"We uncovered a set of apps and fake experts cheating the performance metrics. We found those practices in almost 15% of extensions that promised one-click optimizations. This means that a large number of merchant sites are affected."
"Use this digital greenwashing guide to help you make accurate sustainability claims about digital products, services, and programs while reducing risk as new and emerging legislation takes shape."
"what are the most important new features implemented in this latest release that aim to make it increasingly easy and automatic to create accessible digital publications, without the need for manual intervention in the code of exported files."
"Antitrust authorities in Europe and the US have woken up, and are questioning abuses of market power by Big Tech companies, albeit not always successfully. Regulators may force better behavior."
"A service called ReplyGuy advertises itself as "the AI that plugs your product on Reddit" and which automatically "mentions your product in conversations naturally.""
"With the luxury of modern web hosting platforms and CDNs caching and delivering files fast to users around the world, powerful compression algorithms and the wide adoption of HTTP/2, I guess we don't really need to think about CSS minification anymore."
"The VPAT is the template available on the Information Industry Technology Council (ITI) website. When the VPAT is completed with information that documents a product's conformance with accessibility standards, then it is an ACR."
"I typically have variables for --color-*, --size-*, and --font-*, as well as ones to define the max width of containers and how much --spacing to use between paragraphs and various elements."
"While it's possible to measure Core Web Vitals using a wide range of tools, those tools are limited by the type of data they use to evaluate performance, not to mention they only provide a single snapshot of performance at a specific point in time."
"Some people remain skeptical that this capability should be part of CSS Grid, and want it to instead be its own separate display type. Others are questioning whether or not this kind of layout is needed on the web at all -- they aren't sure that well-known websites will use it."
"those businesses that rely on accessibility code assistants and "overlays" -- software that transforms a website so that it can be understood by assistive technologies -- appear to have exposed themselves to more liabilities as the tools still need improving."
"Moreover, and to me, even more excitedly, this would put a significant amount of power in the user's hands via user style sheets. This would allow users to control what content was hidden from them using relatively simple text expressions."
"That impulse to scour away the messiness that makes life resilient is what many conservation biologists call the "pathology of command and control." Today, the same drive to centralize, control and extract has driven the internet to the same fate as the ravaged forests."
"So please join us in celebrating JS Naked Day on April 24th either by removing all JavaScript on your site for that day or try surfing the web with JavaScript disabled."