Accessibility poll for people who use screen readers for daily use. I’m writing a guide about alt text.

🧵 Poll 2 of 2:

I’d like your opinion about long description methods for complex images. What is your preferred approach? (Feel free to comment if you want to elaborate.)

Please boost for reach. 🙌🏻

#Accessibility #A11y #ScreenReaders #AltText #WCAG #UI #FrontEnd

• Adjacent link to long text (0 votes)
• Long text in figcaption (0 votes)
• Link in longdesc attribute (0 votes)
• Use of aria-describedby (0 votes)

Accessibility poll for people who use screen readers for daily use. I’m writing a guide about alt text.

🧵 Poll 1 of 2:

I’d like your opinion about alt-text length for simple images. How long should it be? (Feel free to comment if you want to elaborate.)

Please boost for reach. 🙌🏻

#Accessibility #A11y #ScreenReaders #AltText #WCAG #UI #FrontEnd

• Just the context (33%, 1 vote)
• Lots of details (33%, 1 vote)
• Balance of brevity/details (33%, 1 vote)
• It depends (0%, 0 votes)

🖼️ "A study in reactive UI toolkits"
with Jan Fooken at #GUADEC2025
📅 24 July 🕒 09:40 CEST 📍 Brescia
🧪 Can GTK feel like React or SwiftUI? Let’s explore modern takes on building Linux UIs.

🔗 events.gnome.org/event/259/con…

#GTK #Linux #Frontend #ReactiveUI

#Development #Reviews
First impressions of Deque Axe Assistant · What to expect from the AI accessibility chatbot ilo.im/163tch

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#AxeAssistant #AI #Chatbot #Accessibility #WCAG #Design #WebDesign #WebDev #Frontend #HTML

It used to be quite challenging to set the precedence of individual #CSS rules without a lot of headaches. (This encouraged the practice of authoring many small utility classes that do very little on their own.)

Thankfully, that’s no longer the case. Here’s a simple example: cloudfour.com/thinks/cowardly-…

#WebDev #FrontEnd

Cowardly Defaults and Courageous Overrides with Modern CSS

Let’s make a more useful utility class without giving up any versatility.

^{Cloud Four}

New year, new role @Mastodon!

Our core team is looking for a senior Front-end Developer to elevate the web UI/UX experience for our users.

Ideally:

1. You are highly skilled in accessible and semantic #HTML
2. Proficient in modern #CSS
3. Experienced with #Javascript, #Typescript and complex React/Redux applications

This remote full-time position requires a 4-hour overlap with the CET timezone.

For more info/to apply:
jobs.ashbyhq.com/mastodon/6a09…

#FediHire #GetFediHired #hiring #frontend

Front-end Developer (m/f/d)

We're looking for a Front-end Developer to work with us remotely on our free and open-source Mastodon software.

^{jobs.ashbyhq.com}

This is why I don't do front-end dev:

youtube.com/watch?v=aWfYxg-Ypm…

#Javascript #FrontEnd #Programming

Interview with Senior JS Developer 2024 [NEW]

Javascript programming languageRust part soon on ?: https://www.patreon.com/ProgrammersAreAlsoHumanJS Stack merch: https://www.redbubble.com/i/sticker/SATAN-...

^YouTube

I am excited to be presenting an accessibility workshop for #InnovateUS. I will be focusing on taking a role-based approach for accessibility. Subject-matter experts (SME) have their role, but too often responsibilities in government are hardened and accessibility becomes someone else's responsibility. Taking a role-based approach can fix barriers earlier in the project's lifecycle.

innovate-us.org/creating-a-cul…

#accessibility #ARRM #authors #frontend #visualdesign #government #DigitalGovernment

As a front-end developer, there are some things that jumped out to me in the recent screen-reader survey. I'll share a couple of them, but keep in mind that I don't typically use a screen reader myself. You can take a look at the results yourself at:

webaim.org/projects/screenread…

@frontend #a11y #accessibility #WebAIM #frontend

I wrote an article about how to make hastags accessible. Did some #ScreenReader testing with #JAWS, #NVDA, #VoiceOver and #Narrator, which was fun!

Pretty long one though, contains a bunch of tables for comparison. Enjoy the ride!

stevefrenzel.dev/posts/easy-we…

#accessibility #a11y #html #JavaScript #WebDev #frontend

Easy web accessibility wins: Hashtags

Is there a way to create hashtags that work for everyone? I did some screen reader testing and was surprised by the outcome!

^{Steve Frenzel}

React community appears to be finally starting to see how maybe, just maybe, things are a little overwrought and oversold for an abstraction that ultimately derives HTML.

dev.to/matfrana/react-where-ar…

#webdev #frontend #strugglestack

React, where are you going?

I'm writing these random notes as an open letter to the people I deeply trust in the React (and more...

^{Matteo Frana (DEV Community)}

Please Disable JavaScript To View This Site from @heydon

youtu.be/ga_byUbqvCc

#WebDev #FrontEnd #JavaScript #WebDesign

Heydon Pickering: Please Disable JavaScript To View This Site

This one time, I made people turn off JavaScript in their browser to view my site's content. In this talk, you will discover all the different ways this deep...

^YouTube

#Development #Outlooks
The end of front-end development · Things are going to change, but not in the scary way people are saying ilo.im/11t8v2

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#Job #AI #GPT4 #ChatGPT #ChatBot #WebDevelopment #WebDev #Code #Frontend #HTML #CSS #JavaScript #Skills #Productivity

The End of Front-End Development

Large language models like GPT-4 are becoming increasingly capable, at an alarming rate. Within a couple of years, we won't need developers any more! …Or at least, that's the narrative going viral on Twitter.

^ilo.im

Added a color theme picker to my site recently, using a progressive enhancement strategy.

If you're interested, I wrote an article on how I approached it:
darins.page/articles/progressi…

#ux #frontend #development #html #css #javascript #userexperience #webdev

Progressively-enhanced dark mode - Darin Senneff

Recently, I added a dark mode setting to my website. Dark mode is a color theme feature that’s pretty common these days. Letting users adjust the color of…

^{Darin Senneff}