Weeknotes: 2026-06-07

It’s odd, the hoops that some teams will jump through to make their work appear accessible rather than do the work to fix it.

I encountered a team who just love to use NVDA to show me that a user can operate its UI. Just because NVDA can operate an accordion doesn’t mean the keyboard can. Elsewhere, another team of NVDA fans were adamant they didn’t want to make life easier for themselves by performing a mixture of automated and keyboard tests on their enterprise UI. Again, they wanted to operate the whole lot with NVDA. I admire the sentiment, but accessibility doesn’t equal only a screen reader.

I’ve been playing a mixture of the following, in unsatisfactory dribs and drabs:

• Mina the Hollower
• 007 First Light
• Forza Horizon 6
• Creature Kitchen
• Amberspire
• Death Howl
• Memento

I’ve been continuing to watch:

• Springwatch
• Widows Bay
• Your Friends & Neighbours

and I enjoyed the double-bill of Cape Fear episodes over the weekend – it’s got that iconic motif. Will it be better than Cape Feare? Time will tell.

(How tiresome that the stock ticker of a trillion-dollar graphics giant always pollutes search results)