Jo Spelbrink
@joville.bsky.social
interested in a11y, coding, ux, design, film, journalism, arts • english/german/sign language
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“Do we want to design for the world as it is? Or do we want to design how it should be?”
We can control the future with our choices, because “we live in a narrative-driven world.”
— Thorsten Jonas at @beyondtellerrand.com
We can control the future with our choices, because “we live in a narrative-driven world.”
— Thorsten Jonas at @beyondtellerrand.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:50 AM
“Do we want to design for the world as it is? Or do we want to design how it should be?”
We can control the future with our choices, because “we live in a narrative-driven world.”
— Thorsten Jonas at @beyondtellerrand.com
We can control the future with our choices, because “we live in a narrative-driven world.”
— Thorsten Jonas at @beyondtellerrand.com
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I wrote this with a bunch of good folks in the #drupal community
A New Era of Digital #accessibility: The #eaa and its Implications for Drupal https://www.drupal.org/association/blog/a-new-era-of-digital-accessibility-the-eaa-and-its-implications-for-drupal
/c @drupalassoc
A New Era of Digital #accessibility: The #eaa and its Implications for Drupal https://www.drupal.org/association/blog/a-new-era-of-digital-accessibility-the-eaa-and-its-implications-for-drupal
/c @drupalassoc
October 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I wrote this with a bunch of good folks in the #drupal community
A New Era of Digital #accessibility: The #eaa and its Implications for Drupal https://www.drupal.org/association/blog/a-new-era-of-digital-accessibility-the-eaa-and-its-implications-for-drupal
/c @drupalassoc
A New Era of Digital #accessibility: The #eaa and its Implications for Drupal https://www.drupal.org/association/blog/a-new-era-of-digital-accessibility-the-eaa-and-its-implications-for-drupal
/c @drupalassoc
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Meta was ordered by a a Dutch court to offer a non-algorithmic timeline option, and they just got an extension as they claimed they couldn't do it within 2 weeks for tech reasons.
October 29, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Meta was ordered by a a Dutch court to offer a non-algorithmic timeline option, and they just got an extension as they claimed they couldn't do it within 2 weeks for tech reasons.
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While Hitler plotted and Europe crumbled, a motley crew of mathematicians, philosophers, architects, and economists met weekly to invent Computer Science. Mark Bernstein mines this forgotten history for lessons that just might save today’s web from its worst impulses.
alistapart.com/article/desi...
Designing Amiable Web Spaces: Lessons from Vienna's Café Culture
Explore the impact of amiability in web interactions and learn from the history of Vienna Circle's collaborative spirit in dealing with disagreements.
alistapart.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
While Hitler plotted and Europe crumbled, a motley crew of mathematicians, philosophers, architects, and economists met weekly to invent Computer Science. Mark Bernstein mines this forgotten history for lessons that just might save today’s web from its worst impulses.
alistapart.com/article/desi...
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Holy shit, #Webflow.
I understand you may not have anyone on staff to review this LLM-generated ARIA explainer, but you’ve mostly just convinced me your product is a lawsuit-in-waiting.
I’m sorry most of your customers won’t recognize that.
webflow.com/blog/how-to-...
#accessibility #a11y #ARIA
I understand you may not have anyone on staff to review this LLM-generated ARIA explainer, but you’ve mostly just convinced me your product is a lawsuit-in-waiting.
I’m sorry most of your customers won’t recognize that.
webflow.com/blog/how-to-...
#accessibility #a11y #ARIA
October 6, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Holy shit, #Webflow.
I understand you may not have anyone on staff to review this LLM-generated ARIA explainer, but you’ve mostly just convinced me your product is a lawsuit-in-waiting.
I’m sorry most of your customers won’t recognize that.
webflow.com/blog/how-to-...
#accessibility #a11y #ARIA
I understand you may not have anyone on staff to review this LLM-generated ARIA explainer, but you’ve mostly just convinced me your product is a lawsuit-in-waiting.
I’m sorry most of your customers won’t recognize that.
webflow.com/blog/how-to-...
#accessibility #a11y #ARIA
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👁️🗨️ Conforming to WCAG does not make your UI magically accessible, but it will be a lot more accessible than if nothing is done. #UX is a different matter...
