Is your website truly accessible? What about your React application? How about those Android and iOS apps?
More than 1.3 billion people globally live with disabilities, according to LambdaTests, a unified agentic AI and cloud engineering platform that released three new sets of tools this week to help developers check accessibility.
The first release on Monday was the Accessibility MCP server, which helps developers identify, understand and — yes — even resolve accessibility issues in publicly hosted websites and frontend React applications still in development.
The second offering, announced on Thursday, is a new LambdaTest feature that supports both manual and automated accessibility testing on Android and iOS devices.
The Accessibility MCP server includes the following tools:
- An accessibility report that generates a comprehensive report for public urls;
- A local build app tool that allows developers to build and serve their local React app to identify accessibility issues during development; and
- An Analyze App that helps in local app tests.
Developers using coding AI assistants such as Cline can connect to the MCP server with “minimal setup,” according to the company.
Once connected, Cline can analyze websites or local apps, deliver accessibility reports, and suggest or implement fixes directly within the codebase.
For scanning iOS and Android apps, LambdaTest added new tools to its platform:
- The Android Accessibility Scanner for Manual Testing does real-time detection directly within he manual testing environment on real devices;
- The Android Accessibility Automation Testing brings automated WCAG compliance checks into the CI/CD pipeline using Appium and HyperExecute; and
- The iOS Accessibility Automation Testing enables cross-platform validation for Apple devices.
State of CSS Survey Open
The State of CSS survey is open now. It’s being run by Devographics, which operates a number of surveys, including the State of JavaScript and the State of React.
The survey is open to anyone who writes CSS (whether regularly or occasionally) as part of their job, as a student, or even just for fun.
Creator Sacha Greif writes that this year’s survey will be a chance to see if some of the past few years of new CSS additions have, in fact, been adopted by end users.
The survey takes around 15-20 minutes to complete. Answers can be skipped. The survey closes on July 1.
Free Course on Building With Llama 4
DeepLearning AI has partnered with Meta to offer a free on-demand course called “Introducing Building with Llama 4.” It’s taught by the director of partner engineering for Meta’s AI team, Amit Sangani.
Llama 4 was released in April and added three new models, as well as introducing a Mixture-of-Experts (MOE) architecture to its family of models.
The course works with two of those new models:
- “Maverick” a 400-billion parameter model, with 128 experts and 17 billion active parameters, with a context window of up to a million tokens; and
- “Scout,” a 109-billion parameter model with 16 experts and 17 billion active parameters, with a context window of up to 10 million tokens.
The hands-on course lasts just over one hour and is designed for beginners. Developers will build apps using Llama 4’s long-context and its new multimodal capabilities, including reasoning across multiple images and “image grounding,” in which you can identify elements and reason within specific image regions.
It also covers Llama’s latest tools, which include a prompt optimization tool that automatically improves system prompts.
A ‘Scrappy’ Research Project
Software engineers John Chang and Pontus Granström have put together a fun research project called “Scrappy,” which offers a “homemade software” approach to programming.
This is a solution that’s designed for people who want to make a quick and “scrappy” app for something basic, like tracking how many people are in a room or rotating chores.
It’s basically a drag-and-drop solution that’s almost entirely a TypeScript web app, according to the FAQ, with only two third-party dependencies: YJS and CodeMirror.
The pair used Node and Vite for developing and building the app, which has “no traditional backend.” It does use an AWS-based sync server called Y-websocket-server.
“First and foremost, we aim to contribute a vision of what home-made software could be like,” the duo wrote in a May post introducing the project. “Scrappy, in its current state, is a prototype, not a robust tool, but we hope it paints the picture we carry in our heads — of software as something that can be creative, personal, expressive. Made by anyone, for themselves and their loved ones.”
Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash Models Now Stable, Generally Available
Google released its Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash models as stable and generally available this week. The Gemini 2.5 family is a collection of hybrid reasoning models. It also released in preview a 2.5 Flash-Lite model that’s cost-efficient and the fastest 2.5 model.
“2.5 Flash-Lite has all-around higher quality than 2.0 Flash-Lite on coding, math, science, reasoning and multimodal benchmarks,” Tulsee Doshi, the senior director of product management, noted. “It excels at high-volume, latency-sensitive tasks like translation and classification, with lower latency than 2.0 Flash-Lite and 2.0 Flash on a broad sample of prompts.”
It can also connect to Google Search and code execution tools, supports multimodal input and has a 1 million-token context length.
Storyblok Adds Figma Integration for Devs
Headless CMS Storyblok now offers a Figma integration that lets developers turn designs into CMS components in seconds, the company announced in early June.
With the Figma integration, developers can import structured CMS components straight from Figma files. That reduces the back-and-forth between design and development, but it also cuts the development time down and minimizes errors, the team noted in its announcement. It also should help keep everything consistent “from pixel to production,’ Storyblok added.
The CMS platform also added an integration that allows developers to log in to the CMS with a GitHub login.
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A free course on developing with Llama 4, the State of CSS survey opens, and Storyblok adds a new Figma integration for frontend developers.
