Hidde

@hdv@front-end.social
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I work on web standards for the Dutch government (opinions mine), at W3C and ETSI.

Interests include: the world wide web, books, personal websites, CMSes, access, equity, live music and the video conferencing apps of our decade.
Location🇳🇱 Netherlands
Blog (see /links for all links)https://hidde.blog
Slides/links from presentationshttps://talks.hiddedevries.nl
Books / concertshttps://log.hidde.blog
Hidde3d ago

🔗 At the UN's AI for Good conference, Abeba Birhane was forced to remove any mention of Gaza and genocide.

She explains what happened in her post, and observes what trend this is an example of:

“what ‘good’ means is overwhelmingly shaped, defined, and actively curated by the tech industry that inherently holds invested interest in societal uptake of AI regardless of its risk or harm”

(From: AI for Good [Appearance?] https://aial.ie/blog/2025-ai-for-good-summit/)

AI for Good [Appearance?]

Reflections on the last minute censorship of my keynote at the AI for Good Summit 2025

AI Accountability Lab
Hidde4d ago

📺 Video of my talk at CSS Day is up! It covers how to reduce climate impact at work (if you work in tech)

you can watch it on Conffab, courtesy of @johnallsopp https://conffab.com/presentation/display-green-applying-the-web-sustainability-guidelines/?gl=twfrctrXHq77

Hidde4d ago
🔗 “Where social media reduced human beings to short-form performances and 140-character captures of our politics and experiences, AI platforms have further eroded our ability to navigate difference.” https://organizingmythoughts.org/some-thoughts-on-techno-fascism-from-socialism-2025/
Some Thoughts on Techno-Fascism From Socialism 2025

"This is the endgame of our isolation."

Organizing My Thoughts
HiddeJul 8
yes, “specificity” is hard to pronounce, but have you tried “prerequisites”
HiddeJul 7
acbJul 6
Are the Americans OK?
Show threadHiddeJul 7
should have said ‘fellow fashionista’ but then I realised I don't own a clothing emporium
HiddeJul 7
was lovely to spend all day in The Hague with fashionista @SteveFaulkner to work on the WCAG evaluation methodology. We got somewhere, and will continue tomorrow.
HiddeJul 7

Too much to quote from this excellent piece by @NicMakesStuff , but I'll go with: “I would never judge an accessibility professional for choosing to forgo the certification.”, 100% agree

https://www.nicchan.me/blog/was-my-iaap-certification-worth-it/

Was my IAAP Certification worth it? - Nic Chan

Plus a bunch of easily detectable errors, you're welcome!

HiddeJul 6
Steve FaulknerJul 6
🚊 Heading to the Hague for 2 days of editing the @w3c WCAG-EM spec with @hdv
Hopefully we will beat it into a shape, ready for the real world of #web and #mobile #a11y testing.
Show threadHiddeJul 4

I do enjoy the bilinguality of signs here, the French words suddenly click when I see them on the same sign with their Dutch counterpart.

axe rouge, rode as. l'industrie, nijverheid. km is harmonised.