Steve Woodson, CPACC

#introduction Over 20 years of bringing web applications to life. Passionate about Accessibility, Design Systems, & User Experience. Novice but enthusiastic content creator, learning how to share more about going full time freelance https://stevenwoodson.com/ while building https://beinclusive.app

We have an open position for a senior engineer in the @storybook.js.org team again! 🏠 Fully remote 🤗 OSS work every single day 🛠️ Developer tooling and JS ecosystem 🌍 Europe ❌🎨 Not much UI work, mostly behind the scenes details like parsers, rendering, Node.js CLIs, web servers etc.

Hey Lazyweb friends, I'll soon be in Las Colinas (Irving) Texas with some free time on my hands, got any tips on must see/do things while I'm there? So far, all I got is a visit to the Mustangs of Las Colinas sculpture (photo attached is one I found online, can't wait to see it in person!)

After careful consideration and a look at where the industry is spending it's funding we've decided to pivot #FFConf in a "new" direction. I present to you: ffconf.ai Please share with bots and humans alike.

25-ish years of working with HTML almost every day and still there are elements I don't recall ever using (yet). This is a great overview of what's out there, including the newer ones!

Hello, World! Tickets are now on sale for Viewport! We are an independent web conference coming to Liverpool on May 14th 2027. For the web, the people who build it, and the people we build it for. Get your tickets at: viewportconf.org

Tickets for Viewport go on sale this Monday at 10am, alongside our first speaker announcements. viewportconf.org

hey friends, a little reminder that I'm available for part time freelance UX/product work. Discovery, research, strategy, ops. I have been told I am a goddamn delight to work with and I will make you some amazing custom playlists.

The Front-End Community is Still Alive and Beautiful I thought about dropping an addendum into my last post to say just how overwhelmed I am, in the best possible way, by the way all of you in the... https://geoffgraham.me/the-front-end-community-is-still-alive-and-beautiful/

I didn't realize there was so much interest in "nan", guess I always assumed it was a developer thing. But seriously, noticing a precipitous uptick in these weird failed-mail-merge-looking emails lately. I don't understand the goal, bait a response that validates it's a real email?

I just used this analogy explaining CMS vs hand coded site to a client. * Hand coded - like a painter given a canvas * CMS - like anyone else given a paint by number kit. Pretty solid right? Limited palette and less options in favor of making it as simple as possible. They got it right away!

Can also attest that they're really nice people to work with! I would go after it myself if I had some map experience. This sounds like an interesting challenge for someone with the right skillset to help bring it over the finish line.

Here is the 2026 edition of the HTML boilerplate I use for websites I build! Let me know if there's anything else I should consider including! matuzo.at/blog/2026/ht...

It's been a while since I've done a people looking for work thread. If you're looking for work, put what you do and what you're looking for (full time, freelance etc) as a reply. Companies: get hiring people!

I just successfully resurrected a power washer by disassembling and cleaning its carburetor. Oil, air filter, and spark plug changed for good measure. Sentences I never thought I'd write, turns out you really can just do things!

Better get your tickets now while you still can, fewer than 10 early-bird tickets left now...

In two weeks, Tech as Cognitive #Accessibility: Designing Systems for ADHD Brains w/ Eleanor Beilby Let's reframe ADHD-related barriers like executive dysfunction, time blindness, and working memory as a11y concerns, with practical patterns & real examples. a11ytalks.com/posts/2026-jul #A11yTalks

Hey all, I have a big favour to ask. At the beginning of the week, a large client that we had 100% expected to get started with a large project this month has dropped out at the most inconvenient time for us.

Do you remember how amazing the #SotB26 speakers were? Best believe that next #SotB27 won’t be any different - amazing speakers and great topics all day! Go ahead and secure your tickets now so you don’t miss out! 2027.stateofthebrowser.com/tickets/

Okay folks. People are interested in this idea – it has legs and I want to make it happen. If you're a digital professional and interested in being part of such a freelancer collective, send me a message. Nothing set in stone yet, but I've got concepts of a plan and would like to establish this.

I write for people. Emotionally, there is a vain part of me, full of misplaced hope that writing about the unglamorous-yet-vital parts of design and development might help steer LLMs towards better defaults in some small way. Intellectually, I know it is just a drop in the ocean.

Spent most of the evening making dinner and this peach and apple cobbler for a family gathering tomorrow. Pretty proud of it even though it's among the easiest things to make. Quality time offline, often just what I need to unwind and find some joy.

