Eric Eggert (@yatil) on web accessibility and more.

I’ll be holding three talks and workshops remotely in May.

After almost, but not quite, six years, I had my final day with Knowbility last week.

When you search for alternative text length on the internet, there seems to be a pretty common understanding that “some screen readers” truncate alternative text[^ Note that many people use the phrase “alt text”, because the “traditional” way to use alter…

People who are tasked with remediating accessibility often have little experience of how people with disabilities actually use the web.

Thanks to Smashing Magazine for naming me(!)

Since hearing Myke Hurley and CGP Gray talk about “yearly themes” on the Cortex podcast, I try to go into every year with a theme that acts as the north star for decisions during that time.

I welcomed 2021 with a blog post, so let’s wave goodbye to it that way, too.

Table of Contents What’s the issue with being an early adopter?

I’ll be joining my Knowbility colleague (“Knowlleague”?)

Web accessibility is incredibly important.

Should some links look like buttons, or should some buttons look like links?

I’m so glad we’re in 2021, and I hope it gets to be better than 2020.

We all needed distraction in 2020.

As the Raspberry Pi Zero is based on an older processor technology, the Node.js core team does not provide compiled binaries of newer versions.

On September 3, I will hold an online seminar about Inclusive Design, hosted by Knowbility.

Here are some tips I have gathered from doing online Zoom talks since 2015.

My colleague Christopher Schmitt passed away.

As a web developer, it is incredibly hard to just be happy with one’s website.

On November 17, 2019, I’ll hold a workshop in Berlin as a part of Accessibility Club Summit 2019.

On Wednesday, October 2, I will do an online talk for technica11y.

I use Overcast for my daily podcasting needs.

CSS generated content can have unintended side-consequences.

In the past two days, people noticed that VoiceOver (VO) on top of Safari is not reading list semantics when the list is not styled in a list-like fashion.

I’ll leave Facebook by the end of the day today[^This blog post was in the making for days, and I wanted to give advanced warnings, but it didn’t work out sooner.].

- [Swaziland king renames country Kingdom of eSwatini](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/19/swaziland-king-renames-country-kingdom-of-eswatini) (The Guardian) Internationalization is hard, now you have to fit in a country with a lower case first…

Jeremy [posted a solution for multi-language sites](https://adactio.com/notes/13720) where you want to switch hyphenation on when the page language is set to (for example) German: ``` css [lang="de"] { hyphens: auto; } ``` This works great until you have…

I’ve been on vacation for a bit, which was incredibly relaxing.

Nic [@vavroom](https://twitter.com/vavroom/) Steenhout ([Blog](https://incl.ca)) invited me to his #A11y Rules Podcast.

I’m in San Diego where I’ll attend the W3C WAI Education and Outreach WG Face-to-Face meeting, and CSUN, the biggest accessibility conference.

This was a long work week, so here are some games and apps instead of articles as I couldn’t find time to concentrate on pieces. - TV: [**Jessica Jones**, Season 2](https://www.netflix.com/title/80002311) – While work was plenty, some of it was also repet…

In _Sunday Seven_ I publish a list of seven links to things on the internet.

Let’s wipe some dust off this old blog, shall we?

As many of you might know, I have been the primary editor of the [W3C WAI Web Accessibility Tutorials](https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/) which provide practical guidance on how to implement web accessibility.

Next month I will continue the tradition of flying over to Austin, TX, USA to attend the annual [AccessU conference](https://www.knowbility.org/education/accessu/) and teach some classes.

Great video over at the [Google Chrome Developers channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnUYZLuoy1rq1aVMwx4aTzw) about the upcoming [CSS Level 4 `:focus-ring` selector (draft)](https://drafts.csswg.org/selectors-4/#the-focusring-pseudo).

In 2006 I got my first Mac ever, the [2006 Apple MacBook “Core Duo” 1.83 13”](http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook/specs/macbook_1.83.html).

[Tom Scott on tactile pavement](https://www.youtube.com/watch?

Over the last year, the name of a city is coming up in German news more often than I like it to be: Aleppo.

I’m happy to announce here that I will be speaking at [Accessing Higher Ground](http://accessinghigherground.org) in November, representing [Knowbility](http://knowbility.org).

> I always thought that it is not so difficult to find resources about these basics, the recurrence of that question prompted me to finally write my own take on this topic.

Over the past years my social web interaction shifted from Twitter and this very blog more and more to Facebook.

Wowza, that was a densely packed year 2015 for me.

My personal thoughts about “The Force Awakens” are very well mirrored by the discussion on last week’s [The Incomparable, Episode 277: Stormtroopers Are People](https://www.theincomparable.com/theincomparable/277/index.php).

I read the [Webkrauts advent calendar article by Jens Grochtdreis](http://webkrauts.de/artikel/2015/ueberschrift-ueber-durchgestrichener-linie) earlier today, it is about headers with lines on the side, like in the article image.

I was asked to write an article for 24ways.org, the well known web advent calendar, this year.

> “The idea is to fill Facebook with music, breaking the monotony of selfies and sensationalism.

- Lets compare tooling to plumbing - new type of fitting: Sharkbite - Lego for plumbing - snaps together instantly - can connect any material to copper - can be redone - less prone to leaks - more expensive - less error prone - plumbers: too expensive, too

- You can generate audio using JavaScript - Tiny new language - small vocabulary - few grammar rules - couple of ideoms - AudioContext - like canvas - toolbox - instance factory - Nodes Taxonomy - Generation - Manipulation - Analysis - Audio Context as au…

- Open data - Big data buzzwords - 90% of the world’s data was created in the last 2 years - Several ways to use data in your work - Tea tracker for personal tea consumption - Data is often restricted - Only certain data is displayed - Can’t use data free…