Elly Loel

Elly Loel

@elly.lol

ellyloel.com queering the web. trying to make things less shit. #WebDesigner / #DesignEngineer ( #Accessibility #DesignSystems ) #WebPlatform & #WebStandards ( #HTML #CSS ) #Queer, #Disabled & #Neurodivergent ( #AuDHD #POTS ) see pinned post for more.

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Elly Loel
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The best dark mode toggle is probably none • Lea Verou 🔖 https://lea.verou.me/blog/2026/dark-mode-toggles-2/#fnref3 🔗 https://ellyloel.com/the-best-dark-mode-toggle-is-probably-none-lea-verou/ #Bookmarks #Design #Accessibility #CSS #Browsers #BuildingWebsites

lea.verou.meThe best dark mode toggle is probably none • Lea VerouMy post on two-state dark mode toggles sparked a lot of discussion about the optimal dark mode toggle design. But should you have a (persistent) dark mode toggle at all? I have since been convinced that for most websites, the answer is no.
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Decorative Images… 🔖 https://adrianroselli.com/2026/10/decorative-images.html 🔗 https://ellyloel.com/decorative-images/ #Bookmarks #Accessibility #AltText #ImageDescriptions

adrianroselli.comDecorative Images……aren’t a thing. Three hand-drawn lines curling together like an S or three skinny snakes trying to spoon. At least not as far as people are concerned. Yes, this is an absolutist take, but sometimes it’s necessary to take the absolutist position to force someone to justify their own reasoning.…
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Evaluating a Success Criterion 🔖 https://adrianroselli.com/2026/09/evaluating-a-success-criterion.html 🔗 https://ellyloel.com/evaluating-a-success-criterion/ #Bookmarks #Accessibility #Resources

adrianroselli.comEvaluating a Success CriterionSidney Paget illustration of Sherlock Holmes from Strand Magazine, December 1892, p.646, but I added papers from his March 1893 (p.281 of Strand Magazine) illustration and then two versions of the W3C logo to the front page. When performing a WCAG evaluation (or review or audit), it’s easy to get…
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WCAG 3’s road to hell is paved with supplemental requirements · Eric Eggert 🔖 https://yatil.net/blog/wcag-3-road-to-hell-paved-with-supplemental-requirements 🔗 https://ellyloel.com/wcag-3-... https://ellyloel.com/wcag-3-s-road-to-hell-is-paved-with-supplemental-requirements-eric-eggert/

yatil.netWCAG 3’s road to hell is paved with supplemental requirements · Eric EggertFirst, I want to apologize to the participants of the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AGWG) at W3C, as this blog post will …
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Information Foraging: A Theory of How People Navigate on the Web 🔖 https://www.nngroup.com/articles/information-foraging/ 🔗 https://ellyloel.com/information-foraging-a-theory-of-how-people-navigate-on-the-web/ #Bookmarks #Web #Reading #Design

nngroup.comInformation Foraging: A Theory of How People Navigate on the WebTo decide whether to visit a page, people take into account how much relevant information they are likely to find on that page relative to the effort involved in extracting that info.
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Your documentation is still in your Mum's filing cabinet 🔖 https://gerireid.com/blog/organising-documentation-for-humans-and-ai/ 🔗 https://ellyloel.com/your-documentation-is-still-in-your-mums-filing-cabinet/ #Bookmarks #Documentation #DesignSystems

gerireid.comYour documentation is still in your Mum's filing cabinetIt's kind of wild that we're still organising knowledge like it's sitting in a 1970s filing cabinet. People and AI don't think in folders. They find information through search, context and connections.
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Substack writers, you need a website! 🔖 https://elizabethtai.com/2026/06/10/substack-writers-you-need-a-website/ 🔗 https://ellyloel.com/substack-writers-you-need-a-website/ #Bookmarks #Writing #WhyYouNeedAPersonalWebsite

elizabethtai.comSubstack writers, you need a website!Substack is convenient, but treat it as a distribution tool for your content. Your content should live on an independently owned website, which has a domain name you control and own. This way, you …
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Announcing: Skeleton 🩻, the culminating project of my PhD! 🔖 https://www.frank.computer/blog/2026/07/announcing-skeleton.html 🔗 https://ellyloel.com/announcing-skeleton-the-culminating-project-of-my-phd/ #Bookmarks #Dataviz #Accessibility

frank.computerAnnouncing: Skeleton 🩻, the culminating project of my PhD!My final research project looked at the barriers that sighted practitioners face when authoring non-visual data experiences. We co-designed, built tooling, built a UI prototype, and ran a study.
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The Absolute State of Management - Infrequently Noted 🔖 https://infrequently.org/2026/07/state-management/ 🔗 https://ellyloel.com/the-absolute-state-of-management-infrequently-noted/ #Bookmarks

infrequently.orgThe Absolute State of Management - Infrequently NotedIt is by no means the gravest linguistic crime of the React epoch, but 'state management' grates like nails on chalkboard. The most popular tools in this space simply do not manage state, they merely propagate it; React very much included. This leads to confusion and low-quality products. Thankfully, better alternatives exist. They all add the dimension of time, and we can distinguish more useful tools by how they handle conflicts.
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i want to see stats for which are the most (and least) used html elements. surely someone’s queried the http archive dataset for that before, right?

