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Carlos Espada
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Front-end developer. Cyclist. Fan of trains, dinos and XIX century travels. Trying to do my part for making an accessible, light and fast internet for everyone.
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Journal: Providers

Web browsers provide you with great features for free. Why would you choose to use tools that stop you taking advantage of that?

🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22235
November 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
To the surprise of no one
chrisyoong.com/blog/sweden-...
Swedish government starts to audit eCommence websites
Government launches Accessibility inspections for retailers
chrisyoong.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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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.
Receipts: a brief list of prominent articles proclaiming the death of the web.
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. 
zeldman.com
October 25, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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I wanted to be able to define the terms “interactive element” and “focusable” properly for a GitHub issue I'm about to write. So, I read the spec and wrote a blog post about it.

matuzo.at/blog/2025/wh...
What's an interactive element? - Manuel Matuzovic
I'm a frontend developer in Graz, specialized in HTML, accessibility, and CSS layout and architecture.
matuzo.at
October 24, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
anildash.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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There, I wrote 715 words on it:
adrianroselli.com/2025/10/open...

Also, we know ‘AI’ companies chose anuses as logos, but did OpenAI have to double down and make its browser logo a butt plug?

I mean… what the fuck?

#accessibility #LLM #a11y #AI #ARIA

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October 22, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Today I learned `header` and `footer` elements lose their ARIA roles when being included in sectioning content.

www.stefanjudis.com/today-i-lear...
October 20, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Thirty-two years ago, we were given the web as a gift.
Today, we must live up to such a gift and defend it.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Why I gave the world wide web away for free | Tim Berners-Lee
My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fighting for
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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🦊

I’ve decided it’s past time I start describing “artificial intelligence” as a failed technology, and I’d like you to join me.

ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/agains...
Against the protection of stocking frames. — ethanmarcotte.com
“Artificial intelligence” is a failed technology. It’s time we described it that way.
ethanmarcotte.com
September 19, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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✏️ Another AI reading list: these books are worth your time hidde.blog/another-ai-r...

nobody:
me: wrote down 5 (actually 6) books about AI that I read this year and recommend
Another AI reading list: these books are worth your time
Lots of great books about AI came out recently, here are some I found useful.
hidde.blog
September 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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From scribbled notes to a global revolution-the personal journey behind the Web’s invention and the unexpected turns along the way. It's both a history and my vision.

This is for Everyone isn’t just a story about technology; it’s about possibility

September 9th, pre-order linktr.ee/thisisforeve...
April 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
When AI will browse the web for me
Thoughts on AI browsers.
www.stefanjudis.com
September 23, 2025 at 7:53 AM
More than three months after publishing it, I finally read this wonderful article by @ericwbailey.website . Highly recommended for anyone who wants to understand the reality of ARIA and how to make the most of it.

www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/06/what...
What I Wish Someone Told Me When I Was Getting Into ARIA — Smashing Magazine
[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 ...
www.smashingmagazine.com
September 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM
What a well-explained and rigorous article, how lucky we are to be able to enjoy content like this 😍
September 19, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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✏️ New blog post: We should listen to the philosophers more hidde.blog/philosophers/
We should listen to the philosophers more
A few thoughts on the philosophical perspective.
hidde.blog
August 8, 2025 at 1:35 PM
@brucel.bsky.social by far the best 404 page in the entire industry 😂😍🎩
brucelawson.co.uk/404-error/
brucelawson.co.uk
June 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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@carlosespada.bsky.social en #UBAC sobre le ley europea de accesibilidad con @anacirujano.com y @pablomoratinos.es.

Hablando sobre #accesibilidad y poniendo sobre la mesa lo que nos viene.

Para mi el punto es: Los usuarios tenemos derechos.
June 10, 2025 at 9:39 AM
I absolutely love this article because it's so useful and because it raises questions we need to ask ourselves to learn how to do our job better: meeting users' needs.
June 9, 2025 at 6:00 AM
This is the way.
Back when I was finding my feet in tech everybody was buzzing about building positive change. Somewhere along the way, something changed. Fortunately for us though, tech is not the first industry forced to defend itself against dubious practices.

What might we learn if we were to look elsewhere?
Looking elsewhere - Robb Owen
Against the backdrop of mass layoffs, LLMs, site-builders and vibe coding what does it mean to conscientiously build for the web, and where do we go from here?
robbowen.digital
June 3, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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AI has always promised to help people spend more time doing valuable work by automating the manual, repetitive, toilsome tasks so that software developers can be free to use their time on "something better".

That's not what's happening.
The promise that wasn’t kept
AI is distracting us from creating real value. While we chase speed and automation, meaningful and human-centered work is getting left behind. Is this progress?
whitep4nth3r.com
May 29, 2025 at 1:17 PM