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Why you should hire a front-end developer
26.8.2020
Matt Hobbs says you should hire a front-end developer because…
“A front-end developer is the best person to champion accessibility best practices in product teams.”
“80-90% of the end-user response time is spent on the front end.”
“A front-end developer takes pressure...
To grid or not to grid
20.8.2020
Sarah Higley does accessibility work and finds that “tables and grids are over-represented in accessibility bugs.”
The drum has been banged a million times: don’t use a <table> for layout. But what goes around comes around. What’s the the #1 item in a list...
Nailing the Perfect Contrast Between Light Text and a Background Image
7.8.2020
Have you ever come across a site where light text is sitting on a light background image? If you have, you’ll know how difficult that is to read. A popular way to avoid that is to use a transparent overlay. But this leads to an important question: Just how transparent should that overlay...
HTML for Subheadings and Headings
6.8.2020
Let’s say you have a double heading situation going on. A little one on top of a big one. It comes up, I dunno, a billion times a day, I’d say. What HTML do you go for? Dare I say, it depends? But have you considered all the options? And how those options play out semantically...
The Making of: Netlify’s Million Devs SVG Animation Site
3.8.2020
The following article captures the process of building the Million Developers microsite for Netlify. This project was built by a few folks and we’ve captured some parts of the process of building it here- focusing mainly on the animation aspects, in case any are helpful to others building...
SVG Title vs. HTML Title Attribute
30.7.2020
You know the title attribute? I can do this:
<div title="The Title"I'm a div with a `title`
</div
And now if I’m on a device with a mouse pointer and hover the cursor over that element, I get…
Which, uh, I guess is something. I sometimes use it for things like putting...
Open the Floodgates: US Customers to See More Crypto Accessibility
28.7.2020
Digital payment platforms add more cryptocurrency features for U.S. customers, but will big banks take the lead?
Position Vertical Scrollbars on Opposite Side with CSS
23.7.2020
Fair warning: I can’t say I recommend this in general because it breaks a very strong expectation of where scrollbars are, which are useful for a lots of folks, not to mention, a core accessibility feature for many.
But it is a fascinating CSS trick and the web is a big place with...
Five 5-minute Videos from Ethan on Design & Accessibility
30.6.2020
Ethan:
I’ve been working with Aquent Gymnasium to produce a series of five short tutorial videos, which have been launching over the course of this past week. Since the last video just went live, I’m thrilled to share the whole list with you:
• Introduction to using VoiceOver on macOS•...
Canada's Digital Dollar Should Focus on Inclusion and Accessibility, Say Experts
30.6.2020
Experts from the Bank of Canada have released their thoughts on how a digital dollar should be available to all Canadians
Quick Tips for High Contrast Mode
27.6.2020
Sarah Higley has some CSS tricks up her sleeve for dealing with High Contrast Mode on Windows, which I learned is referred to as WHCM.
Here’s the first trick:
[…] if the default CSS outline property doesn’t give you the visual effect you want [in WHCM] for focus states...
Bityard Cryptocurrency Exchange Makes Trading Complex Contracts Simple
20.6.2020
Bityard is a digital assets trading platform focused on offering fast, easy and safe contracts trading. The Singapore-headquartered exchange is regulated and licensed in multiple leading markets around the world. An emphasis on simplicity and accessibility makes Bityard ideal for anyone looking...
LingoJam
17.6.2020
I’ll sometimes search the web for something like “Small Text Generator” knowing there will be some website that will turn some dumb thing I want to type like:
Uhm hi when is that meeting again?
into something fun like…
ᵁʰᵐ ʰᶦ ʷʰᵉⁿ ᶦˢ ᵗʰᵃᵗ ᵐᵉᵉᵗᶦⁿᵍ ᵃᵍᵃᶦⁿˀ
Important note about...
Striking a Balance Between Native and Custom Select Elements
12.6.2020
Here’s the plan! We’re going to build a styled select element. Not just the outside, but the inside too. Total styling control. Plus we’re going to make it accessible. We’re not going to try to replicate everything that the browser does by default with a native <select> element. We’re going...
Behind the Source: Cassie Evans
3.6.2020
I feel like the tech industry takes itself far too seriously sometimes. I get frustrated by all the posturing and gatekeeping – “You’re not a real developer unless you use x framework”, “CSS isn’t a real programming language”.
I think this kind of rhetoric often puts new developers off,...
Chrome 83 Form Element Styles
3.6.2020
There have been some aesthetic changes to what form elements look like as of Chrome 83. Anything with gradient colorization is gone (notably the extra-shiny <meter stuff). The consistency across the board is nice, particularly between inputs and textareas. Not a big fan of the new <select...
Jamstack News!
29.5.2020
I totally forgot that the Jamstack Conf was this week but thankfully they’ve already published the talks on the Jamstack YouTube channel. I’m really looking forward to sitting down with these over a coffee while I also check out Netlify’s other big release today: Build Plugins.
These are plugins...
Block Links: The Search for a Perfect Solution
25.5.2020
I was reading this article by Chris where he talks about block links — you know, like wrapping an entire card element inside an anchor — being a bad idea. It’s bad accessibility because of how it affects screen readers. And it’s bad UX because it prevents simple user tasks, like selecting text.
But...
Creating an Accessible Range Slider with CSS
7.5.2020
The accessibility trick is using <input type="range"> and wrestling it into shape with CSS rather than giving up and re-building it with divs or whatever and later forget about accessibility.
The most clever example uses an angled linear-gradient background making the input look like...
Making dark theme switcher with PostCSS.
7.5.2020
Building a dark theme switcher that take care of users OS preferences.
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