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@brucel The web must be for ALL • people with
disabilities (whether permanent, temporary or situational • people on lower-powered devices, contained networks, expensive data plans.

MEDIAN DESKTOP 2485.7 KB ▲397.1% MEDIAN MOBILE 2175.9 KB ▲1402.7%
Web pages keep getting bigger https://httparchive.org/reports/state-of-the-web#bytesTotal

Don’t Panic – The Facts About Population - Gapminder

https://www.gapminder.org/fw/income-levels/

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cost-of-mobile-data-worldwide/

Mind the gap the highest average cost is 30,000% more
than the cheapest average price https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cost-of-mobile-data-worldwide/

Android majority median UK speed is 28.51 Mbps, USA is
54.99 Mbps, and Hong Kong is 112.32 Mbps Android %age Download speed (Mbps) Rwanda 80% 0.81 Cambodia 60% 1.29 India 96% 4.09 Indonesia 92% 1.88 Laos 83% 1.99 Philippines 87% 2.05 Thailand 74% 14.90 Vietnam 68% 16.39 Connection speed data: https://www.fastmetrics.com/internet-connection-speed-by-country.php Android stats: statcounter https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide

Downloading a typical app with 20 MB APK can take
more than 30 minutes on a 2G network, and the download is likely to fail before completion, due to the flaky nature of the network. “ - How we built Facebook Lite for every Android phone and network Facebook Lite

Twitter “Twitter Lite is network resilient. To reach every person
on the planet, we need to reach people on slow and unreliable networks … Twitter Lite is interactive in under 5 seconds over 3G on most devices. Most of the world is using 2G or 3G networks; a fast initial experience is essential.” https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/open-source/2017/how-we-built-twitter-lite.html

Best-selling device last year https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_a12-10604.php

https://themarkup.org/still-loading/2022/10/19/dollars-to-megabits-you-may-be-paying-400-times-as-much-as-your-neighbor-for-internet-service

<!DOCTYPE html> <meta charset=utf-8> <title>Howdy</title> <h1>Hello, world!</h1> (77 bytes) 48
KB, after minifying, optimising and gzipping

https://medium.com/walmartglobaltech/the-bene fi ts-of-server-side-rendering-over-client-side-rendering-5d07 ff 2cefe8

React accessibility Nothing inherently inaccessible, if ▪ you choose the
right components, eg one that produces <nav class=“nav”> rather than <div class=“nav”> ▪ you manually manage focus -all the time!- if making a Single Page Application

https://careers.twitter.com

https://twitter.com/aardrian/status/1629269332856373250

https://platforms.barnardos.org.uk/standards/web-performance/

Battery use is a safeguarding issue One fundamental problem that
homeless and vulnerable people currently face is the issue of recharging their devices. Many homeless people put themselves in danger in order to access power for their devices, trespassing private property and using outdoor power sockets… This puts them at risk of altercations, violence, or even arrest. The potential for empowering homeless people through digital technology (Lemos&Crane 2013, PDF)

React Native

From the vendor "we found that React Native APIs provide
strong support for accessibility. However, we also found many core components do not yet fully utilize platform accessibility APIs and support is missing for some platform specific features." Facebook, March 2021 The Accessibility API for React and React Native enables you to make any React-powered experience usable by someone who may use assistive technology, like a screen reader for the blind and visually impaired. Facebook, November 2015

https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/31820

Reactembengularbonestraphubpack.js

Good HTML is foundational Start off with just good quality
code. That’s by far and away the best thing you could do for accessibility, especially screen reader accessibility. Screen readers are absolutely dependent on plain old semantic HTML. Divs and spans are the absolute worst thing you can do to us because they’re meaningless. HTML5 introduced a whole bunch of elements nav, main, header, footer, aside and such. And from a screen reader user point of view these were one of the most amazing strides forward I can remember coming across. https://f-word.dev/episodes/19/ - Léonie Watson

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@brucel Accessibility is part of Usability “high conformance with web
accessibility guidelines may provide bene fi ts to users without disabilities.” 

@brucel Schmutz, Sonderegger and Sauer   • Sixty-one participants without
disabilities used one of three websites di ff ering in levels of accessibility • A high level of web accessibility led to better performance (i.e., task completion time and task completion rate) than low or very low accessibility. • Likewise, high web accessibility improved user ratings (i.e., perceived usability, aesthetics, workload and trustworthiness) compared to low or very low web accessibility. Department of Psychology, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0018720816640962

@brucel • Picture of TBL “web developer”

@brucel Sir Uncle Timbo: The web is for everyone and
collectively we hold the power to change it. It won’t be easy. But if we dream a little and work a lot, we can get the web we want. https://webfoundation.org/2019/03/web-birthday-30/

@brucel What can you do? Learn the semantics of HTML.
There are 120(ish) elements, that’s all!

@brucel Most 2-year-olds can say about 100 words.

