Reading List 271
- Link o’ the week: Do accessible websites still need to support Internet Explorer 11? – TL;DR: Yes, because Edge (Chromium) doesn’t deliver a comparable experience for assistive technologies – especially JAWS, Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Zoomtext.(Graham Arnfield)
- Prince 14 is out with CSS calc() support, Color emoji fonts and SVG fonts, Multipass formatting with JavaScript and New column and page float features. (Disclosure: I’ve done consultancy on PDF accessibility for them.)
- A new history API, “app history” – ” This proposal introduces a new window.appHistory API, which is more directly usable by web application developers to address the use cases they have for history introspection, mutation, and observation/interception.”
- Wix has 200 million registered users – like it or not, that’s a huge number of websites. I’d like to see Wix join W3C. (Disclosure: I used to work with Wix and have chums there.)
- SmolCSS – “Minimal snippets for modern CSS layouts and components”
- aria-description: By Public Demand and to Thunderous Applause by Steve Faulkner
- What’s Next For HTML Controls? -“In this episode, we’re talking about HTML controls. Why are they so hard to style, and how might that change in the future? Drew McLellan talks to Microsoft’s Stephanie Stimac and Melanie Richards to find out.
- Google’s next big Chrome update will rewrite the rules of the web – “Google’s impending takedown of third-party cookies in Chrome is a big win for privacy. And Google”
- #accessiBe Will Get You Sued – Adrian Roselli’s magisterial post about the latest accessibility snakeoil salesmen. We should all buy him a pint as a thank you for researching this stuff in his own time. He’s like the Yoda of accessibility.
- 40% of the web uses WordPress
- Firefox just walked away from a key piece of the open web because, on Firefox Desktop, there is currently no plan for PWA support.
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