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2019
RT @MaratFaz: I forgot my headphones at home but luckily can there is a transcript for this talk. So I don’t have to annoy people in the cafe. Made for people with disabilities, can be used by everyone. That’s why #a11ymatters P.S talk has been given by @WebDevLaw https://t.co/PBeSGHFSZWoriginal ↗
30 Mar 2019
RT @alistapart: The web’s drowning in a sea of JavaScript, awash with needless bloat, inaccessible cruft, and unsustainable patterns. @malchata shares how to build the right things the right way, using the web platform the way it was meant to be used. https://t.co/Mjors1Tx5voriginal ↗
28 Mar 2019
RT @SaraSoueidan: I look forward to the day when we no longer have to add the term “accessible” to phrases like “UI Patterns” and “experiences” and “components” because being accessible is implied by default as it becomes the standard and only way to build for the Web.original ↗
28 Mar 2019
RT @brucel: Validate your HTML. We didn’t when we published an article yesterday. It looked fine in all the browsers. But a mis-nested caused this on iPhone’s Reeder app (HT @pepelsbey_ ). Not every renderer of HTML is as forgiving as browsers. https://t.co/K8ix2O6SM4original ↗
27 Mar 2019
RT @WebDevLaw: Props to all the software projects which declined every opportunity they were offered to participate in and influence the process, and will now cry victim over results. https://t.co/H2Jx45RNgToriginal ↗
26 Mar 2019
24 Mar 2019
RT @_web_matters_: Tech alone won’t solve our problems, but it can play an important role in our democracy. Sending our thanks and appreciation to @GDSTeam and @HoCpetitions: https://t.co/oY15AgzcDQoriginal ↗
22 Mar 2019
RT @sonniesedge: A person’s views on accessibility are a person’s morals laid bare. https://t.co/sjyPkQLm8roriginal ↗
22 Mar 2019
RT @WebDevLaw: Imagine if everyone became as agitated by the issues relating to our fundamental right to use the web as we’ve always known it, which I’ve tracked on https://t.co/4Vxk0bFHwM for over two years, as they did about one web site going down for one hour.original ↗
21 Mar 2019
The #RevokeA50 petition has gone up by 100k signatures overnight. Please consider signing it, we need to stop this destructive action. https://t.co/qM8eAJAUEc #RevokeA50Noworiginal ↗
21 Mar 2019
RT @WebDevLaw: I had a few dozen new followers yesterday, so: I have a side blog where I track everything which has been said, unsaid, and left undecided about the future of tech policy in the UK outside the EU #DigitalSingleMarket framework. You’ll hate it. I promise. https://t.co/Tgjx4xTrINoriginal ↗
20 Mar 2019
RT @mor10: The #WordPress Governance Project has an official Twitter account: @wpgovernance #WPGovernanceoriginal ↗
19 Mar 2019
RT @daveberning: I cannot stress this enough! Have and maintain a strong foundation in HTML, CSS, and JS. Frameworks are cool but they come and go. Don’t be a “React” or a “Vue” developer; be a web developer. https://t.co/WaFNMn5Quioriginal ↗
18 Mar 2019
RT @netmanchris: This is crazy. Study shoes three people in a conference room over 2 hours can result in a Co2 level that can impair cognitive functioning. Ie. If you’re making decisions at the end of the meeting, you’re mentally less qualified to do so. https://t.co/yGdufCWoVForiginal ↗
18 Mar 2019
RT @andybelldesign: I see it so often when folks talk about using less JS, a bro will say something like: > “yOu cAn’t bUiLd aN ApP LiKe gMaIl wItHoUt lOaDs oF JaVaScRiPt” How many people are building apps like Gmail, really? We’ve got such a weird obsession with “scale”. https://t.co/AVRvP9GeKloriginal ↗
17 Mar 2019
15 Mar 2019
RT @accessibilityoz: 2,258 #Website #accessibility legal cases filed in 2018 #a11y #ADA https://t.co/4okXFYaqoEoriginal ↗
14 Mar 2019
RT @css: Here’s Google straight up saying: Content that is JavaScript-rendered is expensive for them to parse. They do it, but they punt on it for a while and updates are slow. “We can’t make any guarantees.” https://t.co/ZHgqL3Rahaoriginal ↗
14 Mar 2019
RT @NickColley: @andybelldesign There’s a whole generation of developers that have never sent HTML from a server. I think we need to be repeating the basic fundimentals rather than assuming people are aware and don’t care about it.original ↗
14 Mar 2019
RT @KeithBa: Today we’re announcing the open sourcing of Accessibility Insights, a set of free tools to help devs easily find & fix common accessibility issues early in the dev cycle. https://t.co/MHrxSWi08Noriginal ↗
14 Mar 2019
