Working with different teams as an external consultant I learned that many devs don't deal too much with native HTML, CSS, or JS. Building websites for them means using a framework, component library, or Tailwind. I knew that, but I was surprised how disconnected they were from the standards world. It's almost as if web development means something completely different to them. My suggestions mostly involved solutions in vanilla HTML, CSS, and JS, but I feel like often these weren't useful. 1/2
Stack overflow is almost dead
“as soon as ChatGPT came out, the number of questions asked declined rapidly. ChatGPT is faster and it’s trained on StackOverflow data, so the quality of answers is similar. Plus, ChatGPT is polite and answers all questions, in contrast to StackOverflow moderators.” lol
Three things you can do to make your talks better:
1. Don't refer to a slide without describing or reading it. Saying something like "and then you geht this" and pointing to the slide will only work for sighted people, who understand what you're showing, and sit close enough to read it.
2. Repeat comments and questions from the audience so that everyone can hear it.
3. If you use memes (please only do it sparingly) explain them. Don't assume that everyone knows and understands every meme.
Currently, you should be especially cautious when you read articles about accessibility by people who haven't written much or nothing about the topic before.
There are a lot of new “experts” that try to cash up because the EAA draws in a lot of attention.
My entire April and May are packed, but if I had the time, I would attend this workshop by @npub1szda...5a79 ! Sounds super interesting!
“Take your sites to the next level with this 3-session workshop on building more resilient and maintainable web layouts using modern CSS.”
