"So, with regards to testability, which is something that obviously interest groups, having testable implementations, it's not something that we have to be as strict upon, we still want to make sure our work is as rigorous and testable as possible."
"Finally one guarded piece of good news is that most websites are ever so slightly smaller than in 2022. We're not sure why this is the case, and in many ways celebrating it feels a bit like celebrating the incremental process we also see on climate when we know it's nowhere near what is necessary."
"More than just a visual signal that Starship had reached space on its suborbital trajectory, the banana was also a stand-in for gaining the government's approval to begin launching more purposeful payloads on future Starship flights."
"Years after The WaSP declared victory, and browser stagnation had begun to set in, I felt that same thrill vicariously when Eric Meyer, Tantek Çelik, and Matt Mullenweg invented XFN (XHTML Friends Network), inverting the standards creation pyramid so that great ideas were empowered to bubble up from small groups to the wider community, Open Source style, rather than always coming from the top (W3C) down."
"web browsers are now experimenting with two HTML attributes -- technically, they're called "invoker commands" -- that are designed to invoke popovers, dialogs, and further down the line, all kinds of actions without writing JavaScript. Although, if you do reach for JavaScript, the new attributes -- command and commandfor -- come with some new events that we can listen for."
"If we had a time machine, we'd go back and probably call them something like "User Interface Systems," which is more accurate, inclusive, and doesn't confuse people and organizations as much. But as someone who's had a hand in creating a buzzword, these words really do have a staying power that are hard to change once they're established."
"It's important not to confuse who the feature is for with who this article you are writing right now is for. The feature might ultimately be useful to every developer, that doesn't mean this particular blog post is."
"Conformance testing focuses on accessibility specialists testing against standards using defined test procedures, not on observing users with disabilities interacting with the resource being tested. This means that relying on standards-based testing can only provide limited insights into the quality of the user experience (UX) for disabled people."
"Effective, clear communication that is interpreted as intended is a complicated thing to do. This gets even more intricate when factors like language, culture, and community enter the mix."
"Web Accessibility Directive (WAD) made feedback mechanism a must for public sector websites and mobile applications in the European Union. With such mechanisms users can flag accessibility issues and, if needed, request information in an accessible format."