RT @WebDevLaw: Looking to pick up some new consultancy work and writing gigs asap. Hit me up https://t.co/fNV3o13Jm0.original ↗
13 Mar 2019
30 years ago the web was born. 20ish years ago I made my first web page. I still do that, and am grateful every day to have a career I love so much on such a revolutionary medium. Thanks, @timberners_leeoriginal ↗
12 Mar 2019
RT @timberners_lee: It’s up to us: https://t.co/cw39fNVZoM #Web30 #ForTheWeb https://t.co/VObBIPxeOjoriginal ↗
12 Mar 2019
RT @SarahTaber_bww: Software culture does not understand prevention. They do not understand looking at a situation, thinking “What can go wrong here?” and being proactive to prevent at least the most obvious scenarios.original ↗
12 Mar 2019
RT @mor10: Accessibility is the core premise of the World Wide Web. Accessibility is the job. https://t.co/B49hGIZ7SZoriginal ↗
12 Mar 2019
RT @WalterStephanie: #Rant I see many amazing women in our industry, super good at HTML, CSS and Accessibility. Yet they don’t find a nice and well paid job because they don’t know fancy JS frameworks. JS became a big gate keeper. Yet we NEED people good at HTML/CSS. We just don’t want to pay them.original ↗
11 Mar 2019
RT @jodieginsberg: We are sleep-walking towards a system in which perfectly legal online speech is regulated. Anyone who thinks this is going to target only deliberate nastiness and won’t impact political criticism, religious expression or advocacy for minority groups is living in cloud cuckoo land https://t.co/1nNRUj9XFxoriginal ↗
11 Mar 2019
RT @LeonieWatson: If you build login/password reset interfaces, please don’t prevent pasting into password fields. It reduces security because manually entering a secure password is hard for most people and worse for many disabled people, so it’s easier to use a simple password instead.original ↗
10 Mar 2019
RT @knowbility: The business case for accessibility: 1. Increase revenue 2. Boost market share 3. Improve efficiency 4. Drives innovation 5. Reduce legal risk (Covered during this morning’s #SXSW2019 #a11ymasterclass by @becka11y)original ↗
10 Mar 2019
RT @WebDevLaw: Published at midnight, the findings of the Lords Communications Committee enquiry into the shape of future internet regulation; I’m very glad they solicited the expertise of people I know and respect. 1/3 https://t.co/JvbqqrHyb8original ↗
9 Mar 2019
This is wonderful, and totally applicable for those who don’t consider themselves “designers”. https://t.co/ocgB2XDhM3original ↗
9 Mar 2019
Us in 50 years time: “We could have saved humanity, but our precious time was stolen waiting for https://t.co/ECaT1VUXjb redirects.”original ↗
8 Mar 2019
RT @WebDevLaw: Gotta pay the bills and I’m looking for more consultancy work too. There’s probably an international women’s day irony to relying on donations and pity, but that’s tech life. https://t.co/6dLg6JAbaloriginal ↗
8 Mar 2019
RT @zeldman: Disabled people aren’t the edge case. Tech people are the edge case. We represent a small portion of the population and we’re in charge of designing and building. Too often we design for people exactly like us. @feather #a11y #InclusiveDesign #aeaseaoriginal ↗
7 Mar 2019
“Reactions to Zuckerberg’s announcement were swift and skeptical.” https://t.co/Mn2afktAWGoriginal ↗
7 Mar 2019
RT @SwayGatsby: It really grinds my gears when dudes make snarky comments about anyone who uses a GUI over CLI. There is absolutely NO justification for it other than being a jerk who wants to make others feel like they’re not good enough. IT ? DOES ?NOT ? MAKE ? YOU ? SPECIAL.original ↗
6 Mar 2019
RT @shaunrashid: An average phone (not your iPhone) takes about 6s to process Javascript AFTER it downloads the file. @scottjehl #AEASEAoriginal ↗
6 Mar 2019
RT @szafranek: Controversial thought: if current “best practices” result in multimegabyte bundles of compressed JavaScript that take seconds to download and parse, maybe, just maybe these are not *best* practices.original ↗
6 Mar 2019
RT @LeedsIntFest: All Day Hey! is an affordable, all-day conference featuring some of the tech industry’s finest minds. This year’s stellar line-up from @hey_stac features @sarah_edo, @tkadlec, @sharonsteed, @rem, @NadiehBremer & @triblondon. #LeedsIntFest Tickets > https://t.co/8hXJaO1usr https://t.co/AbuU9bGQwUoriginal ↗
5 Mar 2019
RT @zeldman: If you structure your content with semantic HTML, there’s software that can read it aloud and turn it into a podcast. @jensimmons #aeaseaoriginal ↗
5 Mar 2019
