Reading List 249
- Link o’the Week: Old CSS, new CSS – fun article about the very early days of CSS and web development. You young’uns don’t know you’re born.
- Code snippet o’the Week: Building an accessible autocomplete control – An excellent explanation of how to build an accessible autocomplete that works without JavaScript. My go-to code when I need one of these.
- Click-Away Pound Survey – “In 2016, the survey found that more than 4 million people abandoned a retail website because of the [accessibility] barriers they found, taking with them an estimated spend of11.75 billion. In 2019, that lost business, the Click-Away Pound’, has grown to17.1 billion.”
- Testing aria-live support by Zoë Bijl
- Responsive Type and Zoom by Adrian Roselli
- Hydration – Jeremy Keith on why Server-Side Rendering “has a whiff of progressive enhancement to it but none of the user benefits.”
- The State of JavaScript 2019 – in which 40% of “full-stack developers” describe themselves as “CSS Experts”. Hmmm.
- Inclusive Design for the Immersive Web – proposal for a W3C Community Group to come up with guidelines to ensure accessible XR (virtual reality and augmented reality)
- The WebAIM Million Update: A 6-month accessibility re-analysis of the top 1,000,000 home pages – image alternative text errors decreased by 2.2%; Implementation of HTML regions and ARIA landmarks is on the rise; significant increase in ARIA usage; Pages with ARIA present have 27 more detectable errors (65% more errors) on average than pages without ARIA.
- Prince 13.1 adds support for CSS variables in @page rules and margin boxes; changes the @page rules to inherit from the document root element; extends -prince-pdf-tag-type to support the Artifact and Table values; fixes Thai line-breaking support.
- Why are HTML links called ‘Anchors’? – Sir Uncle Timbo answers my question on Twitter.
- Google admits it sent private videos in Google Photos to strangers – yikes.
- Mastercard chief says breaking up global payments system is stupid’ – Concerns about data integrity help explain why Mastercard pulled out of Libra”. “every time you talked to the main proponents of Libra, I said Would you put that in writing?’ They wouldn’t. .. “when you don’t understand how money gets made, it gets made in ways you don’t like.
- Open source beyond the market – by David Heinemeier Hansson, Creator of Ruby on Rails, Founder & CTO at Basecamp
- The Ragtag Squad That Saved 38,000 Flash Games From Internet Oblivion – “But while beneficial for internet safety at large, losing Flash came at a cost. The vibrant digital artifacts created using the technology would soon become obsolete.”
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