Raindrop.io Bookmarks 04/03/2025

2025年4月3日

• Digital Accessibility is a Civil Right - Karl Groves

  "Claiming the ADA shouldn't apply to websites because they didn't exist in 1990 is like saying air travel shouldn't be regulated by modern safety laws because commercial jets didn't exist when those laws were written."

• Online Tracking is Out of Control--Privacy Badger Can Help You Fight Back | Electronic Frontier Foundation

  "Privacy Badger fights for a better web by incentivizing companies to respect your privacy. Privacy Badger sends the Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track signals to tell companies not to track you or share your data."

• Markdown and the Slow Fade of the Formatting Fetish

  "You might not have noticed, but year after year, document formats like .docx, .ppt, and pdf lose a little bit of steam. Markdown is growing over and into the old formats, slowly, and nicely, like moss on a stranded star destroyer. Notes on a revolution in slow motion."

• What's the Difference Between WCAG, the EAA, and EN 301 549?

  "The European Accessibility Act (EAA) is a law passed by the European Union. Unlike WCAG, which is a guideline, the EAA is legally enforceable by each country in the EU."

• Defending Tailwind

  "The fact is folks who use Tailwind aren't thinking about responsibility and scale in this way. They are thinking how can I push this out as fast as possible."

• European Accessibility Act Timeline: Key Dates and Deadlines for 2025 Compliance | UsableNet, Inc.

  "June 28, 2025: Compliance Deadline The EAA requirements go into effect. Businesses must comply with applicable national accessibility laws based on this EU directive."

• Adding sustainability to the Government Design Principles - Services in government

  "The first and most important aspect of this principle is to remind practitioners that digital services are made up of tangible materials and require energy and resources to run."

田坂広志アカデメイア開学記念講演会の模様がYouTubeで公開

2025年4月3日

先月9日に開催された田坂広志アカデメイア開学記念講演会の模様が、YouTubeで公開されました。限定公開でもなく、2時間あまりの講演が、尺から察するにノーカットでの公開です......大変ありがたく思います。もちろん無料、なんという太っ腹！！

おかげで、これでいつでも何度でも、私が初めて田坂先生と直に正対した日のことを、振り返れます。まったく同じ話であっても、時と場所を変えて聞いてみると、新たな発見ができたり、違った感想を抱けることがありますから、楽しみです。

まだちゃんとは見返してないんですけど、早送りの要領でシークバーを動かしてみると、講演中の姿勢というか背筋がほとんど変わらないことに驚かされます。そんなの当然、と先生からは言われてしまいそうですけど......その姿勢、身のこなしからも学ばせていただかなくては。

Raindrop.io Bookmarks 04/01/2025

2025年4月1日

• WebKit Features in Safari 18.4 | WebKit

  "A lot of our focus this winter has been on improving the quality and polish of existing web platform features, with a goal of greatly improving compatibility. WebKit for Safari 18.4 includes 184 resolved issues and 13 deprecations of older technology."

• Item Flow, Part 1: A new unified concept for layout | WebKit

  "Wow. Incorporate Flexbox, Grid and Masonry into a unified set of properties? What would that even look like?"

• Implementing aria-describedby for Web Accessibility - The A11Y Collective

  "While visual users can see these explanations on screen due to their placement and styling, screen reader users don't have that same visual context. That's why we use aria-describedby to associate explanations with elements programmatically, ensuring assistive technologies can convey this relationship."

• Axess Lab | Accessibility statement for the EAA

  "The accessibility statement template is based on the demands from the public sector EU web accessibility directive (WAD) and the focus is on assisting the user, rather than merely outlining legal requirements and shortcomings or failures."

• Stop Chasing New JavaScript Frameworks: Build with Fundamentals Instead - DEV Community

  "Tech discussions often devolve into debates about which framework reigns supreme. Here's the truth: there is no single "best" framework. Every option involves trade-offs"

• Getting Your Digital Accessibility Program Started

  "The EAA applies to any organization providing products or services to consumers in the EU. This includes government entities, whose websites are already subject to the requirements of the EU's Public Sector Web Accessibility Directive."

• Meet Declarative Web Push | WebKit

  "Declarative Web Push is more energy efficient and more private by design. It is easier for you, the web developer to use. And it's backwards compatible with existing Web Push notifications."

TOEIC初挑戦のスコアは770

2025年4月1日

受験した当日はだいぶ弱気で400点にも届かないかもなんて書いていたのですが（第384回 TOEIC Listening & Reading公開テスト）、今日になってスコアが判明してびっくり。Listeningが365、Readingが405の、Total 770でした。

英検2級の保持者的には相応のスコアとして順当に解釈することもできますけど、なにせその英検2級に合格したのは1992年ですし（いつの話だよ笑）、ロクに準備しないまま初受験でこのスコアは我ながら天晴れ。ビギナーズラックだとしても、自分で自分を褒めます！！

ListeningではPart 1の写真描写問題の正答率が100%だったのが地味に嬉しい。それに、ReadingのPart 7が思っていたより高い正答率だったのも良かったです。ひっかけ問題にひっかかってるかも、とか心配してたんですが笑。

ともかく、当面の目標であるスコア800には意外と早く手が届くかもしれないと、思い始めました。1回受験して、おおよそのノリはつかんだつもりですから、きっと2回目ではもっと良いスコアが取れるはず......と信じて、ちまちま準備しようと思います。