Phil Archer

An orange background with the TetraLogical logo and watermark with the title Accessibility and the agentic web. There is a headshot of Léonie in a black polo neck, purple hair in a bob, with a cup of tea in a saucer in front of her smiling

Retail sites often fail blind shoppers. Could agentic AI fill the gap?

Tools like Innosearch can find products, describe images, and add items to your basket.

@tink.uk explores further: tetralogical.com/blog/2025/08...

#Accessibility #AI #AgenticWeb #InclusiveDesign #UX #DigitalInclusion

Yes. I linked it from a paper I've drafted for the age-restricted content workshop, see philarcher.org/diary/2025/w.... I'll submit that as is before the deadline unless I have feedback to the contrary. I almost certainly can't go to the workshop, which is a pain.

I did a double take when I heard that too. Yesterday. Or was it earlier today. Or maybe I'll hear it again tomorrow? Cue @nickabbot.bsky.social's blubblubblabberblabber sfx

Lots of open positions at GS1 Global Office right now at all levels. Brussels, New Jersey, hybrid, remote... are any of these you or someone you know? www.gs1.org/about/careers

Bother. Looks like I missed it.

The cover of a book called Food Person by an author called Adam Roberts

This is the multiverse where my semi-automatic purchases of books by Adam Roberts as they're published crosses the manifold. I wonder whether *this* Adam Roberts' readers enjoy @adamroberts.bsky.social's work. #mustPayMoreAttentionToDetail

As a Brit, I can only concur with this obvious truth.

Will be v interested to catch up with you soon. There are several GS1 folks there as we try and piece together evidence for how to proceed. I'm seeing strong cause for a f2f meetup. Will be in touch.

8 years at GS1 I was very obviously upset to leave W3C. 8 years on, I'm happy about the switch

A minor anniversary of absolutely no significance to anyone but I've now been at GS1 longer than any other job I've done - and that seemed worth a mention philarcher.org/diary/2025/8...

Caroline Haslett - Wikipedia

It was designed by Caroline Haslett en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolin... (which I admit I only know through Hannah Fry's championing of her). It's clunky and a pain to carry around with you but yes, it's the safest one there is.

Nailing your political colours to your business is bad business If you're selling something, my advice is: keep your politics to yourself

I was looking forward to reading a Neal Asher novel for the first time. Having read the frontispiece, I need to wash my hands, literally and figuratively philarcher.org/diary/2025/p...

Swiss glacier collapse: How the village of Blatten was wiped off the map - BBC News Nine million cubic metres of rock and ice came crashing down on Blatten after a landslide.

This content of this article is both fascinating (mountain collapses!) and v worrying at a time when far right politics is urging ever more fossil fuel use. It's also *brilliant* Web design, made for scrolling on your phone www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

Thank you, sir!

Responsive (not reactive) meaning that the design automatically responds to the size of the presentation canvas. The thought process starts from a small space and responds to the additional space if available.

15 Years of Responsive Web Design Noting the 15th anniversary of an article that changed the way websites are designed

A couple of hours early but I don't want to let tomorrow's date go by unremarked. 15 years ago on 25 May 2010 there was a revolution in Web design philarcher.org/diary/2025/r...

Having read and thoroughly enjoyed both of these books this month I'd love to have been there. Maybe a repeat one day with Topping's in Ely? (Have read all your novels to date, Eve. I think the Cure was your best yet. Shades of Wymondham's Trouble With Lichen but with more dire consequences).

It's been a long slog by a group of dedicated and brilliant people. Thank you. This is an important step for DIDs and VCs as a technology but more importantly for privacy-preserving data exchange with integrity www.w3.org/news/2025/th...

As a bibliophile and collector of signed first editions, I've pre-ordered the signed edition from Waterstone's. Will hope for opportunity to get a personal dedication added from my old boss too, although I rarely see him these days.

Likewise

To my shame, I didn't know Linus Torvalds invented Git - I only knew his name as the inventor of Linux. This is quite an anniversay.

Smaller than I thought. Not surprising it sank, really.

Am I supposed to buy the paperback of this excellent work or will the first edition I pre-ordered and enjoyed soon after its arrival sufficient? I'm thinking the latter :-)

Quitting Starlink Finding the alternative to Starlink in my rural home turned out to be really easy

Turns out, not paying Elon Musk is easy philarcher.org/diary/2025/q...

Hull Noir: Charlotte Philby Hull Noir and Hull Libraries present… Dirty Money by Charlotte Philby Wednesday 7 May 7 – 9pm Hull Central Library + livestreamed to an online audience An investigation into an upmarket escort agency ...

Finally got a moment to update a post about signed first editions philarcher.org/diary/2021/s.... All those links to now deleted Twitter accounts needed to be sorted. And, oh, delighted to be off to Hull in May www.visithull.org/whatson/hull... - maybe I'll be able to get some more signatures

I had reason to look up the origin of the phrase "trust but verify" earlier. It orginates from Russia: doveryai, no proveryai (доверяй, но проверяй). The phrase and its origin seem very apposite for today's situation en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust,_...

I really enjoyed this one. It combines the narrative opportunities of guests coming and going from a hotel with a good dollop of space opera and rich character detail.

Conundrum. I have a ticket to see @natashapulley.bsky.social in Ely next month. But... two days before that she's doing an event with Claire North in the equidistant Chelmsford. Do I cancel Ely and go to Chelmsford or go to both? @bookishsff.bsky.social What would you do?

The whole picture The story of why Gillian McDonald's depiction of Newport, Pembokeshire is displayed behind my desk

Been on a Zoom/Teams call with me? You've seen this picture before. Here's its story and why it's special to me philarcher.org/diary/2025/t...

The day there's an alternative for my house, i.e. a decent connection with >=5MB/s, I'll cancel my Starlink. My rural location means it's inescapable but I hate paying into the moral vacuum every month. UK internet infrastructure is dire.