Reposted by Jo SpelbrinkManuel Matuzović @matuzo.at · 11/09/2026I just visited a website and I got all the information I needed quickly. The experience was great, which made me feel nostalgic because it reminded me of a time when people at least seemed to pretend they cared about quality instead of conversion rates. Now it seems like no one even cares a bit... 0342
Reposted by Jo SpelbrinkJohn Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 15/08/2026It seems to me that free, open source software eventually drives out expensive, closed software. So today's AI companies only have so long to establish themselves as parasitic monopoly conglomerates before open source eats their lunch.restofworld.orgMozilla’s CTO thinks AI should be built like the internetRaffi Krikorian explains that while consumers flock to ChatGPT and Claude, companies are increasingly turning to open models that they can customize and control. 57412
Reposted by Jo Spelbrinkdeconspray @deconspray.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Accessibility is bigger than SEO. Most barriers users face never affect search rankings. Great data from Karl Groves. afixt.com/seo-is-not... #Accessibility #A11y #SEO #InclusiveDesign #WebAccessibility #DigitalAccessibility #WCAGafixt.comSEO is not accessibility, and we have the data to prove it - AFixtAmong the many ancillary arguments you tend to hear about why you should care about accessibility is the pitch: “Accessibility improves your SEO!” It’s the sweetener accessibility advocates add add when they suspect compliance alone won’t close the deal. And like most such arguments, it contains just enough truth to survive scrutiny – as long […] 011
Reposted by Jo SpelbrinkEric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · 01/07/2026"The work is not choosing between taste and HTML. The work is making taste sit on top of the strongest possible contract." karlkoch.me/writing/on-t...karlkoch.meKarl Koch | On the semantic webSemantic HTML is interface infrastructure: native elements carry behaviour, accessibility, form semantics, keyboard support, and platform adaptation before styling begins. 1112
Reposted by Jo SpelbrinkMoritz Glantz @moritzglantz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026#Atag26 war wunderbar! Gerne wieder. 022
Reposted by Jo SpelbrinkSwizec Teller @swizec.com · 05/05/2026Pairs well with jfdi.bot/blog/ai-gene...jfdi.botAI Generated Content Broke the Social Contract - JFDI BotAI-generated content feels offensive even when it's competent. I think I know why. 001
Reposted by Jo SpelbrinkJeremy Keith @adactio.com · 18/03/2026These assholes www.openui.com did not do any due diligence before choosing a name. The only Open UI that counts is open-ui.org 🔗 adactio.com/notes/22476 1105
Reposted by Jo SpelbrinkElliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks.bsky.social · 09/02/2026This is a fascinating (and terrifying) read by @matthiasott.com, who identifies the sheer scale of LLM scraper bots hitting personal sites — to the point where web hosts are having to limit traffic, preventing actual humans from accessing them.matthiasott.comWebspace Invaders · Matthias OttThere’s something happening on the Web at the moment that almost feels like watching that old arcade game Space Invaders play out across our servers. Bots and scrapers marching in formation, attacking... 032
Reposted by Jo SpelbrinkStephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 31/01/2026How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills www.anthropic.com/research/AI-... 13517
Reposted by Jo SpelbrinkStephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 03/02/2026LLMs are good at idea quality, but weak on idea variance. GPT-4's brainstorm pools are less diverse than humans, unless you prompt for diversity explicitly. CoT prompting gets closest to “team human.” papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 183
Reposted by Jo SpelbrinkSara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 29/01/2026We'll be getting multiple outlines in #CSS!! Multiple outlines means no more hacking our way around accessible and creative outline styles with box-shadows that aren't rendered in forced-colors mode! 🙌 Finally!! This is such great news!! 🎉🥳 310618
Reposted by Jo SpelbrinkManuel Matuzović @matuzo.at · 18/12/2025On day 17 @gerireid.com explores the gap between what's rendered on the screen and what screen readers actually announce. #htmhellAdventcalendar htmhell.dev/adventcalend...htmhell.devDon't leave the screen reader hungry - HTMHellA collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites. 0175