Salma's DevRel perspective gets to the heart of feelings many of us are struggling with. We're in collective mourning over what we had, paired with the fear of an uncertain future. Don't know what the future holds, I just hope we don't lose the craft, community, and empathy that got us this far.

I’ll be available for freelance work from August onwards. I can help you with: - Accessibility workshops, either in person or online - CSS workshops - Consultancy on HTML, CSS and accessibility - Front-end development EN or DE. Get in touch if that sounds interesting ❤️ matuzo.at/about-me

I’m in a hard spot & working with limited executive function capacity. I could use help finding freelance, contract, or consulting leads. 💜 Hard to share. But here are my links too. TJ: ashleemboyer.com/tip-jar. CA: cash.app/$AshleeMFisher. PP: paypal.me/ashleemboyer. V: venmo.com/u/ashleemboyer.

Working in tech was never easy, but the past few years have been especially hard. Professional resilience is one of those "soft skill" topics rarely discussed, I think it's especially relevant now. Here's my contribution, a framework I wish I had from the start. stevenwoodson.com/blog/profess...

just a little fyi, if you might be hiring for a research guided, human centered design leader, I'm just sitting right here, waiting for some product org to have a vision beyond the current AI hype cycle. We can design a better way of working and delivering a quality, user-centered product.

ProTip™️: If you procrastinate doing something for long enough, sometimes it sorts itself out. I had a note-to-self to check out a new software dev app, by the time I opened it up again today I noticed the company was acquired and the app is being sunsetted.

Early Bird tickets are now on sale until 31 July or until they are sold out! There aren’t many In-person tickets left for the general sale. Make sure you get yours as soon as possible so you don’t miss out on what promises to be an amazing day. 2027.stateofthebrowser.com/tickets/

Explain your @ I have little imagination when it comes to naming things. I'm also weirdly proud of using my full name on the internet, take that society!

WDC is back! WDC2026 is taking place on October 9, 2026! We return to The Watershed in Bristol, UK. With awesome speakers: @joshtumath.uk @amyhupe.bsky.social @paavandesign.com @cjforms.bsky.social @duncanpetrie.com @hidde.blog AND MORE TBC! Tickets are just £99! webdevconf.com

It took me 1 try to guess who @aubreysambor.com was @mystery-mutual.bsky.social mystery-mutual.fly.dev

Hi BlueSky pals 📣 Having just completed a fun project with the folks at Clearleft, I’m on the lookout for my next project. I’m open to part-time or full-time contracts outside IR35 and I can help you with: - design systems consultancy & management - content design - design systems documentation

Are they called box trucks because they're shaped like boxes, or because their main utility is in the transport of boxes? 🚚

I’m opening up sessions for individual accessibility coaching soon! ☺️ We can work through something you’re stuck on, general questions, reviewing something you already have, brainstorm, chat about resources. Topic examples: design, dev, content, workflows, team norms, design systems, testing.

Coming to Liverpool in spring 2027, Viewport is a conference about the web, the people who build it, and the people we build it for. Follow for updates, and sign up for our mailing list. No spam, we Promise.resolve();

Finally got around to adding Bluesky to my blog... and then blogged about it. Built on 11ty, supports Likes, Reposts, and Replies (with basic threading). Lots of implementations out there, but mine grabs once per build, not every page load on the client. 🚀 stevenwoodson.com/blog/adding-...

All the cool kids were adding Bluesky reactions to their personal sites and I felt left out, so I finally made some time to get it added to mine. Supports Likes, Reposts, and Replies (with some basic thread support). Any interest in a blog post about how I did it for my Eleventy-based site?

Over the past 19 years, my team @cloudfour.com have shared over 600 articles and resources with the #WebDesign community, absolutely free. But now, our design practice is in danger without your help. Please read and share: cloudfour.com/thinks/more-... #OpenToWork #UXDesign #UIDesign

#SotB26 final presentation by @cassiecodes.bsky.social called "Game on!" A really fun canvas game made with JS and GSAP, started with rectangles and some physics. Cassie layered on more features one at a time until it was full of features like tasks, enemies, and energy!

#SotB26 "Lessons from Building for the Bottom of the Web"by @mikehall314.bsky.social is next. A fascinating deep dive of a project that necessitated a 128kb limit to all page content over the wire + including images! A good reminder to respect the users time and bandwidth.

Now at #SotB26 is Jason Williams talking about Temporal DateTime. Hearing more about the history, why it's taken so long, the issues it fixes, and the challenges of implementation was fascinating. Seeing some of the cool things we can do with this actually makes me excited to work with dates!