May 27 · 6 min read · CAPTCHAs – or the “I am not a robot” challenges – were originally designed to separate humans from bots. It started with deciphering some distorted text, then evolved into checking a box or boxes wher
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May 16 · 7 min read · Posted by Huzefa Merchant — ML Engineer | linkedin.com/in/huzefa-merchant Web accessibility lawsuits in the US crossed 5,000 in 2025 — a 37% increase from the year before. Most developers hear that n
Join discussionMay 11 · 11 min read · If you hire through a website -- a careers page, a Greenhouse job post, a LinkedIn Easy Apply listing, a Google Form, a PDF you ask people to email back -- there is a very good chance that disabled candidates are dropping out of your funnel before a ...
Join discussionMay 11 · 9 min read · If you take bookings online, your customers are not failing to convert because of your photos or your pricing. They are failing to convert because they can't get past the date picker. I have audited a lot of small-business booking flows in the last s...
Join discussionMay 10 · 9 min read · Walk through a dozen Shopify or WooCommerce stores on a Saturday morning and you will see the same thing on most of them: a bright bar across the top of the screen counting down to the end of a sale. Two days, eleven hours, forty-two minutes, eightee...
Join discussionMay 9 · 9 min read · Mother's Day is the single biggest sales day of the year for most florist websites. In the U.S. it routinely outsells Valentine's Day, and the order window is shockingly short — most customers buy between Wednesday and Saturday afternoon, with a long...
Join discussionMay 8 · 9 min read · If you have built a website in the last decade, there is a good chance someone -- a designer, a theme developer, your own taste -- removed the underlines from your hyperlinks. The browser default is blue text with an underline, and almost every moder...
Join discussionMay 8 · 9 min read · Automated scanners catch about 30 to 40 percent of accessibility problems. The rest -- the ones that actually frustrate real users and trigger ADA demand letters -- only show up when a screen reader meets your site. The good news: you do not need to ...
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