Daniela Kubesch wrote her Master's Thesis on "The Impact of Web Accessibility Overlays on the Usability and User Experience for People with Permanent Visual Impairments". Now we can say "Scientific research has shown that accessibility overlays are ineffective." overlays.dnikub.dev

I don't know what you know already, but a good (free) starting resource is MDN: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W... @sarasoueidan.com has a full and practical course: practical-accessibility.today There is also WAI's resources: www.w3.org/WAI/roles/new/

Today, I let my bulbul out and about. He explored the area around the house where there are also many other wild bulbuls.

📰 W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 is now approved as ISO/IEC international standard www.w3.org/press-releas...

❥ "I ask you, human to human, [..] leave the AI to your quantitative tasks if you have to use it at all. Face the world with your thoughts and enrich them through real-world experience. The best thoughts are the ones that have been felt, anyway."

Oooh this will come in handy: stopcitingai.com h/t @stefanjudis.com

Enjoyed this writeup by @dbushell.com about the usability of custom cursors in #CSS dbushell.com/2025/10/27/c... When I visited the Wondermake website I was surprised the cursor was that big. I didn't realize it was responding to my OS settings. Neat. Interesting that Windows doesn't do the same.

I just sent out an issue of my Frontend Field Notes newsletter with a more coherent writeup of this post + links to useful resources on the subject. 📰 You can read the issue on my website: www.sarasoueidan.com/newsletter/i... ✉️ And subscribe for future notes: www.sarasoueidan.com/newsletter/ 📬

I didn't know about named container queries! ♥️ #CSS

I bought this this morning and I’m over half way through it. Probably the best $25 I’ve spent in years. I use web components for my blog posts and have known for a while that there are big gaps in my knowledge, and this has filled a whole bunch of them.

Since we're on the subject: I wish the <source> element also accepted an alt attribute (or similar) so we can provide suitable and more descriptive alt text for each image. Maybe then the browser could populate the <img>'s alt text with the text we provide for each source.

I'm sorry but making content images semi-transparent / reducing their opacity in dark mode is not an inclusive design strategy. It makes the images less accessible—which is more problematic when the images contain text. & the fact that they need to be hovered to become fully visible makes it worse.

There's a new #CSS Working Group poll to get feedback on different names for the infamous 'Pinterest' layout. - Since it uses many of the grid-* properties, `grid` will be in the name somewhere - We don't use metaphors in CSS names, so `masonry` is not listed here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I'd recommend @tink.uk's talk from FFConf last year: ffconf.org/talks/2024_l... (sorry for the qusai FFConf promotion, but the talk is very very good)

🤖 ChatGPT sez Build with semantics first #browser #ai #a11y html5accessibility.com/stuff/2025/1...

CSS: Has the idea of an Open Graph media type been explored? Like print? For example, @media opengraph { /* @media layouts for OG sizes here */ } Feels like the social preview for a given URL should just be another CSS layout. Setting up screenshot services of layouts for meta tags is so 🫠

This will cause a lot of confusion. In Europe, new services must now be WACAG 2.1 AA compliant by law, but at the same time, this new ARIA + Atlas will create problems because, obviously, companies need to hop on the stakeholder-AI-hype train at all costs.

Reading an article about AI and accessibility just because I'm trying to maintain an open mind towards AI in accessibility. Unsurprisingly, the article concludes that AI cannot give you accurate answers and that you still need human expertise.

Incidentally, I said this exact thing in the update for the course chapter I'm editing today. If you're enrolled in the course, you'll get the update very soon.

#HTML is only as accessible as you write it. Semantics determine what an element is, and browsers provide some interactive behavior for native interactive elements for free. But just because two patterns have similar behavior doesn't make them semantically the same.

Ugh. "content within a `<details>` element with `display: contents` is not accessible when expanded." bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi... — sadly unsurprising for Safari considering all the history that Adrian documents in his post. #a11y

www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/alt-tex... #A11y #Accessibility #CSS @sarasoueidan.com

I got access shortly after Scott's course launched and it is hands down the best course on web components I have seen. Beginner-friendly yet covers all the ground you need to get started with web components. Can't recommend it enough.

