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Darek Kay
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Senior front-end engineer @IBM ❖ Accessibility advocate ❖ Minimalist ❖ Hobby photographer

I love building awesome things and sharing what I know with others ❤️

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Thanks for the mention :) Let's hope that browser vendors won't remove their XSLT implementations: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4495...
"Remove mentions of XSLT from the html spec" | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
August 22, 2025 at 6:09 AM
I'd rather go for a real (unstyled) HTML button, as it handles everything out of the box (focusable, correct role, activates on space and enter etc.). You should also add an accessible name for screen readers users (e.g. via aria-label), so they know what the button does when activated.
March 27, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Hey Cassidy, that's an interesting approach, but unfortuntely not accessible: keyboard users are excluded as they can't open the full-size image.
March 27, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Is the newsletter available via RSS as well? I've only found a feed for your blog.
February 18, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Yes, please! The main way I follow other photographers is RSS. Mastodon, Pixelfed, Glass and Flickr support it by default. Blusky supports RSS, but doesn't include images. I've even built myself a tool to grab all the feeds every night and build a single page containing all the photos in one "feed".
February 18, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Looks good! :)
December 16, 2024 at 8:56 AM
Thanks for the hint. I thought I would have to host Bluesky on my own domain, but it's just a TXT DNS entry :)
November 18, 2024 at 12:38 PM
Reposted by Darek Kay
3. Alt text
Bluesky has an inclusion ethos. To be a good blootizen, consider alt text on images and gifs so those using text readers and assistive technology can participate. If you are prone to forgetting like me, turn on a forcing function-

Settings--> Accessibility--> require alt text.
November 13, 2024 at 12:10 PM
Many platforms support alt text natively (Instagram, Pixelfed, Mastodon). But for the ones that don't, I would leave out the "Link to a photo of" prefix. On a gallery page, the "link" part will be already announced to screen readers. And on a single photo page, there is no link.
November 17, 2024 at 9:24 AM