Hidde de Vries
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what they talk about
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where they keep going back
- CSS Day3 editions2018–2025
all 15 in the filters
on a stage with
never shared a talk
who talks about the same things
- Léonie Watson21 talks
- Aaron Gustafson9 talks
- Ire Aderinokun10 talks
- Marcy Sutton Todd23 talks
- Heydon Pickering11 talks
- Christian Heilmann58 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| How To Make Your Website More Accessible with WAI-ARIA | Pixel Pioneers 2025 | 2025-06-20 |
The talk argues ARIA has clear, usable pieces and clear hazards: landmarks, aria-expanded and aria-pressed reliably convey state; accessible naming… | ||
| display: green; applying the web sustainability guidelines | CSS Day 2025 | 2025-06-05 |
The talk gives concrete levers: adopt the W3C Web Sustainability Guidelines (6 principles, 92 guidelines, 256 success criteria), measure with websitecarbon.com… | ||
| Built-in accessibility: blessing or curse? | JSHeroes 2025 | 2025-05-29 |
Browsers add concrete accessibility: the popover attribute gives aria-expanded, focus return and a details relationship; show-modal and native date pickers add… | ||
| Hidde de Vries at performance.sync() | performance.sync() 2024 | 2024-11-13 |
Claim: new web platform features cut bundle size by letting the browser provide common UI. Examples: the popover attribute gives light-dismiss, keyboard… | ||
| Creativity Cannot Be Computed | beyond tellerrand Berlin 2024 | 2024-11-07 |
Claim: creativity cannot be computed. Evidence: large models and image generators produce plausible outputs but do not supply the life experiences research and… | ||
| ARIA: the good parts | NDC Porto 2023 | 2023-10-16 |
Explains that ARIA is an ontology for accessibility metadata and that a few attributes reliably help users: landmarks for page regions, aria-expanded and… | ||
| How popovers are about to become a whole lot easier to build | HalfStack Vienna 2023 | 2023-09-15 |
Browsers now provide a built‑in popover attribute and the dialog element so popovers can work with little or no JavaScript; Chrome/Edge ship it already, Chrome… | ||
| Dialog dilemmas and modal mischief: a deep dive into popovers | CSS Day 2023 | 2023-06-08 |
Browser support timeline: popover lands in Chrome stable and Edge now, Safari 17 in the fall, Firefox actively developing. popover attribute gives built-in… | ||
| Dialog Dilemmas and Modal Mischief: A Deep Dive Into Pop-Ups | JSNation 2023 | 2023-06-01 |
The talk discusses the use of dialogues and popovers in web development. Dialogues can be modal or non-modal and are now accessibility-supported. Popovers are… | ||
| It's the markup that matters | JSConf Budapest 2022 | 2022-06-02 |
Markup determines the accessibility tree and the values assistive tech sees, not frameworks or buzzwords; browsers generate roles, names and states from HTML… | ||
| Accelerating accessibility in web | Git Commit Show 2021 | 2021-11-27 |
A compact checklist for making components actually accessible: prefer native HTML over ARIA so controls ship with focus, states and keyboard behavior; verify… | ||
| Semantics and How to Get Them Right | beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2021 | 2021-11-08 |
Claim: using the right HTML elements actually gives screen readers jump lists, reader mode, form autofill and native keyboard/form behavior; tools used are… | ||
| It's the Markup that Matters | Next.js Conf 2020 | 2020-10-27 |
Explains concrete markup actions: ensure a <title> stays updated, use semantic headings (h1–h3) and landmarks so screen readers can navigate by heading and… | ||
| On the origin of cascades | dotCSS 2019 | 2019-12-04 |
A concise genealogy: CSS originates from a 1990s proposal that introduces the weight of influence (a weird 30/70 style idea) and early inheritance, and it wins… | ||
| The web is ready for great graphic design | CSS Day + UX Special 2018 | 2018-06-14 |
Claim: the web is ready for great graphic design because modern layout tools actually do the work previously done with hacks. Uses CSS Grid, Flexbox, viewport… | ||
| The web is ready for great graphic design | Frontend United 2018 | 2018-06-01 |
Argues the web can finally deliver concrete modernist graphic design: equal-height cards via flexbox and CSS Grid, intentional whitespace with grid lines and… | ||
| Trollies, veils and prisoners | Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) 2017 | 2017-11-16 |
Argues that ethical thought experiments map cleanly onto design choices, using the trolley problem (save five people vs one) to frame tradeoffs, the veil of… | ||
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