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Driving changes for better loading of third-party resources on the web

August 22, 2022: FTC’s Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) is live as of today. You can share your public comments at Trade Regulation Rule on Commercial Surveillance and Data Security until Friday, October 21, 2022. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on August 11, 2022 announced it is exploring rules…

When it comes to disability, a lot of ableist language and tropes are perpetuated by the media. Here's what experts have to say about how to talk about disability.

Chicago digital agency Mightybytes breaks down digital emissions sources and outlines a plan of action you can take to reduce them.

Find out what the browser preload scanner is, how it helps performance, and how you can stay out of its way.

Oftentimes, the most accessible, interoperable experiences are the ones that require the most minimal engineer — and few know that better than Adrian Roselli...

Color & Contrast is an interactive guide to color for designers.

In this blog post, we explain the technical details of removing the jQuery library from GOV.UK’s public facing applications and the performance impact it had for our users.

Extending the lifespan of smartphones and other electronics by just one year would save the EU as much carbon emissions as taking 2 million cars off the roads annually, a new study finds.

Image CDNs are excellent at optimizing images. Switching to an image CDN can yield a 40–80% savings in image bytes.

Why compressing images for dense screens is different, and how to serve them

In 1994, Lou Montulli wrote a snippet of code that introduced a new way of sharing identity on the Web—the cookie. Read the story behind its inventor.

Small steps you can take to support the climate fight.

In continuing the Sustainable Systems series, Anne Currie focuses on architectural choices and sustainability and offers points for those who want to be carbon aware and follow principles of green software engineering in practice.

In the second article in the Sustainable Systems series, Anne Currie focuses on operational choices you can make to improve how your software is run.

What should you monitor as you try to increase the hardware efficiency of software? To find out, read this first article by Srinivasan Rakhunathan in the Sustainable Systems column.

The Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) standard gives an actionable approach to software designers, developers and deployers to measure the carbon impacts of their systems.

Trois questions à Julia Jean et Lucie Robert, respectivement directrice créative et designer en cheffe au sein du studio Naraven Games. Leur jeu vidéo BACKFIREWALL_, bientôt disponible sur ordinateur et console, raconte l’histoire d’un système d’exploitation refusant d’être mis à jour.

Firefox has become one of the best tools for accessibility audits. Let’s go over Firefox’s accessibility features that you can use today.

How luxury retailer Farfetch's investment in improving Core Web Vitals led to better business outcomes.

Modern CSS rendering performance: The internals of web pages optimization In this talk, we demystify the browser’s rendering pipeline and explore the differe...

Learn how to create social media content that is accessible to people with disabilities.

Developers started to notice just how big our JavaScript package was and yeah, we knew. We weren’t ignoring the issues; after all, we don’t want the Sentry package to be the cause of a slowdown. But to reduce our JavaScript SDK package size effectively we had to account for shipping new capabilities, like being able to manage the health of a release and performance monitoring, while maintaining a manageable bundle size. After all, new features == bigger package - usually.

Parce que trop souvent les problématiques environnementales sont isolées des problématiques sociales au sein des organisations et des débats, réaffirmer l’inextricabilité de ces enjeux est essentiel.

Learn why digital accessibility is key for both usability and sustainability when designing digital products and services.

Learn how to get started implementing digital sustainability today in this post from Chicago digital agency Mightybytes.