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- Link of the Week: Navigation API: Accessibility technology announcements – a great discussion of accessibility features in the new Navigation API (that replaces the History API). This should ameliorate many of the woes that Single Page Apps cause screen reader users. Also, a great place to start if you don’t know why SPAs can be very hard for disabled users of Assistive Tech, if coded thoughtlessly and untested. Contains a useful Guide for migrating from the existing history API.
- Who can you trust with your online business? asks Jason Grigsby. I’ve worked in many places with a hugely over-engineered tech stack recommended by Consultants that I suspect were secretly working for the clients’ competitors.
- Autocomplete accessibility bookmarklet – “bookmarklet for testing WCAG success criterion 1.3.5 Identify Input Purpose (AA) which requires that if an input field requests personal information about the user, we must apply the appropriate autocomplete value to the field.”
- Blinded By the Light DOM – Eric Meyer on web components and Shadow DOM
- An Interactive Guide to Flexbox by Josh W Comeau
- Generic font families – “groups font faces into categories which could be considered as an initial set of new generics in CSS. The idea is that if you specify a generic font setting and there is a font on your system that belongs to that category, you would not want the fallback replacement font chosen by the browser to be from a different category”. By Richard Ishida
- CSS Blend Modes an interactive tutorial
- Why You Should Use px Units for margin, padding, & Other Spacing Techniques
- A bold new look for the GOV.UK homepage – Some of the most impactful UX/ web design work isn’t done with whizzy animations, or incredibly smooth SPAs. It’s done by better spacing boring old links and boxes. Thanks, gov.uk
- The DMCC Bill: an appeal to common sense – Tom Fish, previously from the UK CMA, on how the GAMMA firms (Google-Apple-Meta-Microsoft-Amazon) are lobbying to hamstring the Regulator by introducing a procedural quagmire.
- Google’s 21-year deal with Apple is the “heart” of monopoly case, judge says
- This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI – “The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models.”
- The big idea: has the digital economy killed capitalism? – “Rather than turbo-charging the free market, Amazon et al have brought back a kind of feudalism” by Yanis Varoufakis
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