Reading List 295
- Link of the Week: Learn HTML – “This HTML course for web developers provides a solid overview for developers, from novice to expert level HTML”. Wen if you think you know it all cuz you’re a Full-Stack Ninja, read this. It will make your React/ Angular/ Vue/ Svelte apps better. By Estelle Weyl.
- Also, Learn Accessibility. Please!
- Accessibility Features – “Almost half of all people with a mobile phone use accessibility features. Much more than you would expect, right? In our survey of millions of iOS and Android users, we looked at which accessibility features are enabled.”
- What’s new in WCAG 2.2? by Hidde de Vries
- Better accessible names – “OK, you’ve added an accessible name to your control. Maybe you’ve used aria-label, <label> or some other way to name a control. Now you wonder: what makes a name good, effective or useful?” Another one from Hidde.
- How Fast Is Your Web App? How to Test Page Transition Performance – Scott Jehl on how to test a website’s post-load navigation speed in WebPageTest. This process is something you can use on any kind of website, but may be particularly handy for testing single-page web apps that tend to handle page navigations on the client-side.
- Why haven’t PWAs killed native apps yet?
- Outdated vs. Complete – “In defense of apps that don’t need updates”. Apple now requires devs to update perfectly functional apps for no reason, so you have to keep paying for developer membership and waste time recompiling against a massive Xcode update.
- It’s Mid-2022 and Browsers (Mostly Safari) Still Break Accessibility via Display Properties by Adrian Roselli
- What to Know About Accessible PDFs From Microsoft Word and Google Docs = TL;DR: PDFs generated by exporting from Word are more accessible than those from Google Docs
- Shrinking APKs, growing installs. How your app’s APK size impacts install conversion rates – “smaller APK sizes correlate with higher install conversion rates, with an even larger impact on conversion rates for users in emerging markets” (from 2017, but I bet it holds true now)
- Will Serving Real HTML Content Make A Website Faster? Let’s Experiment! – TL;DR: “serving useful HTML up-front faster than client-side generated HTML–often by a lot.” Who knew????!
- DiffusionBee – install and run the Stable Diffusion text-to-image AI on Mac with a GUI (and some ideas of how to prompt it)
- QR Code development story (and the spec)