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Bruce Lawson's personal site
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Bruce Lawson's personal site is a personal blog at brucelawson.co.uk about web and politics. Since 2008, 57 different Hacker News readers have linked it 75 times, most often “JavaScript and screenreaders”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (12) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Bruce Lawson's blog mainly to cite his 2011 post arguing that JavaScript works with screen readers, plus posts on HTML5, Blink and web standards. Commenters use these as support rather than praising them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 12 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- JavaScript and screenreaders5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2011-03-01
- Set Safari Free3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-09-30
- Are developers falling out of love with Apple?2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-05-15
- Apple gets punchy in Brussels DMA compliance workshop2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-07-03
- Opera will use Blink2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-04-03
- HTML5: notes for analysts and journalists2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-07-25
- Apple's malicious compliance – the EU strikes back2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-12-19
- The practical value of semantic HTML2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-03-29
What Hacker News says?
I took a react class and the intro was a lot of html/css/design stuff. The CSShints site isn't just CSS, so its worth exploring. There is a lot of good stuff published that's hard to find. I wish I had a better catch all resource page. Codepen.io is a good playground to play around with html/css/javascript and it has some javascript frameworkstuff too. A lot of people put together good content. It seems to surface t…
Comment linking /2018/the-practical-value-of-semantic-html/
on “DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks”Submitted Opera will use Blink as a story · 162 points
HN discussionOpera will be using Blink: http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2013/hello-blink/
Comment linking /2013/hello-blink/
on “Blink: A rendering engine for the Chromium project”Submitted Is Apple breaking PWAs out of malicious compliance? as a story · 73 points
HN discussion> What about those with disabilities and use screen readers or braille displays? Screen readers work just fine with js generated content¹². I don't know about braille displays, but I guess they work the same. ¹ http://stackoverflow.com/a/18861097 ² http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2011/javascript-and-screenreade...
Comment linking /2011/javascript-and-screenreaders/
on “Elm's Time-Traveling Debugger”Submitted The practical value of semantic HTML as a story · 69 points
HN discussionhere's a link to support that http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2011/javascript-and-screenreade...
Comment linking /2011/javascript-and-screenreaders/
on “Don't tell me how to enable JavaScript”Submitted I hate computers. But I love what you can do with them. as a story · 56 points
HN discussion> 1. Autofocus on the first field However, there are some accessibility concerns. Screenreader users may be dumped into a form field without context and/or explanatory content, which may have preceded the form field and may be essential. Sometimes it's still best to let users decide, when they are ready for a specific interaction. [1] https://medium.com/@gavyn/til-autofocus-inputs-are-an-access... [2] https://brucel…
Comment linking /2009/the-accessibility-of-html-5-autofocus/
on “Tips for Better Signup / Login UX”Submitted The vision behind Opera 15 and beyond as a story · 47 points
HN discussionYou are right to question this. There does seem to be a bit of a long standing myth that ALL javascript is bad for accessibility: http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2011/javascript-and-screenreade... In this case though, from an accessibility point of view there are a few issues with the use of a link tag rather than the standard form 'input submit' or 'button'. Problems include: - It goes against user expectations of how…
Comment linking /2011/javascript-and-screenreaders/
on “How to beat comment spam”Submitted Opera and WebKit: a personal perspective as a story · 47 points
HN discussionSee http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2011/html5-notes-for-analysts-a...
Comment linking /2011/html5-notes-for-analysts-and-journalists/
on “The HTML5 boom is coming. Fast”Submitted time element dropped from HTML5 spec as a story · 25 points
HN discussion"Screenreaders in generally do not support JavaScript." Please stop saying that. It hasn't been true for a good 5 years or so. * http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2011/javascript-and-screenreade... * http://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey4/#javascript * http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/client-side-script.html
Comment linking /2011/javascript-and-screenreaders/
on “SEO in JavaScript Web Apps”Submitted CSS: Has(), the God Selector as a story · 22 points
HN discussionOr, Apple could actually invest in Safari to make it better than the competition, instead of artificially making it the best browser on iThings. As one of the founder members of Open Web Advocacy (the group who have been briefing UK, EU, Japanese and Australian regulators) wrote, "But let’s set out aspirations higher. Imagine a fantastic Safari on iOS, Mac, Android, Windows and Linux, giving Chrome a run for its mon…
Comment linking /2021/set-safari-free/
on “Apple Considering Dropping Requirement for iPhone Web Browsers to Use WebKit”Submitted Apple's New Core Technology Fee Is a Core Technology Fleece as a story · 10 points
HN discussionBy focussing on touchscreen authentications in the cloud, the author handwaves away the importance of Coles Law on brand loyalty and ARPU. I've made some notes: http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2013/notes-on-yaron-schoens-pla...
Comment linking /2013/notes-on-yaron-schoens-platform-economics-in-a-nutshell/
on “Platform economics in a nutshell”Submitted CSS colour names that sound like porn actor names as a story · 9 points
HN discussionWe knew :) http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2010/a-minimal-html5-document/ <!doctype html> <html lang=en> <meta charset=utf-8> <title>blah</title> <body> <p>I'm the content
Comment linking /2010/a-minimal-html5-document/
on “Did You Know? HTML5 Tag Omission”Submitted Apple gets punchy in Brussels DMA compliance workshop as a story · 7 points
HN discussion> Do consumers actually want it? This feels like developer projections. Asking whether consumers want any developer API they clearly don't know exists is always tricky as is going to be a "want" by proxy. First and foremost, there's cost. Developers will pass on FCM service costs in app pricing which is clearly bad for consumers. Service choice encourages price competitiveness. But beyond that, in this case, I would…
Comment linking /2010/in-praise-of-ie6/
on “Demystifying Web Push Notifications”Submitted Up the kriek: Apple gets punchy in Brussels DMA compliance workshop as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Are developers falling out of love with Apple? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Igalia and the Web's New Open-Prioritization Experment as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted IE 6 mobile standards compliance tests as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Are developers falling out of love with Apple? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The practical value of semantic HTML (2019) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Letter to my MP about web censorship as a story · 5 points
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