Hidde

Web developer, accessibility advocate, speaker (ex W3C/WAI, Mozilla, NL gov).  Open UI CG participant. Interested and will likely tweet about: web accessibility, the web, standards, design, tech ethics, components, JS, books, personal websites, CMSes.

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Last Notes

2024-09-23 21:24:43

Interesting discussion this morning on aria-details relationship in anchor positioned elements in ARIAWG (https://github.com/w3c/html-aam/issues/545), including on how users would know what the “details” are.
This post mentions that aria-details relationship is used for popovers https://hidde.blog/popover-accessibility/ #W3CTPAC

2024-09-13 06:48:04

Off to London for State of the Browser! 🚆
Who is attending?
#SotB2024

2024-07-08 17:51:10

when candidates obviously wrote their cover letter and resume with an LLM, can I use that for their rejection letter too?

2024-06-29 18:46:43

LLMs don't hallucinate or lie, they ‘bullshit’, in the sense that the late philosopher Harry Frankfurt (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Frankfurt) defined it, explain Glasgow researchers in their recent paper: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5.pdf
It's crucial to replace phrases like ‘hallucinate’ or ‘lie’ with a word like ‘bullshit’. This is not to try and be witty. The wording shapes how investors, policymakers and general public think of these tools. Which in turn impacts the decisions they get to make about them.

2024-06-12 07:10:58

dear hivemind, can a SaaS guarantee that data they process stays within a specific physical area? is this technically possible with today's cloud services?

2024-06-11 05:12:24

‘Apple's ethos has always been about building tools to empower users to make art, to create, to be original. I don't know what it is, but it sure as hell isn't human creativity.’ — @npub1h6n…ae9a https://www.roguelazer.com/blog/2024-oh-the-humanity/

2024-06-10 21:16:46

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@npub1zyl…t54n I pray to the lord that these features can be disabled

2024-05-21 07:56:04

Scarlett Johansson says OpenAI approached her to use her voice long before it was released. She said no and they still took it. https://www.npr.org/2024/05/20/1252495087/openai-pulls-ai-voice-that-was-compared-to-scarlett-johansson-in-the-movie-her
Now, in a blog post OpenAI says: “Sky’s voice is not an imitation of Scarlett Johansson” https://openai.com/index/how-the-voices-for-chatgpt-were-chosen/ But their CEO even tweeted the word “her” as a way of announcing the voice.
post truth much? this company just keeps on grabbing what isn't theirs

2024-03-30 09:06:39

🔗 AI uses too much energy https://hidde.blog/links/ai-uses-too-much-energy/

2024-03-21 16:21:23

✏️ You may have heard people say that the new `popover` attribute has accessibility “built in”. And you might wonder what that actually means.
Me and @npub1gh6…m48n wrote a post to explain what the browser does and doesn't do in terms of accessibility when you use `popover`
https://hidde.blog/popover-accessibility/

2024-03-13 18:23:45

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@npub1rhr…gh5p I saw the video… do you think she lied or actually doesn't know? both seem very worrisome

2024-03-06 12:27:49

A few years ago I wrote “Why it's good for users that HTML, CSS and JS are separate languages” and I still mostly stand by it https://hidde.blog/why-its-good-for-users-that-html-css-and-js-are-separate-languages/ (thanks @npub15w0…shel for reminding me of it)

2024-01-12 14:01:38

✏️ Sharing links https://hidde.blog/sharing-links/
a bit meta, here's a link to my latest posts about links. I've started sharing links onto my personal website

2024-01-02 19:03:44

I know one task no AI will ever be able to get the hang of: that quarterly search for PDF invoices in everyone's and their neighbour's systems to get ready for the VAT returns.

2023-11-21 21:43:31

anti-immigrant and anti-climate policy is set to win in polls, let's prove the polls wrong tomorrow. Vote green and social 💪

2023-09-16 13:29:32

✏️ Ableist interactions https://hidde.blog/interactions-about-accessibility/
(wrote up a few ableist comments I saw this week, with a call to action from Vercel leadership to end their silence)

2023-08-22 11:27:00

Do you like karaoke?
Do you like Web APIs?
State of the Browser has got you COVERED this year because @npub1tdn…elke will talk about both at the same time! https://2023.stateofthebrowser.com/speaker/ana-rodrigues/

2023-08-13 19:04:47

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@npub1zyl…t54n hm sounds like too little has changed in four years, the speed of Gutenberg dev being too high for accessibility specialists to keep up was a major issue then (as you probably know) https://hidde.blog/managing-accessibility-in-open-source-cmses-a-write-up/

2023-06-25 20:33:36

#CatsOfMastodon
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2023-03-31 15:01:17

Uh oh, CSS Day goes AI! ‘it's inevitable anyway’, maybe this will be the first one I skip! 😱😱
https://cssday.nl/2023/speakers
‘for the first time ever, we'll have 14 completely AI-powered speakers, covering the topics listed below*. We've prompted DALL-E and ChatGPT to generate some photos, session descriptions and biographies, based on some texts we had earlier. Much better now.’