Reading List 250
- Scroll To Text Fragment is coming soon (to Chromium browsers), even though its syntax is even uglier than me. So you can link to any text in a page, even though there’s no ID to add to the URL. Hope they fix its accessibility before it gets released, though.
- ING open sources Lion: A library of performant, accessible & flexible Web Components “a white-label, open-source, framework-agnostic component library”, “allow for accessibility & extendability”, “Stay as close to native semantic HTML elements as possible”
- Squarespace, Wix, & Weebly: Accessibility Review – “For accessibility, avoid Weebly. Both Squarespace and Wix are capable of creating accessible sites, but the user has to be looking to do so””it isn’t gonna happen by default. Wix seems to be taking accessibility a bit more seriously than Squarespace, so I’m inclined to recommend Wix as the better option”. Disclosure: I do occasional consultancy for Wix on accessibility and standards.
- Toward Responsive Elements – Uncle Brian writes about the work going on in @csswg to give us Element queries that can actually be implemented, are compatible with CSS’s architecture today and are “webby”.
- Mozilla lost the browser wars. It still thinks it can save the internet.
- Tech Startups Are Flooding Kenya With Apps Offering High-Interest Loans – “App-based lending has become synonymous in Kenya with predatory practices .. Last summer newspapers reported that a 25-year-old man from a tea farming village north of Nairobi had hanged himself after defaulting on a $30 loan from an unspecified app.”
- How Microloans Bring Financial Reliability to People in Kenya by Opera Software (tucked away in the investor part of the site)
- Why Google Did Android by Tim Bray
- 2020 State of Malware Report (PDF) “the average number of threats detected on a Mac is not only on the rise, but has surpassed Windows””by a great deal.”
Buy "Calling For The Moon", my debut album of songs I wrote while living in Thailand, India, Turkey. (Only £2, on Bandcamp.)