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On Website Technicals (2022-08) - Tech updates: FUELINST glitch, review pros and cons, a11y, fanlife, Save-Data, traffic nadir, JXL. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-63.html

On Website Technicals (2022-08)
Tech updates: FUELINST glitch, review pros and cons, a11y, fanlife, Save-Data, traffic nadir, JXL.

Tuesday 21 July, Durham-Raleigh #Accessibility MeetUp (online or IRL in Millersville) will talk about the book, “Digital Accessibility Ethics: #Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech” with @…

Lainey Feingold and DRA11y Turns One - July Event, Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup
Durham Raleigh A11y: The Accessibility Meetup - Triangle Style invites you to celebrate its first birthday via a virtual discussion with **Lainey Feingold** about the recen

In many cases, the people citing the LLM to me either won’t listen to why it’s wrong or don’t care.
Because their employee reviews are a function of how much they use the LLM versus accuracy, bug-free code, giving a shit, …
https://bsky.app/profile/scottohara.me/post/3mlwdps…

Scott O'Hara (@scottohara.me)
It used to be that I would need to argue with developers over what is required by aria / wcag Now I get to fight with LLMs that are parroting a11y best practices (or just common inaccurate a11y advice) at me that aren’t applicable for the context It’s Friday. Time to f right off

I may have opinions about this.
#a11y #accessibility

Just a quick aside, as I work to "clean up" the work of highly paid and respected doctors who are unable to create an accessible Powerpoint slide deck:
If your patients new what a hack you are with PowerPoint, they might be concerned about how you approach things...
Please, if you teach up and coming professionals how to communicate professionally, make sure they know that includes accessibility!
#a11y

Rowdy want to automate accessibility testing.
We all love accessibility, except those trying to enclose the web for private capital.
Wcag is the standard. Web content accessibility guidelines.
Playwrite is a node testing system and Axe-core is a Playwrite system to test accessibility.
He does a quick demo. Report seems nice. Axe seems like a good system for a11y checks.
#devWorld

Apparently Google’s Modern Web Guidance accessibility megaskill believes it should only be called when a dev explicitly asks for accessibility in the output?
Which doesn’t quite track with the promise on the MWG home page.

I made Eric’s GAAD BINGO card into a table on my 2022 GAAD post:
https://adrianroselli.com/2022/05/the-performative-a11yship-of-gaad.html#Update03
_This_ time I actually checked it across dark and light modes. I think.

The Performative A11yship of #GAAD
For context on the title, working backward from the end, GAAD is Global Accessibility Awareness Day. Its purpose, as explained at accessibility.day, is to get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access/inclusion and people with different disabilities. A11yship is a play on the numeronym for accessibility (a11y) and the…