@hdv

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Web dev/#a11y nerd. DevRel @sanity_io. @OpenUICG participant (ex W3C, Mozilla, NL gov). Tweets on the web, standards, design, ethics, components, JS, books.
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Bloghttps://hidde.blog
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hdvNov 5, 2022
“[we] converted the authoring format for MDN Web Docs - all 11,000 pages of it - from HTML to Markdown. In this post we'll talk about why we did it, how we did it, and how it turned out.” https://openwebdocs.org/content/posts/markdown-conversion/
MDN => Markdown

Open Web Docs supports web platform documentation for the benefit of web developers & designers worldwide. We are a community of web developers, standards makers, and technology companies that rely on this documentation as critical digital infrastructure, and we work cooperatively to ensure its long-term success and maintenance.

Open Web Docs
hdvNov 4, 2022
“As well as an exercise in humility and a lesson in how elite markers like blue ticks truly function, lots of real-life influential people now understand in their bones why platform concentration and monopoly is a terrible, terrible thing”—@[email protected] https://crookedtimber.org/2022/11/04/whither-twitter/
Twitter consequences; not just for little people

It’s been a week since Elon Musk, funded by a distasteful assortment of backers, bought Twitter. In no particular order, some thoughts on what it means for various groups. Employees Predictably, sw…

Crooked Timber
Show threadhdvNov 4, 2022
They started doing karaoke straight after I showed them the ins and outs of WCAG and its supporting documents, not sure what this means 😀
hdvNov 4, 2022
Matthias OttNov 4, 2022

Twitter wasn’t successful because of great product decisions or the ingenuity of their management. It was successful because of the people who made the platform a place to connect, learn, joke around, and debate together. I got to know almost all of my friends in the web community through Twitter, because Twitter just happened to be the place where we all hung out.

Birds of a feather flock together. 💙

It isn’t where you are but who you’re with and what you do that matters.

hdvNov 4, 2022
Later today I will talk to the students of @vasilis and @[email protected] about accessibility standards and how to use them. Accessibility fediverse what is the thing you wish you knew about accessbility standards when you started out?
hdvNov 2, 2022
Those of you building something to post ‘tweets’ on your own site first, have you settled on what to call them? I see ‘Notes’ used a lot.
hdvNov 1, 2022
‘Now is a good time to reclaim control over your content.’—@mmatuzo, in a post that gives a great overview over what we lose when instead of self hosting, we rely on and get suspended from hosted platforms like Twitter https://www.matuzo.at/blog/2022/your-account-is-permanently-suspended/
Your account is permanently suspended

Lessons learned from being permanently banned on Twitter.

Your account is permanently suspended
hdvNov 1, 2022
Manuel MatuzovićNov 1, 2022

Lessons learned from being permanently banned on Twitter.

https://www.matuzo.at/blog/2022/your-account-is-permanently-suspended/

hdvOct 31, 2022
“If it is important enough to need words, it is important enough to use text content.”—@[email protected] on the overuse of aria-label https://ericwbailey.website/published/aria-label-is-a-code-smell/
Swearing and automatic captions

You can’t solve culture with technology…

Eric Bailey
hdvNov 1, 2016
Ohai!