Raindrop.io Bookmarks 03/02/2025

2025年3月3日

• This page is under construction - localghost

  "I see the personal website as being an antidote to the corporate, centralised web. Yeah, sure, it's probably hosted on someone else's computer - but it's a piece of the web that belongs to you. If your host goes down, you can just move it somewhere else, because it's just HTML."

• Accessibility tooling and good intentions

  "Get your accessibility tooling off from your developers' machines and into the CI. This is one of those pieces I would share with folks who are new to advocating for automated accessibility testing in their engineering orgs"

• Mozilla's approach to Manifest V3: What's different and why it matters for extension users

  "Support for both Manifest V2 and V3 -- While some browsers are phasing out Manifest V2 entirely, Firefox is keeping it alongside Manifest V3. More tools for developers means more choice and innovation for users."

• WordPress Cookie Banner Accessibility Lies - Equalize Digital

  "Recently, the WP Accessibility Day website team was testing cookie banners in hopes that we could find one for use on the conference's website. Sadly, there was not a single cookie consent solution that we looked at"

• Comparing local large language models for alt-text generation | Dries Buytaert

  "The TL;DR is that, not surprisingly, cloud models (GPT-4, Claude Sonnet 3.5) set the benchmark with A-grade performance, though not 100% perfect. I prefer local models for privacy, cost, and offline use. Among local options, the Llama variants and MiniCPM-V perform best. Both earned a B grade: they work reliably but sometimes miss important details."

• SpeedCurve | Six things that slow down your site's UX (and why you have no control over them)

  "Too many people focus on what performance and user experience look like at the median, and they neglect the large number of users at the 75th and 95th percentiles."

• Survey: 42% of people say Google Search is becoming less useful

  "Google continues to lose ground among younger generations, with 61% of Gen Z and 53% of Millennials using AI tools instead of Google or other traditional search engines. That's according to a new Vox Media survey."