEI (or DEIA if you like) sphere for decades now. Most of my work has been coming at it from the accessibility side of things, but I got really involved in allyship and more traditional DEI work starting in 2019. Seeing the current U.S. administration taking an axe to DEI programs in the government and bully private businesses to do the same has me incredibly frustrated, confused, and (yes) angry. I want more equality and more opportunity in the world, not less.

Aug 13, 2024 | aaron-gustafson.com | Aaron Gustafson

A few weeks back I released a web component to enable you to add requirement rules to checkbox groups. Continuing in the form utility space, I’ve created a new web component that allows you to make fields required based on the values of other fields: form-required-if.

Jul 24, 2024 | aaron-gustafson.com | Aaron Gustafson

I have no opinion on CrowdStrike as a company or service. I’ve never used their products. In fact, prior to the incident last week, I had only a passing familiarity with their name — likely from headlines in the tech press I’d scrolled past at some point in time. I now have a vague understanding of what they do, but that’s only based on what I learned about the cause of the incident.