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Kenmore is not a big village, but it seems to be where Buffalo bands come to retire.
I love it has Porchfest.
Started on lower east side with Not Normal (rock), then across town for Dellwood and the Nightshades (alt/indie) then caught Sector Seven-G (80s, 90s rock).
@pimterry@toot.cafeI've been thinking about https://simonomi.dev/blog/color-code-your-bytes/.
Whipped up a quick prototype for HTTP Toolkit's hex view - what do you think? Interesting and more useful than monochrome, or just visually noisy?
See if you can guess what each file type is …
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.usIt's great to see the impact @… has on getting faster @… runs ❤️
#InfectionPHP
@joe@toot.worksThat would have been more interesting to me a decade ago.
#NotepadPlusPlus #Mac #MacOS
@aardrian@toot.cafe
@dotproto@toot.cafe@…, I'm not sure if you keep an eye on Mastodon, but I wanted to follow up on an email I sent your work email address regarding organizing a meeting between a WebML group and WECG.
@aardrian@toot.cafeLike CSUNATC, I was turned away from a Disability:IN session. Unlike CSUNATC, I was able to sit outside the room and stream the session.
@pimterry@toot.cafe @wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.usA happy birthday to @…!
@joe@toot.worksA few days ago, I read about PGBackRest's (#Blender #Anthropic
@aardrian@toot.cafeThe 2026 State of CSS Survey results are out:
https://2026.stateofcss.com/
Unsurprised color features in CSS are most hated, despite last year’s survey’s odd focus on them.
CSS carousels also fitting given they encode WCAG violations, break Separation of Concerns.
@dotproto@toot.cafe@…, I'm not sure if you keep an eye on Mastodon, but I wanted to follow up on an email I sent your work email address regarding organizing a meeting between a WebML group and WECG.
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us@… Vai! Vai! Vai! Hopefully we'll meet at some point in this world cup!
@aardrian@toot.cafeIt’s coming. One week. 6 May.
I contributed a chapter on accessibility overlays, but the other 33 make it worth it.
“Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech”
https://AccessibilityEthics.org/
@joe@toot.worksWhenever I go over a speed bump on my #motorcycle, I see the signs of somebody's bad day and it gives me a little bit of a 😏. There is one in Estabrook park that has a scrape over the top of it, followed by a trail of oily fluid going forward a few meters, followed by a large puddle.
You don't notice that kind of stuff in a car.
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us@… they won?
@wraithe@mastodon.social @aardrian@toot.cafeRE: https://toot.re/@rian/116607097357699590
Two of my favorite people sharing favorite things.
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us@… fair, just give it what it needs, not what it thinks it needs? 😅
@joe@toot.worksIt's true what they say. If you had a bad day, a #motorcycle will make it better and if you had a good day, a motorcycle will help you celebrate. Life is better on two wheels.
@kuba@toot.kuba-orlik.name> Subject line: "FIFA - FAP - CONFIRMATION". Yes, FIFA's Agent Platform is officially called FAP. I cannot make this up. FAP CONFIRMATION. Moving on.
https://bobdahacker.com/blog/fifa-hack
@aardrian@toot.cafeICYMI: HHS extended a deadline to make healthcare apps / sites / kiosks accessible, kicking it to 2027 / 2028.
More:
https://www.lflegal.com/2023/07/healthtech-accessibility/
And:
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us@… try both, go with the best fit?
@aardrian@toot.cafeDislike.
“Media Library infinite scrolling is now enabled by default, with a per-user opt-out”
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2026/07/23/media-library-infinite-scrolling-is-now-enabled-by-default-with-a-per-…
@aardrian@toot.cafeICYMI, I have issues with Google’s Modern Web Guidance (MWG).
While it can help make less awful LLM vibe-coded output, the code is still rife with errors — but more subtle and requiring greater skill to evaluate.
It makes no promises while making promises.
https://adrianro…
@joe@toot.worksI have three personal websites that I want to rewrite from scratch. Inspired by @… , I was thinking about making one of the three available via telnet and gemini. I need to stop thinking about ways to make it more complicated.
