A court in Germany has ruled against the use of dark patterns in tracking consent banners: www.jdsupra.com/legalnews… (via)

Handling a winter storm

Some words of advice I just shared to my colleagues in Austin who have a winter storm they don’t have the infrastructure to deal with, including power outages. Please stay safe. Stay inside. Turn your phones off in case you need it in an emergency and there is no power. Get lots of blankets and …

Working with US colleagues from Europe: They: “Oh, I woke up and many todos are already done, how delightful.” Me: “Oh, I woke up, and it looks like a chill day… Oh no, 17 tasks in my inbox.” I don’t really mind it, but it is an interesting dynamic.

About to prepare a 4 hour accessibility crash course for the #cos20 students. Anyone had a great online learning experience, excercises or something like that, that you enjoyed in the past? I really want to make it engaging and always search for good new ways to do it. 😃

TIL: ⨉ is the n-ary times operator (and will be announced like that by screen readers) — what I actually wanted to use was the times glyph: × Watch your unicodes, people! (And I would have never found it if I did not use a screen reader to test.)

A client asked yesterday about how to label a TinyMCE text field so that it meets WACG 2.0/2.1. I have created a Codepen that shows how to do it with a simple init callback function.

Utterly failed to dooomscroll this morning. Guess I need to change my routines now. Thanks Oba…—Biden!

Calculated how long we’re self-isolating, just out of curiousity, and we have not left the house for anything but essentials (groceries, very rare walk) for 291 days.

In good tradition of forgetting anniversaries, @ScreenOrigami and I forgot that we founded outline 10 years ago! 😂 Happy us! 🎉

Me: “Please add empty alt attributes to the remaining images that are decorative.” They: “Here, we added descriptions to all images.” That’s… not what… sigh

Why do people keep putting <button> elements inside of <a> elements? Such an easy to find and subsequently avoid error. 😭

I have published a new video on my YouTube channel: Three quick tips to achieve your 2021 accessibility goals (Transcript)

How do people share their Letterboxd reviews to here? Is there an RSS feed somewhere?

With two posts on my (main) blog in 2021, I’m already at 40% of last year‘s output.

Happy New Year! 🎇 Fun fact (because watching old German pop music on TV is tradition here): In 70s Western Germany, two successful singers were a Black man called Roberto Blanco (real legal name) and a white guy called Roy Black (stage name). 🤷‍♂️