🟣 Speaker Announcement: Stephen Midgley AI Against The Odds: Building Tools for the Forgotten We're incredibly privileged to have Stephen join us to share his personal and incredibly inspiring story about how he used AI to support him and his mother during crisis.

I'm a skeptical user of AI tools. I see they accelerate a lot of existing issues in society, turbo charging them. I don't buy the Silicon Valley hype, but I do see folks around me use tools every day and LLMs being increasingly embedded in enterprise software.

Heya, who else is going to @ffconf.org in Brighton this year? Friday 14th Nov 2025.ffconf.org ffconf is my annual reminder that there are humans out there in the tech industry who actually care about other humans. Always a pleasure to attend. 😍💛 Hope to meet folks there.

Had a fantastic time at #AllDayHey @heypresents.com in Leeds. Ninth year it's been running and I finally got to attend! Was a real pleasure to give a talk here. I'm already looking forward to returning this time next year to see folks at the next one! Best part of events like this is the community.

Hey @heypresents.com attendees, if you're a CSS nerd, I'd love to get your view on a new CSS unit called 'pem' that me and some of the Chrome team are proposing at the CSSWG. We need your feedback on how it will work. Please come and find me if you're interested!

how to find the balance between not having unnecessary interactions to access information but also, not causing cognitive overload with too much information on the screen in one go. is it just about good spacing and visual hierarchy? #AllDayHey

Cheers #AllDayHey fam! It was an honour speaking. I mentioned a coupon code for complete-css.com Use ALLDAYHEY for 30% off

Don't just test on your fancy new MacBook that you're developing on. Use various low cost devices. (Oh look, a laptop with a sticker for an old BBC backend service!) #AllDayHey

What about technical complexity. Increased of making users click a button to access an address in a popover, why not just display the address? Users might not know they need to click the button to access the address. #AllDayHey

For example, the NHS website uses terms like pee and poo rather than stool or urine. #AllDayHey

So how can we tangibly change things? There is research already done that we can look at to simplify things. What about adults with poor literacy levels? Maybe due to disability or English as a second language. Plain English. Active voice. No unnecessary words or jargon. #AllDayHey

Capability, opportunity and motivation lead to behavioural change. Like can you easily get on an app store? Do you have internet access? What thoughts do you have about yourself? #AllDayHey

But relying on digital services creates challenges like users with patchy connections, using assistive technologies, no fixed postal address, in poverty... Digital exclusion can come from lots of things. What prevents people from accessing key services? #AllDayHey

Remember back in the lockdowns during the pandemic when we had to use digital services to arrange vaccinations? Quite straightforward. 20 million adults booked this way. #AllDayHey For some this was the first time using digital services for health.

Next is Sareh my old colleague who used to work on the BBC World Service website, talking about making inclusive digital services. #AllDayHey @sareh88.bsky.social

Met some lovely folks at #AllDayHey today ❤️Props to @philhawksworth.dev for exception levels of Vibe Hosting™. Thoughtful slides on digital exclusion from @sareh88.bsky.social

It’s a real honour to be invited back to speak at All Day Hey! again. It’s a fantastic one-day conference in Leeds. “Such a great talk” “Live coding level: expert” “Fantastic talk!” Come and see me recreate some Daft Punk using nothing but a MIDI controller and a browser. @heypresents.com

I'm going to be speaking at @heypresents.com on May 1st. I can't wait! It's one of the best events there is in the best city in the world: Leeds. It's always good to go back up to my home city and speak. See you there? heypresents.com/conferences/...

Who’s ready for the All Day Hey! 2025 Schedule? 🧡 See this year’s talks and grab a ticket here! heypresents.com/conferences/... 📅 Thursday, 1st May 2025 ⏰ 09:00 - 17:00 BST 📍 Everyman Cinema, Leeds, UK 🔖 Curated single-track programme 🎤 8 industry-focused talks 🧃 Post-event networking with social

It's my pleasure to be speaking at @heypresents.com this year! It's a conference I've been looking forward to attending for a while. You can check out the rest of the lineup and get your tickets here: heypresents.com/conferences/... . See you in Leeds on 1st May! ✨

#LWSJan2025 is 5 days away. Tell your friends, bring your friends. Tickets are free: londonwebstandards.org/events/lwsja...

