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Chris DeMars

Chris DeMars is a Senior Developer Advocate @ DigitalOcean. He has over 20 years of technical experience and speaks all over the world on web accessibility, feature flags, and CSS. For his community contributions, he holds awards as a Microsoft MVP and Progress Champion. Chris advocates, teaches, and speaks on web accessibility as well as modern CSS; building applications with both at the forefront. When he is not working on making the web great and accessible you can find him writing blog posts, rating Detroit Style pizza, and watching Horror movies.

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Demystifying Screen Readers: Accessible Forms & Best Practices

This is the 3rd post in a small series we did on form accessibility. If you missed the 2nd post, check out Managing User Focus with :focus-visible. In this post we are going to look at using a screen …

Apr 19, 2024 (Updated on Apr 26, 2024)

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Managing User Focus with :focus-visible

This is going to be the 2nd post in a small series we are doing on form accessibility. If you missed the first post, check out Accessible Forms with Pseudo Classes. In this post we are going to look …

Apr 5, 2024 (Updated on Apr 19, 2024)

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The Power of :has() in CSS

Hey all you wonderful developers out there! In this post we are going to explore the use of :has() in your next web project. :has() is relatively newish but has gained popularity in the front end community by delivering control …

Mar 29, 2024 (Updated on Apr 19, 2024)

Web Form Accessibility with focus-within

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Accessible Forms with Pseudo Classes

Hey all you wonderful developers out there! In this post, I am going to take you through creating a simple contact form using semantic HTML and an awesome CSS pseudo class known as :focus-within. The :focus-within class allows for …

Mar 22, 2024 (Updated on Mar 29, 2024)