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roryokane commented on WebAccessBench: Digital Accessibility Reliability in LLM-Generated Websites [pdf]   conesible.de/wab/whitepap... · Posted by u/kreerc
roryokane · 18 days ago
The whitepaper says that the benchmark counted accessibility problems using the tool axe-core (https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core). It’s too bad that neither the site nor the paper contains any examples of an LLM output and its list of detected problems. I am curious about these aspects:

• Which of axe-core’s rules (https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core/blob/develop/doc/rule-...) LLMs violate most often

• Which groups of users are most affected by those rule violations (e.g. blind users or deaf users)

• Whether it’s likely that I unintentionally violate those same rules in web pages I write

Examples of rule violations and statistics on most-violated rules would make the website more convincing by showing that the detected accessibility errors reflect real problems. It would rule out that the only detected error was a single noisy false positive rule in axe-core. I bet that most readers are not familiar enough with axe-core to trust that it has no false positive rules.

roryokane commented on Vanilla CSS is all you need   zolkos.com/2025/12/03/van... · Posted by u/dchest
roryokane · 3 months ago
The section “Utility Classes: Yes, They Still Exist” is unfair in its comparison of Tailwind with pure CSS. It doesn’t take into account Tailwind’s recommendation in https://tailwindcss.com/docs/styling-with-utility-classes#us... that “if you need to reuse some styles across multiple files, the best strategy is to create a component” in your front-end framework or templating language. So its example of a “typical Tailwind component” is incomplete.

A better comparison would use, for example, a React component:

  function Button({ children }) {
    return (
      <button
        className="inline-flex items-center gap-2 px-4 py-2 rounded-full
                   border border-gray-300 bg-white text-gray-900
                   hover:bg-gray-50 focus:ring-2 focus:ring-blue-500"
      >
        {children}
      </button>
    );
  }
  
  // Usage:
  <Button>Save</Button>
This would counter all of the article’s arguments in favor of pure CSS. If the website used a `Button` component like this, it would also be true that the “HTML stays readable”, that “changes cascade”, that “variants compose”, and that “media queries live with components”.

A better argument against Tailwind would be the added complexity of having a build system and a front-end framework or templating language, if your project doesn’t already have those for other reasons.

(adapted from my better-formatted comment at https://lobste.rs/c/oznzzj)

roryokane commented on Rebecca Heineman has died   pcgamer.com/gaming-indust... · Posted by u/shdon
nottorp · 4 months ago
Pop-up when pressing back on mobile that stopped returning to HN.

Sheesh, the mobile web is really predatory. Good that I don’t use it much.

roryokane · 4 months ago
It’s not just on mobile – PC Gamer’s website does that on desktop too. Even with uBlock Origin. :(
roryokane commented on GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT   openai.com/index/gpt-5-1/... · Posted by u/tedsanders
mezi · 4 months ago
The horror of the triple emdash
roryokane · 4 months ago
standardly’s comment has only hyphens, not em dashes. Em dashes are much longer: - vs. —
roryokane commented on Switch to Jujutsu Already: A Tutorial   stavros.io/posts/switch-t... · Posted by u/keybits
tuatoru · 5 months ago
Yeah, no. It'll have vanished next year.
roryokane · 5 months ago
Jujutsu’s changelog (https://jj-vcs.github.io/jj/latest/changelog/) goes all the way back to 2022 and shows there was a release as recently as two weeks ago. I don’t see why the maintainers would stop at this point.

Also, from Jujutsu’s README (https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj#mandatory-google-disclaimer):

> I (Martin von Zweigbergk, martinvonz@google.com) started Jujutsu as a hobby project in late 2019, and it has evolved into my full-time project at Google, with several other Googlers (now) assisting development in various capacities.

roryokane commented on Slow   michaelnotebook.com/slow/... · Posted by u/calvinfo
alnwlsn · 7 months ago
Most of them aren't defined as rigorously as a dictionary would do, it's more like trying to come up with a plausible description for each word.

"day" might be "time in which the sun goes round the earth" even though that's not technically correct.

"sit" could be "to take a chair" and "sat" might be "to have took a chair"

"moth" is "a bug that flies and likes to eat cloth", and so on.

roryokane · 7 months ago
I made the “sit” gloss long: “to rest your body on your bum (while your bum is on a thing such as a chair or the ground) while your back is up”.
roryokane commented on EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google   reddit.com/r/degoogle/s/Y... · Posted by u/cft
Workaccount2 · 7 months ago
roryokane · 7 months ago
I don’t see anything specifically about boyhood or childhood on that page or on the rest of that sub-Reddit’s wiki. Do you have a more precise link?
roryokane commented on Protest footage blocked as online safety act comes into force   freespeechunion.org/prote... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
roryokane · 7 months ago
Context: the Online Safety Act (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Safety_Act_2023) is a law of the United Kingdom. Previous discussion on Hacker News: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
roryokane commented on I should have loved biology too   nehalslearnings.substack.... · Posted by u/nehal96
zelphirkalt · a year ago
I am not a native speaker, but the two words do not sound even remotely the same.

How does this mistake happen so often? Can you explain people's thought process a bit? Is it just: "Something something 'seg...' ... ah I know, I will simply use another random word that starts with the same 3 letters and doesn't make sense in this phrase!"?

Also this is the first time I see it.

roryokane · a year ago
> the two words do not sound even remotely the same

Pronounced correctly, “segue” sounds just like “Segway” – not like “seg-oo”, as you might have assumed.

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