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Calling all #accessibility and #inclusiveDesign folks...
Have a great idea for a talk? Our call for presentations is now open! (closes 31 May 2026) #id24
https://inclusivedesign24.org/2026/
Note: as we're a global event, we're happy to accept submissions for talks in languages other than English.
@derickr @Crell @ramsey Adam Rutherford is great, I read his excellent book How to Argue With a Racist.
He talks about the ancestry and the genetic isopoint - the date that anyone with living relatives today is related to everyone.
For people with European ancestry that’s supposed to be around 1000 A.D. So we are all probably all related to Welsh royalty!
(I am actually 1/4 Welsh too)
Had a great time at the CamCreatives Neville Brody talk this evening, hosted by the incomparable @billt
Lots of talk about design, the importance of young people creating things and breaking the rules, and how technology changes design (not always for the better).
A stimulating evening among friends. #design #cambridge #creativity
@coenjacobs it is open source and businesses are free to do that.
Let’s hope there is more of that sort of thing in the future. There are a lot of great people working in the WordPress industry :)
📆 25 and 26 March 2026 Breakouts Day!
The goal of Breakouts day is to foster discussion among the full W3C community about new or existing topics.Anyone with a W3C account (including non-Members) can participate in any session. No fee or registration is required. Members may invite guests to participate.
See the list of proposed sessions and read more at:
https://github.com/w3c/breakouts-day-2026/
#WebStandards
“display: green;”—Applying the Web Sustainability Guidelines, by @hdv (@perfnow.nl):
🆕 blog! “How Can Governments Pay Open Source Maintainers?”
When I worked for the UK Government I was once asked if we could find a way to pay for all the Open Source Software we were using. It is a surprisingly hard problem and I want to talk about some of the issues we faced.
The UK Government publishes a lot of Open Source code - nearly everything…
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/03/how-can-governments-pay-open-source-maintainers/
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#government #money #OpenSource
When I worked for the UK Government I was once asked if we could find a way to pay for all the Open Source Software we were using. It is a surprisingly hard problem and I want to talk about some of the issues we faced. The UK Government publishes a lot of Open Source code - nearly everything developed in-house by the state is available under an OSI Approved licence. The UK is generally pretty…
Inclusive Design 24 (#id24)
Old Man Vandehey
World Wide Web Consortium
Coen Jacobs
Frontend Dogma
Terence Eden