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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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📣 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...
What the Spec?! - Season 1, Episode 5 - Building an Indie Browser with Kilian Valkhof
December 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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I’ve been working on & experimenting with self-portrait & collage this year. This is my latest piece, an experiment.
I’m hidden by hair and envoloped in deep, dark blues. Electronic lines pass through the frame, through me. I’m part of the circuit.
August 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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📣 Ep 3 of @whatthespec.bsky.social is here 🥳
@miriam.codes talks CSS history, Cascade Layers and rethinking `!important`. Available on your fav podcast app & RSS.

Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6o4S...

Transcript: lolaslab.co/what-the-spe...
What the Spec?! Season 1 Episode 3: CSS, Cascade Layers and Power with Miriam Suzanne.
June 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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What counts as “accessible” when AT doesn’t agree? I don’t know yet.
This issue of in the lab is about browser work, rejection, & mentorship. & you get early access to What the Spec?! ep 3!

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in the lab - ideas and experiments in browsers, web standards and art.
June 12, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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May's in the lab is going out this week. This is a low-cost way to support my work for £2.50 a month. I share a monthly behind-the-scenes look into my work, and early access to What the Spec?!
If you'd like to support, subscribe here: opencollective.com/lolas-lab/co...
Ideas and experiments in browsers, web standards and art.
June 11, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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📻 What the Spec?! episode 2 dives deep into the new Popover attribute & accessibility! Hidde De Vries gives me a breakdown of how popover accessibility works.

Listen on your favourite podcast app. Show notes & transcript is available below.

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What the Spec?! Demystifying Popover Accessibility with Hidde De Vries. Season 1, episode 2.
May 22, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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New newsletter just dropped! This month I talk about contributing to @servo.org, my Web & the Digital Divide talk & as promised an early listen to episode 2 of What the Spec?! where I talk popover accessibility with @hidde.blog.

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A volkswagan van on a road with what looks like the grand canyon in the distance
May 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Jack Whitten talks about art being about being able to locate yourself in space. I’m exploring locating myself through my art.
Static. I'm watching you. In this noise, in this colour, lines cut through me because I exist outside of boxes. But I can see you, preening, inspecting, investigating -- what you looking at? This is an abstract piece that plays with coloured grid and lines and black and white self-portrait. Only my eyes are visible in the photograph. I’m not sad but situating myself in a sea of blues felt necessary. This is a collage with black and white self-portrait against a background of various blue hues, you can see the thick acrylic paint strokes.
May 7, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Got home to my new paints. Running a couple experiments & getting ideas out of my head.
Washes of various shades of ultramarine blue finger painted on an A6 page. The textures and colours are edgeless, bleeding in & out of each other, strokes crossing over & under eachother. The page is full. The tips of my fingers stained with ultramarine blue paint.
May 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Super excited to give my talk at #AllDayHey this morning & I’m first up
A screen with my talk’s title ‘What Do You See?: Alt-text as artistic medium’ with my speaker badge in front of it.
May 1, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Support me for just £2.50/month; get early access to the What the Spec?! podcast and behind-the-scenes peeks at @lolaslab.bsky.social.

See PRs I'm reviewing for TAG, projects I'm working on & thoughts on being an indie standards technologist.

Subscribe today 👉🏾 subscribe.lolaslab.co
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April 8, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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🌟New monthly newsletter alert🌟 Get early access to my brand new podcast What the Spec?! & a peek at my latest web antics.

This month has Ep 1 of What the Spec?! with @keithamus.social, CSS Carousel thoughts & more.

For £2.50 a month, it's another way to support my work! 😄

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This Month in the Lab Newsletter by lola's lab
April 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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I'll be speaking at All Day Hey! in Leeds in just over a month. Come and explore with me; what does it mean to center screen-reader users on the web? How can we do so with photography? 📷
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The poster for my talk at All Day Hey! with a b&w portrait of me to the left, below is my name lola odelola and talk title ‘what do you see?’. In the top right is the conference information as detailed in the text above.
March 25, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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📺 Running Point on Netflix
3.5/5

An easy to watch comedy about a woman who has to spontaneously act as owner of an LA basketball team. It’s funny with a standout performance from Scott MacArthur as Ness. It’s cliché & corny in some places & quite easily predictable but still a good watch.
The poster for Running Point with the lead character, played by Kate Hudson, sitting on a desk in a bright red pant suit. A deflated basketball sits beside her & basketball trophies are arranged behind her.
March 24, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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Lapvona by Otessa Moshfegh

If you like stories that are unrelenting miserable, this is for you. I gave it a 2.25/5.

CW: cannibalism, rape, child abuse (sexual, physical, emotional).

My full review: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/7500...
The cover of Lapvona. It shows a lamb with all four legs bound together.
March 22, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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All Day Hey! is coming up in May and purchasing early tickets helps organisers properly plan! So get your tickets now and see me in Leeds explore what it means to center screen-reader users. 🎟️
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The poster for my talk at All Day Hey! with a b&w portrait of me to the left, below is my name lola odelola and talk title ‘what do you see?’. In the top right is the conference information as detailed in the text above.
March 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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👀 Something is coming soon
The podcast cover image for a new podcast I'm launching called What the Spec?! Where I unpack web standards and browsers with the people who create them.
March 11, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Talk prep for All Day Hey! has begun! 🥳 I'll be exploring what it means to center screen-reader users through a photography project I've been working on called "What do you see?" (name change TBD). Get your tickets now before they sell out!
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The poster for my talk at All Day Hey! with a b&w portrait of me to the left, below is my name lola odelola and talk title ‘what do you see?’. In the top right is the conference information as detailed in the text above.
March 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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This #IWD, meet the women keeping the web open, accessible, and safe! Sponsor our work & support the women shaping the web. 🚀💙
💫 @sphcow.bsky.social
💫 @miriam.codes
💫 Emilia Smith
💫 & myself!
Read more about what we do 👉🏾 lolaslab.co/blog/2025/iw...
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March 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM