Bruce Lawson's personal site : 2021 : January

Reading List 270

Friday 29 January 2021

WCAG 3 Introduction (currently an incomplete draft) and request for comments
First Public Working Draft of CSS Cascading and Inheritance Level 5 – adds cascade layers: “Authors can create layers to represent element defaults, third-party libraries, themes, components, overrides, and other styling concerns��and are able to re-order the cascade of layers in an explicit way, without altering selectors or specificity within each layer, or relying on source-order to resolve conflicts across layers.”
:focus-visible in WebKit – January 2021 – A report about the work done by Igalia during January 2021 adding support for :focus-visible in WebKit.
A simple custom – “For whatever reason some people don’t like the standard HTML checkbox and radio button, they seek to jazz ’em up and in the process the often jizz up the usability/accessibility of these controls.” Steve Faulkner to the rescue!
Get safe – Jezza Keef on the difference between GET and POST
Improving the usability and accessibility of a healthcare website by being mindful of reading level (Eric Bailey)
HTML and CSS techniques to reduce your JavaScript (Anthony Ricaud)
Making Audio and Video Media Accessible (W3C)
Improving accessibility with accessibility acceptance criteria (gov.uk)
New JavaScript features in ES2021 – but don’t get hung up on version numbers, counsels Mathias Bynens: “numeric separators shipped in V8 v7.5/Chrome 75 in mid-2019. It’ll be part of ES2021 which only officially gets published in mid-2021”.
Why is a CD 74 minutes long? It’s because of Beethoven – sometimes a tech standard is as it is for entirely non-technical reasons.
South African government releases its own browser just to re-enable Flash support “For some people, it’s apparently easier to manage your own browser than port some web forms from Flash to HTML.”

Reading List 269

Friday 15 January 2021

An Analysis of Privacy on the App Store – “The top 12 [most data-hungry] apps are all from the same company, Facebook. All of Facebook’s apps collect an ungodly amount of data, the nearest other app is LinkedIn which collects 37 fewer data types.”
Content-visibility and Accessible Semantics “if you’re using content-visibility on sections of content including headings and semantic structure, screen reader users won’t be able to benefit from that structure on load. This unfortunately degrades accessibility in favor of loading performance” by Marcy Sutton. Later update: “Update: lots of great discussion from the Chrome team, who say it shouldn’t have that effect and they’re looking into it.”
Researcher Breaks reCAPTCHA With Google’s Speech-to-Text API with a 97 percent success rate.
Is Progressive Enhancement Dead Yet? – a fun video by Bury St Somerset O��Groat’s most celebrated web standards video director, Heydon Pickering.
Base64 Encoding & Performance, Part 1: What’s Up with Base64? – a 2-part series by Harry Roberts
Rube Goldberg corner: Introducing Zero-Bundle-Size React Server Components – The React community is finally discovering the advantages of doing heavy lifting on the server instead of doing everything on the client.
Hotwire (“HTML Over The Wire”) is “an alternative approach to building modern web applications without using much JavaScript by sending HTML instead of JSON over the wire.”
Should The Web Expose Hardware Capabilities? asks Noam Rosenthal
CMA to investigate Google’s ��Privacy Sandbox’ browser changes – UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has opened an investigation into Google’s proposals to remove third party cookies and other functionalities from its Chrome browser.
Flash Is Dead writes Tiffany B. Brown.
��Your Cock Is Mine Now:’ Hacker Locks Internet-Connected Chastity Cage, Demands Ransom – Hackers used an exposed API of an internet-connected chastity belt to lock and extort device owners.

Archive for January, 2021