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🇱🇧 UI engineer, speaker, author, and educator • Accessibility advocate • Minimalist Practical Accessibility course: https://practical-accessibility.today Newsletter: https://www.sarasoueidan.com/newsletter

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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · May 15

🧵 (Re)introducing the Practical Accessibility course:

✨ It is a comprehensive, self-paced, online video course designed to demystify web accessibility and to equip you with the knowledge you need to create more accessible websites & apps today 💪🏻

practical-accessibility.today ⤵️
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Introducing the Practical Accessibility course

This is "Introducing the Practical Accessibility course" by Sara Soueidan on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 4h

Happy to hear it <3

Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 4h

Of course! It's a white-spectacled bulbul =)

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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 8h

💕💕

Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 9h

I love that!

Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 14h

🥰🥰

Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 15h

And of course you can expect more bird posts from me 😃

I'll be writing a lot more alt text than I usually do. ☺️

Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 15h

Good morning from my bird and I. 🐥

I didn't know how to "break the news" 😅 but I'm a bird mom again. And this little guy is all grown up and not a baby. He's already supervising and reviewing all course-related work. You may even get to hear him in the background of new chapter recordings! 🥰

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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 15h

It may not be obvious from the angle this video is taken from but he's so relaxed that he's lifting one foot off... "the ground" (a.k.a. my thumb). It's like he's doing a standing tree yoga pose. He's also soooooo warm it's like I have a small heater sitting on my thumb. 🥰

He wishes you a good day.

Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 15h

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Alex Russell @infrequently.org · 1d

Frontenders, I am *begging* you to earn whatever pride you take in your work. How? By testing what you make on the devices and networks most people have. It's not hard, doesn't take long, and there are great automations like webpagetest.org that can make it even simpler.

webpagetest.org

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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 1d

This post by the good folks at @tetralogical.com is a fantastic article that debunks common misconceptions about screen readers (and their users)

"Common misconceptions about screen readers"
🔗 tetralogical.com/blog/2025/10...

Highly recommended read. #a11y

Common misconceptions about screen readers - TetraLogical

Screen readers are familiar to many in digital, but how they work in practice can be less clear. In this post, we shed some light on the topic.

tetralogical.com

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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 1d

In my conversation with @kevinpowell.co a few weeks ago I mentioned that one of the ways to get people to care about #accessibility is to help them understand it better. And one way to help them understand it better is to debunk common accessibility myths.

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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 1d

I did not see that coming

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Piccalilli @piccalil.li · 1d

It's here. JavaScript for Everyone is now available to…everyone!

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piccalilli.link/js4e-launch-...

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A high quality, expansive written course that will elevate your JavaScript skills to a level you never thought was achievable.

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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 1d

hsl() www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/hex-rgb...

but will be using more of the modern colors in my next refactor

On Switching from HEX & RGB to HSL

— The personal website of Sara Soueidan, inclusive Web UI engineer

www.sarasoueidan.com

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Dave Letorey @letorey.co.uk · 2d

Great words by @matthiasott.com, someone I'm delighted to call a friend

> the Web isn’t just a bunch of servers and websites. The Web is the people building it. The Web is community.

matthiasott.com/notes/the-li...

The Lifeblood of the Web · Matthias Ott

Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

matthiasott.com

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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 2d

This talk by @nerdy.dev is a wonderful presentation of why CSS is awesome and why we love it so much www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW6G...

Just look at what's possible with #CSS today

And the format is great for the impatient ones (myself included). Right speed, right transitions (pun intended 😉)

Adam Argyle - 25 new & rad feature of CSS

YouTube video by CascadiaJS

www.youtube.com

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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 2d

Posting this using @vivaldi.com for the first time.

I'm curious to see what the Vivaldi user experience is like. It looks promising.

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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 3d

This from @codingchaos.bsky.social might help get you close to a usable implementation while we wait for a native one: sarahmhigley.com/writing/sele...

<select> your poison | Sarah Higley

The omnibus guide to understanding and making select components and comboboxes

sarahmhigley.com

Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 4d

Agreed

Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 5d

Haha I don't know if we're making it easier for them to decide or not 😂

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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 5d

The SC talks about _text labels_ matching accessible names. Icons are not text labels so the SC doesn't apply as far as I know. But see advisory techniques here www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/U... with regards to an icon's "hover text"

Understanding Success Criterion 2.5.3: Label in Name | WAI | W3C

www.w3.org

Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 6d

I loved this, except for the part where Jeremy suggests using the CSS carousel pseudo-elements knowing how problematic they still are for users. :/

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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 6d

This is such a great idea. I just chose and ranked my favorite 15 features in the list—primarily CSS and HTML features of course. interop-rank.jakearchibald.com

What are yours?

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Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 6d

😍 Great idea, made by the awesome @jakearchibald.com.
Spend a few minutes to select and rank what matters to you and improve the web platform for everyone!

firefoxdevtools.bsky.social @firefoxdevtools.bsky.social · 6d

As an experiment, we (the Firefox team) wanted to try a new way to get feedback on which Interop proposals matter most.

So, here's a web app where you can rank the proposals you care about, giving us data we can use when reviewing which ones to champion.

interop-rank.jakearchibald.com

Interop Feature Ranking

Rank the web platform features you care most about

interop-rank.jakearchibald.com

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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 7d

I also found this whimsical one and couldn't resist purchasing it. 😅