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Hidde @hidde.blog · 29/09/2026

them: “your room number is 404” voice in my head: oh god I hope I'll be able to find it

Hidde @hidde.blog · 24/09/2026

In 15 minutes I'll be live with the friendly people at #InclusiveDesign24 to present “How we want to make WCAG better” www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDvd...

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Hidde de Vries / How we want to make WCAG better #id24 2026

YouTube video by Inclusive Design 24 #id24

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Hidde @hidde.blog · 23/09/2026

Happy Web Accessibility Directive anniversary! Today, IAAP runs a virtual event, focusing on end users, reporting, European standards and more! At 10:15 CET I'll moderate a session with regulators, to find out lessons learned. www.accessibilityassociation.org/wad-2026

accessibilityassociation.org

International Association of Accessibility Professionals

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Hidde @hidde.blog · 20/09/2026

“DHH's projects are fine, they are open source, so I had a look and I didn't find his right extremist views in any of the lines of code” as if racism is mostly explicit and not systemic

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Hidde @hidde.blog · 19/09/2026

Bristolians! @webdevconf.com is coming and I'll join this year to discuss art and AI. Creativity cannot be computed, I think many find that obvious. We can all see how dull generated text and art can be. But why is that, what makes art special and what does it need that computers can't do?

webdevconf.com

WDC2026 - October 9 2026, Watershed, Bristol, UK | Web Developers Conference

WDC is the web design and development conference based in Bristol, taking place in autumn each year.

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Hidde @hidde.blog · 18/09/2026

at work, I'm on a course to become a certified AI compliance officer. Bit of a mouthful… but I'm excited to dive into some of the literature that arrived today!

book titled AI and algorithms, mastering legal and ethical compliance

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Hidde @hidde.blog · 17/09/2026

🔗 ’This kind of contribution to your favorite open-source project may feel to you like “free as in beer” and “free as in speech” but to us it is like being handed a “free puppy”: well intended, but accepting it has big consequences for years to come.’ blog.nlnetlabs.nl/maintaining-...

blog.nlnetlabs.nl

Maintaining the love for coding in the time of AI

By Alex Band Over the last year, we have seen the profound effects Large Language Models (LLMs) have on our open-source software work at NLnet Labs. These can be grouped into two main areas: communit...

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Hidde @hidde.blog · 11/09/2026

@nearestnabors.com maybe this is of your interest, as we were chatting standards <-> AI before! bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Hidde @hidde.blog · 11/09/2026

Me, @tzviya.bsky.social and @christianliebel.com are organising a mini workshop on AI and society at W3C TPAC (28 October)! If you have thoughts to share, please submit your proposal. We're looking for 5 minute talks on subjects related to AI and society. Info: github.com/w3c/strategy...

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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 10/09/2026

like do you not think there are tons of people who have walked away from stupid tech money because they have any principles at all

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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 10/09/2026

"oh no I guess I have no choice but to see out the IPO" you are a clown

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Hidde @hidde.blog · 10/09/2026

Happy new WCAG 3 Working Draft day! www.w3.org/TR/wcag3/ It's in progress, not final (by far). Input welcomed, as usual. In this version: - new Conformance section - readability/UI improvements - lots of content updates to Guidelines, Requirements, and Assertions

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W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0

W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0 will provide a wide range of recommendations for making web content more accessible to users with disabilities. Following these guidelines will address many of ...

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Hidde @hidde.blog · 07/09/2026

ready for my workshop! #SmashingConf feeling somewhat underdressed

brilliantly decorated room that looks like it is from the 1500s, in the middle a screen that says let's dive into modern css

wall with paintings and a sign that says 'my, you look smashing'

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Hidde @hidde.blog · 06/09/2026

🚆off to Freiburg for Smashing Conference, so excited!

