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New Sep 14, 2024
Brief Note on Disclosures in Fieldsets
TL;DR: Probably don’t use disclosure widgets in fieldsets. If you do it anyway, don’t put the trigger in the <legend>. Context With <details> / <summary>, recent...
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New Sep 2, 2024
Under-Engineered Estimated Reading Time Feature
There are plenty of plug-ins, libraries, and tutorials that will add an “estimated reading time” visual cue to your site. There are also browser extensions for users. Most use JavaScript...
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New Sep 1, 2024
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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New Aug 30, 2024
Mountain Chicken!
I am mis-using closed captions for a gag. The following video has an audio track and four sets of captions (for now?). Each set of captions is in English. Only one set of captions represents the...
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New Aug 28, 2024
Talkin’ Tables — WebAIM Conference 2024
I spoke at the 2024 Web Accessibility in Mind Conference (in partnership with PopeTech). As soon as the video is available I will embed it. This post is a stub to hold the links during my talk and...
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New Aug 14, 2024
Before Filing that Keyboard Bug…
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 period of time. You...
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New Aug 11, 2024
Things to Do Before Asking “Is This Accessible?”
It is not uncommon for someone to message, call, email, or carrier pigeon me to ask if something is accessible. They almost invariably want a “yes” or “no.” However, I need to...
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New Aug 4, 2024
AT Is More Than Screen Readers
A screen reader is a single element of the overall set of assistive technologies. In practice, however, each is often used as a metonym for the other. Well, hello there. It’s nice to see you. If...
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New Jul 9, 2024
Don’t Use Web•dev for Accessibility Info
Web.dev is a site from Google Chrome developer relations that provides content both to evangelize Chrome and to more broadly support the web platform. Rachel Andrew’s monthly “new to the...
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New Jul 1, 2024
Feedback on a Pagination Pattern
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 period of time. You...