I've gotten so many requests for more content/videos with my bird than I ever got for anything frontend related! 😆 Even my IRL friends outside the tech bubble who saw the video said they wanted to see more videos of me and him 😅 He's quite popular the little one! 🥹

Good morning! Today's standup: I tried to get my bird in the introduction for one of the course chapters. I couldn't keep serious enough to do it. I tried but failed miserably. 😂 He was hungry and he tends to peck on my mouth when he is hungry to let me know he wants some of *my* food (no joke).

🚨This is an A11y Service announcement: AI is not your friend mind the WCAG automation gap #ai #a11y #a11yTO html5accessibility.com/stuff/2025/0...

You know how most small kids are so clingy that when you go into the restroom they sit outside waiting for you or even try to follow you inside? Yeah my bird is like one of those kids and I'm not even joking.

More than *anything* the people who actually know how technology works, who actually build things, wish that people would treat LLMs like every other technology, and be normal about them. Don't build a religion about them, don't force them on people, don't ignore the problems. Just be normal.

The same photo could appear on three different pages and require different alt text for each instance. The alt text for an image can vary, depending on the context of the image, its role on the page, and the intended message.

Who do you want to hear from, or what topics would you like to hear about on Igalia chats?

And of course you can expect more bird posts from me 😃 I'll be writing a lot more alt text than I usually do. ☺️

Good morning from my bird and I. 🐥 I didn't know how to "break the news" 😅 but I'm a bird mom again. And this little guy is all grown up and not a baby. He's already supervising and reviewing all course-related work. You may even get to hear him in the background of new chapter recordings! 🥰

Frontenders, I am *begging* you to earn whatever pride you take in your work. How? By testing what you make on the devices and networks most people have. It's not hard, doesn't take long, and there are great automations like webpagetest.org that can make it even simpler.

In my conversation with @kevinpowell.co a few weeks ago I mentioned that one of the ways to get people to care about #accessibility is to help them understand it better. And one way to help them understand it better is to debunk common accessibility myths.

It's here. JavaScript for Everyone is now available to…everyone! The amount of effort and experience packed into this course is unbelievable and we know you're going to love it. Get yours for £189, down from £249, for 2 weeks and super-charge your career prospects piccalilli.link/js4e-launch-...

Great words by @matthiasott.com, someone I'm delighted to call a friend > the Web isn’t just a bunch of servers and websites. The Web is the people building it. The Web is community. matthiasott.com/notes/the-li...

This talk by @nerdy.dev is a wonderful presentation of why CSS is awesome and why we love it so much www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW6G... Just look at what's possible with #CSS today And the format is great for the impatient ones (myself included). Right speed, right transitions (pun intended 😉)

Posting this using @vivaldi.com for the first time. I'm curious to see what the Vivaldi user experience is like. It looks promising.

This is such a great idea. I just chose and ranked my favorite 15 features in the list—primarily CSS and HTML features of course. interop-rank.jakearchibald.com What are yours?

😍 Great idea, made by the awesome @jakearchibald.com. Spend a few minutes to select and rank what matters to you and improve the web platform for everyone!

Oh I finally found the perfect* handwritten font for my blog redesign! — * perfect in this case is the handwriting that looks closest to my own ☺️

Emphasis on the "prototype" here, this is still a long ways off. Got to start somewhere though!

Today started a little rough, and now I have an annoying headache. But then I got an email that just made my day. I still have the headache 😅 but it's not as bad anymore.

OK @kevinpowell.co has written what has to be one of the best (if not THE best) practical article to #CSS colors I have read in a while. piccalil.li/blog/a-pragm... Easy to read, practical examples, and *perfect* for someone like me who's fallen behind and hasn't kept up with all the new stuff.

Thirty-two years ago, we were given the web as a gift. Today, we must live up to such a gift and defend it. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

For my friends and followers in Germany

I gave a lightning talk at yesterday’s @smashingconf.com Jam session on CSS masonry. Here are my slides. In short: Masonry isn’t only for Pinterest-style layouts, doing Masonry on the web today is hard, but built-in Masonry support is coming to browsers very soon!

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📢 I am happy to announce that I will be leading a live, 60-minute workshop session at the inaugural University of Phoenix virtual event: Access Amplified™, themed “Flipping the Script on Coding,” which will take place on December 17, 2025. www.phoenix.edu/events/acces...

This was a quick one — I think video creators are under a big risk right now, bigger actually than before Kimmel was pulled off the air. One part of the reason why is a behind-the-scenes consolidation that almost nobody is paying attention to. youtube.com/shorts/3cK51...