Hidde is a front-end, design systems and web accessibility specialist from Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He is excited about web standards, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and accessibility. Hidde writes about these things and more on hidde.blog. In his free time, he works on a coffee table book covering the video conferencing applications of our decade.
Digital transformation has an elephant in the room: the energy use of digital services can be enormous. In 2024, the World Bank estimated the internet to account for 1-4% of global greenhouse emissions, similar to aviation. The good news is: there are opportunities to improve. From user centered design to web development and infrastructure: they all impact how government digital services use energy. In this talk, we’ll look at best practices from the W3C’s new Web Sustainability Guidelines.
| Built-in accessibility: blessing or curse? | JSHeroes | May 2025 | |
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| ARIA, the good parts | Pixel Pioneers | June 2025 |
