Reading Online?
One thing that has always intrigued me is how people read online and how it affects the way we structure web content. Most of my influence comes from Jakob Nielsen and the Nielsen Norman group's...
Colors in CSS, Contrast and, Testing
When we talk about visual disabilities we usually concentrate on color blindness without realizing that that are other visual accessibility issues that we tend to ignore. This came to bite me when I...
Alternate and User Style Sheets
We normally work with the stylesheets we develop for the content we create. This is one of the style sheets available and that interact in the CSS cascade: The browser has a basic style sheet that...
Understanding The CSS Cascade
When working on my piece about contrast I found myself writing about the CSS cascade. The more I realized I didn't understand the cascade itself. So this is my attempt at understanding the cascade,...
Mavo
Mavo is an extension to HTML created by Lea Verou as part of her work at MIT CSAIL. It caught my attention because it's a minimal setup system that does all of the heavy lifting for you (as we'll see...
Server Side Performance Tricks
Over time I've learned that performance is a two way street that requires good server configurations and good content management. You should avoid using .htaccess files completely if you have access...
Promise.Finally… Finally
Most languages that I've worked with have an additional tool for promises that covers items that we have to do at the end of a task, regardless of whether it succeeds or not. Using this example we'll...
Accessibility: It's more than the tech
When we think about accessibility most of us think about screen readers but there's a lot more. The automated and manual techniques are a starting point. After you make all the changes suggested by...
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...