#WCAG #accessibility #reality
#WCAG #accessibility #reality
August 8, 2025 at 8:41 AM
👁️🗨️ Conforming to WCAG does not make your UI magically accessible, but it will be a lot more accessible than if nothing is done. #UX is a different matter...
#WCAG #accessibility #reality
#WCAG #accessibility #reality
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"Ask an LLM to style a button, and there’s a good chance it’ll still suggest outline: 0 or outline: none from the 15 years of training data." medienbaecker.com/articles/tru...
Trusting the browser · Medienbäcker Thomas Günther
I've been thinking about how we approach accessibility in web development. Particularly about trusting the browser to implement things in an accessible way.
medienbaecker.com
August 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
"Ask an LLM to style a button, and there’s a good chance it’ll still suggest outline: 0 or outline: none from the 15 years of training data." medienbaecker.com/articles/tru...
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✨ I just published a brand-new post! It’s about the notorious SVG <path> element.
With its compact Regex-style syntax, <path> can be super intimidating. But they’re also *incredibly* powerful, letting us draw (and animate!) curved lines.
You can read it here, and I’ll share more info in thread. 🧵
With its compact Regex-style syntax, <path> can be super intimidating. But they’re also *incredibly* powerful, letting us draw (and animate!) curved lines.
You can read it here, and I’ll share more info in thread. 🧵
An Interactive Guide to SVG Paths • Josh W. Comeau
SVG gives us many different primitives to work with, but by far the most powerful is the <path> element. Unfortunately, it’s also the most inscrutable, with its compact Regex-style syntax. In this tut...
www.joshwcomeau.com
August 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
✨ I just published a brand-new post! It’s about the notorious SVG <path> element.
With its compact Regex-style syntax, <path> can be super intimidating. But they’re also *incredibly* powerful, letting us draw (and animate!) curved lines.
You can read it here, and I’ll share more info in thread. 🧵
With its compact Regex-style syntax, <path> can be super intimidating. But they’re also *incredibly* powerful, letting us draw (and animate!) curved lines.
You can read it here, and I’ll share more info in thread. 🧵
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In my articles header, I try to design it in a way that reflect the topic. Here is the one about CSS Relative Colors.
🔗 ishadeed.com/article/css-...
🔗 ishadeed.com/article/css-...
August 19, 2025 at 6:14 PM
In my articles header, I try to design it in a way that reflect the topic. Here is the one about CSS Relative Colors.
🔗 ishadeed.com/article/css-...
🔗 ishadeed.com/article/css-...
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"How is it possible for CrUX to say 90% of page loads are good, and Google Search Console to say only 50% of URLs are good. Which is right?"
It's a question I get about Core Web Vitals and I admit it's confusing, but the truth is both are correct because they are different measures...
1/5 🧵
It's a question I get about Core Web Vitals and I admit it's confusing, but the truth is both are correct because they are different measures...
1/5 🧵
August 19, 2025 at 10:32 AM
"How is it possible for CrUX to say 90% of page loads are good, and Google Search Console to say only 50% of URLs are good. Which is right?"
It's a question I get about Core Web Vitals and I admit it's confusing, but the truth is both are correct because they are different measures...
1/5 🧵
It's a question I get about Core Web Vitals and I admit it's confusing, but the truth is both are correct because they are different measures...
1/5 🧵
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Why and How to Write Minimal and Valid HTML, a Link Guide, by @meiert.com:
meiert.com/blog/minimal...
meiert.com/blog/minimal...
Why and How to Write Minimal and Valid HTML, a Link Guide · Jens Oliver Meiert
On using all of HTML’s features and ensuring that HTML code is error-free—two surprisingly underused and unpopular approaches to writing HTML.
meiert.com
August 2, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Why and How to Write Minimal and Valid HTML, a Link Guide, by @meiert.com:
meiert.com/blog/minimal...
meiert.com/blog/minimal...
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Modern HTML is a disaster.
It’s bloated, semantically meaningless, and hostile to browsers, bots, and users.
We’ve traded structure for utility, and performance is paying the price.
Semantic HTML still matters - and here’s why.
www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/w...
It’s bloated, semantically meaningless, and hostile to browsers, bots, and users.
