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⚠️WRITE TO THE UK’s CMA BY TUESDAY 5PM ⚠️ DEMAND FAIR ACCESS on iOS Equal API access for Third-Party Apps Equal Performance and Privileges Enforceable Deadlines & Oversight FAILURE MEANS: Developers can’t compete with Apple’s Apps & Hardware Apple keeps features to themseleves Browsers & the Web won’t be able to compete Sets Global Precedent for weak digital legislation Less Competition = More Expensive + Worse Quality for consumers 👇 Read more, OWA blog link below

⚠️ WRITE TO THE UK'S CMA BY TUESDAY 5pm ⚠️

Under the current proposal, Apple can keep iOS and iPhone functionality exclusive to its own apps and services

If you want fair access to APIs for competing apps and browsers email 📧 mobilesms@cma.gov.uk

See: open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-...

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1 month ago 12 8 1 1

If you can, please also identify known WCAG conformance errors.

We don’t want another toast escapade where research failed to identify barriers & risks. Encoding broken patterns into the web platform helps no one.

Respond to Keith or post to: github.com/openui/open-...

#accessibility #a11y #HTML

2 months ago 11 5 0 1

Browser developers are working on custom form controls ( `appearance:base`), the next giant task is looming: customisable input type=date/datetime/color pickers.

These are huge and have wildly varied UI. Send me your examples, I'd love to see them and build up a body of these pickers.

2 months ago 88 30 7 3

On Discord Alternatives Next month, Discord is going to start requiring age verification. The backlash from gamers everywhere has been predictable and justified. I guess their company name checks out. I’ve had a few???

On Discord Alternatives - Dhole Moments

🔖 https://soatok.blog/2026/02/11/on-discord-alternatives/
🔗 ellyloel.com/on-discord-alternatives-...

#Bookmarks #SocialMedia #Communication #Software

2 months ago 2 0 0 0

Disability Inclusion Requires More Than a Lanyard Hand dragging a rolling suitcase with a sunflower bracelet around the traveler’s wrist The Sunflower Lanyard program started with good intentions. It’s meant...

Disability Inclusion Requires More Than a Lanyard

🔖 buttondown.com/access-ability/archive/w...
🔗 ellyloel.com/disability-inclusion-req...

#Bookmarks #Disability #Accessibility

2 months ago 0 0 0 0

Isomorphic Web Components | jakelazaroff.com The lack of server-side rendering in web components has become a sort of folk belief that oft goes unquestioned. I am happy to report that the fears are unfounded.

Isomorphic Web Components | jakelazaroff.com

🔖 jakelazaroff.com/words/isomorphic-web-com...
🔗 ellyloel.com/isomorphic-web-component...

#Bookmarks #WebComponents

2 months ago 1 0 0 0

Wishcessibility - Nic Chan No recycling was contaminated in the creation of this post.

Wishcessibility - Nic Chan

🔖 https://www.nicchan.me/blog/wishcessibility/
🔗 https://ellyloel.com/wishcessibility-nic-chan/

#Bookmarks #Accessibility

2 months ago 1 1 0 0

stranger: what do you do for work?
me, shamefully: computer

2 months ago 153 37 4 1

I hate to tell you this but

BlueSky is centralized, yo

That's why they can block Mississippi

ATProto notwithstandng, you're on a centralized platform here

This is why my best posts are on Mastodon, and not here

7 months ago 112 37 14 4

'AI' is a dick move, redux Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

'AI' is a dick move, redux

🔖 www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2026/note-on-debat...
🔗 https://ellyloel.com/ai-is-a-dick-move-redux/

#Bookmarks #AI

2 months ago 0 0 0 0

Accessibility progress and healthy engineering teams Some meandering thoughts about how halted accessibility progress is often the result of technical debt and a floundering team.

Accessibility progress and healthy engineering teams

🔖 heather-buchel.com/blog/2026/02/accessibili...
🔗 ellyloel.com/accessibility-progress-a...

#Bookmarks #Accessibility #Development #BuildingWebsites #Working

2 months ago 0 0 0 0

We should all be Luddites Courtney Radsch discusses rehabilitating the idea of Luddites as people concerned with the control and impact of technology.

