Reading List 270
- 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.”
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