Accessibility is bigger than SEO. Most barriers users face never affect search rankings. Great data from Karl Groves. afixt.com/seo-is-not... #Accessibility #A11y #SEO #InclusiveDesign #WebAccessibility #DigitalAccessibility #WCAG

SEO is not accessibility, and we have the data to prove it - AFixt

Among the many ancillary arguments you tend to hear about why you should care about accessibility is the pitch: “Accessibility improves your SEO!” It’s the sweetener accessibility advocates add add when they suspect compliance alone won’t close the deal. And like most such arguments, it contains just enough truth to survive scrutiny – as long […]

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"The work is not choosing between taste and HTML. The work is making taste sit on top of the strongest possible contract." karlkoch.me/writing/on-t...

Karl Koch | On the semantic web

Semantic HTML is interface infrastructure: native elements carry behaviour, accessibility, form semantics, keyboard support, and platform adaptation before styling begins.

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#Atag26 war wunderbar! Gerne wieder.

Pairs well with jfdi.bot/blog/ai-gene...

AI Generated Content Broke the Social Contract - JFDI Bot

AI-generated content feels offensive even when it's competent. I think I know why.

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This post hit me in my soul.

Terry Godier@terrygodier.com · 3mo ago

📢 New Essay: The Boring Internet The internet you grew up on isn’t dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. www.terrygodier.com/the-borin…

These assholes https://www.openui.com/ did not do any due diligence before choosing a name. The only Open UI that counts is https://open-ui.org/ 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22476

This is a fascinating (and terrifying) read by @matthiasott.com, who identifies the sheer scale of LLM scraper bots hitting personal sites — to the point where web hosts are having to limit traffic, preventing actual humans from accessing them.

Webspace Invaders · Matthias Ott

There’s something happening on the Web at the moment that almost feels like watching that old arcade game Space Invaders play out across our servers. Bots and scrapers marching in formation, attacking...

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How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

LLMs are good at idea quality, but weak on idea variance. GPT-4's brainstorm pools are less diverse than humans, unless you prompt for diversity explicitly. CoT prompting gets closest to “team human.” papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

We'll be getting multiple outlines in #CSS!! Multiple outlines means no more hacking our way around accessible and creative outline styles with box-shadows that aren't rendered in forced-colors mode! 🙌 Finally!! This is such great news!! 🎉🥳

Lea Verou, PhD@lea.verou.me · 6mo ago

🎉 Live from the CSS WG F2F: We just agreed to support multiple borders and outlines per element, comma-separated! But we can’t decide on the order: inside out or outside in? What feels more natural to you, A or B? (it needs to be the same across borders and outlines or different box-sizing values)

On day 17 @gerireid.com explores the gap between what's rendered on the screen and what screen readers actually announce. #htmhellAdventcalendar htmhell.dev/adventcalend...

Don't leave the screen reader hungry - HTMHell

A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.

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Happy 30th, JavaScript. Remember, age is just NaN… In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet

Thirty years later, JavaScript is the glue that holds the interactive web together, warts and all.

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It's December 1st, which means that throughout the entire month you should reserve 5-10 minutes every day to read a fantastic article about HTML. ❤️‍🔥 Check out what's hidden behind the first door. htmhell.dev/adventcalendar

“Do we want to design for the world as it is? Or do we want to design how it should be?” We can control the future with our choices, because “we live in a narrative-driven world.” — Thorsten Jonas at @beyondtellerrand.com

I wrote this with a bunch of good folks in the #Drupal community A New Era of Digital #Accessibility: The #EAA and its Implications for Drupal https://www.drupal.org/association/blog/a-new-era-of-digital-accessibility-the-eaa-and-its-implications-for-drupal /c @drupalassoc

Meta was ordered by a a Dutch court to offer a non-algorithmic timeline option, and they just got an extension as they claimed they couldn't do it within 2 weeks for tech reasons.

