Profile editing is now a unified experience, with everything in a single view. You can also now add alt text for profile and cover photos.

Do you have any good use cases for knowing how many children an element has? We have sibling-count(), but that information can't be passed to the parent. I'm looking for times when the parent having that ifno could be useful. I've run into a few recently, but I can't remember what they were now 😅

Blink: Intent to Prototype: CSS sticky positioning in single-axis scroll containers

If you have a dialog or popover (including old #js techniques as well as new #html ones) and inside it you have an iframe, is it possible to be focused in the iframe and still close the dialog when pressing "ESC"? It seems not, but I'm wondering if I'm missing a trick somewhere. The iframe […]

Today's Vivaldi desktop snapshot has a trial of a new onboarding step for people to quickly configure Vivaldi for assistive tech, keyboard-only use or with visual impairments. https://vivaldi.com/blog/desktop/easier-onboarding-for-all-users-vivaldi-browser-snapshot-3969-3/

Blink: Intent to Ship: CSS contrast-color()

I believe that the #accessibility of everyday tech for #screenreader users is on a slow but consistent decline. Operating systems, browsers, messaging apps, email clients, even command line tools. These things are not being replaced with more #accessible alternatives, but nor does the […]

Bloggers and newsletter peeps, I beg you, make your RSS feeds *easier* to find, especially on mobile. I am a lazy person, so having to hit share, and then my RSS reader app is sometimes a lot of work VS just double tapping on an RSS link. Also, sometimes, my RSS reader can't find your RSS feed […]

My old dad's smartphone setup has made me conscious of a really common #accessibility failure. Most phone app developers don't seem to check what happens if you run their software with an really large default system font, because your vision is impaired. I can tell you what happens. Buttons […]

I think lot’s of people (devs/users/everybody) would benefit from field-tested accessible components for all (the complicated) use-cases. There are libraries like this, but most of them looked half-baked. Send me good examples, if there are any you like. What would it take to set something […]

Gecko: Intent to ship: ariaNotify

There may come a day where I do not do the entirety of the Antonio Banderas reaction GIF every time I use an invoker command, but that day is not today.

After updating from iOS 26 to 26.3, Safari has reverted to the behaviour of collapsing the address bar even though I had it configured not to before the update. Does this mean the setting no longer exists? Is there another way to make the address bar be always expanded?

Listened to the @shoptalkshow, and there was a question about `text-transform: capitalize` not being able to _reduce_ the all-uppercase text. I think, for sure, there should be an issue about making this possible (`force-capitalize` or something?). Meanwhile, what I tested is if there are […]

Blink: Intent to Prototype: Lazy loading for video and audio elements

Comparing historical hair samples from people from when they were babies to today, a new study finds a nearly 100-fold decrease in lead from samples after the EPA's crackdown on leaded gas. Regulation works and it saves lives! […] [Original post on scicomm.xyz]

In all browsers, inline SVGs can use color keywords like `currentColor` and `CanvasText` to make the `fill` and/or `stroke` colors inherit colors from parent elements and from the user agent stylesheet. When forced-colors is active (aka "Contrast themes"), the color values come from the user's […]

#a11y bubble! Do you know any good and accessible examples for “ghost text”, multiline text suggestions, predictive completion, AI suggestions or whatever you want to call this pattern. (Example: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot/ai-powered-suggestions) I tested VSCode (NVDA) and it […]

Let's do this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...

Happy Mooninite Panic day to all who celebrate!

Hi @zulip! Do you have any information about the accessibility of your application? I am thinking about an Accessibility Conformance Report or a VPAT or a plain accessibility statement. There seems to be no mention of accessibility on your website. #a11yfoss

Blink: Intent to Experiment: Focusgroup

It's great that Apple is extending the usable life for some mobile devices as iMessage and FaceTime clients. I wish they would extend the usable life of devices by letting them run a newer #web browser than the one the OS came with. The benefitting devices were first released between 2013 & […]

Cool. So if you wanted to check for support of a particular command keyword, to polyfill it, you could use something like this: ```JS const cmd = 'fold-laundry'; const testBtn = document.createElement("button"); testBtn.command = cmd; if (testBtn.command != cmd) { // command keyword not […]

Invoker commands are a great pattern and I'm so glad they're in all major browsers now. The initial set of command keywords is limited but I'm hoping many more will be added in the future. How can we feature test whether a particular command keyword is supported in a browser? Is there a method […]

Blink: Intent to Prototype: CSS contrast-color()

Blink: Intent to Prototype: 'step-up' and 'step-down' Invoker Commands

Gecko: Intent to prototype: ariaNotify

Gecko: Intent to ship: colorspace and alpha attributes for `<input type=color>`

Do want: `<summary for="my-details>…</summary><details id="my-details">…"`.

ain't that pretty!? all that support https://nerdy.dev/have-a-dialog

You'd expect people who like books would know the story of Chicken Little or The Boy Who Cried Wolf, wouldn't you? > Note that this feature is completely optional and no AI related code is even loaded until you configure an AI provider. https://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new

Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer is a WordPress plugin designed to combat link rot. It automatically scans your post contentto detect outbound links, checks the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine for an archived version and creates a snapshot if one isn’t available. When a linked […]

Gecko: Intent to ship: CSS Anchor Positioning

i think any tool for auto-generated alt text, the UI should very much encourage **actually editing that text** to make sure it's actually accurate, and especially to remove unnecessary details. #Accessibility

I like frontloading of the current page information, would connect it to the <nav> element with an aria-labelledby. I would also shorten it. “Page 3 of 10.” No need for “this is” and “go to:”. “Page 3 of 10, navigation” as an announcement is totally sufficient. You always “go to” somewhere using […]

So, every browser since 2017 supports -webkit-text-stroke and yet we couldn’t bring ourselves to remove the prefix? Pathetic! 🤣

I just discovered that current versions of Pages on the Mac export tagged PDF files by default. Only if tables contain more than 10,000 rows, will tags be omitted. That can be overridden by changing the Accessibility popup menu setting in File/Export/PDF under Advanced from „Standard" to "on“ […]

Has anybody ever seen a comparison of semantics / roles in HTML vs. iOS + Android?

@w3cdevs Some sites block requests from w3.org validators, not specifically but likely in their attempt to block unwelcome bots. Do you have suggestions for how they can write web application firewall (WAF) rules to allow the validators?

Gecko: Intent to ship: Matroska support

@w3c Appartently “symbolic chain links” is the official description, from this audio described video… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bXp8Eet0HM

Using Figma Desktop on a train with a spotty connection is infuriating. Of all the apps that should be offline first, Figma is high up, surely (yes I know it’s a wrapped website). How this software became the industry “default” will forever baffle me.

I’m trying to figure out what works better for alt text accessibility in practice — please reply ONLY if you ever actually use text-to-speech, braille interfaces, or anything similar for accessing the alt text of images. (Boosts welcome.) If I post a picture of writing in another language — say […]

After reading this, I went through my blog and managed to remove a few *hundred* useless `class` attributes. I also got rid of several redundant `id` attributes as well. The majority of my CSS now uses semantic targetting rather than scattershot #id and .class Is that *sensible*? Well that's […]

I've joined @whiskey.fm as a permanent show host! I'll be bringing #CSS content and overall more dorky nerdery to the pod. Tune in if you're into (web tech news || whiskey || whatnot) nerdy.dev/www-ep208

The vast majority of your users are not, in fact, using the latest and greatest iPhone. Lower-end Android devices far outweigh them, so it’s imperative to test on them and make them a part of your development workflow — especially if you use a JavaScript framework […]

Gecko: Intent to Ship: CSS View Transitions L1