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Google+ Accessibility

Some updates from Luke on accessibility improvements on Google’s social network. Of note: “In the past year alone, we’ve found & fixed over 450 accessibility bugs.”

Keep up the great work!




Learning to Use Google Analytics More Effectively at CodePen

Analytics tracking has never been my thing and the Google Analytics docs are frequently impenetrable for me. This post from Chris Coyier was quite accessible and easy to follow and has inspired me to do some more in-depth tracking on some of my own sites.



Principles of the keyboard-accessible website

Some truly excellent advice here.

Poor keyboard accessibility of a website is one of the most damning and frustrating problems that faces people with disabilities and keyboard users alike.



Visual Studio Code 1.0 Release

I’ve been using VS Code for a few weeks now and I have to admit I’m smitten. I wasn’t really looking for a new editor, but I really like this one. Super light & fast, even with big files.


Testing with the NVDA Screen Reader

This is a great roundup of configuration recommendations and keyboard commands from Jon Whiting for getting going with NVDA.