Reading List 264
- Enabling Custom Control UI – Interesting doc on potential standard to allow styling any arbitrary part of a native form control, add arbitrary content into any part of a native control while retaining native accessibility & browser behaviours.
- Mobile devices are too expensive for billions of people and it’s keeping them offline – Nearly 2.5 billion people live in countries where the cost of the cheapest available smartphone is a quarter or more of the average monthly income. This is equal to the share of monthly income the average European household spends on housing and utilities. In Sierra Leone, the average person needs to save six months’ salary to buy the cheapest available smartphone. In India, home to 18% of the world, the price of the cheapest smartphone from leading operator Jio was 206% of average monthly income.
- How to create accessible subtitles – use
role=role="doc-subtitle", by Chris Ferdanini. (Why the “doc” prefix? I guess to stop people thinking it’s for video subtitles) - Modern CSS Solutions for Old CSS Problems – now on my bookmarks bar
- the end of development for PhoneGap and PhoneGap Build – as Anssi wrote, “It’s been a 10+ year journey to make PhoneGap redundant by gradually adding new capabilities to the web platform through standards. The gap has been filled.”
- HTML5 Accessibility “Things are looking pretty damn rosy as far as Accessibility Support in browsers.” – cheery words from Chucklin’ @stevefaulkner
- Designing Adaptive Components, Beyond Responsive Breakpoints – a talk by Stephanie Walter
- A CSS only “click to animate gif solution by Chris Heilmann
- Unholy Albatross – “responsively stack all columns into rows based on container size, without an intermediary step where some of the columns becomes rows but not other” by Xiao Zhuo Jia
- Using Chrome to generate more accessible PDFs – “Chrome will automatically generate a tagged PDF when you print a web page and choose the “Save as PDF” destination. Tagged PDFs are more accessible to users with disabilities”
- Mozilla’s laying off another 250 people – I hope Firefox can survive.
- Telling China’s Story: The Chinese Communist Party’s Campaign to Shape Global Narratives – Paper by Stanford Internet Observatory & Hoover Institution examining China’s covert and overt capabilities in the context of modern information operations (e.g., propaganda)
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You ask, “Why the ‘doc’ prefix?” and just in case you are not being cheeky…
Chris’s post fails to link to or reference Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.0, which Steve Faulkner links in his March tweet from which Chris lifted this info: https://www.w3.org/TR/dpub-aria-1.0/#doc-subtitle
That spec was crafted specifically for materials such as ebooks, so all the roles it defines are pre-pended with “doc-“.