FYI:
I’m moving my Mastodon account to:
@webaxe@indieweb.social
https://indieweb.social/@webaxe
PS:
Formally on a11y.info which is scheduled to shut down tomorrow (April 22, 2026)
PPS:
Fuck X, Fuck Bluesky
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Category: administrative
So much has happened since the last Web Axe post over 18 months ago. The turmoil with Twitter lately (thanks to evil Elon) has inspired a resurgence of a more friendly and responsible Internet – self-publishing and decentralized content, so let’s hope this continues.
One thing we’ve learned over the last couple decades is that large corporations and their owners should not be the owners of the news, of social media, of us.
There will be more Web Axe blog posts coming, and more often. And the Twitter content will be cross-posted from Mastodon, a completely free, decentralized, and open-sourced social media platform. Besides this blog (and RSS feed), please feel free to follow Web Axe on Mastodon at @WebAxe@a11y.info.
PS: good tweets
https://twitter.com/AngryGranny1/status/1588655524949921793
Over 1 million people have joined Mastodon since October 27. Between that and those who returned to their old accounts, the number of active users has risen to over 1.6 million today, which, for context, is over 3 times what it was just about two weeks ago!
— Mastodon (@Mastodon@mastodon.social) (@joinmastodon) November 12, 2022
Welcome to the new Web Axe website, WebAxe.org! The RSS feed has also changed. It is now: http://www.webaxe.org/feed/
After over 7 years on Blogger, the website has moved to WordPress. It uses a fairly customized version of the Blaskan theme. Two important plug-ins used are WP Accessibility and WP-Accessible Twitter feed.
Reasons for the change include a fresh responsive design; a shorter and more accurate domain name; and, of course, to get off Blogger (which itself has many reasons, too many to list!)
What do you think of the new site?
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Now on Facebook
Web Axe is now on Facebook! If you’re on Facebook, please give me a “like”! I plan to post the best of the best there fairly regularly, but not too often (maybe every other day). I may even do a poll or two.
Yea, I know it’s somewhat ironic, maybe even a bit hypocritical, that I’m on Facebook since it has major web accessibility issues (with no captioning support, just one of many Facebook issues). But nonetheless, I’m there. All things considered, it’s the biggest social network in the world; it’d be silly not to take advantage of that in spreading the word about web accessibility.
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Hosting Problems
If you haven’t noticed yet, the web hosting account which stores all of Web Axe’s CSS, images, and podcasts (EchoEchoPlus) has been down all day today and is still down. The CSS and most images have been restored by me a few minutes ago by moving them to another host. The podcasts are still unavailable. Big apologies for the inconvenience. And believe me, I’m more bummed (and pissed off) than you. -Dennis
Update:
Two days later, services restored. Fully functional now.