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Using abbr Element with title Attribute
This post is part of RSS Club, rewarding those who still use RSS to read and/or share content. These posts are embargoed from my regular post feed and the socials for an arbitrary number of weeks. You...
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Kind of annoyed at React
Just a little ranty rant about my fave JS library, ya know.Link to article
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In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox
History of checkboxes and radio buttons in user interfacesLink to article
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spider-pig Searches for Nodes that match a CSS Selector—zachleat.com
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)Link to link
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It’s the hope that kills you · Eric Eggert
Musings about the accessibility industry.Link to article
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A “Best viewed with…” Gag
I made some pointless things again. The First One See the Pen Best viewed in… by Adrian Roselli (@aardrian) on CodePen. A spinning box for each word is not exactly a compelling interface element, I...
View ArticleWhat I want/need from a job
This post was inspired by Lynn Fisher’s post Unordered, incomplete list of things I want from a job and my lovely former colleague Joanne Osbourne-Taylor. The dot points are based on the workplace...
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Accessibility overlays
Web accessibility overlays are tools or technologies that aim to improve the accessibility of a website. However, claims that a website can be made fully compliant in an automated fashion are not...
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Accessibility Not-Checklist | Brewed by team Intopia
The Accessibility Not-Checklist acts as a guide to make sure you haven’t missed anything. If you’re new to accessibility, the resource provides a foundation – it’s an overview of what you’ll need to...
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What is Utility-First CSS?: HeydonWorks
It turns out, people in tech are particularly bad at distinguishing between paradigm shifts and paradigm sharts. View link
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Can generative AI help write accessible code? - TetraLogical
Like many inventions before it, Generative AI is changing the way we do things. Like those inventions that went before it, Generative AI is capable of great good and great harm, and like the humans...
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Energy makes time | everything changes
One weird trick for hacking the space-time continuum. It turns out, not doing their art was costing them time, was draining it away, little by little, like a slow but steady leak. They had assumed,...
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Generative. — ethanmarcotte.com
Nineteen thoughts about “generative artificial intelligence,” spanning a few centuries.Read article
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The Wax and the Wane of the Web
Forget death and taxes. The only certainty on the web is change. Ste Grainer takes a brief look at the history of the web and how it has been constantly reinvented. Then he explores where we are...
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“AI” and accessible front-end components: is the nuance generatable?
Are LLMs helpful tools to assist with making accessible front-end components? Let’s find out.Read article
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Access by a thousand curb cuts · Eric Eggert
How progress over perfection makes the world a more accessible place, fixing one barrier at a time.Read article
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The quiet, pervasive devaluation of frontend - Josh Collinsworth blog
I keep noticing those of us in the frontend field being treated much the same as nurses, paralegals, and executive assistants. Our work is seen as important, certainly, but just not the same as, or as...
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I worry our Copilot is leaving some passengers behind - Josh Collinsworth blog
Why I worry about the effect GitHub Copilot is having and will continue to have on the accessibility of the web at scale.Read article
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Design pattern for custom tooltips - HTMHell
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.View link
View ArticleHow do I survive?
I thought I’d share my current musings. With the hope that it might either find me some answers from those in similar situations or maybe help someone else in a similar situation feel less alone.I’m...
View ArticleFront-end development’s identity crisis
I’m not a “[full-stack] developer”, regardless of what my last job title says.I’m not even a front-end developer, thanks to the JavaScript–industrial complex.I’m a front-of-the-front-end developer, but...
View ArticleMy disabilities
This is a post that I’m going to continually update with more thoughts and information over time.I thought about different ways to order this post but in the end I just ended up going with...
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How social networks prey on our longing to be known
An up close an personal look into why we should be extremely careful when sharing about ourselves online, no matter how shiny an app or network might be.Read article
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Catch me at Web Directions Code 24
I’ve got some incredibly exciting news to share! Recently, I was extended an invitation by John Allsopp to present at Web Directions Code. It’s an incredible opportunity that stemmed from the recent...
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Why Good Captioned Videos Are Important – Meryl.net home
When captioning videos, you not only make your videos accessible but also expand your reach. But captioned videos won’t matter if they’re not good.Read article
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I want it all but, it is impossible
There are not enough hours in the day to consume everything I want in tech.Read article
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Naming things needn’t be hard
Find inspiration for naming things – be that HTML classes, CSS properties or JavaScript functions – using these lists of useful words.View link
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Manifesto for a Humane Web
We need to build a better web. A web by and for humans.View link
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Baseline progressive enhancement
If a browser feature can be used as a progressive enhancement, you don’t have to wait for all browsers to support it.Read article
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HTML, CSS and our vanishing industry entry points
If we make it so that you have to understand programming to even start, then we take something open and enabling, and place it back in the hands of those who are already privileged. Read article
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CSS :has(), the God Selector –Bruce Lawson's personal site
» CSS :has(), the God Selector I’ll have a kilo of whatever goes in the Igalia bong. Read article
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Dark mode & accessibility myth by Stéphanie Walter - UX Researcher & Designer.
Dark mode isn’t always better for accessibility, you need to let users chose. And if you build a dark theme, make it accessible!Read article
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At this student encampment, Deaf protesters built a model for accessibility
Deaf pro-Palestine students joined their hearing peers at the now-cleared George Washington University encampment. Volunteer interpreters made that multilingual organizing possible.Read article
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Accessible QR Codes – The Ultimate Guide | Axess Lab
You may think that QR codes are great for securing your login, or letting users read more online about a product marketed in a news…Read article
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contrast-color() is a good thing, but also solving the problem at the wrong...
Browsers are a failure of imagination.View link
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Death by Experience · Jens Oliver Meiert
It’s possible to hire too much experience, and it costs diversity and culture.Read article
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Maybe Don’t Name That Landmark
TL;DR: You probably don’t need to name that landmark. The Ngong Ping Village tourist trap on Hong Kong’s Lantau Island. All the pricey tourist spots have visible named landmarks on the map, but the...
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The VR design paradox
Hello. So, this is a bit different. I initially started this video while creating my own VR operating system tech demo. I have always been a bit frustrated …Watch video
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Exploring the Human Mind with Hotdogs
I think about this a lot in relation to design systems, accessibility, and other related topics where it’s required that there is shared understanding.Get a free $10 with first purchase on...
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The deskilling of web dev is harming the product but, more importantly, it's...
Even before the web developer job market became as dire as it is today, I was regularly seeing developers burn out and leave the industry. Some left for good; some only temporarily.Read article
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Web Directions Code24: Front-end development's identity crisis
This is a more accessible and self hosted version of my publicly available slides on Notist.Slide 1Quick introductionHi, I’m Elly Loel, my pronouns are she/her.I’m a tall white trans woman with blonde...
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In detail: 1.4.11 Non-Text Contrast (User Interface Components) · Eric Eggert
The Web Content Accessibility Guideline’s (WCAG) Success Criterion 1.4.11 Non-Text Contrast is one of the harder to understand requirements. Here’s a deep-dive into the details of it, including...
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Browser support at Clearleft
Clearleft’s approach to browser support in front-end development.View link
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Semi-Annual Reminder to Learn and Hire for Web Standards
Alex Russell wrote a four-part series a couple weeks ago arguing that modern JavaScript-first framework-focused front-end development is costing the industry and users. Part of his conclusion for...
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a11y-syntax-highlighting has been updated
Code syntax highlighting themes need to meet minimum color contrast values.Read article
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