We’ve traded structure for utility, and performance is paying the price.
Semantic HTML still matters - and here’s why.
www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/w...
Why Semantic HTML Still Matters
If you want to build for performance, accessibility, discoverability, or resilience, you must start with HTML that means something.
www.jonoalderson.com
July 21, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Modern HTML is a disaster.
It’s bloated, semantically meaningless, and hostile to browsers, bots, and users.
We’ve traded structure for utility, and performance is paying the price.
Semantic HTML still matters - and here’s why.
www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/w...
It’s bloated, semantically meaningless, and hostile to browsers, bots, and users.
We’ve traded structure for utility, and performance is paying the price.
Semantic HTML still matters - and here’s why.
www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/w...
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Why are you shipping 3MB of JavaScript to animate a link?
Modern CSS now handles seamless page transitions - natively.
No routing hacks. No hydration tax. No excuse.
Modern CSS now handles seamless page transitions - natively.
No routing hacks. No hydration tax. No excuse.
It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA
Native CSS transitions have quietly killed the strongest argument for client-side routing. Yet people keep building terrible apps instead of performant websites.
www.jonoalderson.com
July 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Why are you shipping 3MB of JavaScript to animate a link?
Modern CSS now handles seamless page transitions - natively.
No routing hacks. No hydration tax. No excuse.
Modern CSS now handles seamless page transitions - natively.
No routing hacks. No hydration tax. No excuse.
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Hot off the presses! Firefox Nightly (www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefo...) adds the new :heading pseudo! Easily style all headings, or use nth-child-like AnB syntax to select a range of headings! Needs `layout.css.heading-selector.enabled` flag enabled. Try it out and let me know your thoughts.
July 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Hot off the presses! Firefox Nightly (www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefo...) adds the new :heading pseudo! Easily style all headings, or use nth-child-like AnB syntax to select a range of headings! Needs `layout.css.heading-selector.enabled` flag enabled. Try it out and let me know your thoughts.
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“We can’t let the ease of generation become a substitute for our better judgment. We can’t let groupthink dictate taste. We can’t let empathy get stripped from the process just because the output looks like a viable product to the loudest person in the room.” Mike Schindler
#ux #ai #ProductDesign
#ux #ai #ProductDesign
This is not a pipe: UX, AI, and the risk of satisficed product design
AI’s grip on design forces us to reconsider our role in shaping perception, reality, and — most importantly — decision-making.
uxdesign.cc
June 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
“We can’t let the ease of generation become a substitute for our better judgment. We can’t let groupthink dictate taste. We can’t let empathy get stripped from the process just because the output looks like a viable product to the loudest person in the room.” Mike Schindler
#ux #ai #ProductDesign
#ux #ai #ProductDesign
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“LLMs can accelerate and democratise scientific progress by helping researchers contextualise their work” <- outright lies. most of the time, to be genAI enthusiast is to no longer care about the truthfulness of your claim
May 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM
“LLMs can accelerate and democratise scientific progress by helping researchers contextualise their work” <- outright lies. most of the time, to be genAI enthusiast is to no longer care about the truthfulness of your claim
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Values, with in Accessibility field, by Eric Eggert. An important read.
yatil.net/blog/values
#DigitalAccessibility #Accessibility #A11y
yatil.net/blog/values
#DigitalAccessibility #Accessibility #A11y
Values · Eric Eggert
Why we do what we do and why others don’t share the same reasons.
yatil.net
March 2, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Values, with in Accessibility field, by Eric Eggert. An important read.
yatil.net/blog/values
#DigitalAccessibility #Accessibility #A11y
yatil.net/blog/values
#DigitalAccessibility #Accessibility #A11y
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🔊 PSA for nondisabled people 🔊
It's time to step the FUCK up if you wanna be an ally.
ASL interpretation is being targeted by right wing cry baby douchebags.
Shut this shit down when you see it. SPEAK UP. This barrage of ASL hate is heavier than usual.
It's time to step the FUCK up if you wanna be an ally.
ASL interpretation is being targeted by right wing cry baby douchebags.
Shut this shit down when you see it. SPEAK UP. This barrage of ASL hate is heavier than usual.
