Notices by Hidde (hdv@front-end.social)

“bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content grow by 50%. This increase is not coming from human readers, but largely from automated programs that scrape the Wikimedia Commons image catalog of openly licensed images to feed images to AI models” https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/how-crawlers-impact-the-operations-of-the-wikimedia-projects/

did an AI statement https://hidde.blog/ai/

I don't like ruining the party, but someone's gotta point out the issues with LLMs, when they are being considered as a way to take notes and summarise during Working Group meetings.

So I did https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2025JanMar/0089.html

Nubya Garcia nailed it at Jools Holland, her new album has really grown on me in the last months.

https://youtu.be/YfZCzOnizmc?si=0-p2n362G3rTNncQ

so excited to see her in Paradiso next week!

🔗One of the most important things to understand about accessibility is how people use the web.

The HMRC accessibility team built these interactive personas that show what completing tasks is like on inaccessible services https://personas-prototype.herokuapp.com/

quick reminder that it is legal almost everywhere to make websites about literally anything.

I made this list of concerts that I went to, which serves litle purpose was fun to make (look up dates, memories etc) and build https://log.hidde.blog/live-music/

The written version of my talk “Creativity cannot be computed”, slides + text of roughly what I said: https://talks.hiddedevries.nl/dFZf3b/slides

Interested to hear what people think! #BTConf

Yay, today, the European Council adopted the nature restoration law that almost didn't make it

Personal update: as of yesterday, I've joined the CSS Working Group as an Invited Expert! Looking forward to try and contribute to the work and learn from this awesome group of people.

ACT-R CG, a group at W3C, basically interprets accessibility standards as testing rules. Yesterday they announced their “implementations” page, which shows their rules are used by various parties (like axe).

Wrote a short post about ACT Rules last night to celebrate!

https://hidde.blog/act-rules/