The current wave of generative AI has unpleasant side effects: large-scale copyright infringements, environmental impact and bias. For most uses today, it makes sense to me to default to not using AI.

Suggests European website alternatives to non-European websites.

I think I have an idea why we're so extremely divided on AI: it's because we have an intuitive sense of who it stands to benefit, and who stands to pay the costs. I think whether you see reason for op...

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

This post’s title is unpleasant, but it’s important to acknowledge the reality of the human condition and limitations in technologies. Even purpose-built assistive tech. Broadly, when someone says som...

Or, more precisely, why use React *in the browser*?

Government launches Accessibility inspections for retailers

They say AI will replace the web as we know it, and this time they mean it. Here follows a short list of previous times they also meant it, starting way back in 1997. Wired: March 1, 1997: “You can kiss your web browser goodbye” – Kevin Kelly and Gary Wolf, The Big Story. 1Inspired by the success of PointCast, a clever application that displayed news headlines as a screensaver, our "Push!" story argued that Web browsers were about to become obsolete. 

I'm a frontend developer in Graz, specialized in HTML, accessibility, and CSS layout and architecture.

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

In HTML, you can associate a <label> with its field using the [for] attribute, with the ID of the corresponding field as its value. <label for="season">What's your favorite season?</label> <input type="text" id="season"> This associates the field with the <label> for assistive technology, and also lets you click the label to focus on the field. Try it yourself below. What’s your favorite season? If a <label> is wrapped around a field, it’s supposed to be associated with that field implicitly, without the need for a [for] attribute.

My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fighting for

Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

“Artificial intelligence” is a failed technology. It’s time we described it that way.

Lots of great books about AI came out recently, here are some I found useful.

Thoughts on AI browsers.

[Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA)](https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/aria/) is an inevitability when working on web accessibility. That said, it’s everyone’s first time learning ...