TAG went to Paris! 🇫🇷✨

The W3C Technical Architecture Group met up for a face-to-face meeting where I:

🌟 Became a co-editor of the Societal Impact Questionaire
🌟 Spoke to developers about Baseline and screen-reader interoperability
🌟 Led a session on Web User Agents & new CG High Performance Baseline
🌟 Learnt about Digital Credentials and the Web in China
🌟 Reviewed some specs

Read more 👉🏾 https://lolaslab.co/blog/2025/tag-in-paris

Women contribute to making the web and your favorite #opensource tools function, yet they're under-represented and under-funded. Consider directly sponsoring women shaping the future of the web, including:

Lola Odelola - @lolaodelola (compiled this list https://lolaslab.co/blog/2025/iwd-25/)
Heather Flanagan - @sphcow
Emelia Smith - @thisismissem
Miriam Suzanne - @mia

AI has been a hot topic in accessibility testing lately 👀, but automation doesn’t need AI to be effective.

The AT-Driver spec enables assistive tech (like screen readers) to be automated in a predictable, testable way. Instead of using AI to “guess” at accessibility issues, AT-Driver lets us directly test how AT interacts with real web content.

Curious about automated accessibility testing without AI? Check out the spec: https://w3c.github.io/at-driver/

I’m going to be speaking at All Day Hey! this year!

In this talk I’m going to explore what it means to deconstruct an image and radically centre screen-reader users, using alt-text as an art space. How can we create an experience for screen-reader users that is just as creative and considered as the sighted experience?

Everyman Cinema in Leeds, UK. Thursday, 1st May 2025; 09:00-17:00.

https://heypresents.com/conference

Back in 2021 I wrote about how styling grid gaps wasn't possible: https://css-tricks.com/minding-the-gap/#aa-styling-the-gap-in-flex-and-grid

Today, the Edge web platform team is working on fixing this!

Learn more from our CSS Gap Decoration explainer: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers/blob/main/CSSGapDecorations/explainer.md