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

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.