Excellent lesser-known advice for how to keep your webpages keyboard-friendly. After reading it, I made a few changes to this site.
Dispatches From The Internets
How To Avoid Breaking Web Pages For Keyboard Users
WCAG 2.2 and what it means for you
This is an excellent run-down of some key additions and changes in WCAG 2.2. Many thanks to Craig for putting it together!
Nuclear Anchored Sidenotes
I always learn a ton from Eric’s methodical approach to CSS. This one’s no different and is a wonderful introduction to anchor positioning. Love it!
Widgets!
It was a long time coming, but I finally had a chance to put the work I did on a widgets proposal for PWAs into practice on my own site. I’m pretty excited about it!
Accessible Figma designs just got easier
I love that folks in Microsoft are releasing the tools we use to build more accessible experiences.
Microsoft announces new Copilot Copyright Commitment for customers
While I really appreciate Microsoft standing behind the AI it’s deploying, I do wonder how this squares with the U.S. Copyright Office’s ruling that prompt-generated content isn’t copyrightable.
Tolu Adegbite
Excellent interview with Tolu Adegbite on her career and the importance of giving voice to other marginalized communities within the disability space.
Remembering Molly
We lost a seminal figure in the world of web design this week. And I lost a good friend and mentor. Molly Holzschlag cared deeply for the web and those of us who till its soils.
Please size your inline SVGs
While it is a bit of an edge case, every now and then I’ll hit a site—yes, even a high profile one—and the CSS will fail to load for some reason. When this happens, inevitably every inline SVG resource on the page will grow to fill the entire width of my viewport, making for a really awkward experience.
Design for Developers
One of my favorite web designers, Stephanie Stimac, asked me to write the foreword for her amazing new book, Design for Developers. With her permission, and Manning’s, I’m reprinting it here.