@brucel By the time your toddler is 2 1/2, she'll
probably know close to 300

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Use the force <div class=btn> Clicky click </div>

Visual impaired <div class=btn role=button aria-pressed=false> Clicky click </div>

Keyboard <div class=btn role=button aria-pressed=false tabindex=0> Clicky click </div> wrapper.addEventListener("keydown",
e => { if (e.key === " " || e.key === "Enter" || e.key === "Spacebar") { toggleBtn(e.target); } });

Style its states [aria-disabled] { pointer-events: none; opacity: 0.5; }

Or ..... <button>

Bruce’s law of web dev Built-in beats bolt-on. Bigly.

HTML popover <button popovertarget=“mypopover"> Show popover</button> <div id="mypopover" popover> Popover
content</div> ::backdrop { backdrop-filter: blur(3px);}

<dialog> <dialog> <button autofocus>Close</button> <p>I’m a modal</p> </dialog> <button id=show>Show
the dialog</button> const dialog = document.querySelector("dialog"); const showButton = document.querySelector("#show"); const closeButton = document.querySelector("dialog button"); // "Show the dialog" button opens the dialog modally showButton.addEventListener("click", () => { dialog.showModal(); }); // "Close" button closes the dialog closeButton.addEventListener("click", () => { dialog.close(); });

HTML accordions <details name="accordian"> <summary>FAQ 1</summary> <p>This is the answer
to Q1</p> </details> <details name="accordian"> <summary>FAQ 2</summary> <p>This is the answer to Q2</p> </details> <details name="accordian"> <summary>FAQ 3</summary> <p>This is the answer to Q3</p> </details> All browsers Speci fi cation stage

<selectlist> https://microsoftedge.github.io/Demos/selectlist/index.html

http://www.html5accessibility.com/index.html

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/compliance/regulatory/o ff ering-section-508-vpats

@brucel Progressive Web Apps • Web sites ++ • Can
save to home screen, open full-screen • Can work o ff l ine (using Service Workers) • Much smaller initial install, instant updates but only the changes • Twitter, Wordle, Farmbound web.dev/learn/pwa/

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Google PM https://twitter.com/b1tr0t/status/1364996531527380993

Early progressive web apps in Asia & Africa

https://daverupert.com/2023/05/getting-started-view-transitions/

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@brucel APIs not in Safari

@brucel Rule 2.5.6 Apps that browse the web must use
the appropriate WebKit framework and WebKit Javascript. https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#software-requirements

@brucel The illusion of competition

@brucel https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/hackers-can-force-ios-and-macos-browsers-to-divulge-passwords-and-a-whole-lot-more/

@brucel For your comfort and security. • The researchers have
successfully leveraged iLeakage to recover YouTube viewing history, the content of a Gmail inbox—when a target is logged in—and a password as it’s being auto fi lled by a credential manager. • While iLeakage works against Macs only when running Safari, iPhones and iPads can be attacked when running any browser because they’re all based on Apple’s WebKit browser engine.

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@brucel open-web-advocacy.org

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@brucel Browsers are powered by an ‘engine,’ which is fundamental
to browser performance.… Apple bans alternatives to its own browser engine on its mobile devices; a restriction that is unique to Apple. This restriction also seriously inhibits the capability of web apps – apps that run on a browser rather than having to be individually downloaded – depriving consumers and businesses of the full bene fi ts of this innovative technology. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cma-plans-market-investigation-into-mobile-browsers-and-cloud-gaming

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@brucel Gatekeepers and core services Gatekeepers should therefore not use
their position to require their dependent business users to use any of the services provided together with, or in support of, core platform services by the gatekeeper itself as part of the provision of services or products by those business users gatekeepers should also be prohibited from requiring end users to use such services

@brucel https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/api/ fi les/document/print/en/ip_23_4328/IP_23_4328_EN.pdf

@brucel Big teeth from March 2024 If a gatekeeper violates
the rules laid down in the legislation, it risks a fi ne of up to 10% of its total worldwide turnover. For a repeat o ff ence, a fi ne of up to 20% of its worldwide turnover may be imposed.

@brucel There is still a dif fi cult fi ght
ahead Apple has a legal budget of over $1 billion USD annually. “work out how to get closer to a particular risk but be prepared to manage it it it does go nuclear, ... steer the ship as close as you can to that line because that's where the competitive advantage occurs. Apple had to pay a large fi ne, Tim [Cook]’s reaction was that's the right choice, don't let that scare you, I don't want you to stop pushing the envelope.’ Bruce Sewell - Former Apple General Council

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/ios/build_instructions.md

@brucel Apple employees are very sad :-(

@brucel Set Safari free!

@brucel Consider making a Progressive Web App next time, for
cross- device joy, tasty HTML semantic goodness (h1 - h6!) and accessibility. Until the Apple Browser Ban is ended, use something like Capacitor.js to get it into App Store. Follow and support Open Web Advocacy.

@brucel • [image of a crowd of people - terrible
stock photo?]

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