RT @jkronika: Apps like Instapaper and Readability were designed to help “slow down” content – grab content, remove clutter, change type and colors… Readability 1.0 was open sourced and grabbed by Safari as Reader View. #aea #aeasea #aeasea2019original ↗
5 Mar 2019
RT @amolrajan: 1/ Leading tech giants have written to the Culture, Home and Health Secretaries spelling out what they think regulation of online harm should look like. Includes Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Airbnb, Uber. Here’s a first sighting and my @bbcnews blog: https://t.co/MkU679DMPS https://t.co/fQFmg7llymoriginal ↗
1 Mar 2019
RT @mor10: #accessibility is the core premise of the web. Accessibility is the job. #a11y https://t.co/eyP1MQGRnSoriginal ↗
1 Mar 2019
Hey @sternjobname , I don’t think your console collection is quite complete yet. https://t.co/3oK5BksHYRoriginal ↗
28 Feb 2019
RT @markboulton: I was asked yesterday about my time @cern on the recent WWW browser hack week and if I learnt anything that had any relevance for my day to day work on the web. I replied with one thing: That HTML is the resilient bedrock of how we communicate on the web. Let’s not screw that up.original ↗
27 Feb 2019
RT @RNIB: Make sure you capitalize the first letter of each word in hashtags so that screen reader software reads out each word separately. It also makes them #EasierToRead!original ↗
26 Feb 2019
RT @jaffathecake: “We don’t have any non-JavaScript users” No, all your users are non-JS while they’re downloading your JSoriginal ↗
26 Feb 2019
RT @ClarasDenFiley: Walked along #Filey Bay to @HunmanbyGap beach cafe, and look at the #fossils we found! https://t.co/wTVwwQBmb5original ↗
25 Feb 2019
RT @Chapabu: @sonniesedge @SaraSoueidan My React workflow to date has been like this: 1. Think “This would be cool in React” 2. Build a low def static HTML version first for no JS peeps and SEO crawlers 3. Think “Actually, this is fine” 4. Forget about React I’d love to do more React, I just rarely see the point ????original ↗
24 Feb 2019
RT @johnbillion: This is some next-level no-JS support. Disappointing to see replies arguing this is unnecessary. If you’ve never experienced (or don’t consider) the impact of network connectivity issues then you’re too far removed from your users. https://t.co/5zKXD06b1Yoriginal ↗
24 Feb 2019
RT @feather: Wisdom! @kirabug: Q: When is it the responsibility of someone with a disability to use… tools to somehow make your content accessible, when your organization has not done so yourself? A: Never. It is never their responsibility. #accessibility #a11y https://t.co/iCbHmwK99woriginal ↗
23 Feb 2019
RT @codepo8: If you don’t design for accessibility and inclusion it’s like saying to every fifth person coming through the door “we don’t want your business”. #a11y @MicrosoftDE https://t.co/1wb36UFn1Ioriginal ↗
23 Feb 2019
I’ve agreed to #mentor a young man who wants to start #coding. Anyone know of an #online #course where I can view progress, make suggestions etc?original ↗
21 Feb 2019
RT @MyCustomer: What happens to data protection after a no-deal Brexit – and how should you prepare? @webdevlaw explains. https://t.co/uy255Aph9B #privacy #GDPR https://t.co/CLBa8ZagLnoriginal ↗
21 Feb 2019
Hey @shanselman thanks for a great show with @iMeluny. The part about Facebook’s “Year in Review” feature reminded me of @meyerweb and @sara_ann_marie book “Design for Real Life”. Possible show guests, maybe?original ↗
20 Feb 2019
RT @ginasue: Silicon Valley engineers say about AI bias “We can fix this”. No, no you can’t. Really. This problem is bigger than you, and the solutions are social, not just one team of engineers, one company, or one country.original ↗
19 Feb 2019
RT @smashingmag: We felt the information in @LeonieWatson’s Smashing Members’ webinar was so important that we decided to make it available to everyone in our community. So here’s 1 hour and 12 minutes on how as screen reader user surfs the web. https://t.co/o6Tlc8f05ioriginal ↗
18 Feb 2019
RT @Chris_Townsend: In an all-too-familiar turn of events, the #IndependentGroup website fails to obtain consent for its tracking cookies in line with #GDPR requirements, its privacy policy is just a broken link and its ‘About Cookies’ link goes to a *PRE-GDPR* site ? #LabourSplit #MoreOfTheSameoriginal ↗
18 Feb 2019
There’s no doubt that @joshnesbitt and @csswizardry are owed big-time by the devs, testers and designers of Yorkshire.original ↗
17 Feb 2019
Bought my ticket for All Day Hey @hey_stac as it’s a top-class web conference on my doorstep and how could I not?original ↗
17 Feb 2019