Reposted by Jo SpelbrinkChris Heilmann @codepo8.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Happy 30th, JavaScript. Remember, age is just NaN… In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...arstechnica.comIn 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the InternetThirty years later, JavaScript is the glue that holds the interactive web together, warts and all. 02110
Reposted by Jo SpelbrinkManuel Matuzović @matuzo.at · 01/12/2025It's December 1st, which means that throughout the entire month you should reserve 5-10 minutes every day to read a fantastic article about HTML. ❤️🔥 Check out what's hidden behind the first door. htmhell.dev/adventcalendar 16945
Reposted by Jo SpelbrinkJason Lengstorf @jason.energy · 06/11/2025“Do we want to design for the world as it is? Or do we want to design how it should be?” We can control the future with our choices, because “we live in a narrative-driven world.” — Thorsten Jonas at @beyondtellerrand.com 0201
Reposted by Jo SpelbrinkMike Gifford, CPWA @mgifford.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2025I wrote this with a bunch of good folks in the #Drupal community A New Era of Digital #Accessibility: The #EAA and its Implications for Drupal www.drupal.org/association/blog/a-n… /c @drupalassoc 032
Reposted by Jo SpelbrinkHidde @hidde.blog · 29/10/2025Meta was ordered by a a Dutch court to offer a non-algorithmic timeline option, and they just got an extension as they claimed they couldn't do it within 2 weeks for tech reasons. 141
Reposted by Jo Spelbrinkzeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 15/10/2025While Hitler plotted and Europe crumbled, a motley crew of mathematicians, philosophers, architects, and economists met weekly to invent Computer Science. Mark Bernstein mines this forgotten history for lessons that just might save today’s web from its worst impulses. alistapart.com/article/desi...alistapart.comDesigning Amiable Web Spaces: Lessons from Vienna's Café CultureExplore the impact of amiability in web interactions and learn from the history of Vienna Circle's collaborative spirit in dealing with disagreements. 25413
Reposted by Jo SpelbrinkAdrian Roselli, pH0 @aardrian.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Holy shit, #Webflow. I understand you may not have anyone on staff to review this LLM-generated ARIA explainer, but you’ve mostly just convinced me your product is a lawsuit-in-waiting. I’m sorry most of your customers won’t recognize that. webflow.com/blog/how-to-... #accessibility #a11y #ARIA 5137
Reposted by Jo SpelbrinkSteve Faulkner @stevefaulkner.eurosky.social · 08/08/2025👁️🗨️ Conforming to WCAG does not make your UI magically accessible, but it will be a lot more accessible than if nothing is done. #UX is a different matter... #WCAG #accessibility #reality 0145
Reposted by Jo SpelbrinkEric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · 20/08/2025"Ask an LLM to style a button, and there’s a good chance it’ll still suggest outline: 0 or outline: none from the 15 years of training data." medienbaecker.com/articles/tru...medienbaecker.comTrusting the browser · Medienbäcker Thomas GüntherI've been thinking about how we approach accessibility in web development. Particularly about trusting the browser to implement things in an accessible way. 35214
Reposted by Jo SpelbrinkJosh W. Comeau @joshwcomeau.com · 18/08/2025✨ I just published a brand-new post! It’s about the notorious SVG <path> element. With its compact Regex-style syntax, <path> can be super intimidating. But they’re also *incredibly* powerful, letting us draw (and animate!) curved lines. You can read it here, and I’ll share more info in thread. 🧵joshwcomeau.comAn Interactive Guide to SVG Paths • Josh W. ComeauSVG gives us many different primitives to work with, but by far the most powerful is the <path> element. Unfortunately, it’s also the most inscrutable, with its compact Regex-style syntax. In this tut... 1520539
Reposted by Jo SpelbrinkAhmad Shadeed @ishadeed.com · 19/08/2025In my articles header, I try to design it in a way that reflect the topic. Here is the one about CSS Relative Colors. 🔗 ishadeed.com/article/css-... 0285
Reposted by Jo SpelbrinkBarry Pollard @tunetheweb.com · 19/08/2025"How is it possible for CrUX to say 90% of page loads are good, and Google Search Console to say only 50% of URLs are good. Which is right?" It's a question I get about Core Web Vitals and I admit it's confusing, but the truth is both are correct because they are different measures... 1/5 🧵 2277
Reposted by Jo Spelbrinkzeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 02/08/2025Why and How to Write Minimal and Valid HTML, a Link Guide, by @meiert.com: meiert.com/blog/minimal...meiert.comWhy and How to Write Minimal and Valid HTML, a Link Guide · Jens Oliver MeiertOn using all of HTML’s features and ensuring that HTML code is error-free—two surprisingly underused and unpopular approaches to writing HTML. 0349
