Eric Bailey eviscerates the notion that the term “a11y” isn’t accessible. It’s a hot take that I’ve had myself, embarrassingly enough.
…I never see people asking why WWI is written out the way it is, either. Won’t people confuse
Did you see that neat technique for using the <picture></picture> element with <source media=""/> to serve an animated image (or not) based on a prefers-reduced-motion media query?
After we shared that in our newsletter, we got an interesting …
There are a few differences between keyboards and screen readers and Léonie Watson highlights of them:
…When using the tab key, keyboard focus and screen reader focus are synchronised with each other. The rest of the time, screen reader users
Accessibility is all the rage these days, specifically when it comes to color contrast. I’ve stumbled upon a couple of tools this week that I think are pretty nifty for helping make sure that all of the text on our …
I like the this wrap-up statement from Hidde de Vries:
…In modern browsers, our markup becomes an accessibility tree that ultimately informs what our interface looks like to assistive technologies. It doesn’t matter as much whether you’ve written this markup:
Earlier this month Eric Bailey wrote about the current state of accessibility on the web and why it felt like fighting an uphill battle:
…As someone with a good deal of interest in the digital accessibility space, I follow WebAIM
Leslie Cohn-Wein’s main point:
While [lots of divs, inline styles, focus management problems] are valid concerns, it should be noted that nothing in React prevents us from building accessible web apps.
True. I’m quite capable (and sadly, guilty) of building …
Did you see this Facebook crap?
…"Why do I need a 4Ghz quadcore to run facebook?" This is why. A single word split up into 11 HTML DOM elements to avoid adblockers. pic.twitter.com/Zv4RfInrL0
— Mike Pan (@themikepan) February 6, 2019
Icons are great and all, but as we’ve been shown time and time again, they often don’t do the job all by themselves. Even if you do a good job with the accessibility part and make sure there is accompanying …
Here’s a nifty post by Chen Hui Jing where she walks us through her process for making radio buttons accessible via keyboard. I particularly enjoyed this bit where she discusses the four options that are available to us to hide …