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Hidde @hidde.blog · 04/09/2026

remember there isn't an agreed upon definition of AGI, so it doesn't exist. “AGI has arrived” is as meaningless as “the king of France is bald”

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Rik Schennink @rikschennink.com · 03/09/2026

I spent the past two days cleaning up and improving the cropguide.io landing page. I've replaced the hero illustrations with photos, added a video that shows the editor (it blends in the page), and the live demo is now more to the point. Thanks @kilianvalkhof.com and @hidde.blog for the feedback.

screenshot of the landing page showing the title "help your users upload better photos"

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Hidde @hidde.blog · 02/09/2026

Doing a bunch of talks in the next while: - A web that serves us all (Smashing 🇩🇪, 9 Sept) - Human rights+tech (🇳🇱, 21 Sept) - Improving WCAG 3 (#id24 🌎, 24 Sept) - Creativity cannot be computed (WDC 🇬🇧, 9 Oct) - Green web (ffconf 🇬🇧, 13 Nov) - WCAG-EM (🇬🇧, 18 Nov) see also: hidde.blog/speaking/#up...

hidde.blog

Speaking

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Fuqiao Xue @fuqiao.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

it's from the phototypesetting era: www.w3.org/Internationa...

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Requirements for Chinese Text Layout - 中文排版需求

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Hidde @hidde.blog · 30/08/2026

TIL about the Q unit in CSS, a quarter of a millimeter www.w3.org/TR/css-value... there are days when I don't use it

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CSS Values and Units Module Level 3

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Adrian Roselli, pH0 @aardrian.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Updated my link + popover nav post: adrianroselli.com/2026/07/link... Now includes `flex-wrap: balance` for the navigation items thanks to Ahmad Shadeed’s post: ishadeed.com/article/flex... I am amazed how much new CSS I see, then forget, seemingly immediately. #CSS

ishadeed.com

Balancing flex items with flex-wrap: balance

A look at how flex items wrap and how to balance them across lines.

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Hidde @hidde.blog · 27/08/2026

Dotting the proverbial i's on my Modern CSS workshop at Smashing Conference Freiburg (7 September, smashingconf.com/freiburg-202...). It's so pleasant to remove browser support warnings, and how many things are naturally easy and quicker with CSS these days.

smashingconf.com

Modern CSS for Everyday Development — Freiburg in Germany, September 7–10.

Full-day workshop • Monday, September 7, 2026. If you want to build more resilient, maintainable front-end code, it’s time to leverage modern CSS features that reduce complexity and streamline your wo...

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Hidde @hidde.blog · 25/08/2026

🎺 Woohoo, EN 301 549 (version 4.1.0) was “adopted” and is now being prepared for publication (as 4.1.1)*. There's lots of changes, the most significant for web teams: references to WCAG are now to WCAG 2.2. * portal.etsi.org/eWPM/index.h...

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eWPM

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Hidde @hidde.blog · 21/08/2026

I was on a podcast! Me and @bradfrost.com woke up excited and talked about our shared love for music, web, accessibility, and AI sustainability youtu.be/I2EIisn5f6Q

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Accessible and Sustainable AI with Hidde

YouTube video by Brad Frost

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Hidde @hidde.blog · 18/08/2026

🌿 One question we often hear around the Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG): what measures will have most impact? A new document, published at W3C today, has impact ratings for each of the success criteria in the WSG: www.w3.org/TR/wsg-ir/

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Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG) Impact Ratings

This document describes the impact ratings provided alongside Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG). The ratings and timeframes support prioritisation of guidelines based on expected impact and when tha...

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026

🔇 🔇 🔇 My book, Deep Unlearning, is now available for preorders! I don't know how people write so many books because this one took a lot out of me. It turns out, I had a lot to say 😂, with editors cutting out 50k of my words 🫣 ✴️ You can now preorder it at www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U....

Cover of my new book, Deep Unlearning: The Rise of AI and The Radicalization of a Tech Idealist.

There are two concentric circles in the book, the left being circuits in black an white, and the right being a bunch of dots with orange accents. The cover background is cream. And the words are written in black except for "Un" which is in orange.

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Hidde @hidde.blog · 11/08/2026

Just released: a new version of the W3C's WCAG-EM Report Tool, that aligns it with the recent WCAG-EM 2 publication. w3.org/WAI/eval/report-tool/

screenshot of first page of WCAG-EM report tool in browser pointed at w3.org/WAI/eval/report-tool

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Hidde @hidde.blog · 02/08/2026

🔗 From today, EU regulation around labeling AI generated content goes into effect. The Commission provides icons that can be used digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/...

digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu

EU Icons for labelling AI-generated content

Deployers of generative AI systems can use the EU set of icons to label certain AI-generated content, in accordance with the AI Act transparency rules.