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AI Doesn't Fix Accessible Systems. It Depends on Them. — Anna E. Cook 🔖 https://annaecook.com/writing/2026/ai-doesnt-fix-accessible-systems-it-depends-on-them 🔗 https://ellyloel.com/ai-doesnt-fix-accessible-systems-it-depends-on-them-anna-e-cook/ #Bookmarks #AI #Accessibility

annaecook.comAI Doesn't Fix Accessible Systems. It Depends on Them. — Anna E. CookWhy AI depends on the foundation accessible design systems build — and how "AI will fix accessibility" is producing the opposite outcome at industry scale.

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The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML 🔖 https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-simple-html/ 🔗 https://ellyloel.com/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-simple-html/ #Bookmarks #HTML #Performance

shkspr.mobiThe unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTMLI've told this story at conferences - but due to the general situation I thought I'd retell it here. A few years ago I was doing policy research in a housing benefits office in London. They are singularly unlovely places. The walls are brightened up with posters offering helpful services for people fleeing domestic violence. The security guards on the door are cautiously indifferent to anyone…
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Designing with Mustard — Anna E. Cook 🔖 https://annaecook.com/writing/2026/designing-with-mustard 🔗 https://ellyloel.com/designing-with-mustard-anna-e-cook/ #Bookmarks #AI #Design #Accessibility

annaecook.comDesigning with Mustard — Anna E. CookDesigning with mustard is the future of design. I used to think it was ketchup, but I was wrong. If you're not currently designing with mustard, you should get out of design and tech. The future of design is mustard. Adapt or perish.
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❓ what’s the best resource for designers to learn html and css? i’m putting together some resources for designers at work to learn about accessibility and i want one of the key parts to be teaching them about the platform that they are designing for

Elly Loel
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all the ones i know of are geared towards new devs, so they cover stuff that isn’t important to designers (cli, ide, syntax, etc.) i want something that just focuses on semantic html (🤏🏻 aria) and css (box model, layout modes, etc.)

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A selfish manifesto towards rejection of generative AI 🔖 https://www.frank.computer/blog/2026/05/selfish-manifesto.html 🔗 https://ellyloel.com/a-selfish-manifesto-towards-rejection-of-generative-ai/ #Bookmarks #AI #Living #Working

frank.computerA selfish manifesto towards rejection of generative AIIt is completely acceptable to reject modern AI entirely on selfish grounds. Here I offer a 3-part mini-manifesto focused on why, entirely for yourself, you should consider rejecting generative AI.

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i love what 11ty & font awesome are doing to try and make open source more sustainable! i would love to know how accessible build awesome pro is tho and whether wcag & atag were considered during the design & development of build awesome pro with all these features with complex user experiences 😬🤞🏻

Font Awesome@fontawesome.com

Ever wish editing your site felt like… editing your site? Well, Build Awesome Pro collaborative editing = in-place edits on the live site, full-page navigation, and yes, it works with JS disabled 😎 Check out the demo! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBBCl...

youtube.comCollaborative Editing with Build Awesome – Edit Your Web Site Live | DemoYouTube video by Font Awesome
Elly Loel
@elly.lol

i love what 11ty & font awesome are doing to try and make open source more sustainable! i would love to know how accessible build awesome pro is tho and whether wcag & atag were considered during the design & development of build awesome pro with all these features with complex user experiences 😬🤞🏻

Font Awesome@fontawesome.com

Ever wish editing your site felt like… editing your site? Well, Build Awesome Pro collaborative editing = in-place edits on the live site, full-page navigation, and yes, it works with JS disabled 😎 Check out the demo! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBBCl...

youtube.comCollaborative Editing with Build Awesome – Edit Your Web Site Live | DemoYouTube video by Font Awesome
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Design Token Naming Conventions: A Practical Guide 🔖 https://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/design-token-naming-conventions 🔗 https://ellyloel.com/design-token-naming-conventions-a-practical-guide/ #Bookmarks #DesignSystems #DesignTokens #Communication #Documentation

alwaystwisted.comDesign Token Naming Conventions: A Practical GuideA practical guide to naming design tokens, including token tiers, common conventions, and rules that keep systems consistent and scalable.