We should all be Luddites | Brookings

🔖 www.brookings.edu/articles/we-should-all-b...
🔗 ellyloel.com/we-should-all-be-luddite...

#Bookmarks #AI #Luddism

2 months ago 0 0 0 0

Some Thoughts on the Open Web The Open Web means several things to different people, depending on context, but recently discussions have focused on the Web's Openness in terms of access to information -- how easy it is to publish and obtain information without barriers there.

Some Thoughts on the Open Web

🔖 https://www.mnot.net/blog/2026/01/20/open_web
🔗 https://ellyloel.com/some-thoughts-on-the-open-web/

#Bookmarks #Web #AI

2 months ago 0 0 0 0

Accessible design is digital infrastructure — Anna E. Cook What America by Design reveals about how public platforms fail when maintenance, governance, and accountability are treated as optional and how we can do better no matter our job title.

Accessible design is digital infrastructure — Anna E. Cook

🔖 annaecook.com/writing/2026/2/2/accessi...
🔗 ellyloel.com/accessible-design-is-dig...

#Bookmarks #Accessibility

2 months ago 0 0 0 0

Selfish AI | GarfieldTech

🔖 https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/selfish-ai
🔗 https://ellyloel.com/selfish-ai-garfieldtech/

#Bookmarks #AI #Tech

2 months ago 0 0 0 0

Honoring Mobile OS Text Size

🔖 adrianroselli.com/2026/02/honoring-mobile-...
🔗 https://ellyloel.com/honoring-mobile-os-text-size/

#Bookmarks #Accessibility #Mobile #Typography

2 months ago 0 0 0 0

Testing search text visually-hidden styling fix (doesn't work) A code demo by Elly Loel created on CodePen

huh dang, i thought maybe ::search-text would help with being able to unhide visually-hidden text when it's searched but alas, no.

codepen.io/editor/ellyl...

2 months ago 1 0 0 0

Elly Loel Web Designer. Accessibility Specialist. Neurodivergent. Disabled. Queer.

How an accessibility designer adds keyboard shortcuts to a web app

🔖 ericwbailey.website/published/how-an-accessi...
🔗 https://ellyloel.com/ ellyloel.com/how-an-accessibility-des...

2 months ago 1 0 0 0

The State of Modern AI Text To Speech Systems for Screen Reader Users

🔖 stuff.interfree.ca/2026/01/05/ai-tts-for-sc...
🔗 ellyloel.com/the-state-of-modern-ai-t...

#Bookmarks #AI #Accessibility

2 months ago 0 0 0 0

Try text scaling support in Chrome Canary - Josh Tumath

🔖 www.joshtumath.uk/posts/2026-01-27-try-tex...
🔗 ellyloel.com/try-text-scaling-support... ellyloel.com/try-text-scaling-support...

2 months ago 0 0 0 0

The Imperfectionist: Navigating by aliveness I’m amazed and very pleased to say that the UK paperback of Meditations for Mortals entered the Sunday Times bestsellers at number 9 this week, after being selected as a Waterst...

The Imperfectionist: Navigating by aliveness

🔖 https://ckarchive.com/b/zlughnhk8772ma7qrr9qehwzgng00f6
🔗 ellyloel.com/the-imperfectionist-navi...

#Bookmarks #AI

2 months ago 0 0 0 0

“WCAG is difficult to read, don’t read it” is a self-fulfilling prophecy · Eric Eggert First things first: Yes, WCAG (the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) are not easy to read. This is not the point that I try to make …

“WCAG is difficult to read, don’t read it” is a self-fulfilling prophecy · Eric Eggert

🔖 yatil.net/blog/wcag-is-difficult-t... ellyloel.com/wcag-is-difficult-to-rea...

2 months ago 0 0 0 0

Neocities Is Blocked by Bing Over the past few months, the Bing search engine has completely blocked the domain neocities.org, including the front site and all user subdomains (example.n...

Bing has blocked neocities and all user subdomains from its search index.

We’ve spent months trying to resolve this through official channels and gotten nowhere.

Until this gets resolved, we are recommending that people do not use Bing.

Blog post with details: blog.neocities.org/blog/2026/01...

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