Reposted by Jo SpelbrinkJono Alderson @jono.id · 21/07/2025Modern HTML is a disaster. It’s bloated, semantically meaningless, and hostile to browsers, bots, and users. We’ve traded structure for utility, and performance is paying the price. Semantic HTML still matters - and here’s why. www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/w...jonoalderson.comWhy Semantic HTML Still MattersIf you want to build for performance, accessibility, discoverability, or resilience, you must start with HTML that means something. 2125
Reposted by Jo SpelbrinkJono Alderson @jono.id · 24/07/2025Why are you shipping 3MB of JavaScript to animate a link? Modern CSS now handles seamless page transitions - natively. No routing hacks. No hydration tax. No excuse.jonoalderson.comIt's time for modern CSS to kill the SPANative CSS transitions have quietly killed the strongest argument for client-side routing. Yet people keep building terrible apps instead of performant websites. 0137
Reposted by Jo SpelbrinkKeith Cirkel @keithamus.social · 01/07/2025Hot off the presses! Firefox Nightly (www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefo...) adds the new :heading pseudo! Easily style all headings, or use nth-child-like AnB syntax to select a range of headings! Needs `layout.css.heading-selector.enabled` flag enabled. Try it out and let me know your thoughts. 310029
Reposted by Jo Spelbrinkzeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 01/06/2025“We can’t let the ease of generation become a substitute for our better judgment. We can’t let groupthink dictate taste. We can’t let empathy get stripped from the process just because the output looks like a viable product to the loudest person in the room.” Mike Schindler #ux #ai #ProductDesignuxdesign.ccThis is not a pipe: UX, AI, and the risk of satisficed product designAI’s grip on design forces us to reconsider our role in shaping perception, reality, and — most importantly — decision-making. 2277
Reposted by Jo SpelbrinkDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 26/05/2025“LLMs can accelerate and democratise scientific progress by helping researchers contextualise their work” <- outright lies. most of the time, to be genAI enthusiast is to no longer care about the truthfulness of your claim 2568
Reposted by Jo Spelbrinkdeconspray @deconspray.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Values, with in Accessibility field, by Eric Eggert. An important read. yatil.net/blog/values #DigitalAccessibility #Accessibility #A11yyatil.netValues · Eric EggertWhy we do what we do and why others don’t share the same reasons. 011
Reposted by Jo SpelbrinkAshlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 12/01/2025I’m going to start using these hashtags when talking about this topic: #DefendTheADA #DefendASL 071
Reposted by Jo SpelbrinkBrad Gallaway @bradgallaway.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Hi, ASL interpreter of 30 yrs & a person w/ Deaf family here. In response to the anti-ASL horseshit going around: ASL and English are not the same language. ASL has no written form. Reading English subs is not = to seeing ASL & many Deaf ppl need sign to fully understand info. 23190871758
Reposted by Jo SpelbrinkEthan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 23/12/2024@ashleemboyer.com’s response to an “AI”-enabled “accessibility” product is very good, and worth your time: ashleemboyer.com/blog/how-to-...ashleemboyer.comHow to Dehumanize Accessibility with AI | Ashlee M BoyerHire disabled people, not AI-generated caricatures. 44413
Reposted by Jo SpelbrinkFriday Front-End @fridayfrontend.com · 06/12/2024If Not #React, Then What? "Frameworkism is the dominant creed of frontend discourse, and it's bullshit. We owe it to ourselves and our users to reject dogma and embrace engineering as a discipline that serves users first and foremost."infrequently.orgIf Not React, Then What? - Infrequently NotedFrameworkism is now the dominant creed of today's frontend discourse, and it's bullshit. We owe it to ourselves and to our users to reject dogma and embrace engineering as a discipline that strives… 042
Jo Spelbrink @joville.bsky.social · 01/12/2024An advent calendar curated by my former workmate @matuzo.at about how to not write HTML. Every year a recommendation! 🌞 PS: Don‘t forget to wish his book accessibility-cookbook.com as your personal x-mas gift! 🎄 130
Jo Spelbrink @joville.bsky.social · 20/08/2024That’s so true and mostly the case: … can be accessibility compliant and still suck to use. Real accessibility is the bottom line of real inclusive experiences. 160