Introducing the Accessible Components Library from @TetraLogical!

https://tetralogical.com/blog/2026/10/14/accessible-components-library/

Eight common components with documented accessibility requirements, test scenarios, and working automated tests that check them.

• Free to use and adapt
• Human-readable tests written in Gherkin
• Mapped to WCAG 2.2, levels A to AAA

#Accessibility #OpenSource #WCAG #AccessibleComponents

The Code.Movie CLI renders animations to high-resolution video for use cases besides web content! Write frames to disk or pipe them straight to ffmpeg.

Read the Announcement: https://code.movie/blog/introducing-the-code-movie-cli.html

Or watch the extremely dull demo video:

What the iPhone Duo means for web development (and Video.js):
https://videojs.org/blog/iphone-duo-web-development. A practical reflection and exploration of what the Viewport Segment API and the Device Posture API will enable once Apple decides to activate them by default.

Fingerprints are the new cookies: https://royfish.dev/fingerprints-are-the-new-cookies. A nerdy post that describes the #privacy theory behind terms like information entropy and surprisal etc. in an accessible manner. The blog post obviously also fingerprints you.

Yet another way to invoke functions without parentheses: https://blog.ikaes.de/yet-another-way-to-invoke-functions-without-parentheses/. This is a fun #JavaScript exploration!

The new Web Weekly is about to hit all inboxes. 🥂

This time, it includes a new `poster` element proposal, what happens when you import the same module multiple times, responsive iframes, and an explanation of the `vary` header.

Enjoy!

https://webweekly.email/archive/web-weekly-201/

Check out the @tag's Draft Finding on "Installing Websites Must Be Easy": https://w3ctag.github.io/install-finding/. A core point is that it explicitly calls out hiding installation behind a Share button as not being sufficiently discoverable.

I wrote about why the Deno runtime was left to die, what led to those circumstances, and why Cloudflare and Ryan Dahl can and should do more to support the project in the long-term: https://brettcodes.com/the-disappointing-death-of-deno/

But my biggest takeaway: I'm done with VC-backed open source.

📝 Next time somebody asks me what I’d do with an insane amount of wealth, I now have my answer: I’d become a “domainer”.

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/domains-article-on-wired/

“Cartographers of North Korea :: 북한의 지도 제작자” by Wonyoung So

🔗 https://cartographers-nk.wonyoung.so/

> An analysis of the OpenStreetMap data in North Korea:
> Who are the contributors? How and Why did they contribute to North Korea?

#map

⚓️ https://nicolas-hoizey.com/links/2026/10/11/cartographers-of-north-korea/

I have a canned answer for why we aren’t doing this for the Web platform: https://hsivonen.fi/utf-8-detection/

The key difference is that the Web behavior is consistent across operating systems and supports Existing Content out there on the Web. The Python/Ruby/Java behavior wasn’t consistent across operating systems before defaulting to UTF-8 on Windows, which was an active portability problem when the standard libs for these languages didn’t force Mac and Linux users to declare UTF-8 like the Web does.

Dogcatcher: https://xkcd.com/3309/. This is a good #xkcd, especially for life-long learners of English like me. (https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3309:_Dogcatcher was helpful)

And we just continue.

Fuck Trսmp: https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/amerika/trump-diesellieferungen-russland-100.html

(Sorry assistive technology users, the 'u' in the to-be-fucked person's name is a Unicode look-alike. I unfortunately can't afford to land on a list.)

Fuck Schröder, fuck Putin: https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/russland-altkanzler-schroeder-putin-geburtstag-kritik-100.html

Fuck Rausch, respect BMW: https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/sachsen-anhalt/tobias-rausch-dienstwagen,bmw-zieht-leasingvertrag-zurueck-100.html

Fuck AFD #FCKAFD: no link needed

It's a zero nuance, just needed to get this out kinda day.

Mac keyboards, Windows keyboards. A reference. Beautiful. https://unsung.aresluna.org/deeper-dive-keyboard-differences-between-windows-and-macs/

Refueling an EV be like: https://blog.tomayac.com/2026/10/08/refueling-an-ev-be-like/. New blog post in which I describe a worst case (but not too far from the average) public charging experience for people who never drove an electric vehicle. 🚗🪫 Despite the current horrors, I'd never go back to another car than an electric vehicle. 🔋☀️
#EV #EVdriving #Solar

Remember Internet Explorer’s “Page Transitions”?

Well, they’re back, thanks to the View Transition API!

→ Blog post: https://brm.us/page-transitions
→ Demo site: https://page-transitions.style/

The project leverages IE’s meta tags so browser support is not limited to Modern Browsers™ but also includes IE 5.5–8.0 😆

Refueling an EV be like: https://blog.tomayac.com/2026/10/08/refueling-an-ev-be-like/. New blog post in which I describe a worst case (but not too far from the average) public charging experience for people who never drove an electric vehicle. 🚗🪫 Despite the current horrors, I'd never go back to another car than an electric vehicle. 🔋☀️
#EV #EVdriving #Solar

“Standards In Progress: Making Video Posters Accessible, Responsive, and an Element” by @scottjehl

🔗 https://scottjehl.com/posts/responsive-accessible-poster/

> I'm showing just a sampling of the available markup here of course–you might want to coordinate multiple art-directed video and picture sources for example, or load eagerly instead of lazily, and add captions for the video. But broadly, by piggybacking on the features…

#WebPerf #accessibility #responsive #HTML #video

⚓️ https://nicolas-hoizey.com/links/2026/10/08/standards-in-progress-making-video-posters-accessible-responsive-and-an-element/

"The people holding up the internet"

A good-looking but somewhat depressing exposé about the people holding up current digital infrastructure as a hobby.

https://sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-the-internet