Reading List
- The UX of Text – brilliant talk by Stuart Langridge. “The next wave of apps will be text; Amazon Alexa, Facebook Messenger, Telegram and WhatsApp bots and Twitter and Mastodon. The UX side was always intimately tied up with the visual designers, whether it should be or not… but now it’s all text. We don’t need artists; we need poets. Authors. Wordsmiths.”
- Participants in the WebVR Community Group now with added Apple participation!
- Nested links – how to make nested links work, cross-browser.
- Experimenting with the background fetch API by Phil Nash
- Woe-ARIA: The Surprisingly but Ridiculously Complicated World of aria-label/ledby – blog post by one of the NVDA screen-reader developers
- What’s next for CSS? – “a comprehensive list of CSS features and their positions in the process of becoming implemented web standards.”
- URLs are UI – totally in agreement with this, by Scott Hanselman
- Front End Development: It’s not just coding – “I think the web industry should stop advertising “Front End Developer” roles when they’re really looking for hardcore JavaScript devs.” Three years old, and still true.
- Microsoft officially ends support for Windows Phone
- The coming battle over ‘net neutrality’ – BBC explainer for Wednesday’s Day of Action