Raindrop.io Bookmarks 07/23/2025

2025年7月23日

• 5.15 Million Reasons to Settle Web Accessibility Lawsuits Quickly

  "Popular fast-fashion retailer Fashion Nova agreed to a $5.15 million web accessibility settlement in Alcazar v. Fashion Nova, underscoring the steep cost of dragging out an accessibility lawsuit. Most cases settle for under $10,000--so what went wrong here, and what can companies learn?"

• State of HTML 2025 now open! • Lea Verou

  "Survey results are used by browsers to prioritize roadmaps -- the reason Google is funding this. The results from State of ... surveys directly feed into prioritization for next year's Interop project."

• A Friendly Introduction to SVG • Josh W. Comeau

  "The really cool thing is that SVGs are first-class citizens in the DOM. We can use CSS and JavaScript to select and modify SVG nodes, as if they were HTML elements."

• The large, small, and dynamic viewport units  |  Blog  |  web.dev

  "Large viewport: The viewport sized assuming any UA interfaces that are dynamically expanded and retracted to be retracted. Small Viewport: The viewport sized assuming any UA interfaces that are dynamically expanded and retracted to be expanded."

• super short note: placeholder perfidy - HTML Accessibility

  "I made the mistake in a recent article of using the placeholder attribute content to illustrate when a label is not correctly associated it does not provide an accessible name. placeholder content is used as an accessible name of last resort when other sources are absent."

• Why Trump is killing the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawai'i • The Register

  "When you don't like the message, what do you do? You shoot the messenger, of course."