How social networks prey on our longing to be known
An up close an personal look into why we should be extremely careful when sharing about ourselves online, no matter how shiny an app or network might be.
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Interdisciplinary Website Maker
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
Blog - JakeArchibald.com
No Web Without Women
An educational website featuring a collection of innovations by women in the fields of computer science and technology.
Web dev craftsmanship
I’m coming to realize that a lot of my dissatisfaction with the state of the web is that I view web development as a craft, but as a profession we’re in the late-stage industrial age. I prefer a web of hand-laid bricks placed by skilled masons. The industry wants poured, stamped concrete. I want a web of bespoke suits. The industry wants mass-produced fast-fashion. Why learn CSS when you can just slap some Tailwind on things?
:focus-visible-within, the missing pseudo-class
Taking a closer look at the CSS focus pseudo-classes and exploring the differences between them to find out how you can style elements the way you want in all scenarios.
Making version noir
Sketches, storyboards, and a breakdown of my comic homepage. It's about the vibes.
Drive-by accessibility tweaks
Be anti-ableist · Eric Eggert
In the last couple of weeks, I had some encounters that made me think about the state of ableism. Turns out that despite a lot of slow but …
You must be anti-ableist.
I see ableism in line with racism and fascism in that there is no neutral position on these topics. If you are neutral on racism, you will live in a racist society. If you are neutral on fascism, you will live in a fascist society. Only if you are anti-ableist, investigating your biases and practices, as well as seeing ableism in the world around you, you can succeed. Otherwise, the inertia of an ableist world will make your work ableist and therefor inaccessible.
“AI” won’t solve accessibility · Eric Eggert
In our tech-focused society, there is this ever present notion that “accessibility will be solved by some technology”. But it won’t. Making things accessible is a fundamentally human challenge that needs human solutions in human contexts.
Should designers code?
Ah yes, this old chestnut. It pops up as reliably as daffodils in early spring. My perspective has changed very little over the years. Telling web designers they don't need to worry about code is like telling architects they don't need to worry about steel, wood or physics.— Brad Fr
The More Things Change… (or: What’s in a Job Title?)
“I’m not a ‘[full-stack] developer,’ regardless of what my last job title says. I’m not even a front-end developer. I’m a web designer. And I also specialize in accessibility, design systems, and design. I’m designing for the web. The infinitely flexible web…” #webdesign #frontend #webstandards #design #stateoftheweb
Work Will Not Save Us: An Asian American Crip Manifesto | Disability Studies Quarterly
Apple Annie’s Weblog · Working for a Living When Your Living isn't Working, Part III
Part III: Now where do I go? I've been on hiatus for a while and there were factors that forced me into it, factors that I continue to see forced on other people to make impossible choices in their lives to this day.
Apple Annie’s Weblog · Working for a Living When Your Living isn't Working, Part II
Part II: How did I get there? I've been on hiatus for a while and there were factors that forced me into it, factors that I continue to see forced on other people to make impossible choices in their lives to this day.
Apple Annie’s Weblog · Working for a Living When Your Living isn't Working, Part I
Part I: Where was I? I've been on hiatus for a while and there were factors that forced me into it, factors that I continue to see forced on other people to make impossible choices in their lives to this day.
A letter to my younger self, as an accessibility advocate
All of the things I get to say "I told you so" about, now.
Design pattern for custom tooltips - HTMHell
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.
I worry our Copilot is leaving some passengers behind - Josh Collinsworth blog
Why I worry about the effect GitHub Copilot is having and will continue to have on the accessibility of the web at scale.
The quiet, pervasive devaluation of frontend - Josh Collinsworth blog
I keep noticing those of us in the frontend field being treated much the same as nurses, paralegals, and executive assistants. Our work is seen as important, certainly, but just not the same as, or as important as, the “real” work.
Okay, Color Spaces — ericportis.com
Access by a thousand curb cuts · Eric Eggert
How progress over perfection makes the world a more accessible place, fixing one barrier at a time.
“AI” and accessible front-end components: is the nuance generatable?
Are LLMs helpful tools to assist with making accessible front-end components? Let's find out.
The Wax and the Wane of the Web
Forget death and taxes. The only certainty on the web is change. Ste Grainer takes a brief look at the history of the web and how it has been constantly reinvented. Then he explores where we are no…
Generative. — ethanmarcotte.com
Nineteen thoughts about “generative artificial intelligence,” spanning a few centuries.
Energy makes time | everything changes
One weird trick for hacking the space-time continuum.
It turns out, not doing their art was costing them time, was draining it away, little by little, like a slow but steady leak. They had assumed, wrongly, that there wasn’t enough time in the day to do their art, because they assumed (because we’re conditioned to assume) that every thing we do costs time. But that math doesn’t take energy into account, doesn’t grok that doing things that energize you gives you time back. By doing their art, a whole lot of time suddenly returned. Their art didn’t need more time; their time needed their art.
Can generative AI help write accessible code? - TetraLogical
Like many inventions before it, Generative AI is changing the way we do things. Like those inventions that went before it, Generative AI is capable of great good and great harm, and like the humans that used those inventions before us, we need to be smart about the way we use Generative AI.
What is Utility-First CSS?: HeydonWorks
It turns out, people in tech are particularly bad at distinguishing between paradigm shifts and paradigm sharts.
Accessibility Not-Checklist | Brewed by team Intopia
The Accessibility Not-Checklist acts as a guide to make sure you haven’t missed anything. If you’re new to accessibility, the resource provides a foundation – it’s an overview of what you’ll need to consider, but it won’t teach you WCAG from front to back.
Accessibility overlays
Web accessibility overlays are tools or technologies that aim to improve the accessibility of a website. However, claims that a website can be made fully compliant in an automated fashion are not realistic.