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Author: Gareth

Site Search in an AI-First Web

17th April 2026 Gareth

A question has been doing the rounds recently: do we actually need site search? It’s a fair question and one I have been giving a lot of thought to. With AI-powered summaries increasingly answering queries before users even reach a website, and with navigation that, when it works, can get people where they need to […]

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Same Image, Different Story: Why AI Needs the Right Architecture to Fix Accessibility

19th March 2026 Gareth

After Stratos’s blog post last week, I revisited Joshua Mitchell’s experiment asking an AI to simulate what using a screen reader actually feels like, not to replace proper testing, but to generate a transcript of the experience that could be shared with stakeholders who had never encountered one. The results were striking: skip links that […]

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DrupalCamp England 2026: Augmented Intelligence, Uncomfortable Truths, and the Joy of Community

8th March 2026 Gareth

On the last weekend of February, I made the trip to Salford for DrupalCamp England 2026. It is only its second year, but already an event I have found myself looking forward to returning to. I came away with a notebook full of ideas, some genuine food for thought about the direction of AI, and […]

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DrupalCamp England 2026: Augmented Intelligence, Uncomfortable Truths, and the Joy of Community

8th March 2026 Gareth

On the last weekend of February, I made the trip to Salford for DrupalCamp England 2026. It is only its second year, but already an event I have found myself looking forward to returning to. I came away with a notebook full of ideas, some genuine food for thought about the direction of AI, and […]

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Finding My Feet with AI and Finding ELM

1st March 2026 Gareth

Six months ago I joined the Web Development team at the University of Edinburgh. I know Drupal well, but I also know it’s like a huge bag of Lego bricks, its power lies in how those bricks have been assembled, and every codebase assembles them differently. Testament to those who came before me, EdWeb 2 […]

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