Do I know someone who has experience (or ability) working with Pagefind pagefind.app to implement search for an @11ty.dev based website who also happens to be available for hire? I need someone who can use the search API to create a custom implementation with custom HTML markup. Thank you #lazyWeb

At this point, I thought it would do a web search and pull the answer from my latest blog post. But it didn't even do that. It just confidently insisted that you can't provide alt text for CSS generated content. We've been able to do it for more than a year. www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/alt-tex...

I also took ChatGPT for a test drive yesterday and it literally made things up. Like... literally. And when I asked it why it recommended things that didn't exist, it apologized and said that that's what it had assumed based on other patterns it is familiar with. 🙂‍↕️

Every once in a while I like to test ChatGPT's knowledge. You know, just to see how well it's keeping up with updates in the field and how correct and trustworthy its information is. (Spoiler: it's not.) Despite sounding VERY confident and like it "knows" what it's saying, it turns out it doesn't.

Very quick, very dirty testing of voice control with visibly unlabeled fields: cdpn.io/aardrian/deb... The pen itself: codepen.io/aardrian/pen... It seems hiding visible labels is a great way to be mean to voice control users. #HTML #accessibility #a11y

It looks like I will be moving away from Obsidian for most of my notes and thinking. Obsidian is great for some aspects of note-taking, but it hasn't been great for others. What will I be using instead? A good old pen, and a paper notebook to start. And probably lots of sticky notes.

I know of many people against the AI hype, but where are the tech companies that are against it? Do they exist? Are they hiring? How can I help them?

After much procrastination, I finally hit the imaginary Publish button: 🔗 CSS to speech: alternative text for CSS-generated content www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/alt-tex... #CSS #a11y #accessibility

While making an update to a course chapter that includes the use of CSS-generated content in the accName computation, I noticed that support for alt text in CSS has improved since I gave a talk about CSS & a11y at CSS Day last year. So I thought it's time to do a proper, long overdue writeup!

Inclusive Design 24 #id24 is coming up next week and the schedule is up: inclusivedesign24.org/2025/schedule/ I already added a couple of sessions to my calendar 📅

me this morning... ...except... probably not as angry-looking as Jim 😅

While making an update to a course chapter that includes the use of CSS-generated content in the accName computation, I noticed that support for alt text in CSS has improved since I gave a talk about CSS & a11y at CSS Day last year. So I thought it's time to do a proper, long overdue writeup!

I don't get what all the fuss is about with Liquid Glass. I prefer the previous UI and I want it back. 🥲

S'il y a une formation sur l'accessibilité que je recommande les yeux fermés c'est bien "Practical Accessibility" de @sarasoueidan.com ! lnkd.in/p/epyAK75j #a11y #accessibility

Got to have a fantastic conversation with @henrihelvetica.bsky.social yesterday. The full convo will be posted over on my second channel in a few weeks... while you wait, there's a great one with @sarasoueidan.com on accessibility that went up this week as well 😊 👉 www.youtube.com/@GeneralMusi...

"Screen readers do not need to be saved by AI" TetraLogical's @craigabbott.co.uk has written a post exploring why we shouldn’t expect screen readers to be augmented with AI to fix problems with bad content. www.craigabbott.co.uk/blog/screen-... #Accessibility #ScreenReaders #InclusiveDesign

🎥 New (Video) Podcast: "Navigating the World of Web Accessibility with Sara Soueidan", with @kevinpowell.co www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndGK... I finally sat down with Kevin for a long-overdue, in-depth conversation about web #accessibility, and we had a blast!

I accidentally marked all Github notifications as Read. Oops. Github needs an Undo button for the latest action taken. I can't be the only one who does this, am I?

Thisssss 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

🎧 Listening (at 1.5x speed … 😅) to a wonderful conversation of two of my favourite people: @kevinpowell.co navigating the world of web #accessibility with @sarasoueidan.com 👏 #webdev #a11y www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndGK...

Accessibility is one of those things that can feel a bit overwhelming when you start learning about it, so I had a conversation with @sarasoueidan.com where we talked all about it, including what it is, why it matters, how to get started learning more about it, and a lot more. youtu.be/ndGKjhzmLXc

🎥 New (Video) Podcast: "Navigating the World of Web Accessibility with Sara Soueidan", with @kevinpowell.co www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndGK... I finally sat down with Kevin for a long-overdue, in-depth conversation about web #accessibility, and we had a blast!

I've recently heard of the `stretch` sizing keyword in #CSS This fantastic video by @miriam.codes explains the subtle but important difference between height:100%, height:100vh, and height:stretch www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZZX...

