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On November 17, 2019, I’ll hold a workshop in Berlin as a part of Accessibility Club Summit 2019 . Tickets are just €50. read more

On Wednesday, October 2, I will do an online talk for technica11y . The talk will cover common ARIA pitfalls and how to avoid them. It is free, thanks to the support by tenon.io . read more

I use Overcast for my daily podcasting needs. Sometimes I stumble upon new podcasts and I quickly want to add an episode to Overcast for sampling the podcast. read more

CSS generated content can have unintended side-consequences. As Andy Clarke discovered recently, data- attributes he used as a way to transfer content into CSS for visual purposes are not translated using built-in browser functionality . read more

In the past two days, people noticed that VoiceOver (VO) on top of Safari is not reading list semantics when the list is not styled in a list-like fashion. read more

I’ll leave Facebook by the end of the day today. I thought about this final step for several months. I have many reasons, including, but not limited, to Facebook’s ongoing privacy issues. read more

Swaziland king renames country Kingdom of eSwatini (The Guardian) Internationalization is hard, now you have to fit in a country with a lower case first letter. Meaning “place of the Swazi”, eSwatini is the Swazi language name for the tiny state landlocked between South Africa and Mozambique. Unl … read more

Jeremy posted a solution for multi-language sites where you want to switch hyphenation on when the page language is set to (for example) German: [lang="de"] { hyphens: auto; } This works great until you have code on the page. Even if we have word-wrapping for code enabled (and we should on … read more

I’ve been on vacation for a bit, which was incredibly relaxing. Some pictures are available on Instagram (for now – I need an indie web solution for this). Professionalism: Design’s Lost Generation (Mike Monteiro, Medium) — Everyone who helps to produce a product is a designer, every decision counts. … read more

Nic @vavroom Steenhout ( Blog ) invited me to his #A11y Rules Podcast. We talked about my work with Knowbility and the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) and how I got into accessibility. Nic’s podcast is short and sweet, so you don’t have to listen to me waffling on for too long. Nic makes tra … read more