Ollie Boermans

@ollicle
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Design with a web bent
OccupyingKaurna Country
Pronounshe/him/they
Bloghttps://ollicle.com/

“She forgot one thing.
I am a nerd. And I have an internet connection.”
https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-paperwork-flood/

The 'Paperwork Flood': How I Drowned a Bureaucrat before dinner., Sightless Scribbles

A fabulously gay blind author.

Servo is now passing 1.9M subtests at wpt.fyi: 1,903,187 / 2,131,264 (89,3%) 🎉
See https://wpt.fyi/results/?product=servo
web-platform-tests dashboard

I like to think the rage diminishes towards the end
https://robertjmccaffery.com/fucking-wcag.html

Sometimes you just have to let it out.

Fucking WCAG

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Yeah, same.

I fixed it:
<alt-attribute></alt-attribute>

Everything should have a dateline.

I’ve proposed an Accessibility Law of Headlines:
https://adrianroselli.com/2026/03/accessibility-law-of-headlines.html

Any headline that asserts a thing is accessible is wrong.

There. Now you don’t need to read it (my post nor one making a BS claim).

#a11y #accessibility

Accessibility Law of Headlines

Betteridge’s law of headlines states that any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no. For at least the digital accessibility landscape, I would like to amend it, fork it, whatever it: Any headline that asserts a thing is accessible is wrong. Yes, that…

Adrian Roselli

i mean look, my sandcastle hasn’t fallen over yet. it only took me an afternoon to build. i can even go inside it! all these so-called “architects” whining and crying about “tides” and “erosion” (whatever that means) and taking years* to make “real” buildings should simply get good. i’m faster than them. skills issue

* you may think i’m exaggerating, but this is a real timeline that an architect told me about 🤦🏻‍♀️

Lazy web: If you have a very cludgy, large @11ty website/blog, what would you do if you wanted to add an editing UI to write posts for it?

My current options are:

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or

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If you run a (recent) Linux, and you type `pngcheck` (with no arguments) what version number do you get? Feel free to respond with your Linux distro, if you want.
4.0.1
4.0.0
3.0.3
earlier than 3.0.3
Poll ends at .