Reading List 297
- A Twitter Off Ramp – “A tutorial for getting on Mastodon”. Setting myself up on Mastodon and migrating my “following” list was a doddle thanks to this post, and Vivaldi Social’s ‘Advanced web UI’ is very like Tweetdeck.
- Accessibility Acceptance Criteria – Automatically generate test cases for Web, iOS and Android components
- Mona Sans and Hubot Sans – 2 open source variable fonts from GitHub
- A beginner’s complete guide to form accessibility: the 5 things accessible forms needs and how to fix common errors
- An Introduction to CSS Cascade Layers
- Keeping Your CSS Small: scopes, containers, and other new stuff – really good overview by Tab Atkins
- Significant Improvements for Screen Readers Now in Nightly Firefox – yay!
- Conditionally adaptive CSS. Browser behavior that might improve your performance by Vadim Makeev
- Avoid Messages Under Fields says Adrian Roselli. Auto-complete features in browsers obscure them; On-screen keyboards can obscure them.
- Style a parent element based on its number of children using CSS :has() – I’m not sure why you’d want to, but -hey- you lot can be a bit wild and crazy sometimes.
- aria-label is a code smell – “When I encounter too much, or mis-applied aria-label it makes me take notice. This code smell puts me on alert to investigate things more thoroughly, as it most likely indicates accessibility issues.” says Eric Bailey
- 5 takeaways from screen reader usability interviews
- Mac VoiceOver Testing the Simple Way
- JPEG XL decoding support (image/jxl) in Blink – Lots of disappointment in Chrome’s decision not to ship JPEG XL image format, which many big players want due to its many advantages over other formats
- Browsers, JSON, and FormData – “until we start building our APIs to speak in more than just JSON ”” or we get browsers to speak JSON without requiring JavaScript[2] ”” it’s going to be difficult for progressively-enhanced web pages to gain traction over JavaScript rendered apps.”
- Accessibility ”˜Gaps’ in MVPs – Adrian Roselli grumbles, righteously.
- Is Open Graph Protocol dead? asks Uncle Tezza.
- Apollo 11 Mission Report – “the national objective of landing men on the moon and returning them safely to earth before the end of the decade had been accomplished.” – NASA, November 1969
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