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- Link o’the Week: Enhance Music — “a music library and audio player app built with HTML and CSS, and progressively enhanced with a couple pinches of JavaScript. Despite being built as a traditional multipage website, Enhance Music features an audio player that persists across page loads, and some gorgeous interactive UI built entirely with web standards.”
- What’s new in WCAG 2.2 – by Pattypoo Lauke
- Accessible Numbers – Presenting numbers and data clearly.
- CSS Shorthand Syntax Considered an Anti-Pattern by Harold “Cheeky” Roberts
- ARIA, the good parts by Hidde de Vries
- Browser Video Players Review by Adrian Roselli
- A (more) Modern CSS Reset by Andrew Bell and his whippet
- We Deserve Better from Apple: Why I Can No Longer Recommend a Mac to Fellow Blind Computer Users – “This critical problem has persisted for years across multiple MacOS versions without a permanent fix from Apple. Given the longevity and level of disruption caused by this bug across Safari and other applications, I can unfortunately no longer in good faith recommend Macs to anyone who relies on using VoiceOver.”
- The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023 (Still No Excuses!)
- How To Make A Strong Case For Accessibility by Vitaly Friedman
- EU to study mobile ecosystems to counter any Apple, Google antitrust pushback (Reuters)
- The modern CEO job is completely broken — but AI could make executives useful again – “We must hold CEOs accountable in the same way that we do their employees or dissolve the role entirely. A chief executive must meaningfully contribute in a way that is measurable and delivers clear value for the company. Failing that, I would argue that the opaque role of the CEO should be the first one to be replaced by artificial intelligence.”
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