Don’t miss out on your chance to bag your ticket and bring your friends or colleagues down for the day. Join us on 1st May, 2025 at Everyman Cinema in Leeds!

All Day Hey! 2025 is THIS YEAR! 🎉 We’re incredibly excited to be publishing the full schedule for the day very soon, and a quarter of tickets have already been sold.

Critical Accessibility Theory: 1. Ableism is structural and systematic within organizations and thus prevents true accessibility from being achieved. 2. Accessibility work only begins in earnest when the work benefits a majority without disabilities and often fails to fully address inaccessibility

📝 New post! `aria-label` and `aria-labelledby` aren't allowed on divs, spans, and other static text elements out of the box, and *most* screenreaders won't announce them. #accessibility #a11y

Correct. Truman tried to create a national healthcare system around the same time that European nations were making theirs. It was killed by Dixiecrats because it would have required integrated hospital facilities.

This cyber Monday use your savings from deals to help a family in Gaza if you can ❤️

If you want to catch up on the talks from @aifortherestofus.live, you can do that here. I was pleasantly surprised at how accessible especially the opening talks were. No assumption of prior knowledge of the innards of machine learning algorithms and large language models.

This report might interest folks r.e. worker surveillance. (cc @utaw.tech )

This is your reminder to get a library card. They have so many services and basically all of them are free.

🚨 Speakers Announced: March for Palestine We have a great lineup of speakers at the march for Palestine on Saturday 30 November. Including: Juliet Stevenson Khalid Abdalla Halima Begum, @oxfamgb.bsky.social CEO @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social @kimjohnsonmp.bsky.social Dr. Ahmad Mukallalati

Struggling to write a talk proposal that gets noticed? Here’s a tip we’ll cover in my upcoming workshop: focus on the key takeaways for your audience. What is it that the audience will learn? Write your proposal with that framing in mind.

I love this so much 🥲

After 15+ years of teaching, architecting & delivering CSS for global organisations & startups, I’ve collated that experience into an extensive course. Complete CSS has taken nearly a year to produce and finally, it’s officially live for a limited Black Friday launch price of £189 complete-css.com

I've been writing a lot about the terminal recently, and I've realized that there are two kinds of rules in the terminal: - "Laws of Terminal Physics"(that are ~always true) - Social Rules (that only work because people mostly agree on them) here are some of the social rules!

Stuffing your websites with autoplaying video or needlessly shoehorning in giant JS libraries is an intentional injury to global users of the web, in this explicative-laden manifesto I will…

Oh yes. This was me in the Spring this year.

Hani sent me this very funny video from his new tent today 😂 (I added the captions). I thought you all would like it too ❤️ If you want to help get his kids some warmer clothes too the link is below. gofund.me/33e0c09b

Alt text: patient in doctor's office. Doctor saying "Here's your problem -- it looks like you're paying attention to what's going on."

My weekly Newsletter is out: - User Testing Templates Starter Kit - Free Collaborative Whiteboard Tool - Framing Effect - A PacCam Face-Controlled Game - Fun Emoji Rain Experiment - Image Accessibility on Bluesky - Using Auto Layout in Figma stephaniewalter.design/blog/pixels-...

Monday morning. One month to Christmas. Over 400 days of war crimes, deliberate starvation of a whole population of two million and targeted killing of children via quadcopters and drones. Here's Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur talking about the latest. www.instagram.com/share/reel/B...

This is a friendly reminder to enable the setting that forces you to supply an alt text when you attach an image. Lets all do our bit to make this place as accessible as possible! 🙂

Cool detailed notes from the #PerfNow conference.

Hey everyone! I ended my #perfnow talk by asking you all to consider contributing to the broader #webperf community. And one project I called out was e18e.dev. They're trying to connect together people working on JS packages performance (example below). Please consider joining their discord!

I honestly think this is why a lot of people think they are scams- it is very difficult to reckon with the idea that you can talk to a person in the midst of a genocide. But to be honest I truly think that doing this is a way to stay connected with your own humanity.

A great-to-know tip to verify yourself using your Github account if you don't have a personal domain. 👇

Hey folks, Who is doing interesting work relating to web performance in product teams or elsewhere in Latin America, Africa, Asia? #WebPerf #WebPerformance I'm looking to invite a few speakers for an event in London. Please share for reach. 🙏🏼

So you must now articulate your right to silence before being apprised that you have that right, or else your silence can be used as evidence of guilt.