@aardrian@toot.cafeUpdated my post on evaluating ACRs to add a note about ‘N/A’ entries in a WCAG VPAT:
https://adrianroselli.com/2026/01/how-i-evaluate-an-acr-vpat.html#Update01
In short: not allowed; ask vendor for clarity.
@joe@toot.worksI understand that there is rain tomorrow and Friday but what do smiling, blushing clouds mean? Did someone embarrass the weather with flattery?
@kuba@toot.kuba-orlik.nameTa nocna feta sprawia, że cieszę się z wygranej Lecha jeszcze mniej
@joe@toot.worksI am glad that I got the motorcycle home yesterday. It is quite cold and rainy today.
@aardrian@toot.cafe“Wheelchair users say they have few repair options because of private equity”
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/29/nx-s1-5860877/wheelchair-users-say-they-have-few-repair-options-because-of-private-equity (no transc…
@aardrian@toot.cafeThis court is really gunning for autocracy before they all die.
@joe@toot.worksThat movie was pretty good.
@aardrian@toot.cafe“Accessibility question: is nesting interactive elements bad?”
https://christianheilmann.com/2026/05/27/accessibility-question-is-nesting-interactive-elements-bad/
Yes, bad.
• Reduced hit area;
• Extra tab-stops;…
@joe@toot.worksI think that your tire might need replacing. 😏
@aardrian@toot.cafeRE: https://mastodon.social/@Meyerweb/116652774075981072
Spanning table cells are always a layout bummer and often a screen reader navigation hassle. But this associates stuff correctly.
The CSS is where I tried a different approach for the Safari b…
@joe@toot.worksRE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/116652503085166164
Blaming AI for mass-layoffs is hot these days.
@pimterry@toot.cafeMade my first PR to an IETF standard draft: https://github.com/quicwg/qmux/pull/69. End result will be a bit inconvenient for all involved 😂 but better to fix it now!
@joe@toot.worksI had both monday and tuesday off from work this week and I'm still thinking that I could use a vacation.
Fuck.
@joe@toot.worksI put a hot Pizza box down on this table last night and it left a mark on it. I'm not too sure what to do about that.
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.usOops:
#GitHubActions #CI #Actions
@joe@toot.worksA cinnamon toast crunch dipped cone, sounds kind of good.
@aardrian@toot.cafeGuess I’m not using Bluesky while in Texas for Disability:IN.
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us@… weirdly enough I found out after getting back from the gym. 🫂
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us@… so they had a 90 minute free fall like Loki?
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us@… @… honestly, I don't even know what its source is 😅
@aardrian@toot.cafe @aardrian@toot.cafeRE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/116992048337520434
I appreciate this both acknowledges the error and credits the resources. Something I’d like to see more of from browsers (looks askance at Chrome).
Key takeaways:
• `aria-labe…
@joe@toot.worksI'm just now realizing that I won't be able to go to the #Milwaukee Air and Water show, this year. 😞
https://www.cbs58.com/news/milwaukee-air-and-water-show-under-new-ownership-ahead-of-july-25-26-event
@aardrian@toot.cafeRE: https://mastodon.social/@SteveFaulkner/116991169497136323
A was a big fan of the original aViewer, so I look forward to trying this one. Probably on a VM to start.
@aardrian@toot.cafeLess than a week left to submit a talk to #id24: https://inclusivedesign24.org/2026/
The call for presentations closes on 31 May 2026.
The event is 24 September 2026, which is far enough away to block out y…
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.usGitHub's repo name suggestion is still the most unhinged part of the platform:
@aardrian@toot.cafeThis is just me venting.
I hate that if I want to lug a slightly smaller screen than my Surface Go to gaming, the iPad Mini behaves more like a tiny phone than my actual phone. With no way to tell DnD Beyond that there is plenty of real estate and to please use it.
I blame Apple / Safari here.
@joe@toot.worksSomebody told me yesterday that they have to drive a gaser because they play the accordion and that's too big to bring on an airplane. 🤨
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us@… tsja
@joe@toot.worksIt looks like last.fm went from being owned by CBS / Paramount Skydance to being independent again.
