Raindrop.io Bookmarks 01/11/2025
- FTC orders AI accessibility startup accessiBe to pay $1M for misleading advertising | TechCrunch
"The FTC's order, which was approved unanimously by the FTC's five commissioners, will be subject to public comment for 30 days, after which the Commission will decide whether to make it final."
- GOV.UK One Login: Advancing digital sustainability in government - Government Digital Service
"We found our emissions had gone up at the beginning of the year as we increased services and therefore more users. However, from February to June the data showed a reduction of cloud emissions by approximately 40 tonnes of CO2e per month -- our optimisations were having an impact!"
- Progressive enhancement brings everyone in - The History of the Web
"It is a failure of web design, described Champeon and Finck, to abandon that experience at the point of connection simply because somebody doesn't have the latest browser. They had a different idea. It was called progressive enhancement."
- aria-description Does Not Translate -- Adrian Roselli
"Content buried in aria-label, aria-placeholder, aria-roledescription, or aria-valuetext can end up being presented to users in a language different than their own. The very thing we add to help users can exclude them instead."
- Digital sustainability in WordPress - Green Web Foundation
"This week sadly saw another episode of "how to badly handle your leadership privileges" brought to you by WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg. This time the drama revolved around the fledgling WordPress Sustainability team, and resulted in Matt making a snap decision to disband the team."
- Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers
"The Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers will provide a neutral space where industry leaders, academia, developers, and the broader open source community can work together to support projects within the Chromium ecosystem."
- Home | IndexNow.org
"IndexNow is an easy way for websites owners to instantly inform search engines and web crawlers used for information retrieval ("search engines") about latest content changes on their website. In its simplest form, IndexNow is a simple ping so that search engines know that a URL and its content has been added, updated, or deleted, allowing search engines to quickly reflect this change in their search results."