Accessibility: Test your content
Now that we've created accessible components. Now we get to test them. To test accessible components we'll use 3 tools: The Accessibility Audit built into Chrome Dev Tools aXe and aXe Coconut from...
Accessibility: Best Practices
Rather than reinvent the wheel I'll look at two collections of accessibility best practices: WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices 1.1 and Ebay's MIND Patterns: Accessibility Patterns for the Web (suggested by...
Accessibility: Introduction
Using ARIA # Accessibility is one of the most important aspects of development and one that we don't pay as much attention as we should. We will look at ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications),...
Node and HTTP/2
HTTP/2 is the later evolution of the HTTP protocol that powers the web. It's main goal is to improve performance and latency over existing HTTP 1.1 implementations. For more details see Ilyia...
Ebooks: A new look and an update
I'm still surprised that things haven't changed for epub. Via Twitter, I saw David Bergsland's article that, in turn, referenced Teresa Elsey's ePUB Secrets post I haven't done serious work on epub in...
OpenType Features in CSS
I've been playing a little with Open Type font variations (and their CSS equivalents) for a few weeks now and I've revisited a few areas I had played with before and left because, at the time, I...
Revisiting Webpack
I've done some prior work with Webpack and, while I still have my reservations, it's worth taking a look at it again from a different perspective. As I was working on my research on how to automate UI...
Machine Learning Image Enhancement
The following tweets, products of an earlier request for comments on an essay about ebooks, started an interesting line of thinking. Re: image quality, as a book publisher whose backlist is...
Puppeteer: Automating Tasks With Headless Chrome
Puppeteer is a project from Chrome's Devtools team to provide a high-level way to automate running Chrome in Headless mode (Chrome running without a graphical user interface. Headless browsers provide...
Globalize Content: Caching localization assets with service workers
Since we've already used Webpack to build our localization assets it's easy to use Workbox.js to precache assets using a service worker. const webpack = require( "webpack" ); const CommonsChunkPlugin...