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Hidde @hidde.blog · 30/07/2026

🌿 A new version of the Web Sustainability Guidelines is out! www.w3.org/TR/web-susta... Updates include: - Impact Measurement + Impact API - Lots of small tweaks following peer review - Improved tone of voice and readability, new introduction Changelog: github.com/w3c/sustaina...

w3.org

Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG)

Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG) provide actionable recommendations to help digital teams make informed, sustainable decisions. In considering different aspects of work and the web, these guideline...

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Hidde @hidde.blog · 28/07/2026

Now that WCAG-EM 2 is out, I did some more PRs: - to update the docs on the WAI website (github.com/w3c/wai-webs...) - to update the WCAG-EM Report Tool with the new terminology (github.com/w3c/wai-wcag...) Thanks W3C for making this stuff so easy to contribute to, and yay open source!

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Hidde @hidde.blog · 24/07/2026

TIL that ETSI has a tool to convert Markdown into ETSI-compatible Word documents! Like ReSpec or Bikeshed, without HTML output. It's a step towards making the authoring of their specs more accessible, and possible on lower end devices.

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Hidde @hidde.blog · 23/07/2026

📣 Today is the day: WCAG-EM 2 is officially out as a W3C Note! w3.org/TR/WCAG-EM New: - name; it's now simply “WCAG Evaluation Methodology” - instead of 'websites', it's about 'digital products' (of which websites and apps are examples) - better readability (content, layout) - better examples

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Hidde @hidde.blog · 14/07/2026

Very pleased to see that AGWG, aka the W3C group that makes WCAG, decided to publish WCAG-EM 2, an update to the WCAG evaluation methodology that me, @stevefaulkner.eurosky.social and Jeroen worked on for the past year lists.w3.org/Archives/Pub...

lists.w3.org

Re: CFC - Publish WCAG-EM 2 as note from Alastair Campbell on 2026-07-10 (w3c-wai-gl@w3.org from July to September 2026)

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Hidde @hidde.blog · 08/07/2026

the top layer lets you put elements on top of everything else, it's great stuff. I don't know if the possibility of balloons blocking link usages was sufficiently considered 🎈

anjappar.nl website with hamburger menu open that id partially covered by black and golden balloons

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Hidde @hidde.blog · 04/07/2026

🔗 Ketan Joshi analysed Google's latest sustainability report, and yes, energy consumption went up (a lot). Adding up the numbers, Joshi concludes it's not because of manual Gemini use, it's because Google's search engine shows AI results by default ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

ketanjoshi.co

Google’s exponential path to climate-wrecking digital bloat

Google’s latest report reveals a completely unprecedented rise in energy consumption – more than any of us expected. Generative AI is a climate carbon bomb.

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Hidde @hidde.blog · 04/07/2026

loved everything about the Web Meetup! The W3C AB was in town for a F2F, so we thought we might as well run a meetup, to chat about web and standards. Thanks to @cydstumpel.nl @cyns.bsky.social and @torgo.com for their great talks, @level-level.com for hosting and Rotterdam/NL for showing up!

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Cyd Stumpel @cydstumpel.nl · 02/07/2026

The joy I felt when I met someone who brought position sticky to browsers🫶 @tess.oconnor.cx

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Hidde @hidde.blog · 26/06/2026

✏️ AI and greener choices hidde.blog/ai-greener-c... Full write-up of my first AI + sustainability talk, that I gave yesterday at the AI & Government conference.

hidde.blog

AI and greener choices

AI, especially generative AI, impacts the planet. How can better choices help us reduce our impact?

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Hidde @hidde.blog · 24/06/2026

Had a lovely chat with @bradfrost.com about music, sustainability, AI, standards, and accessibility. in a podcast near you soon

me on the left, brad on the right, both smiling

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Hidde @hidde.blog · 23/06/2026

🔗 “Earlier this month, we officially stood up Mozilla.org: a new 501(c)(3) nonprofit created to steward the long term success of the Mozilla Project” blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/n...

mozilla.org

Internet for people, not profit

Mozilla is the not-for-profit behind the lightning fast Firefox browser. We put people over profit to give everyone more power online.

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Hidde @hidde.blog · 23/06/2026

Want to learn more about motion on the web, human rights and standards, and the making of accessibility standards from someone who worked on WCAG 1? Join us at the Web Meetup in Rotterdam (W3C AB, Fronteers, Level Level). 3 talks + time to chat! Last few tickets: ti.to/w3cab/rotter...

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