Articles Tagged accessibility

Every front-end developer has dealt or will deal with this scenario: your boss, client or designer thinks the outline applied by browsers on focused elements does not match the UI, and asks you to remove it. Or you might even be looking to remove it yourself.

So you do a little research and find out that this is strongly discouraged, because the focus outline is there for a reason: it provides visual feedback for keyboard navigation (using the Tab … Read article “Having a Little Fun With Custom Focus Styles”

I was chatting with some front-end folks the other day about why so many companies struggle at making accessible websites. Why are accessible websites so hard to build? We learn about HTML, we make sure things are semantic and — voila! @— we have an accessible website. During the course of conversation, someone mentioned the Domino’s pizza legal case, which is perhaps the most public example of a company being sued because of a lack of accessibility.

Here’s an … Read article “Why Are Accessible Websites so Hard to Build?”

In this week’s roundup: multi-column layouts gain wide support, the ADA means more A11y for retailers, and Google is doing something about all the empty image alt attributes in the wild.… Read article “Weekly Platform News: CSS column-span Property, ADA applies to Websites, Auto-generated Image Descriptions”

This is me looking at the HTML <dialog></dialog> element for the first time. I’ve been aware of it for a while, but haven’t taken it for a spin yet. It has some pretty cool and compelling features. I can’t decide for you if you should use it in production on your sites, but I’d think it’s starting to be possible. … Read article “Some Hands-On with the HTML Dialog Element”