RT @jensimmons: This is crazy…. https://t.co/bZfrNlTAue running in the WorldWideWeb browser — the *first* web browser, from Dec 1990. https://t.co/VsLQFMZtOV (If I can use CSS Grid and have it work in even a 28 year old browser, so can you.) https://t.co/ztXu7Z8Id7original ↗
17 Feb 2019
Trying to purchase something on @MonsoonUK but broken JavaScript on the page stops me. Even worse – I don’t know if my card has been charged! #ProgressiveEnhancementoriginal ↗
16 Feb 2019
RT @feather: Was working with a developer last week and we were debugging some CSS. I had them create a test class: .test Then I asked them to make it so it applied to all paragraphs inside a div with that class. They didn’t know how to do it. They’ve been a dev for 10+ years.original ↗
16 Feb 2019
RT @gericci: 3 things we shouldn’t ask our clients: – which browser/device to support – which resolution do you want – should it be accessibleoriginal ↗
16 Feb 2019
RT @lindydonna: To prove a point: Please RT if you don’t have a CS degree and you have a job in tech. https://t.co/AuGi4yxM5Qoriginal ↗
15 Feb 2019
RT @stefanjudis: Huh! Just learned about `scroll-behavior: smooth;` in #CSS. The browser will smooth scroll to anchor links. Support is not great yet but when you treat it as progressive enhancement it should be alright. :) https://t.co/j1BMmjEfKz https://t.co/A61XgtfURGoriginal ↗
15 Feb 2019
RT @SaraSoueidan: This article by @scottohara is yet another proof that the first and most important step to ensure your site is accessible to everyone regardless of their context is to use native HTML elements and semantics: https://t.co/CL9TQ6jSQW “HCM cares not for your ARIA roles”original ↗
15 Feb 2019
This is why we need to Web Industry to get involved in politics. Because it affects us. @_web_matters_ https://t.co/tX9vajyOmjoriginal ↗
14 Feb 2019
RT @fox: Accessibility is an ethical choice. There’s no justification for not building accessible sites and apps while we have the standards, guides and tools to do so. Some #a11y work isn’t easy but there’s a lot of low-hanging fruit that makes a difference. Test for accessibility.original ↗
13 Feb 2019
RT @yatil: #a11y assessment that you can copy and paste to almost any site… 1. Colors not contrasting enough 2. Images not described correctly 3. Buttons not keyboard accessible 4. Link text unclear 5. Animation cannot be stopped 6. Form fields not labelled 7. Captions not availableoriginal ↗
13 Feb 2019
RT @heydonworks: Build a UI like you’d build a plane. Make sure it’s robust before you worry about the seat cover design.original ↗
12 Feb 2019
RT @j9t: #HTML. How many (and which) elements have been part of every single version of HTML? Only 15: a, address, dd, dl, dt, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, li, p, title, ul. All elements of HTML, over time, with additional information: https://t.co/TOCzJdwFiN.original ↗
10 Feb 2019
RT @gchaslot: YouTube announced they will stop recommending some conspiracy theories such as flat earth. I worked on the AI that promoted them by the *billions*. Here is why it’s a historic victory. Thread. 1/ https://t.co/wJ1jbUcvJEoriginal ↗
10 Feb 2019
RT @WebDevLaw: Tweets like this remind me why I set up https://t.co/4Vxk0bFHwM. Days before the loss of the sector’s regulatory framework and the freedom of movement, the Minister for Digital’s only interest in the sector is jingoistic hashtag slogans. https://t.co/ZPyVmUYNfKoriginal ↗
10 Feb 2019
RT @mekkaokereke: I take souls on this one. Story time: In a conversation about how difficult it would be to build a combined subscription system between physical newspapers, Android Apps, and publisher websites, I suggested that the planned design could be drastically simplified. https://t.co/9IsUEAC0Ahoriginal ↗
10 Feb 2019
RT @rogerjohansson: “boring is fast. Boring is usable. Boring is resilient and fault tolerant. Boring is accessible.” https://t.co/0Ii4z60beqoriginal ↗
10 Feb 2019
RT @susie_dent: A reminder today of the 19th century word ‘arsle’: to go backwards on a task or mission rather than forward, to the point where you wonder why you started it in the first place (I arsle, you arsle, we are ars(e)ling, etc.).original ↗
7 Feb 2019
RT @WebDevLaw: Hello privacy Twitter, here’s my donate link, cos I’m skint, because I work on privacy. https://t.co/TbQdi4NtmSoriginal ↗
7 Feb 2019
RT @SaraSoueidan: #TIL there is a cross-browser supported #CSS media feature that tests whether a device has a primary input that can hover over elements. @media (hover: hover || none ) { … } https://t.co/O6DjKKv4hi h/t @NickColleyoriginal ↗
7 Feb 2019