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@ericwbailey.website
#accessibility / #a11y advocate, post enjoyer.
🌐 https://ericwbailey.website/
✉️ https://ericwbailey.website/newsletter/
In the vein of "public libraries could never be created today," a pitch for a calculator would get you thrown out of the boardroom. What do you mean, it just maths? Where are the ads supposed to go? How does it send usage telemetry back if it doesn't even have wifi? There isn't even a leaderboard.
yesssssss
aamtest: Testing accessibility in WPT
blogs.igalia.com/mrego/aamtes...
This blog post covers the work @igalia.com has been doing to add a new type of tests in WPT, which allow testing the platform accessibility APIs directly.
Thanks to NLnet Foundation for sponsoring this work.
We need this yesterday! If it's helpful data: GitHub Issues, PRs, Commit list all use an interactive list model. There's other instances scattered around the site as well, although not always used properly 🫠
Wrote a thing on why we should have interactive lists on the web: sarahmhigley.com/writing/inte...
If anyone has their own interactive list use cases that aren't covered, send them to me! I'm putting together an ARIA spec PR this month.
not many people wreak things other than havoc
firmware update
I tried to snag kraft dot singles back in the day and am still irritated that they blocked it
📝 Really enjoyed this talk. Alex covers lots of great topics, like
- When did “modernize” come to mean updating something that’s only ~5 years old?
- Do technological choices have values tied to them? (Spoiler: they do)
- HTML is amazing.
My notes here:
Standards In Progress: Making Video Posters Accessible, Responsive, and an Element
scottjehl.com/posts/respon...
“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature.” he mumbled to himself, inspecting source.
fwiw lots of tech companies have this clause too for dev/ops too bad software devs are too busy dumping OSS into the wood chipper to unionize and fight similarly for rights over their own work
“Put my thinking hand on the feeling stove,” and other completely unhinged things I blurt out in therapy.
Safari bugs always appear at the exact intersection of: rare enough to ignore and annoying enough to haunt you
willful ignorance of css as developer identity
Undocumented decisions don't stay undecided. They get decided by whoever or whatever is building next.
Nathania explores why cognitive accessibility belongs in your design system, and why it's every role's responsibility 👇
Oh, just you’re writing software to hardware and it’ll never get a chance to update post-purchase.
you get it
is Bluetooth a good protocol? no. are these speakers well made or good at playing music? also no.
hi, my name is Eric and I can't stop buying Bluetooth speakers