While Hitler plotted and Europe crumbled, a motley crew of mathematicians, philosophers, architects, and economists met weekly to invent Computer Science. Mark Bernstein mines this forgotten history for lessons that just might save today’s web from its worst impulses.

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Designing Amiable Web Spaces: Lessons from Vienna's Café Culture

Explore the impact of amiability in web interactions and learn from the history of Vienna Circle's collaborative spirit in dealing with disagreements.

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Holy shit, #Webflow. I understand you may not have anyone on staff to review this LLM-generated ARIA explainer, but you’ve mostly just convinced me your product is a lawsuit-in-waiting. I’m sorry most of your customers won’t recognize that. webflow.com/blog/how-to-... #accessibility #a11y #ARIA

👁️‍🗨️ Conforming to WCAG does not make your UI magically accessible, but it will be a lot more accessible than if nothing is done. #UX is a different matter... #WCAG #accessibility #reality

"Ask an LLM to style a button, and there’s a good chance it’ll still suggest outline: 0 or outline: none from the 15 years of training data." medienbaecker.com/articles/tru...

Trusting the browser · Medienbäcker Thomas Günther

I've been thinking about how we approach accessibility in web development. Particularly about trusting the browser to implement things in an accessible way.

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✨ I just published a brand-new post! It’s about the notorious SVG <path> element. With its compact Regex-style syntax, <path> can be super intimidating. But they’re also *incredibly* powerful, letting us draw (and animate!) curved lines. You can read it here, and I’ll share more info in thread. 🧵

An Interactive Guide to SVG Paths • Josh W. Comeau

SVG gives us many different primitives to work with, but by far the most powerful is the <path> element. Unfortunately, it’s also the most inscrutable, with its compact Regex-style syntax. In this tut...

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In my articles header, I try to design it in a way that reflect the topic. Here is the one about CSS Relative Colors. 🔗 ishadeed.com/article/css-...

"How is it possible for CrUX to say 90% of page loads are good, and Google Search Console to say only 50% of URLs are good. Which is right?" It's a question I get about Core Web Vitals and I admit it's confusing, but the truth is both are correct because they are different measures... 1/5 🧵

Why and How to Write Minimal and Valid HTML, a Link Guide, by @meiert.com: meiert.com/blog/minimal...

Why and How to Write Minimal and Valid HTML, a Link Guide · Jens Oliver Meiert

On using all of HTML’s features and ensuring that HTML code is error-free—two surprisingly underused and unpopular approaches to writing HTML.

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Modern HTML is a disaster. It’s bloated, semantically meaningless, and hostile to browsers, bots, and users. We’ve traded structure for utility, and performance is paying the price. Semantic HTML still matters - and here’s why. www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/w...

Why Semantic HTML Still Matters

If you want to build for performance, accessibility, discoverability, or resilience, you must start with HTML that means something.

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Why are you shipping 3MB of JavaScript to animate a link? Modern CSS now handles seamless page transitions - natively. No routing hacks. No hydration tax. No excuse.

It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA

Native CSS transitions have quietly killed the strongest argument for client-side routing. Yet people keep building terrible apps instead of performant websites.

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Hot off the presses! Firefox Nightly (www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefo...) adds the new :heading pseudo! Easily style all headings, or use nth-child-like AnB syntax to select a range of headings! Needs `layout.css.heading-selector.enabled` flag enabled. Try it out and let me know your thoughts.

“We can’t let the ease of generation become a substitute for our better judgment. We can’t let groupthink dictate taste. We can’t let empathy get stripped from the process just because the output looks like a viable product to the loudest person in the room.” Mike Schindler #ux #ai #ProductDesign

This is not a pipe: UX, AI, and the risk of satisficed product design

AI’s grip on design forces us to reconsider our role in shaping perception, reality, and — most importantly — decision-making.

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“LLMs can accelerate and democratise scientific progress by helping researchers contextualise their work” <- outright lies. most of the time, to be genAI enthusiast is to no longer care about the truthfulness of your claim