Raindrop.io Bookmarks 04/24/2024

2024年4月24日 著

• Don't get scammed by fake performance experts and apps - Performance @ Shopify

  "We uncovered a set of apps and fake experts cheating the performance metrics. We found those practices in almost 15% of extensions that promised one-click optimizations. This means that a large number of merchant sites are affected."

• What You Can Do as a Web Builder on Earth Day -- Adrian Roselli

  "One easy thing you can do for the earth is not use "AI" tools."

• Our Digital Greenwashing Guide - Mightybytes

  "Use this digital greenwashing guide to help you make accurate sustainability claims about digital products, services, and programs while reducing risk as new and emerging legislation takes shape."

• New accessibility features in version 19.4 of InDesign - Fondazione LIA

  "what are the most important new features implemented in this latest release that aim to make it increasingly easy and automatic to create accessible digital publications, without the need for manual intervention in the code of exported files."

• Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents - O'Reilly

  "Antitrust authorities in Europe and the US have woken up, and are questioning abuses of market power by Big Tech companies, albeit not always successfully. Regulators may force better behavior."

• AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO'

  "A service called ReplyGuy advertises itself as "the AI that plugs your product on Reddit" and which automatically "mentions your product in conversations naturally.""

• Why don't we talk about minifying CSS anymore? | Product Blog • Sentry

  "With the luxury of modern web hosting platforms and CDNs caching and delivering files fast to users around the world, powerful compression algorithms and the wide adoption of HTTP/2, I guess we don't really need to think about CSS minification anymore."

Raindrop.io Bookmarks 04/23/2024

2024年4月23日 著

• Complete a VPAT: Show how accessible your product is | Deque

  "The VPAT is the template available on the Information Industry Technology Council (ITI) website. When the VPAT is completed with information that documents a product's conformance with accessibility standards, then it is an ACR."

• Demystifying the Shadow DOM - by Petar Ivanov

  "The element from the normal DOM where we attach the Shadow DOM is called Shadow Host. Inside the Shadow DOM this element is called Shadow Root."

• An advanced way to use CSS variables | Go Make Things

  "I typically have variables for --color-*, --size-*, and --font-*, as well as ones to define the max width of containers and how much --spacing to use between paragraphs and various elements."

• How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals -- Smashing Magazine

  "While it's possible to measure Core Web Vitals using a wide range of tools, those tools are limited by the type of data they use to evaluate performance, not to mention they only provide a single snapshot of performance at a specific point in time."

• Digital Accessibility and Legal Updates in 2024: WCAG Accessibility and Beyond - TPGi

  "In this article, we survey recent developments defining the legal landscape for US organizations' digital accessibility obligations in 2024."

• Long Alt -- Adrian Roselli

  "Keep your image alternative text brief, devoid of special characters, empty of URLs, and ideally in one language."

• JS Naked Day

  "JS Naked Day started because we were jealous of CSS Naked Day."

Raindrop.io Bookmarks 04/20/2024

2024年4月20日 著

• Help us invent CSS Grid Level 3, aka "Masonry" layout | WebKit

  "Some people remain skeptical that this capability should be part of CSS Grid, and want it to instead be its own separate display type. Others are questioning whether or not this kind of layout is needed on the web at all -- they aren't sure that well-known websites will use it."

• Blind internet users struggle with error-prone AI aids

  "those businesses that rely on accessibility code assistants and "overlays" -- software that transforms a website so that it can be understood by assistive technologies -- appear to have exposed themselves to more liabilities as the tools still need improving."

• Don't use the maxlength attribute to stop users from exceeding the limit - Adam Silver - designer, London, UK

  "screen readers don't announce when the limit has been reached or what the limit is in the first place."

• CSS text fragment selector (please)

  "Moreover, and to me, even more excitedly, this would put a significant amount of power in the user's hands via user style sheets. This would allow users to control what content was hidden from them using relatively simple text expressions."

• We Need To Rewild The Internet

  "That impulse to scour away the messiness that makes life resilient is what many conservation biologists call the "pathology of command and control." Today, the same drive to centralize, control and extract has driven the internet to the same fate as the ravaged forests."

• Simon MacDonald:

  "So please join us in celebrating JS Naked Day on April 24th either by removing all JavaScript on your site for that day or try surfing the web with JavaScript disabled."

アクセシビリティをテーマに「Ask the Expert」に出演

2024年4月20日 著

Web Accessibilityチャンネルの公認エキスパートとして参加しているTechFeedが、新たにTechFeed Advanceというメディアを立ち上げました：

ニッチを恐れず、マニアックを愛す。テクノロジーの最前線をエキスパートとともにお届けする、ハイレベルエンジニア向け技術メディア

その中に、YouTube動画の連載企画で「Ask the Expert」があるのですが、アクセシビリティをテーマに出演させていただきましたので、宣伝しておきます。動画をWCAG 3.0は「ぶっとぶ感じ」 ー Webアクセシビリティの最新動向を、木達一仁さんに聞いてきた！[テックフィード白石] - YouTubeで見れるのと、書き起こし記事も公開されています。

技術的な内容でも、また最新の内容でもなくて、たいへん恐縮なのですけど、結果的には概ねWCAGの過去・現在・未来みたいな感じの話をしています。勤務先のアクセシビリティBlogにフォローアップ記事を掲載したので、あわせてお読みいただけたら幸いです。