As far as accessibility goes... yeah, the lack of semantic markup is pretty shocking! I'll remember to prompt for that next time I try anything like this.
I just tried it in VoiceOver on iOS and the page was at least navigable - the buttons for the days work - but yeah, I'd be very ashamed to ship something like this if it wasn't a 20 minute demo (and I'm a bit ashamed even given that.)
I'm running "Make open-sauce-2025.html accessible to screenreaders" in Codex now to see what happens.
Definitely. If I had a Claude.md or agents.md or whatever in that repo saying "make mobile friendly sites that use semantic HTML and are accessible for screenreaders" I bet I'd get much better results from them.
The web app makes 176 requests and downloads 130 megabytes.
It's also <div> soup and largely inaccessible.
These and other issues could be fixed fairly quickly with a little care (if anyone cares).
!!!
Yeah, it turns out those speaker avatar images are 1MB+ PNGs! And there are 170 of them.
What a fantastic cautionary tale about vibe-coding on a mobile phone (where performance analysis tools aren't easily available.)
I just fixed that with Codex - thanks for the tip: https://chatgpt.com/s/cd_6879631d99c48191b1ab7f84dfab8dea
As far as accessibility goes... yeah, the lack of semantic markup is pretty shocking! I'll remember to prompt for that next time I try anything like this.
I just tried it in VoiceOver on iOS and the page was at least navigable - the buttons for the days work - but yeah, I'd be very ashamed to ship something like this if it wasn't a 20 minute demo (and I'm a bit ashamed even given that.)
I'm running "Make open-sauce-2025.html accessible to screenreaders" in Codex now to see what happens.
OK, Codex seemed to do a decent job of fixing up the accessibility, I just shipped its changes: https://github.com/simonw/tools/issues/36
it's concerning these vibe coding tools must be coerced into semantic markup
could that be solved by prefixing every prompt with a reminder?
> it's concerning these vibe coding tools must be coerced into semantic markup
These things are becoming more and more humanlike every day
Definitely. If I had a Claude.md or agents.md or whatever in that repo saying "make mobile friendly sites that use semantic HTML and are accessible for screenreaders" I bet I'd get much better results from them.
would have been fun to see how conference wifi handled that :)