despite me still sounding a bit congested, my chat with @jamesg.blog went well! an overall amazing experience on his podcast about the independent web! we could've kept going for hours, i'm sure. <3

we talk about building indie web communities and communicating the possibilities of having a personal website to new audiences and more. thank you so much for having me, james!!!

go give a listen to episode 2 of the Wonders of Web Weaving!

https://web-weaving.jamesg.blog/2/

#webweaving #html #webdev #indieweb #personalweb #smallweb #webdesign #css #coding #web #internet #neocities #community

My favorite little website tool for some flair

https://maxbittker.github.io/broider/ #css #webweaving #website #tool

Build the web you want to see

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://goodinternetmagazine.com/build-the-web-you-want-to-see/

tkr: Reflecting on my first hobby software project

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://goodinternetmagazine.com/tkr-reflecting-on-my-first-hobby-software-project/

Rebelling against efficiency

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://goodinternetmagazine.com/rebelling-against-efficiency/

I got a #accessibility #a11y #ARIA #asciiArt #webWeaving #html (sorry about the hashtag spam) mashup question.

Say you made a website comprised entirely of preformatted text in an ASCII art style with lots of little idiosyncrasies, typos, and cutesy malapropisms--and then say you realized that it wasn't very accessible. How would you fix that?

I'm still reading and experimenting, but so far "aria-details" seems like the winner (https://www.digitala11y.com/aria-detailsproperties/)? I'm doing this

<pre role="img" aria-details="det">...</pre>
<section id="det">big long description</section>

Then I'm tagging any links in the "pre" element with "aria-labelledBy" spans. I dunno... it's not *feeling* very accessible yet. I wonder if it wouldn't be better to set the "pre" to aria-hidden then just describe the content by hand (start high level, list links, then drill down into relevant details).

I'm just using the Orca screen reader at the moment because I'm on Linux, which is almost certainly not the best tool out there, so hard to tell what a real #screenReader would make of this.

Any hot tips or articles out there? I've got 25 tabs open and still only at 75% memory usage, so plenty of room for more. ;p

Happy HTML Day!

In honor of #HTMLDay I've got a new URL and printable cheat sheet for Make Your Own Website.

https://make.yourownwebsite.org

https://yourownwebsite.org/#printables

#HTMLDay2025 #HTML #SmallWeb #MakeYourOwnWebsite #PersonalSites #PersonalWebsite #WebWeaving #PoeticWeb

My website is ugly because I made it

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://goodinternetmagazine.com/my-website-is-ugly-because-i-made-it/

Homecoming: the small web and release from the unitary public self

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://goodinternetmagazine.com/homecoming-the-small-web-and-release-from-the-unitary-public-self/