Hidde de Vries

hidde.blog · Personal blog · on HN since 2022

Hidde de Vries writes about web accessibility, HTML semantics, and the open web, including the popover attribute and dialogs.

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  1. 1
    Trains Are Offices
    2 people · 6 points · first shared 2024 · 1 comments on HN
  2. 2
    Semantics and the popover attribute: what to use when?
    2 people · 3 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
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    Common accessibility issues that you can fix today
    1 people · 3 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
  5. 5
    Clippy Returned (As an Unnecessary "AI")
    1 people · 2 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
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    I'm back to building my own digital music collection
    1 people · 2 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
  8. 8
    Ableist Interactions
    1 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
  9. 9
    How to avoid that your post about AI helps the hype
    1 people · 1 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
  10. 10
    Data-informed flex-grow for illustration purposes
    1 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
  11. 11
    Positioning Anchored Popovers
    1 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
  12. 12
    Better Accessible Names
    1 people · 1 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
  13. 13
    The web doesn’t have version numbers
    1 people · 1 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
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