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At The Web You Want event in Amsterdam last month, Léonie gave an absolutely fantastic talk. You can now read the whole thing: Accessibility is resistance! She makes the very good point that generative tools are a necessary accessibility recourse when humans have failed to do their job properly. Images without alt text? Somebody messed up. But this is damage that can be routed around with large language models. So if you—like me—don’t like the idea of people using extractive generative tools made by the worst kind of people, pay heed: If you want to resist AI, make accessibility part of everything you do, every decision you make, every product you design and build. Remove the need for people to use AI to compensate, and remember, accessibility is resistance. Also last month, I wrote about enhancing images from a carousel to masonry using CSS Grid Lanes. Here’s the context: Over on The Session, I added a little enhancement to the events and sessions listings recently. I make a call to…