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Once more for the folks in the back: accessibility is a human right. Your web standards godfather shares thoughts on a small atrocity.

Jeffrey Zeldman Presents

Jeffrey Zeldman Presents Accessibility is a human right, cruelty a human wrong. - Accessibility

Once more for the folks in the back. Calibri is easier than Times New Roman for folks with certain visual disabilities to read. That’s why the B...

Hoping Tarantino disses me next. I could use the boost.

The early web revealed how many of us are creative.  The current one shows how many are morons.

“One small thing designers and developers can do is to make accessibility and usability Job 1 on every project. And to take a broad view of what that means. It means taking people’s messy humanity into account and designing for extreme ends of the bell curve.” #BlueBeanieDay is 30 November.

Knowbility

Blue Beanie Day 2022 — Knowbility

A brief salute to the meaning of blue beanie day.

“If it was anybody else, we would arrest him tomorrow.”

MS NOW

‘If it was anybody else, we’d arrest him tomorrow,' Justice Department aide said of Trump

A handful of documents found by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago were so sensitive that even a senior Justice Department official didn’t have authorization ...

The party of Lincoln cheers as masked vigilantes who can’t pass an open-book test aim guns at pregnant women, an alcoholic TV host murders unarmed fishermen while lecturing the US military on “manhood,” and the GOP keeps the government shut down to keep the content of the Epstein files a delightful secret.

Congrats to The Guardian on hiring Doctorow to explain enshittification to the non-tech masses.

the Guardian

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittificati...

#enshittification #CoryDoctorow #software

See whose work tech companies are using to train their generative-AI models. Search for authors, YouTube channels and creators, or screenwriters. Here are nine books I worked on that were used to train LLMs:

The Atlantic

AI Watchdog - The Atlantic

The Atlantic's ongoing investigation of the books, videos, and other media used by the world's most powerful tech companies to train their AI models.

Imagine a web page that loads instantly, deploys effortlessly, and never needs a security update.


Why I’m Writing Pure HTML & CSS in 2025

#webstandards #html #css

“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said Adio Dinika, a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute based in Bremen, Germany.

the Guardian

How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart

Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent