Raindrop.io Bookmarks 09/28/2023

2023年9月28日 著

• Overlays: Just Another Disability Dongle - TPGi

  "Overlays do nothing to address the underlying reasons for website inaccessibility. Quite apart from questions of their efficacy, cost benefits and legal status, they simply don't solve the problem."

• Steps to Building Your Core Accessibility Team

  "Engage with key stakeholders early and involve them in the decision-making process. Show them how accessibility benefits everyone and aligns with your organization's values. Work from the bottom up and the top down for maximum impact."

• Textareas with auto-increasing height using CSS -- Amit Merchant -- A blog on PHP, JavaScript, and more

  "Thankfully, an experimental CSS rule with form-sizing property is coming that will let you increase the height of the textarea automatically based on the amount of text the user enters."

• Twitter is Still Throttling Competitors' Links--Check for Yourself - The Markup

  "Users of the social platform, now officially known as X, are made to wait on average about two and a half seconds after clicking on links to Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, and Substack, the analysis found. That's more than 60 times longer than the average wait for links to other sites."

• What is a Good Digital Carbon Rating? | Mightybytes

  "With a pass/fail threshold set to match median webpage size, the majority of all sites on the World Wide Web will fail this new ratings system. Many will no doubt find this frustrating. However, it can also serve as a great catalyst for change."

• The Future of Web Design: Emerging AI Technologies and Trends :: UXmatters

  "In this article, I'll explore potential impacts of AI on Web design and highlight some emerging tools and trends that are revolutionizing the industry."

Raindrop.io Bookmarks 09/26/2023

2023年9月26日 著

• Bruce Lawson's personal site  : HTML popover, videos and display:blackhole

  "The answer is that when a popover is dismissed, it is set to display:none. Whether the popover spec requires this, or whether that's just the way the engineers decided to implement it, is unclear to me."

• The Design System Ecosystem | Brad Frost

  "There's a design system. Products use the design system. The design system informs and influences the products, and in turn the products inform and influence what's in the design system."

• The ROI of Accessibility in SEO - Moz

  "18.9% is no number to turn your nose up at. For any sized business, 18.9% of additional revenue is life-changing money. This 18.9% is an incredibly important figure in understanding how many people you benefit by having an accessible website."

• Deciding for ourselves: 98% of people want a browser choice screen, Mozilla study finds

  "we conducted in-depth research with 12,000 people in Germany, Spain and Poland to understand how choice screens influence their decisions, preferences and satisfaction levels. Here's what we learned"

• Understanding EN 301 549: The European Standard for Digital Accessibility - TPGi

  "The aim of EN 301 549 was to set requirements for public procurement of ICT products and services to public entities in the European Union."

• Misconceptions can kill accessibility momentum · Eric Eggert

  "It would be a better approach to define default keyboard behaviors in ARIA and let developers opt into browsers managing focus for that specific role and its children."

• What Are Accessibility Overlays? (Webbed Briefs)

  "All accessibility overlays are bad. Except the ones by overlay vendors planning to sue me. Those ones are good and I highly recommend them, despite what I may say during the video. If someone is asking for an accessibility overlay, either send them here or to overlayfactsheet.com."

中年の危機を乗り越える8つの方法

2023年9月26日 著

『中年の危機を乗り越える8つの方法』は、50歳の誕生日を過ぎてから買って読んだ本。だいぶ遅きに失した感もあるけれど、一応。

中年の危機は、自分の限界性・限定性に直面したときに、人がそれに対処しようとして取る心的態度なのです。

それでいうと、自分の場合は40代前半がその中年の危機ってやつのピークだったかもしれません。

「小さな自分」に満足することが出来ず、「おおいなる自分」を過度に求めてしまうというこうしたあり方とは、どこかで決別しなくてはなりません。

「諦める」とは「明らかにする」ことだと、別の何かの本で以前、読んだ記憶があります。何者にもなれなかった自分を受け入れるのと、「おおいなる自分」を求めるのをやめることは、多分どちらにも共通して「明らかにする」要素があるんでしょうね。

中年期を迎えるときには、こうした一点集中を徹底するというあり方から、「いくつかの分野の課題の間でバランスを取る」というあり方へと切り替わることが求められていると思うのです。

いわゆるスキルの掛け算ってやつに、似てるかも。掛ける要素それぞれは中途半端で大したことなくっても、それらを掛け合わせることで唯一無二に近い何かを備えることができるっていうか。何か一つの道を極めたり、その道だけで勝負し続けるよりかは、生きやすい気がします。

「眠ると損になる」という考え方から、「眠らないと損になる」という考え方へと切り替えて、睡眠時間の安定的な確保が、中年の危機を乗り越える重要な基礎になることを、ぜひ覚えてください。

覚えてます......けど、睡眠時間はだいたい4〜5時間で、なかなか実践できないのが現状。いつになったら、どうしたらもう少し眠れるようになるのか。運動は習慣づけできてるんですけども。

エネルギーを充電し、「仕切り直し」をするために、一旦「退却」をする必要があるのです。「するべきこと」の仕事を増やすよりも、「できること」を淡々と地道にしながら、力を蓄えるのです。

あ、これは私、実践できてます。今がまさにそういう期間なんで......。

小さな働きを「無心にする」ことで、心理的なエネルギーが充満してきます。無心になにかをしているとき、心はそれまでのデータを整理し、新しい活力を生み、創造的に働き続けています。

山道を歩いたり、ガンプラを作るあいだって、まさに無心でいられる時間。そういう時間を、バランスを取るべくして、無意識のうちに心と身体が求めていたりするのかしらね。

私達が人生のバランスを取り戻すべく、「対極価値」に対して心を開き、それまでの自分の価値観からはこぼれおちていた大切な「忘れもの」を改めて拾い上げるときに、私たちは新しい一歩を踏み出すことができるのです。

一体いつから登山にハマったか、時期は明確ではありませんが、過去の自分を振り返ったとき、ネットの世界にのめり込み過ぎたその一種の反動として自然を求めたと解釈するなら、「対極価値」という言葉の意味するところはすごくしっくりきます。それも自分の中での一種のバランシング、オートバランサーが機能した結果かしらね。

Raindrop.io Bookmarks 09/25/2023

2023年9月25日 著

• Updated W3C Recommendation: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 | 2023 | News | W3C

  "The update incorporates existing errata and adds informative notes to success criteria 4.1.1 Parsing."

• Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 179 | WebKit

  "Added support for the name attribute in the <details> element."

• The Children Are Driving the Bus -- Adrian Roselli

  "If your sense of personal value is such that someone pointing out flaws in a demonstrably broken tool is enough to make your blood boil, then maybe you are in the wrong career. If you are making that tool, you are definitely in the wrong career."

• State of HTML 2023 now open! • Lea Verou

  "Survey results are used by browsers to prioritize roadmaps -- the reason Google is funding this."

• The What, Why, and How of Accessibility Statements - The Admin Bar

  "Beyond the United States, there are Accessibility Statement laws in the European Union and laws in the UK that require public sector (government) websites to have Accessibility Statements."

• Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome | Ars Technica

  "Google says it will block third-party cookies in the second half of 2024--presumably after it makes sure the "Privacy Sandbox" will allow it to keep its profits up."

• Web Apps Are Better Than No Apps

  "Native apps do feel great. But they have their own challenges. The first and the most important one is making them cross-platform."

• Counting Ghosts

  "If you need an analytics script to know you're achieving your goals, you're probably setting the wrong goals."

• Vivaldi's Open Letter -- Microsoft DMA Compliance | Vivaldi Browser

  "While attention is often focused on the responses of Apple, Google, and Meta to the DMA, Microsoft's actions should not be overlooked."

• WordPress blogs can now be followed in the fediverse, including Mastodon | TechCrunch

  "Now, the company is announcing ActivityPub 1.0.0 for WordPress has been released allowing WordPress blogs to be followed by others on apps like Mastodon and others in the fediverse and then receive replies back as comments on their own sites."