Manuel Matuzović

@matuzo.at

frontend developer and consultant HTML, CSS, accessibility big fan of <button>s creator of HTMHell author of the Web Accessibility Cookbook

TIL for link previews, Bluesky ignores both meta tags. Mastodon uses the alt and puts `lang="de"` on the image, title, and description. ``` <meta property="og:image:alt" content="The preview image"> <meta property="og:locale" content="de_DE" /> ```

On August 1, 2003, Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe founded the MySpace social network. MySpace popularity skyrocketed, and by February 2004, the network had acquired one million users. Tom's MySpace profile in 2005

Tom's MySpace profile in 2005

LLMs are getting better and better at manual a11y testing. They're already better than the average developer with some knowledge of accessibility. Still, I doubt this will affect the quality of sites because we've had automated testing tools for many years, and _no one_ has used them either. 1/2

📣 Today is the day: WCAG-EM 2 is officially out as a W3C Note! w3.org/TR/WCAG-EM New: - name; it's now simply “WCAG Evaluation Methodology” - instead of 'websites', it's about 'digital products' (of which websites and apps are examples) - better readability (content, layout) - better examples

🌙 The Fronteers Dark Mode programme is live! Join us Oct 2nd in Dordrecht 🇳🇱 for an evening of talks on HTML, CSS, WebAudio, and APIs: 🎤 Barry Pollard 🎤 Anjana Vakil 🎤 Harry Roberts 🎤 Cyd Stumpel 🎤 Heydon Pickering Hosted by Jake Archibald 🎟️ €99 incl. a 2-course dinner 🥣🥩🐟🥬 👉 fronteersconf.org

Fronteers Dark Mode, Friday, October 2nd, Dordrecht

Join us at Cinema de Witt in Dordrecht for our after work conference.

fronteersconf.org

We were at a vinery today in Bosnia. For dessert we had baklava with vanilla ice cream. It was delicious, but so much and so sweet, I couldn't finish it. 🤤😲

A unusually large piece of baklava in a milk-like sauce. A scoop of vanilla ice on top.

Web development fucked. Design fucked. Freelancing fucked. Content creation fucked. Education fucked Blogging fucked. Dev rel fucked. Hard to find a purpose in this brave new world.