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- Trusted Web Activity – “a new way to open your web-app content such as your Progressive Web App (PWA) from your Android app”. Basically, get your PWA in the App Store, create a feedback channel via ratings and reviews, use Play Billing.
- The F-Word episode 9 – Vadders and I discuss Safari extensions, cascading layers of CSS, what’s new in WCAG 3
- <details> and <summary> with animated arrow (no JS) by Moritz Gießmann, faking the arrow with borders so no extra content is inserted that may confuse an assitive technology user. Brilliant!
- Make Your PWAs Look Handsome on iOS (I haven’t verified this)
- Apple Executives’ Bonuses to Be Tied to Their Performance With Respect to Accessibility and the Company’s Other Core Values
- Material Design Text Fields Are Badly Designed by Adam Silver
- Did you know: iOS apps are insanely larger than Android apps – “compared to Android apps, iOS apps are huge. Much bigger. The big question is, Why are iOS apps bigger than Android apps? We answer the question.”
- How to start testing screen reader support using VoiceOver
- Tabula is a tool for liberating data tables locked inside PDF files. “Now you can work with your data as text file or a spreadsheet rather than a PDF!”
- Citibank just got a $500 million lesson in the importance of UI design – “Citibank was trying to make $7.8M in interest payments. It sent $900M instead.”
- The Bizarre Reaction To Facebook’s Decision To Get Out Of The News Business In Australia – “First is the link tax. This is fundamentally against the principles of an open internet a bunch of lazy newspaper execs who failed to adapt and to figure out better internet business models not only want the traffic, they also want to get paid for it.”
- Spy pixels in emails have become endemic – “Hey’s review indicated that two-thirds of emails sent to its users’ personal accounts contained a “spy pixel”, even after excluding for spam.”
- “Allow this app to personalize advertising for you? – “Apple defines privacy in a way that benefits its own commercial interests and harms the commercial interests of its competitors. Apple has wrapped its arms around the open internet with a privacy bear hug that is designed to entrench and enrich its own closed ecosystem.”
- Cambodia to force all internet traffic through national ‘Internet Gateway’ – “De facto one-party state decrees censorship scheme that sounds a lot like China’s Great Firewall”
- The web didn’t change; you did by Remy Sharp
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