Reading List 314
- Link o’ the Month:The Performance Inequality Gap, 2024 – “how much more HTML, CSS, and (particularly) JavaScript can a new project afford?”. This is long, dense, heavily-annotated and (in my rarely-humble opinion) a must-read.
- Justice Department Secures Agreement with Oklahoma State Agency to Ensure Oklahoma Mobile Apps Are Accessible to People with Disabilities -TL;DR: the State’s mobile app used a third-party service which was inaccessible. The third party was told this, but did nothing. The ruling found that “A public entity cannot contract away its ADA obligations”. Expect more pressure on third-party web services when their customers realise that they are liable and can’t hand-wave the problem away.
- SVG sprites: old-school, modern, unknown, and forgotten jolly clever stuff by Vadders, my glamorous podcast co-host
- Accessibility testing spreadsheet version 2 a ready-to-fill in XLSX by Rachele DiTullio
- The web is mostly links and forms – he’s right, you know. (Plus text and some images)
- Bookmarklet: Load All GitHub Comments by Eric Meyer
- Preventing a Grid Blowout by Chris Coyier
- Web Push on iOS – 1 year anniversary -“TL;DR: Web Push on iOS is nearing its one year anniversary. It’s still mostly useless.”
- In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox – hug a UX person near you asap.
- Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI: Read the memo – Sigh. “The layoffs will affect roughly 60 employees… Going forward, the company said in an internal memo, Mozilla will focus on bringing “trustworthy AI into Firefox.””
- Apple effectively kills numerous browser games in the EU: unprecedented slap in the face of tech regulation
- What happened with the Web Monetization API? – an Intent to Prototype from Igalia, that’s what! I was briefly involved in this early on, and really hope it makes it to the Web!
- What Is Nightshade? – “a tool that turns any image into a data sample that is unsuitable for model training. More precisely, Nightshade transforms images into “poison” samples, so that models training on them without consent will see their models learn unpredictable behaviors”
- 12 Modern CSS One-Line Upgrades by Stephanie Eckles is a splendid candidate for bookmarking.
- as is The Ultimate Mobile Accessibility Resource Guide.
- Designing better target sizes – An interactive guide that is all about enhancing the target size area with CSS.
- Each Facebook User is Monitored by Thousands of Companies – A new study looks at who is sending information about your online activity to Facebook.
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