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Accessible Web Apps with React, TypeScript, and AllyJS

# November 16, 2017 By Daniel Yuschick

Accessibility is an aspect of web development that is often overlooked. I would argue that it is as vital as overall performance and code reusability. We justify our endless pursuit of better performance and responsive design by citing the users, but ultimately these pursuits are done with the user's device in mind, not the user themselves and their potential disabilities or restrictions.

A responsive app should be one that delivers its content based on the needs of the user, not only their device.

Luckily, there are tools to help alleviate the learning curve of accessibility-minded development. For example, GitHub recently released their accessibility error scanner, AccessibilityJS and Deque has aXe. This article will focus on a different one: Ally.js, a library simplifying certain accessibility features, functions, and behaviors.

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TypeScript at Slack

# April 29, 2017 By Chris Coyier

An excellent subhead by Felix Rieseberg: How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Trust the Compiler.

I'd wager that some of the popularity of SCSS was due to that fact that any valid CSS was valid SCSS, so you could baby step into SCSS on an existing codebase fairly easily. The same is true with TypeScript:

Modern JavaScript is valid TypeScript, meaning that one can use TypeScript without changing a single line of code. This allowed us to use "gradual typing" by enabling the compiler and the static analysis early, without suspending work on critical bug fixes or new features.

And, also like SCSS, you get immediate benefit from the baby stepping. You'll find bugs right away:

... the more lines of code a human writes, the more inevitable it becomes to misspell a property, assume the parent of a nested object to always exist, or to use a non-standard error object.

What appeals to me the most though, is what TypeScript does to your IDE:

TypeScript understands which properties and methods are available on certain objects, enabling your editor to do the same. An autocomplete system that only uses words in the current document feels barbaric afterward.

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