Reading List
- Link of the week: Survival Tips For Women In Tech by Patricia Aas, one of my co-editors on HTML5
- Web Developer Representation in W3C – “the Fronteers board will propose both to become a member of the W3C and to hire @rachelandrew Andrew as our representative” – a brilliant initiative. Rachel for President! And Queen!
- Tenon’s accessible React components Coming soon to an NPM repo near you. – I haven’t seen them yet but if they’re made by @karlgroves’ posse, they will be robust and accessible, I have no doubt.
- WAI-ARIA menus, and why you should generally avoid using them – at the recent MDN Accessibility docs hackathon we had a conversation yesterday about ARIA menus, and screenreader-user @MarcoInEnglish gave us the answer
- Tables, CSS Display Properties, and ARIA – setting a CSS display property buggers up table and list semantics. Glamorous Adrian Roselli has useful Functions to Add ARIA to Tables and Lists.
- The “Developer Experience Bait-and-Switch – “we need to confront the “developer experience bait-and-switch. Tools that cost the poorest users to pay wealthy developers are bunk” by Alex Russell.
- #HackOnMDN – Hidde de Vries on last weekend’s hackathon to update MDN’s accessibility information that I attended
- CSS dismissal is about exclusion, not technology – “the “debate” about CSS is not about technology. It’s about gender privilege and exclusion.”
- Responsive Images – Mat <Marquee> narrates the history of HTML responsive images and namechecks me and my “special proposal”
- Google promises Chrome changes after privacy complaints by Steve Shankland
- Former Google chief predicts the Internet will split by 2028: A Chinese Web and an American one