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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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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

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.

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/
🔗 https://ellyloel.com/on-discord-alternatives-dhole-moments/

#Bookmarks #SocialMedia #Communication #Software

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

🔖 https://buttondown.com/access-ability/archive/why-the-sunflower-lanyard-scheme-misses-the-point/
🔗 https://ellyloel.com/disability-inclusion-requires-more-than-a-lanyard/

#Bookmarks #Disability #Accessibility

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

🔖 https://jakelazaroff.com/words/isomorphic-web-components/
🔗 https://ellyloel.com/isomorphic-web-components-jakelazaroff-com/

#Bookmarks #WebComponents

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

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

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

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

'AI' is a dick move, redux

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

#Bookmarks #AI

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

🔖 https://heather-buchel.com/blog/2026/02/accessibility-is-an-engineering-health-indicator/
🔗 https://ellyloel.com/accessibility-progress-and-healthy-engineering-teams/

#Bookmarks #Accessibility #Development #BuildingWebsites #Working

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

🔖 https://www.brookings.edu/articles/we-should-all-be-luddites/
🔗 https://ellyloel.com/we-should-all-be-luddites-brookings/

#Bookmarks #AI #Luddism

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

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

🔖 https://annaecook.com/writing/2026/2/2/accessible-design-is-digital-infrastructure
🔗 https://ellyloel.com/accessible-design-is-digital-infrastructure-anna-e-cook/

#Bookmarks #Accessibility

Selfish AI | GarfieldTech

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

#Bookmarks #AI #Tech

Honoring Mobile OS Text Size

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

#Bookmarks #Accessibility #Mobile #Typography

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...

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

How an accessibility designer adds keyboard shortcuts to a web app

🔖 https://ericwbailey.website/published/how-an-accessibility-designer-adds-keyboard-shortcuts-to-a-web-app/
🔗 https://ellyloel.com/... https://ellyloel.com/how-an-accessibility-designer-adds-keyboard-shortcuts-to-a-web-app/

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

🔖 https://stuff.interfree.ca/2026/01/05/ai-tts-for-screenreaders.html
🔗 https://ellyloel.com/the-state-of-modern-ai-text-to-speech-systems-for-screen-reader-users/

#Bookmarks #AI #Accessibility

Try text scaling support in Chrome Canary - Josh Tumath

🔖 https://www.joshtumath.uk/posts/2026-01-27-try-text-scaling-support-in-chrome-canary/
🔗 https://ellyloel.com/try-text-scaling-support-in-chrome-canary-jo... https://ellyloel.com/try-text-scaling-support-in-chrome-canary-josh-tumath/

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
🔗 https://ellyloel.com/the-imperfectionist-navigating-by-aliveness/

#Bookmarks #AI

“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

🔖 https://yatil.net/blog/wcag-is-difficult-to-read-dont-read-it-is-a-self-fulfilling-prophecy... https://ellyloel.com/wcag-is-difficult-to-read-don-t-read-it-is-a-self-fulfilling-prophecy-eric-eggert/

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...

Design in code, get praise Adam Silver – interaction designer - London, UK

Design in code, get praise

🔖 https://adamsilver.io/blog/design-in-code-get-praise/
🔗 https://ellyloel.com/design-in-code-get-praise/

#Bookmarks #Design #Browsers #BuildingWebsites #Communication #HTML #WebDesign

The Enshittifinancial Crisis Soundtrack: Lynyrd Skynyrd — Free Bird This piece is over 19,000 words, and took me a great deal of writing and research. If you liked it, please subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’

The Enshittifinancial Crisis

🔖 https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshittifinancial-crisis/
🔗 https://ellyloel.com/the-enshittifinancial-crisis/

#Bookmarks #AI

See what is happening, not what is supposed to happen The stories we are telling around user research and LLMs have locked us into a doomed framing. Reject the very notion that it is "better than nothing."

See what is happening, not what is supposed to happen

🔖 https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/the-incredible-value-of-nothing
🔗 https://ellyloel.com/see-what-is-happening-not-what-is-supposed-to-happen/

#Bookmarks #AI #Design #Communication

3 + 4 A three day work week and a four day weekend.

3 + 4

🔖 https://adactio.com/journal/22351
🔗 https://ellyloel.com/3-4/

#Bookmarks #Working #Living #Productivity

Public design systems are worth it It’s incredibly valuable to make a design system available to all–no matter what the bean-counters say.

Public design systems are worth it

🔖 https://pjonori.blog/posts/public-design-systems-are-worth-it/
🔗 https://ellyloel.com/public-design-systems-are-worth-it/

#Bookmarks #DesignSystems

fuck bluesky. fuck ice.

fuck bluesky. fuck ice.