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Aaron Gustafson

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Covers:  Web Development, Progressive Enhancement, Accessibility, AI/ML
😷 he / they 💼 @Microsoft @WebWeWantFYI @AListApart @EasyDesigns 📣 Int’l Speaker 📚 Author, #AdaptiveWebDesign 🤬 Sometimes 📭 DMs open

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Aaron Gustafson’s Biography

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As would be expected from a former manager of the Web Standards Project, Aaron Gustafson is passionate about web standards and accessibility. He has been working on the Web for two decades now and is a web standards advocate at Microsoft, working closely with their browser team. He penned the seminal book on progressive enhancement, Adaptive Web Design, and writes about whatever’s on his mind at aaron-gustafson.com.

Aaron Gustafson’s Journalist Portfolio

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When Your Code Has To Work: Complying With Legal Mandates

When Your Code Has To Work: Complying With Legal Mandates

When developing a website, you need to consider particular laws for visitors worldwide. Your code has to comp…

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Experimenting With speechSynthesis

Experimenting With speechSynthesis

A lot of my interest stems from my own personal desire to experiment with new ways of interacting with the we…

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Establishing Web Standards

Establishing Web Standards

When we're busy building stuff for the web, we don't get much time to ponder how the HTML tags we write and C…

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Developing Dependency Awareness

Developing Dependency Awareness

I'm sure you've heard the proverb, "A chain is only as strong as its weakest link," probably many times. Its …

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Create simple, accessible web forms

Create simple, accessible web forms

Follow Aaron Gustafson as he explores web standards solutions that will help you create forms that work perfe…

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Interaction Is an Enhancement

Interaction Is an Enhancement

In this excerpt, Aaron Gustafson looks at the limitations of JavaScript and advocates for a solution: progres…

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Can Your AI Pass the Accessibility Test?

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By Aaron Gustafson Verified
| aaron-gustafson.com
Last week at Microsoft Build, Jessie Lorenz, Carie Fisher, and I gave a short talk on a question every AI-enabled product team should be asking: can your AI pass the accessibility test? The core point was straightforward: AI does not fix a broken process; it accelerates whatever process you already have. If accessibility is already in the workflow, AI can help scale inclusion. If it’s not, AI will scale the same barriers teams are already shipping.
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Fixing Accessibility After the Fact Is Too Late

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By Aaron Gustafson Verified
| aaron-gustafson.com
At Ability Summit 2026, I had the pleasure of moderating a panel on a topic that feels more urgent by the day: how we prevent accessibility defects before they are baked into AI-assisted workflows and shipped at scale. As AI accelerates how software and content are created, accessibility risks emerge earlier and propagate faster than traditional testing and remediation can handle.
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Easy Data-entry Verification with a Web Component

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By Aaron Gustafson Verified
| aaron-gustafson.com
Sometimes the simplest form pattern ends up being the one you repeat ad infinitum: “Type it once, then type it again.” We do it for password confirmations, email verification, and any flow where a typo can create expensive follow-up work. This week I released a small web component to handle that pattern cleanly: form-matching-fields. The component wraps two related form fields and adds validation to ensure they match.
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Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes

What's your favorite social network?

Twitter

Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?

Yes. Editor. Layout.