The Web We're Leaving Behind
ØreDev 2026
Thank you sooo much for attending my talk on ØreDev. I hope you enjoyed it
Here are some materials if you would like to learn more.
Also, if you have any questions or want to give me feedback, feel free to drop me a message on hello@inesakrap.com or any of the social media profiles.
Down the rabbit hole
W3C Web Sustainability Guidelines
Main Document: https://www.w3.org/TR/web-sustainability-guidelines/
GitHub to contribute by opening issues: https://github.com/w3c/sustainableweb-wsg/
Impact Rating: https://www.w3.org/TR/wsg-ir/
The stories from the talk
Engineering for Slow Internet (brr.fyi): the web from the South Pole, and what to do about it.
The Performance Inequality Gap, 2026 (Alex Russell): the devices and networks people actually have.
Page Weight, Web Almanac 2025: how heavy the web has become.
Digital is physical
The climate cost of “disposable” smartphones (EEB): what keeping a phone one year longer would save.
World Wide Waste (Gerry McGovern): amazing book on digital waste.
People part becoming a law
European Accessibility Act (European Commission): the official overview.
The Directive itself (EUR-Lex): adopted in 2019, written into national law by June 2022, applied from 28 June 2025.
Introduction to Web Accessibility (W3C WAI): where to start.
Progressive enhancement
Building a robust frontend using progressive enhancement (GOV.UK): how a government does it for everyone.
Progressive Enhancement (MDN): the short definition.
BOOK
Building the Sustainable Web
I have a lot to say on this topic so I co-autored a book about it. In a nutshell, it is a theory from Web Sustainability Guidelines, told in my words with a significant amount of war stories from over a decade in web development.
There are mentions of Pokémon, Marie Kondo, Gringotts and many more things you would probably not expect to run into in a book on Web Sustainability :).
Newsletter comming up ...
So many more stories and ideas to share. And life keeps lifing. If you would like to know more about W3C work and how to get involved, engineering the web and your career, you can leave your email below and now that my husbands collar bone is healing, I will finally press send on some of those.
I also have a 20% discount code for buying the book directly off Apress, and I am happy to send it over.