I'm wearing glasses for the first time in 25 years. Back then I could see, now I can't, but for the first time in 0.25 Century I can look at something unfamiliar and have a reasonable chance of identifying it - without taking my phone out of my pocket. #AI #Meta #RayBans #safety #independence

Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike... my contribution to the 2024 HTMHell advent calendar:

Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike... - HTMHell

Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike... - HTMHell

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

#AI #accessibility #NeutrimaticDrinksDispenser

If you use your voice to navigate websites, the @npub1tl7p...6j09 Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Rules Community Group and Task Force would like your help to test 27 different controls:

Google Docs

Voice Navigation Feedback

Thank you for agreeing to fill out this survey. We will use the responses to learn the best way to implement the label in name WCAG success criteri...

It'll help them understand which patterns work (and which don't) for #WCAG 2.5.3 Label in Name

It's 1 December and the #HTMHell calendar is back with another 24 posts on #security, #accessibility, #performance, and #UX, courtesy of @mmatuzo and friends:

HTMHell Advent Calendar 2025 - HTMHell

HTMHell Advent Calendar 2025 - HTMHell

An article, talk, or tool that focuses on HTML every day until Christmas.

Meet Steve, a photographer who is deaf and has low vision:

TetraLogical

Meet Steve: a photographer who is deaf and low vision - TetraLogical

Meet Steve, a photographer from London who is deaf and low vision. He is an ex-civil servant who then went on to do freelance technology journalism...

@TetraLogical@indieweb.social worked with #Bristol photographer Jonathan Bowcott to produce a series of images that challenge disability stereotypes, then we chatted with the people who volunteered to help us with our mission.

Posted the #recipe for the slow cooker French onion soup with cheese toasts (and optional butter toasted apples) I made the other day:

Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age

Slow cooker French onion soup with cheese toasts - Tink - Léonie Watson

So, my attempt to upgrade #Eleventy for the first time in *cough*, *mumble*, erm, quite some time, is not going at all well. 😢

I've used #Firefox as my primary browser for as long as I can remember. I stuck with it when its performance was comparatively dreadful, and when its performance with my screen reader was worse, because I agreed with Mozilla's ethos. Now #Mozilla has laid off another 30% of its people, and is no longer concentrating efforts on advocacy and/or its global programmes, it's getting harder to convince myself that their time isn't up.

TechCrunch

Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division | TechCrunch

This is the second layoff at Mozilla this year, the first affecting dozens of staff on the side of the organization that builds the popular Firefox...

A person I know who is in the early stages of a career in accessibility is hoping to find a screen reader user with web development experience to mentor them for a while. They're a screen reader user themselves and they want to level-up their knowledge of HTML/CSS/JavaScript/ARIA in order to offer better recommendations when testing for accessibility. If this is you, or if you know someone it might be, drop me a DM? Thanks.