mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Web dev/#a11y nerd. DevRel @sanity_io@mastodon.social. @OpenUICG participant (ex W3C, Mozilla, NL gov). Tweets on the web, standards, design, ethics, components, JS, books.
Later today I will talk to the students of @vasilis@social.vasilis.nl and @krijnhoetmer@twitter.com about accessibility standards and how to use them. Accessibility fediverse what is the thing you wish you knew about accessbility standards when you started out?
“[we] converted the authoring format for MDN Web Docs - all 11,000 pages of it - from HTML to Markdown. In this post we'll talk about why we did it, how we did it, and how it turned out.” https://openwebdocs.org/content/posts/markdown-conversion/
“As well as an exercise in humility and a lesson in how elite markers like blue ticks truly function, lots of real-life influential people now understand in their bones why platform concentration and monopoly is a terrible, terrible thing”—@MariaFarrell@twitter.com https://crookedtimber.org/2022/11/04/whither-twitter/
‘Now is a good time to reclaim control over your content.’—@mmatuzo, in a post that gives a great overview over what we lose when instead of self hosting, we rely on and get suspended from hosted platforms like Twitter https://www.matuzo.at/blog/2022/your-account-is-permanently-suspended/
Ohai!
Those of you building something to post ‘tweets’ on your own site first, have you settled on what to call them? I see ‘Notes’ used a lot.
“If it is important enough to need words, it is important enough to use text content.”—@ericwbailey@mastodon.technology on the overuse of aria-label https://ericwbailey.website/published/aria-label-is-a-code-smell/
