Thanks for the mention :) Let's hope that browser vendors won't remove their XSLT implementations: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4495...

I'd rather go for a real (unstyled) HTML button, as it handles everything out of the box (focusable, correct role, activates on space and enter etc.). You should also add an accessible name for screen readers users (e.g. via aria-label), so they know what the button does when activated.

Hey Cassidy, that's an interesting approach, but unfortuntely not accessible: keyboard users are excluded as they can't open the full-size image.

Is the newsletter available via RSS as well? I've only found a feed for your blog.

Yes, please! The main way I follow other photographers is RSS. Mastodon, Pixelfed, Glass and Flickr support it by default. Blusky supports RSS, but doesn't include images. I've even built myself a tool to grab all the feeds every night and build a single page containing all the photos in one "feed".

"Software development should be unpolitical."

Me:

<spahn>😷</spahn>

(Context: Jens Spahn, a CDU politician, wasted millions in tax payer money on masks during Covid. He's a possible candidate to take another ministerial post this year...)

Monochrome photo. A bus stop with a "We Remember" poster being displayed 3 times. A woman on the poster holds a "#WeRemember" sign.

#WeRemember

Meta Is Blocking Links to Decentralized Instagram Competitor Pixelfed Pixelfed said it is "seeing unprecedented levels of traffic."

Meta: The censorship must end, you should be able to post anything you want!
Also Meta: You can't share links to Pixelfed!

www.404media.co/meta-is-bloc...

Grab browser links and titles in one click A bookmarklet to copy browser tab URLs with titles as rich text and Markdown.

🌈 Here's a bookmarklet I use all the time to copy browser tab URLs along with titles in a single click.

darekkay.com/blog/bookmar...

#javascript #bookmarklet

Looks good! :)

Thanks for the hint. I thought I would have to host Bluesky on my own domain, but it's just a TXT DNS entry :)

Open Graph images: Format compatibility across platforms A comparison of image format support for Open Graph preview cards across different social media and messaging platforms.

🌈 Open Graph (OG) images, like the one you see under this post, are useful when sharing links on social media or messaging apps. With AVIF and WebP formats having "baseline" browser support, I was curious if major platforms support them as OG images. Here are my results:
darekkay.com/blog/open-gr...

Image of account screen with 'settings' circled

Image of settings screen with 'accessibility' circled

Image of accessibility screen with 'require alt text' circled

3. Alt text
Bluesky has an inclusion ethos. To be a good blootizen, consider alt text on images and gifs so those using text readers and assistive technology can participate. If you are prone to forgetting like me, turn on a forcing function-

Settings--> Accessibility--> require alt text.

Many platforms support alt text natively (Instagram, Pixelfed, Mastodon). But for the ones that don't, I would leave out the "Link to a photo of" prefix. On a gallery page, the "link" part will be already announced to screen readers. And on a single photo page, there is no link.