I don't want self-driving cars. I want cars with speed governors and doors that won't open when cyclists are approaching.

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 people reach out to me because of my prior vulnerability disclosures and criticism of encrypted messaging apps. (Thanks, Toggart.) Unfortunately, asking a cryptography-focused security engineer for app recommendations is like asking a rocket scientist to…

http://soatok.blog/2026/02/11/on-discord-alternatives/

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

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

How Complex Systems Fail

🔖 https://how.complexsystems.fail/
🔗 https://ellyloel.com/how-complex-systems-fail/

#Bookmarks #Design #Development #BuildingWebsites #Working #Communication

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

'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

Selfish AI | GarfieldTech

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

#Bookmarks #AI #Tech

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

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

@decryption done! :D

@artlung i have, and i see your train of thought. unfortunately it’s not relevant in the context of visually-hidden text as when something is hidden=until-found it’s not included in the element content part of accName computation. also, it would remain visible after the search which is presumably not desirable.

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

https://codepen.io/editor/ellyloel/pen/019c26e1-b491-78c2-a458-7ce207dda183

@decryption oh wow this sounds too good to be true! i’m very interested

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

“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/

#Bookmarks #Accessibility #WebStandards

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/how-an-accessibility-designer-adds-keyboard-shortcuts-to-a-web-app/

#Bookmarks #Accessibility #Design

The Imperfectionist: Navigating by aliveness

🔖 https://ckarchive.com/b/zlughnhk8772ma7qrr9qehwzgng00f6
🔗 https://ellyloel.com/the-imperfectionist-navigating-by-aliveness/

#Bookmarks #AI

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-josh-tumath/

#Bookmarks #Accessibility #Mobile #Typography #WebStandards #Browsers

What this means is that Duck Duck Go, alongside basically every search engine that is not google, has completely delisted Neocities.

Which feels like something a lot of y'all should know!

https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2026/01/27/bing-block

Update: DuckDuckGo at least has fixed this issue, likely thanks to some folks making a good kind of ruckus! Still, I hope this has informed people how much of a pain Bing can be with this kind of thing in general.

#Neocities #DuckDuckGo