Hidde

@hdv@front-end.social
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Tech ethics, web accessibility and frontend specialist.

Current: web standards for the Dutch government (opinions mine), at W3C and ETSI.

Interested include: the world wide web, books, personal websites, CMSes, live music and the video conferencing apps of our decade.

Blog (see /links for all links)https://hidde.blog
Hire mehttps://hiddedevries.nl
Slides/links from presentationshttps://talks.hiddedevries.nl
Books / concertshttps://log.hidde.blog

Do you use WCAG-EM as a process to evaluate conformance of websites (and maybe apps?)?

As we're working on an update of the methodology, I've been chatting with folks about how they do that. I would like to chat to a few more. Who's up for a 30 mins chat in the next week? Feel free to DM.

Today we’re quietly (and finally!) opening up Railfinder to the public! This is our beta version and - hopefully - the first step towards that one booking site for trains across Europe that we all dream of.

Lots of work has gone into this and equally lots still to do before reach that vision, but if you’d like to try what we’ve built you can now just go to https://www.railfinder.eu and have a go!

Any and all feedback more than welcome 🙏

someone shared a video of Gorilla https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGACkkoX4-s

“introvert but she ain't timid”

Little Simz with Chineke Orchestra - Gorilla Live Southbank Centre London Meltdown Festival 2025

YouTube

liked it so much that I just upgraded my live music website's rating system to allow for 6 stars https://log.hidde.blog/live-music/

it's like 5 stars but a little more

Hidde's list of live music

Hidde's list of live music

Little Simz at the Royal Festival Hall was incredible.

Live band, Chineke orchestra, Obongjayar, Miraa May, Wretch 32… it's creatively such a wide range.

Was in Bristol for 2 mins and I've already started automatically walking pretty much directly to St Nicholas' Markets
see it
say it
sort it
(£4,99)
gives me time to see how much vegan sausage rolls go for these days #SelfCare

got to station 15 mins before departure, machine said my card wasn't real, stood in queue at ticket office for 13 mins, dude said 'won't rush mate' (ok), ran to platform, saw doors close.

was told to take the next one and hide my seat reservation ticket ('should be alright mate').