Curated List: Web Platform, CSS, Accessibility

Context

for all things Svelte, see How to Stay Up-to-Date in Svelte

I recently gave an intro-like talk on building data visualizations for the web with Svelte and the Web Platform (vanilla HTML & CSS) at the CorrelCon 2025 - CorrelAid’s annual convention (and 10-year anniversary) for Data4Good volunteers.

Among other things I was asked where to find learning materials and how to stay up-to-date regarding the web platform / CSS in particular. So I decided to compile a list of those people and resources that I’m following / learning from currently.

Obviously, it’s my personal opinion and by no means exhaustive, complete or omitting someone on purpose. I will update the list over time. Also, I’m a CSS purist and don’t use Tailwind.

• this list is in no particular order
• most people and accounts here are active on Bluesky
• most blogs have RSS feeds.
• entries here link to a good representative article or resource - you might then want to subscribe or follow them on social media and / or browse their archives

Selected CSS & Web Platform People & Resources

First, I want to point out to resources that I use every time I consider using a new Web Platform feature (be it HTML, CSS, or JavaScript):

• Can I Use - go-to resource for checking detailed (as in: measured) browser support for single features: https://caniuse.com/css-container-queries
  • e.g. in public-facing general-audience projects, I don’t use features if they don’t approach 95% and when there’s no performant polyfill
• Google’s Baseline project - esp. helpful for identifying which new-ish features to consider using in upcoming projects: https://web.dev/baseline
• Case study: popover API - Baseline or not?

  1. Baseline-team announced the popover API to be "Baseline-available" in 2024-04-16
  2. A week later, they withdrew the announcement
  3. popover API became "Baseline Newly available" in January 2025
  4. as of 2025-07-07, caniuse.com shows 89,39% support for the most basic parts of the API

Now, my list of recommended CSS, Web Platform (and Accessibility) people and resources:

🆕 Ongoing Updates

• “You don’t need JS” - Lyra Rebane (lyra.horse) with a compact assessment of baseline HTML & CSS in 2025: https://lyra.horse/blog/2025/08/you-dont-need-js/
• Blake Watson - HTML for people: https://htmlforpeople.com/
• Always Twisted - Un-Sass’ing my CSS: https://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/UnSassing-my-CSS
• very comprehensive resource on writing minimal & valid HTML by Jens Oliver Meiert (who also runs Frontend Dogma)
• Annual State of CSS Survey 2025 survey results
• Jono Alderson - Why semantic HTML still matters: https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/why-semantic-html-still-matters/
• CSS Nouveau by Jared White - free CSS course: https://www.spicyweb.dev/css-nouveau/

Initial List

• Jhey - the CSS wizard, who shares all of his demos as code snippets https://bsky.app/profile/jhey.dev
• Learn with Jason (Streaming)
  https://codetv.dev/series/learn-with-jason/s8/how-to-make-a-design-system-thats-not-boring
• Josh W. Comeau
  • great, often interactive blog posts: https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/interactive-guide-to-grid/
  • CSS-for-Developers course: https://css-for-js.dev/
• Miriam „Mia“ Suzanne (CSS Working Group member!) is working on a CSS video course. Also check out the Smashing Meets link in this list. Waitlist: https://www.oddbird.net/learn/courses/design-with-code/
• Annual State of HTML Survey - last year’s results https://2024.stateofhtml.com/en-US
• CSS Tricks https://css-tricks.com/color-everything-in-css/
• Jake Archibald https://jakearchibald.com/2025/animating-zooming/
• Mozilla’s MDN - Developer documentation and articles on all things Web API (make sure to turn off the automated translation tho!)
  https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/
• Lola Odelola - working on the remarkable effort of integrating accesibility data into MDN https://lolaslab.co/blog/
• Sara Soueidan (THE web accessibility educator)
  • Blog https://www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/accessible-notifications-with-aria-live-regions-part-2/
  • THE Course: https://practical-accessibility.today/
• Adam Argyle (ex Chrome DevRel) https://nerdy.dev/
• Una Kravets (Chrome DevRel Lead) https://una.im/popover-hint/
• Brams (Chrome DevRel) https://www.bram.us/2025/01/20/css-attr-gets-an-upgrade/
• Ana Tudor - among many things a SVG wizard https://thebabydino.github.io/
• Ahmad Shadeed - great, often interactive content https://ishadeed.com/article/css-container-query-guide/
• Frontend Masters (Blog + Courses) https://frontendmasters.com/blog/understanding-css-corner-shape-and-the-power-of-the-superellipse/ all courses are included in a single paid subscription - but they are best-in-class
• CSS Tip https://css-tip.com/invert-shape/
• T. Atif (who runs CSS Tip) https://bsky.app/profile/css-only.dev
• Stefan Judis - Newsletter https://www.stefanjudis.com/blog/web-weekly-160/
• Stephanie Walter (more UX-leaning but great newsletter) https://stephaniewalter.design/blog/pixels-of-the-week-july-6-2025/
• Smashing Mag (a bit expensive courses, but affordable books as well as a free blog and streaming events) https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/12/getting-started-css-calc-techniques/
  • last Smashing Meet livestream event was about CSS - 3 awesome talks https://bsky.app/profile/fubits.dev/post/3llw3xjalqs27
• SyntaxFM (my favourite developer podcast) here’s the most recent CSS episode https://syntax.fm/show/900/13-new-css-features-you-can-start-using-today
• Chrome’s web.dev blog https://web.dev/blog/font-size-adjust

Did I miss a great person, account or resource? Do you follow other non-male educators? Ping me on Bluesky or send me an email.