Hidde de Vries

Hidde de Vries

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.

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Short biography

Hidde de Vries (@hdv) is a web standards and digital accessibility specialist (CPWA) at the Dutch government.

He is interested in making the web work for humans in the broadest sense of the word. Previously, he worked for Mozilla, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and Sanity.

Hidde is a co-editor of WCAG and WCAG-EM, contributor to the Web Sustainability Guidelines and a member of the W3C’s Advisory Board. In his free time, he works on a coffee table book covering the video conferencing applications of our decade.

Full biography

Hidde de Vries (@hdv) is a web standards and digital accessibility specialist (CPWA) at the Dutch government.

He is interested in making the web work for humans in the broadest sense of the word. Previously, he worked for Mozilla, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and Sanity.

Hidde is a co-editor of WCAG and WCAG-EM, contributor to the Web Sustainability Guidelines and a member of the W3C’s Advisory Board.

His favourite programming language is CSS, his interest in AI is mostly in the philosophical aspects of it, and he believes there is still plenty of work to do to ensure the web is for everyone. 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.

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