Notes

National Rail what have you done to your semi-accessible native Android app? Since today it's a poorly wrapped up, slimmed down version of your website without most of the customisable features pretending to be an app.

Screenshot of National Rail app which appears like the website version but missing most of its features apart from live departures

Could search suggestions drop-down (autocomplete) be coming soon for GOV.UK Search?

Recent accessibility and usability testing with very few issues. Zero WCAG failures A-AA and overall positive feedback from users with a variety of access needs.

I need a reason to justify a short winter trip to the Emerald Isle, beside stocking up on delicious Tayto, tea and bakery goods not to be found this side of the Irish Sea. Any accessibility/design/tech meetups in Dublin this side of Christmas?

Thoroughly enjoying State of the Browser 2024. Brilliantly organised with a diverse lineup of speakers and topics. Turned up 10+ years ago not knowing anyone, now it feels like home with so many familiar, friendly folks to catchup with #Sotb2024

Still some frustrating accessibility issues under the hood for @bsky.app to sort out with seemingly easy ways to fix, as well no URLs for tabs

Almost run over on the pavement intersecting an unmarked private driveway by a maniac motorist 😱 The land where motorists have priority

My first try of Brazilian comfort food in nearby Tooting market

Pastel de carne, a plate of Yuca fried with a plastic galss of passion fruit juice

Setup Brid.gy to syndicate content I'm publishing on calumryan.com to Bluesky

Third visit to the Pacific coast. Exploring Valparaíso in good company with the very best of seafood.

Calum beside the Pacific ocean with clear blue sky

Ten years since attending my first IndieWebCamp Brighton and still some familiar faces as well as new pleasingly

Group of people around a table and projector screen with IWC Brighton displayed

Happy #BlueBeanieDay ! 💙
Striving for a more accessible web everyday #a11y
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Beanie_Day

Calum wearing a blue beanie with backdrop of clear blue sky and corner of a typical terraced house in London

First time living in a 2008-built property with electric central heating where the control panel seems to have been designed purely by an engineer minus any UX designer 😵‍💫

An electronic heating timer controller with dial and digital display

Still a favourite London pizza spot for custom toppings at a decent price, Crust Bros

Red pizza with toppings of burrata, onions, nduja and smoked mozarella

Final leg of the journey Brussels to London. The usual experience of everyone queueing at once to board, so waited in the lounge until last few minutes to departure. #TrainsNotPlanes

platform view of Eurostar in the evening at Brussels South

Second leg smooth transfer at Frankfurt Am Main for ICE International to Brussels #TrainsNotPlanes

front view of ICE train inside Frankfurt Am Main Hauptbahnhof and destination screen with Brussels

So far on time, first leg of my train journey back to London from Germany #TrainsNotPlanes

Front of ICE train arriving at station on clear morning

Little to show at IndieWebCamp Create day, but did manage to setup my site on Mastodon (partly)

Exploring UNESCO World Heritage Site, Bamberg, one of the few German cities spared aerial bombardment and total destruction in WW2

River view with bridge, clock tower and painted building beside

Pre-dinner walk in Nuremberg

Skyline view at twilight of central Nuremberg

Off to Nuremberg, brb