Reading List 307
Here’s what I’ve been reading that you might find interesting.
- How to document the screen reader user experience – BBC
- Apple owes Brit iOS app devs millions from excessively high commission says a proposed class action filed with the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal on behalf of 1,566 app developers in the UK
- Apple can delay App Store changes to file Supreme Court plea – “The appeals court ruling that would make Apple remove ‘anti-steering’ rules against pointing customers to third-party payment options is on hold”. As with the UK CMA, when out of real arguments, Apple goes for procedural delays. All delays mean loadsa $$ for Apple, so huge is their app store tax. And times are hard for the poor cash-strapped mites, bless ’em.
- Making co-design more inclusive by overcoming language barriers
- Making Numbers in Web Content Accessible – from TPG. TL;DR, don’t twat about with how screen readers announce things like telephone numbers.
- Accessibility widgets are not reducing lawsuits – “The number of lawsuits against companies using accessibility widgets increased slightly in 2023. We found 414 suits this year, compared to 336 in the first half of 2022 and 316 in the first half of 2021. This trend suggests that accessibility widgets may not provide sufficient protection against litigation.”
- O dialog focus, where art thou? “When you click a button and call the showModal() method to open a modal
- The new @font-face syntax
- inert attribute (html): Accessibility Support
- Hostile Patterns in Error Messages “Premature error messages, aggressively styled fields, and unnecessarily disruptive system-status messages feel bad-mannered and increase cognitive load for users during otherwise simple tasks.”
- Error Messages UX When errors should live above input fields and why toast error messages usually aren’t a very good idea. By Vitaly Friedman
- Re-creating a Japanese Fireworks Catalog from 1883 in CSS – some nice techniques to recreate a cool design
- the article element and screen readers
- A case study on scroll-driven animations performance
- My CSS reading list roundup (July 2023) by Heather Buchel
- Identify unused npm packages in your project – TL;DR: npx depcheck
- The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives – I used to program one of these buggers in CICS
- Vision for the W3C
- TechCrunch: Here’s why Elon Musk’s rebranding of Twitter to ‘X’ is good, actually
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