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hdv, 2 months ago to random

✏️ You may have heard people say that the new popover attribute has accessibility “built in”. And you might wonder what that actually means.

Me and @scottohara wrote a post to explain what the browser does and doesn't do in terms of accessibility when you use popover

https://hidde.blog/popover-accessibility/

hdv, 8 months ago to random

✏️ Ableist interactions https://hidde.blog/interactions-about-accessibility/

(wrote up a few ableist comments I saw this week, with a call to action from Vercel leadership to end their silence)

hdv, 7 months ago to random

✏️ Answers to common (web) accessibility questions https://hidde.blog/a11y-faq/ (with some very short answers, inspired by @chriscoyier and Dan Mall's earlier posts)

hdv, 1 year ago to random

✏️ Semantics and the popover attribute: what to use when? https://hidde.blog/popover-semantics/

as the popover attribute adds behaviour, but not semantics, I've written this post to help you choose which role would be best for your specific type of popover

hdv, 3 months ago to random

“RSS is dead” tells you about the RSS feeds of people you follow on Mastodon, much recommended https://rss-is-dead.lol (via @stefan)

hdv, 18 days ago to random

Scarlett Johansson says OpenAI approached her to use her voice long before it was released. She said no and they still took it. https://www.npr.org/2024/05/20/1252495087/openai-pulls-ai-voice-that-was-compared-to-scarlett-johansson-in-the-movie-her

Now, in a blog post OpenAI says: “Sky’s voice is not an imitation of Scarlett Johansson” https://openai.com/index/how-the-voices-for-chatgpt-were-chosen/ But their CEO even tweeted the word “her” as a way of announcing the voice.

post truth much? this company just keeps on grabbing what isn't theirs

hdv, 1 year ago to random

If search engines include LLMs, their carbon emissions could increase five fold https://www.wired.com/story/the-generative-ai-search-race-has-a-dirty-secret/

hdv, 11 months ago to random

#CSSDay 2023 was great and I learned a lot! That all the new CSS features can't fit on one slide, selector perf does almost never matter, @mia is in fact not terrible (at all), scope is pretty much the whole point of the language, custom properties can make the visual side of components configurable like React's props but in a good way that embraces the cascade, we need voice in stylesheets…

hdv, 11 months ago to random

Threads' MVP has no alternative text, but it does presumably have all the surveilllance. It's clear what their priorities are (not).

hdv, 9 months ago to random

In the first week of October, a bunch of us at the Dutch government are organising a virtual Design Systems Week, free to attend for all, with short (20-30min) sessions to learn from other design system teams. Here's an overview of the talks that are in English https://nldesignsystem.nl/events/design-systems-week-2023/en/overview

hdv, 8 months ago to random

It's ✨Design Systems Week✨, an event we're organising at the Dutch government. Free talks + Q&A on all things design systems, each will just take 30 mins of your time.

Full schedule:
https://nldesignsystem.nl/events/design-systems-week-2023/tijdschema

Just talks in English:
https://nldesignsystem.nl/events/design-systems-week-2023/en/timetable

iCal links are in those pages so that you can pop them in your calendar.

hdv, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

WCAG 2.2 was published as a W3C Recommendation today! I've written an as-short-as-I-could summary of what's new https://hidde.blog/new-in-wcag22/

hdv, 3 months ago to random

📚 “We need to be wary of technoableism: technology, development and marketing that makes it seem like disability is a big, bad thing, that needs to be downplayed or eliminated.”

“We need to make the world more hospitable to more ways of being and existance. (…) by loosening our ideas about what the right stuff and by insisting there is no wrong stuff”

from “Against technoableism” by Ashley Shew (recommended!) https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324036661

hdv, 3 months ago to random

Hm, in this latest newsletter, Jakob Nielsen suggests generative AI can “replace” accessibility. this idea is wrong on various levels https://jakobnielsenphd.substack.com/p/accessibility-generative-ui

(grumpy me notes this also contains an infographic without alt; something something about getting basics right before making grander statements)

hdv, 3 months ago to random

popover ships in Firefox 125!🎉

Bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1866993
My post on how popover is different: https://hidde.blog/dialog-modal-popover-differences/

hdv, 4 months ago to random

WAI-ARIA 1.3 First Public Working Draft is now open for review.

Updates include:

• new suggestion, comment, mark roles
• new aria-description, aria-braillelabel, aria-brailleroledescription) attributes
• updates to aria-details (now takes multiple IDREFS)

https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.3/

hdv, 4 months ago to random

“While he doesn’t have (…) an exact definition for it, he wants to build it.”

Zuckerberg tells The Verge his company will invest in artificial “general” intelligence (which few believe is an actual possibility), while also continuing to spend >15 billion dollars on the “metaverse”. Imagine spending that sort of money on actual problems!

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/18/24042354/mark-zuckerberg-meta-agi-reorg-interview

hdv, 2 months ago to random

Statistics Canada publishes lots of data on accessibility and disability https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/topics-start/accessibility

hdv, 1 month ago to random

‘Make content you frequently want to link to’ is a valid content strategy.

hdv, 1 month ago to random

Fun fact: WCAG is 25 years old this week.

(version 1 was published 5 May 1999)

(via @yatil)

hdv, 10 months ago to random

Personal update: as of yesterday, I've joined the CSS Working Group as an Invited Expert! Looking forward to try and contribute to the work and learn from this awesome group of people.

hdv, 1 month ago to random

Thanks #AllDayHey for having me today!

Slides and links are on this page: https://talks.hiddedevries.nl/VZNuWJ/dialog-dilemmas-and-modal-mischief-on-building-popovers

hdv, 22 days ago to random

The corporation Slack: we'll train some language models on your data
The people in about every single Slack community I am in: admin, can you opt us out?

hdv, 20 days ago to random

The European Parliamentary Elections are during CSS Day so I've just arranged to vote in Amsterdam (with Kiezerspas).

This is an important vote. Collectively we've got to cast a lot of votes on parties that are not extreme right, and (personal opinion) prioritise very ambituous climate policy over nonsensical anti migrant populism.