king lola 👑
lolaodelola.bsky.social
king lola 👑
@lolaodelola.bsky.social
multidisciplinary artist in tech; web standards & web education. Co-Chair of W3C TAG.
W3C ARIA Working Group invited expert. W3C Privacy Working Group invited expert.
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https://lolaslab.co for web standards consulting & web education.
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You can now have a look through the Accessibility Compat Data repo & associated project. I've published the proposal, milestones and KPIs for the project to try to paint a clearer view of the project. Feel free to open an issue if you have questions!

github.com/lolaodelola/...
GitHub - lolaodelola/accessibility-compat-data
Contribute to lolaodelola/accessibility-compat-data development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
Booked! See you all in Feb!! 🥳
:eyes: 2026.stateofthebrowser.com/speakers/
Only 1 more speaker to announce.
**Online** as well as **In-person**
**Diversity tickets** available too, for under-represented groups, those affected by cost of living and those new to our industry or learning.
Please share far and wide.
Speakers | State of the Browser
Here is the announced list of speakers for 2026's conference.
2026.stateofthebrowser.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Next year I’m running a standards course for policy & digital rights professionals & students.

We’ll explore the W3C & ways standards & policy can collaborate.

This is funded by the UK Gov Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Learn more: lolaslab.co/standards-co...
December 19, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I’ve worked really hard this year & I’m so proud of myself.

I’m so grateful for every single individual & company (especially the smaller ones - @tetralogical.com, @piccalil.li, @polypane.app, @openwebdocs.org, The A11y Project) that has financially backed me &/or held me up with morale! 💕
December 19, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Eight Palestine Action activists are being left to die in prison – all without even facing trial.

We must force the government to act, before it’s too late ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/3e3320
December 18, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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📣 The finale of What the Spec?! is here 🥳
We wrap season 1 with @kilianvalkhof.com & discuss the ins and outs of building an indie browser!!
Available on your fav podcast app & RSS.

Apple: apple.co/3KR1du4

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7uwM...

Transcript: lolaslab.co/what-the-spe...
December 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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I loved this episode of "What the spec" by @lolaodelola.bsky.social and featuring @kilianvalkhof.com
📣 The finale of What the Spec?! is here 🥳
We wrap season 1 with @kilianvalkhof.com & discuss the ins and outs of building an indie browser!!
Available on your fav podcast app & RSS.

Apple: apple.co/3KR1du4

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7uwM...

Transcript: lolaslab.co/what-the-spe...
December 17, 2025 at 6:04 PM
📣 The finale of What the Spec?! is here 🥳
We wrap season 1 with @kilianvalkhof.com & discuss the ins and outs of building an indie browser!!
Available on your fav podcast app & RSS.

Apple: apple.co/3KR1du4

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7uwM...

Transcript: lolaslab.co/what-the-spe...
December 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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It took a while (mainly due to the huge quantity of data collected on some questions!), but the #StateOfHTML 2025 survey results are now live!

2025.stateofhtml.com/en-US/

Big thanks to @lea.verou.me who not only designed the original survey back in 2023, but then came back this year to update it.
State of HTML 2025
The 2025 edition of the annual survey about the latest trends in the HTML ecosystem.
2025.stateofhtml.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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This was a huge amount of work for everybody involved, with @lea.verou.me staying up so late to work on this that she more or less ended up matching my own work hours despite living on the opposite side of the globe…

So I hope you enjoy the results!

2025.stateofhtml.com/en-US/
State of HTML 2025
The 2025 edition of the annual survey about the latest trends in the HTML ecosystem.
2025.stateofhtml.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Everytime I use my laptop I feel like this could be the last time 😭
December 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
i’ve decided to switch up my personal site. trying to show all the things i’m working on & thinking about creatively is overwhelming. from next year i will only ever host 1 project/piece of writing. the project will be replaced when i have something new to show.
December 16, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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The absurdity of UK policy gets much easier to understand when you remember that most policy suggestions are the outcome of a vendor's sales pitch.
www.ft.com/content/0ef7...
UK to push for nudity-blocking software on devices to protect children
Home Office expected to encourage companies to introduce controls
www.ft.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Out today: the Q4 release of the in progress Web Sustainability Guidelines.

New filters, updated UX section, less overlap/duplication and more www.w3.org/TR/web-susta...

Release notes: github.com/w3c/sustaina...

hat tip to @alexdawsonuk.bsky.social and Rose Newell and everone else (see notes). 👏👏
Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG)
The Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG) provide recommendations to help digital teams make informed sustainable development decisions. They cover the planetary, people, and prosperity PPP) principles ...
www.w3.org
December 15, 2025 at 7:44 AM
If I win the lottery, I’ll quit tech & become a maker. I want to spend most of my time making things for people to experience pleasure & leisure & makes them think.
December 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I want to take pottery classes next year but every thing is way out of my budget 😭🥲
December 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I’m making cmas cookies for my friends & family & *might* make some personalised notecards to go with them.

So naturally I’m in a pinterest hole of personalised stationery, why did we stop sending letters via snail mail??
December 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I’ve made less money this year than I have since my first year working in tech 11years ago.

But I still maintain that working for myself has been the biggest/best accessibility accommodation I’ve made for myself.
December 14, 2025 at 11:22 AM
I’ve been on both sides of the table. As a customer, if I want to contact you, let me do that! As a software support worker an unreasonably large % of my job was sending links to a knowledge base article.
If there's a better way to let people know you're available for work than writing a curse word laden blog post, I simply do not want to hear it!

Jokes aside, what do YOU call this kind of contact page?

www.nicchan.me/blog/the-f-o...
The f*** off contact page - Nic Chan
How to get people to NOT contact you
www.nicchan.me
December 8, 2025 at 1:08 PM
R&B 🤝🏾 lifting heavy weights.
December 8, 2025 at 8:01 AM
My laptop is losing charge as it’s charging. It’s gone from 19% to 13% in the space of 3mins. This only started happening after I updated to MacOS 26.1.
December 4, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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📻 The 4th Episode of @whatthespec.bsky.social is up on your favourite podcast platform! @sphcow.bsky.social joins me to talk about digital identity on the web, verifiable credentials and Verifiable Credentials

Transcript & show notes: lolaslab.co/what-the-spe...

Listen and share 😆
lolaslab.co
November 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Come see me (& other talented folks) talk at Web Day Out!

I'm doing part 2 to my alt-text as artistic medium talk and showing the process of building a `prefers-alt-text` media query & functionality in Firefox.

This talk will be less existential 😜

Discounted tickets: ti.to/clearleft/we...
Web Day Out
A one-day event all about what you can do in web browsers today!
ti.to
November 28, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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If there’s one #blackFriday deal you should pay attention to it’s @piccalil.li trust me not only is a fabulous deal it’s also great for your career and those you buy it for

piccalil.li/black-friday/
Black Friday Deals
piccalil.li
November 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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A bit of a vulnerable post by me but we need your help to get us through what has been a more difficult period than 2020.

It would be really appreciated if you could read and share in your networks too 💛

bell.bz/its-been-a-v...
It’s been a very hard year - Andy Bell
Unlike a lot of places in tech, my company, Set Studio/Piccalilli has no outside funding. Bootstrapped is what the LinkedIn people say, I think. It’s been a hard year this year. A very hard year...
bell.bz
November 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
📻 The 4th Episode of @whatthespec.bsky.social is up on your favourite podcast platform! @sphcow.bsky.social joins me to talk about digital identity on the web, verifiable credentials and Verifiable Credentials

Transcript & show notes: lolaslab.co/what-the-spe...

Listen and share 😆
lolaslab.co
November 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM