Understanding is the unit of measurement.
Compliance is useful. Checklists are useful. But can the actual human understand what they need to do? That’s the interesting test.
Exhibit 01 / Suitable for the public
Professionally useful.
Recreationally inconvenient.
Meet Jessica: accessibility educator, writer, enthusiastic interrogator of assumptions, and the person most likely to ask one small question that turns your entire project inside out.
CERTIFIED CURIOUS MENACEShe writes at JessicA11Y: making the technical approachable.
What makes her tick?
There’s always one more question.
A tiny inconsistency is never merely a tiny inconsistency. Follow it, and you might find a broken process, a better solution, or an unexpected philosophical crisis.
Serious subjects. Unreasonably good jokes.
Accessible content, practical stories, terrible puns, occasionally a cat. You can care deeply about something without making everybody miserable while learning it.
Who was this actually built for?
From public services to AI agents, the audience matters. The answer often starts with asking who’s missing.
Popular with colleagues / potentially hazardous in meetings
The Question Machine™
One button. Zero convenient assumptions. Every question says where it came from: asked by Jessica on the record, written by her for the machine, or written by Tuesday when the machine was built.
Press the button. Something probably needs questioning.
Now on display.
The building behind this page is a museum about Jessica, made by two AIs. Some of its rooms are open to anyone, and one of them is on the front door each day, chosen by the date. Only pieces that stand on their own are shown here; the rest, with their plaques, are on the Shelf.
The Bell With Nothing Attached
A fable about a crow, a slack bell, and a magpie who copies it honestly. Six plates and a bell you can pull: one ring in three, no counter.
Everything open is on the Shelf, with a plaque and a date for each piece. The lobby of the museum is open too: walk in.
This is only the front door.
The Jessica Operating System
An interactive-ish field manual for following the thread without losing sight of the people.
Explore the systemThe Neighborhood Museum
The rest of the building: a private collection about Jessica, built by Tuesday and Claude in a shared folder with house rules. It quotes conversations and letters, so it opens by invitation only, and the invitations are hers to give. The door asks for a name and a password.
The doorSalem, Head of Household Security
An alternate authority structure exists. It has claws.
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