Hidde de Vries
Hidde de Vries (@hdv) is a web standards and digital accessibility specialist (CPWA) for 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.
A Web That Serves Us All
The web is for everyone. That was the promise in 1994, and it held up for long. For years, we’ve been using the web to make money, do admin, watch cat gifs, and share what we want with the whole world. Fast forward to 2026: issues of speed, access, dullness are emerging on the platform. Does the web still serve us all?
In this talk, you’ll learn more about what we could improve, with practical tips on building the web to make it more sustainable, ethical, accessible, fun, and, last but not least, ours.
Hidde will also be running a workshop on Modern CSS for Everyday Development, the day before the conference.
- On the web
- https://hidde.blog
- On LinkedIn
- hiddedevries
- On Bluesky
- @hidde.blog
- On Mastodon
- front-end.social/@hdv