@aardrian@toot.cafeCraig Abbott believes “Our CSS isn’t opinionated enough”:
https://www.craigabbott.co.uk/blog/2026/our-css-isnt-opinionated-enough/
Which of course I agree with and link from on of my posts:
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us@… Tetu!
@joe@toot.worksI rode far enough that I ran out of milwaukee county to bike through.
@aardrian@toot.cafeSince I fired up Chrome and enabled grid lanes to read Manuel’s post, I tried my 2019 reading order bookmarklet:
https://adrianroselli.com/2019/04/reading-order-bookmarklet.html
And it works!
You have to run it from the top of the page for the numbers t…
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us@… I don't see the photo. Maybe @… knows?
@joe@toot.worksI went past the skate park in brown deer along the way. It's looking pretty good.
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us@… glad to hear that. It's not easy, also as an adult. But it's part of life, and it will help them for when they loose grandparents. (Assuming here they haven't lost those yet.)
@joe@toot.worksI got nineteen miles in on the old oakleaf trail tonight.
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us@… sorry to hear that. How did they take it?
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us@… @… at on of my jobs we had the hello guy. It pissed some people off so bad they just didn't respond and sent him that link after a month. Took another month before he stopped doing just hello 🤦
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us@… that's it's purpose, well except where you are a second tier tech that isn't directly helping people.
Also good show?
@aardrian@toot.cafeI recalled a G183 discussion on a TPGuy post from a few years ago.
Vispero memory-holed it all when it subsumed TPGuy:
https://vispero.com/resources/well-color-us-surprised-this-sc-can-be-a-tricky-customer/
Thankfully, there’s Way…
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.usNothing like a `docker system prune -a --volumes` in the early morning:
@aardrian@toot.cafeIf you already have to use an LLM to vibe-code for your job, Google’s Modern Web Guidance is kind of like a Band-Aid / Elastoplast for a gaping chest wound. Don’t count on it making conformant performant hamformant output.
https://adrianroselli.com/2026/05/mayb
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us@… but why 😱
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us@… it me!
@joe@toot.worksThe Mandalorian and Grogu was very good.
#StarWars #Mandalorian
@aardrian@toot.cafe @aardrian@toot.cafe/me starts reading post on building an accessible modal dialog using `<dialog>`.
/me comes to this sub-head about five paragraphs in.
Me: “Ok then.”
/me ignores remaining 2,000 words, closes tab, adds site to block list.
Me: “That was a good use of everyone’s time.”
![Heading: A quick note on letting AI code this.
You should hand this to an AI, and most days you will. Describe a modal dialog and you get working code in seconds, which is genuinely useful. What an AI can’t do for you is decide what good looks like […]](https://assets.toot.cafe/media_attachments/files/116/975/569/587/291/325/original/4ea923bca83a2f57.png)
@joe@toot.worksMy brother was at an DNC event in #Madison yesterday and said that Hong was clearly the best candidate in attendance.
"Within the first few months of the year that Wisconsin will elect its next governor, democratic socialist Francesca Hong is leading the pack in the state's most prominent public poll and running a campaign at a moment she’s said “may be the only time for a candidate like me to run statewide.”"
#Wisconsin #FrancescaHong #Hong
@joe@toot.worksI was hoping that the @… Kickstarter would reach the "Syndicate Content to Social Networks" stretch goal. 💔
@aardrian@toot.cafeTwo post updates:
1. https://adrianroselli.com/2015/09/source-order-matters.html#Update17 links to Manuel’s post on grid lanes:
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us@… Miku!
@joe@toot.worksjust spent way too much money at the vet.
@aardrian@toot.cafeThis is one way to get rid of your Real Doll overstock:
“New York School District Shells Out $58K for a Robot Teaching Assistant”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/a-robotic-teaching-assistant-is-heading-to-a-new-york-state-school
…
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us@… who?
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us@…
@aardrian@toot.cafeWent to a show with a lot of hippies in the crowd for the first three acts and was afraid I’d have to do all the skanking for the ska final act but then the 2 tone started and skankers came out of the woodwork and I may have thrown out my hip.