January 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Hi, ASL interpreter of 30 yrs & a person w/ Deaf family here.
In response to the anti-ASL horseshit going around:
ASL and English are not the same language.
ASL has no written form.
Reading English subs is not = to seeing ASL & many Deaf ppl need sign to fully understand info.
In response to the anti-ASL horseshit going around:
ASL and English are not the same language.
ASL has no written form.
Reading English subs is not = to seeing ASL & many Deaf ppl need sign to fully understand info.
January 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Hi, ASL interpreter of 30 yrs & a person w/ Deaf family here.
In response to the anti-ASL horseshit going around:
ASL and English are not the same language.
ASL has no written form.
Reading English subs is not = to seeing ASL & many Deaf ppl need sign to fully understand info.
In response to the anti-ASL horseshit going around:
ASL and English are not the same language.
ASL has no written form.
Reading English subs is not = to seeing ASL & many Deaf ppl need sign to fully understand info.
Happy New Year everybody 🍀
January 1, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Happy New Year everybody 🍀
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@ashleemboyer.com’s response to an “AI”-enabled “accessibility” product is very good, and worth your time: ashleemboyer.com/blog/how-to-...
How to Dehumanize Accessibility with AI | Ashlee M Boyer
Hire disabled people, not AI-generated caricatures.
ashleemboyer.com
December 23, 2024 at 1:38 PM
@ashleemboyer.com’s response to an “AI”-enabled “accessibility” product is very good, and worth your time: ashleemboyer.com/blog/how-to-...
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If Not #React, Then What? "Frameworkism is the dominant creed of frontend discourse, and it's bullshit. We owe it to ourselves and our users to reject dogma and embrace engineering as a discipline that serves users first and foremost."
If Not React, Then What? - Infrequently Noted
Frameworkism is now the dominant creed of today's frontend discourse, and it's bullshit. We owe it to ourselves and to our users to reject dogma and embrace engineering as a discipline that strives…
infrequently.org
December 6, 2024 at 6:00 PM
If Not #React, Then What? "Frameworkism is the dominant creed of frontend discourse, and it's bullshit. We owe it to ourselves and our users to reject dogma and embrace engineering as a discipline that serves users first and foremost."
An advent calendar curated
by my former workmate @matuzo.at about how to not write HTML. Every year a recommendation! 🌞
PS: Don‘t forget to wish his book accessibility-cookbook.com as your personal x-mas gift! 🎄
by my former workmate @matuzo.at about how to not write HTML. Every year a recommendation! 🌞
PS: Don‘t forget to wish his book accessibility-cookbook.com as your personal x-mas gift! 🎄
It's December 1st, and you know what that means: For the next 24 days, we'll publish articles about HTML by 24 authors. You can read them on the website or subscribe to the RSS channel.
Enjoy!
htmhell.dev/adventcalend...
Enjoy!
htmhell.dev/adventcalend...
HTMHell Advent Calendar 2024 - HTMHell
An article, talk, or tool that focuses on HTML every day until Christmas.
htmhell.dev
December 1, 2024 at 10:04 AM
An advent calendar curated
by my former workmate @matuzo.at about how to not write HTML. Every year a recommendation! 🌞
PS: Don‘t forget to wish his book accessibility-cookbook.com as your personal x-mas gift! 🎄
by my former workmate @matuzo.at about how to not write HTML. Every year a recommendation! 🌞
PS: Don‘t forget to wish his book accessibility-cookbook.com as your personal x-mas gift! 🎄
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✔️ passed
November 9, 2024 at 9:21 AM
✔️ passed
That’s so true and mostly the case: … can be accessibility compliant and still suck to use.
Real accessibility is the bottom line of real inclusive experiences.
Real accessibility is the bottom line of real inclusive experiences.
When asked “is this accessible,” I always have to create a line between if something is accessibility compliant versus higher degrees of accessible/inclusive.
Your product can be accessibility compliant and still suck to use.
Your product can be accessibility compliant and still suck to use.
August 20, 2024 at 9:41 PM
That’s so true and mostly the case: … can be accessibility compliant and still suck to use.
Real accessibility is the bottom line of real inclusive experiences.
Real accessibility is the bottom line of real inclusive experiences.