Accessibility decisions made without you
25 min read
Voice control hears “click Next.” Nothing happens: a well-meant label made your button answer to “Continue.” That label is yours, but ARIA decided the rest.
Hey there
I’m Kristóf, a software engineer with a special interest in accessibility. Building for the web, I mainly use React and Tailwind CSS nowadays.
Writing
In defense of AI
6 min readI used to view LLMs as slop machines stealing our craft. A reflection on burnout, originality, and why we aren’t being replaced.
Behind the ‘as’ prop: polymorphism done well
4 min readUpdatedA button renderable as a link has quirky types in React. How could custom tags be assigned to such components?
Fixing generics in React
5 min readUpdatedWhile plain components support generic props out of the box, wrappers like ‘forwardRef’, ‘lazy’ and ‘memo’ are cumbersome in that regard.
A new beginning
1 min readLaunching a blog sounds fairly simple, but getting lost in the details is just as easy. My take on obsessive hobbyism.