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us@… was about to say: photos or it didn't happen. But hopefully soon
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us@… about time
@aardrian@toot.cafeCressida Stephenson is only a quarter through #DigitalAccessibilityEthics, but her review is so far positive.
I appreciate her perspective on #GAAD. Which doesn’t mean doing something substantive has to be to buying this book, but it should be more than a post.
I’m not even putting…
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.usO hello PHP, haven't seen you toss this error at my before:
#php
@aardrian@toot.cafe2026 Stack Overflow Developer Survey is live, taking maybe 15–18 minutes:
https://take.survey.stackoverflow.co/jfe/form/SV_4GHunpL3IfJ3rRc?utm_medium=your-bu…
@aardrian@toot.cafeI know nothing about LabX Media Group. Is my decades-old subscription to Scientific American about to bring me enshittified content instead? Anyone have experience with LabX Media Group beyond what I can find on its site?
“LabX Media Group Acquires Scientific American, Expanding Global Science Media Portfolio”
@aardrian@toot.cafeWith alt. Also top of page 2: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.njd.601006/gov.uscourts.njd.601006.12.0.pdf
What you get when the agents & agency get incentives to detain and the detainee is sent to a private …
![In the run-up to June 11, three main things happened.
First, the Petitioner’s counsel emailed the Respondents several times. Confirming that the Petitioner “need[ed] to depart by June 11.” Petition, Exhibit D (“Exhibit D”) (ECF 1-2) at 19. Asking to “coordinate his departure.” Id. at 20. And “requesting that [the Petitioner] be allowed to travel on June 10th” in order to comply with his voluntary departure order. Id. at 23; see also id. at 23, 25 (requesting clarification on “how [to] proceed w…](https://assets.toot.cafe/media_attachments/files/116/964/601/550/500/054/original/824748797929809d.png)
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us@… 👋
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us@… let it go, let it go!
@aardrian@toot.cafeMy copy of #DigitalAccessibilityEthics showed up! I spent my fika ego-surfing my own chapter.
Look at all those real, verified, not hallucinated citations! That’s more than you’ll see in some think-pieces or government reports or research studies!
You deserve well-sourced content. Treat yourself.
@aardrian@toot.cafeRE: https://alpaca.gold/@seldo/116806653197448053
I feel like there’s a whitespace versus white space joke in here somewhere (because AI PACs are generally white dudes and AIPAC apologists, IME, tend toward a certain demographic as well).
@aardrian@toot.cafeRE: https://sunny.garden/@knowler/116803341597273078
If you ever see this approach from a vendor / prospect / whatever, probably do not hire and instead add to your spam blocker. They may be bad at what they do.
Also, the consulting firm that wrote this…
@aardrian@toot.cafeI missed that Georgetown not only purged posts from its former provost, it also took down the entire blog. So this banger exists only in the Wayback:
“Eating our Seed Corn” (about ‘AI’)
https://web.archive.org/web/20240703032246/https…
@aardrian@toot.cafeAre you a screen reader user who relies on F6 navigation? Maybe you have an opinion on navigating landmarks on web pages via a proposed `focuslandmark`?
https://github.com/openui/open-ui/issues/1472#issuecomment-5062013011
@aardrian@toot.cafeLimited scope testing of 15 largest web shops in The Netherlands, from start to finish, and IKEA surged to the lead over Apple from last year (though Apple regressed, too). EAA may be helping overall.
“Research accessibility webshops 2026” (title machine-translated from Dutch)
https://level-level.…
@aardrian@toot.cafeI updated “Don’t Disable Form Controls” with a suggestion on what to do with submit buttons:
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/02/dont-disable-form-controls.html#SubmitInstead
And no, making them read-only is not it, so don’t:
![“Well, today I am telling you that I and everyone at [redacted] is committed to achieving 100% automation or so close that the difference won’t matter for digital accessibility testing in the very near future.” from Video: The State of Accessibility at 6:13, 26 February 2025.](https://assets.toot.cafe/media_attachments/files/116/969/981/599/463/820/original/fdc4ce30085ddac2.png)
