Accessibility in tools like CMSes can have a multiplier effect for removing barriers that individual websites don't.

And they are part of European requirements that are adopted even outside Europe. See my latest post below

✏️ I was locked in a room with accessibility policy people yesterday, so I wrote a post on EN 301 549 and authoring tools.

(How could CMSes and other content tools be part of accessibility reqs in Europe and beyond?)

hidde.blog/authoring-tool…

If you write CSS, you probably have used OddBird contributed CSS features. Good news is, from today you can contribute to their contributions monetarily via Open Collective. Here is the link: opencollective.com/oddbird-open-s…

🔗 Making websites perfectly accessible can be hard, but reducing fruit that is both low-hanging and very common, is not.

I have two posts for you if the WebAIM million inspires you to go and fix issues in your projects hidde.blog/links/webaim-m…

The full schedule for All Day Hey in Leeds is out, it's going to be a good one! heypresents.com/conferences/20…

A very detailed (also containing a lot of links to go deeper) article about accessibility and the new popover attribute ♥️
Thanks Hidde for sharing 🙏

Kept this one to read during Saturday morning coffee. Fantastic info on popovers and accessibility that everyone using popovers should read, there are a few surprises: hidde.blog/popover-access… by Hidde and Scott O'Bother

So much insights about how screen readers interpret semantics 😲

Definitely worth a read for broadening perspectives on web accessibility.

✏️ You may have heard the new `popover` attribute has accessibility “built in”. And you might wonder what that actually means.

Me and Scott O'Bother explain what the browser does and doesn't do in terms of accessibility when you use `popover`

hidde.blog/popover-access…

Design systems commonly feature components that show on top of other content. New features in the web platform are about to make building them a lot easier.

Hidde will discuss dialogs, the new ‘popover’ attribute, “modality” and using the top layer.

🎟️ heypresents.com/conferences/20…

🤖💬 Est-ce que l' #IA peut réellement saisir les subtilités de l' #accessibilité dans le dev #FrontEnd ? Hidde y répond dans son article (en anglais) 👉 hidde.blog/ai-for-accessi…

Topic: Customizable select menus!

Developers: how would you prefer to opt-in to a select menu that lets you both add arbitrary content (i.e. icons) and fully style it?

1. Add an appearance style to the select in CSS
2. Add an attribute on the select element
3. Use a new element

✏️ Breadcrumbs, buttons and buy-in: Patterns Day 3 hidde.blog/patterns-day-3/

did a quick writeup of #PatternsDay

“Nielsen needs to think again” by Léonie @[email protected] tink.uk/nielsen-needs-…

popover ships in Firefox 125! 🎉

Bug: bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?i…
My post on how popover is different: hidde.blog/dialog-modal-p…

✏️“AI” and accessible front-end components: is the nuance generatable? hidde.blog/ai-for-accessi…

a new post that I had been drafting for a while… (tldr: no)

✏️“AI” and accessible front-end components: is the nuance generatable? hidde.blog/ai-for-accessi…

a new post that I had been drafting for a while… (tldr: no)

Friends! I’m looking for my next role after nearly three years at Stately. I’m a UX designer who is just as comfortable in front-end development. I also love writing, giving talks, and making videos, so I’m up for dev and design advocacy roles, too.

Happy to welcome Hidde de Vries to All Day Hey! 2024

Hidde is a front-end and accessibility specialist, working in the NL Design System team at the Dutch government. He's also involved in the W3C’s Open UI Community Group and CSS Working Group.

Tickets: heypresents.com/conferences/20…

I don't post much on here anymore. However, I do have a new site where I share links, it's on hidde.blog/links and has ✨RSS✨.

More info on the new site: hidde.blog/sharing-links/