That moment of appreciation when you think of people you admire in your field not only for their professional brilliance but also because they are really good people. 🫶🏻

And we speakers LOVE to talk to folks so just come say hi!!

Between the time we launched the original Learn CSS course on web.dev and today, container queries landed in browsers and became Baseline Widely available! It was high time for an update, and we were lucky enough to have the team at OddBird work with us. Enjoy 9 new modules! web.dev/blog/learn-c...

I came across a store via @bell.bz and was pleasantly surprised*shocked* not just surprised that they offered OPTIONS to choose which currency you want to pay with. Wow. Now that majority of stores (those using Shopify) are forcing local currency based on location, this is such breath of fresh air.

I need two clones of me so that I can focus on the full-time job of *managing* my endless stream of ideas while the other two me's work on two of these ideas at the same time ('cause I don't seem to be able to choose just one). It’s almost a revelation that I spent two years on just the a11y course

Downloading JAWS 2025...

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Just paused halfway through a workout session because my overactive brain decided that I needed to rephrase and re-order a couple of sections in a WIP article draft because if I don't do it NOW it will erase all memory of this by the time I'm done. 🥹

Yesterday, by chance, I came across this article by Yusuf Kandemir: More than a checklist: three things that changed how I see accessibility dreamonkey.com/en/blog/more... He shared how taking my course has transformed how he sees #accessibility and how it redefined what 'quality' work means. 🩶

Third option: "The Front-End Flock Dispatch"? I'm not too attached to any of these names, for what it's worth. Front-End Field Notes has got the most votes across platforms so far.

OK, I'm going to need the flock's (your!) help deciding on a name for my newsletter because yes, I'm giving it a name and turning it into a 'pet project' (see what I did there?) I'm torn between: - Front-End Field Notes - The Flock Dispatch Which one would you choose, and why?

Interop 2026 is now open for proposals! This is your chance to tell browser-makers which well-defined, well-tested features you wish had better support across browsers. ⬇️ Here's how ⬇️ github.com/web-platform...

A Few Things About the Anchor Element’s href You Might Not Have Known blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/href-va... I learned a few new things about #HTML that I didn't even know existed. The <a href=""> element is more powerful than I knew.

💡 I did the research so you don’t have to! This is every element in current Baseline browsers that would need a margin or padding removing in a reset stylesheet: gist.github.com/csswizardry/...

A wee reminder that I am looking for my next client. I’m a design systems and content design consultant, specialising in design systems management, documentation, general content design, and consultancy. I’ve worked with the BBC, GOV.UK, Springer Nature, NHS, The Wellcome Trust, BT and more 1/2

I did some testing (again) for a #CSS article I'm working on. The test results have changed from two or three weeks ago. Always test your work, friends, especially for new features that have a direct impact on accessibility and usability. More details coming soon.

I know many relate to this article, and that really upsets me. I use em dashes and refuse to stop using them. They're part of the language. Are we supposed to stop using emojis and lists because AI overuses them too?

CSS-only scrollspy effect using scroll-marker-group and :target-current: "Today, a new #CSS property and pseudo-selector are available that are meant to enable us to create the Scrollspy effect with just two lines of CSS and no JavaScript." www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/css-scr...

OK. VisBug by @nerdy.dev is pretty cool.

making improvements to a site's accessibility feels soooo good. you should try it sometime (shoutout to @sarasoueidan.com for all of the knowledge packed into practical-accessibility.today)

I love Recursive (and its site). This discussion might be fruitful for your research github.com/excalidraw/e...

Fellow geeks, designer friends, and font enthusiasts: I need your help. 🙋 What is the most *readable* handwritten font face you know? #lazyWeb

Almost everything I know about anchor-positioning is thanks to James' articles on it, and this email course. It's definitely worth learning (I still get excited with how easy it makes a lot of things), and this is as good a resource as you'll find on the topic.

This was pushed out with a rushed security review, a coerced and unwilling engineering team, and in full opposition to our supposed company values. If you don't want it, tell them. Social media and support forums. Leadership won't listen to employees. github.blog/changelog/20...

AI is going to ruin all the good things we've enjoyed on the web in the past decade, isn't it?

HTML Developers: Please Consider – in the year of 2025 html5accessibility.com/stuff/2025/0... #a11y #HTML

"Once you start using a larger cursor size, you'll never go back." I don't remember who said this yeeeears ago but he was right. The moment I made it bigger I knew I'll never go back to the default size. Try it. Highly recommend. #UX #a11y