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5 Accessibility Quick Wins You Can Implement Today
23.2.2022
Let’s face it: building an AA or AAA-accessible product can be quite daunting. Luckily, having an accessible product isn’t all-or-nothing. Even seemingly small improvements can have nice quality of life benefits for many people.
In that spirit, here are five …
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Report: IGDA Failed To Act On Internal Harassment Claims
9.2.2022
The International Game Developers Association has been an outspoken critic of the culture at companies like Ubisoft and Activision Blizzard that has led to so many lawsuits, departures and firings over the last few years. Yet a report today by GI.Biz says that the group has failed to act on its...
Why Don’t Developers Take Accessibility Seriously?
24.1.2022
You know that joke, “Two front-end developers walk into a bar and find they have nothing in common”? It’s funny, yet frustrating, because it’s true.
This article will present three different perspectives on accessibility in web design and development. Three …
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8 Helpful Accessibility Links for January 2022
13.1.2022
Every now and then, I find that I’ve accumulated a bunch of links about various things I find interesting. Accessibility is one of those things! Here’s a list of related links to other articles that I’ve been saving up and …
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Empathetic Animation
29.12.2021
Animation on the web is often a contentious topic. I think, in part, it’s because bad animation is blindingly obvious, whereas well-executed animation fades seamlessly into the background. When handled well, animation can really elevate a website, whether it’s just …
Some Articles About Accessibility I’ve Saved Recently IV
29.10.2021
A guide to designing accessible, WCAG-compliant focus indicators — Sara Soueidan says you can make more accessible focus outlines by doing your own, rather than leaving it to the browser — as long as you do it right. Deep dive!
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New Database Helps Players Find Games With Accessibility Features
6.10.2021
As the conversation around video game accessibility becomes more prominent, it’s clear that some games just don’t take the necessary steps to open up the experiences they offer to players with disabilities. Recently Steven Spohn, the senior director of AbleGamers, criticized Deathloop on Twitter...
How to Implement and Style the Dialog Element
6.10.2021
Go in-depth on the native dialog HTML element with this tutorial and learn how to implement a user-friendly, accessible dialog on your website.
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Coinbase to Add Direct Deposit Feature — US Paychecks Can Soon Be Converted to Crypto
30.9.2021
On September 27, the digital currency firm Coinbase announced that U.S. customers will soon be able to directly deposit their paycheck into their Coinbase accounts. With the new direct deposit feature, Coinbase customers can leverage their funds to make investments, generate yield, or add value...
Bitpay Implements 1inch Network Support — Wallet Users Can Access Defi, Dex Aggregation
1.9.2021
On August 31, the Atlanta-based cryptocurrency payments services provider Bitpay announced that the Bitpay wallet has integrated the decentralized exchange (dex) aggregator 1inch Network. Bitpay wallet users can utilize 1inch protocol to swap ether or the myriad of ERC20 tokens. The Bitpay Wallet...
Some Articles About Accessibility I’ve Saved Recently III
26.8.2021
The perfect link — Rian Rietveld defines them: “When you click on them, they take you somewhere else.” Not much code in here (we’ve got that), just a lot of practical accessibility advice. For example, the alt text
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A Deep Dive on Skipping to Content
3.8.2021
While most people browsing the web on a computer use a mouse, many rely on their keyboard instead. Theoretically, using a web page with the keyboard should not be a problem — press the TAB key to move the keyboard …
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Your Image Is Probably Not Decorative
20.7.2021
Eric doesn’t mince words, especially in the title, but also in the conclusion:
In modern web design and development, displaying an image is a highly intentional act. Alternate descriptions allow us to explain the content of the image, and in
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Looking at WCAG 2.5.5 for Better Target Sizes
8.6.2021
Have you ever experienced the frustration of trying to tap a button on a mobile device only to have it do nothing because the target size is just not large enough **and it’s not picking up on your press? Maybe …
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Links on Accessibility
7.6.2021
Show/Hide password accessibility and password hints tutorial — Nicolas Steenhout goes deep on <input type="password"> accessibility. For one thing, being able to toggle it to type="text" should be possible, while announcing, politely, the change. But also, put the password hints...
Front-End Testing is For Everyone
1.6.2021
Testing is one of those things that you either get super excited about or kinda close your eyes and walk away. Whichever camp you fall into, I’m here to tell you that front-end testing is for everyone. In fact, …
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Making Disabled Buttons More Inclusive
12.5.2021
Let’s talk about disabled buttons. Specifically, let’s get into why we use them and how we can do better than the traditional disabled attribute in HTML (e.g. <button disabled> ) to mark a button as disabled.
There are lots of …
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Some Articles About Accessibility I’ve Saved Recently
6.4.2021
“Good news about display: contents and Chrome” — Rachel Andrew notes that the accessibility danger of using display: contents; is fixed in Chrome. The problem was that, say you had a parent div that is laid out as a grid
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Platform News: Rounded Outlines, GPU-Accelerated SVG Animations, How CSS Variables Are Resolved
2.4.2021
In the news this week, Firefox gets rounded outlines, SVG animations are now GPU-accelerated in Chrome, there are no physical units in CSS, The New York Times crossword is accessible, and CSS variables are resolved before the value is inherited.…
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Where the World Wide Web Shines
1.4.2021
Here’s a fabulous post by Vitaly Friedman that looks at how to make accessible front-end components and what problems there are today when it comes to building them.
There’s so much great info packed into this one post that I’m …
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