Back in the early days of the iPhone, I created Tipr, a tip calculator that always produces a palindrome total. This is an overview of the minimal work I did to make it a modern web app that can run without a traditional back-end.
Dispatches From The Internets
Rebuilding a PHP App using Isomorphic JavaScript with Eleventy & Netlify
In 2023, Resolve to Fix Your Organization’s Meta Pixel Problem – The Markup
It’s hard to believe it’s 11 years after I wrote about dropping 3rd party share links & such to protect your users’ privacy and we’re still having to have this conversation. You need to get rid of the Facebook/Meta pixel. And if you can’t do it everywhere, at least do remove it from pages with sensitive content. Don’t sell out your users!
ChatGPT is great – you’re just using it wrong
Setting aside it’s current issues with facts, the idea of using ChatGPT as an improv partner is interesting. Could work well for brainstorming and getting your own creative juices flowing.
Digital Exclusion in Healthcare & How to Change It
Fantastic talk from Sareh on assumptions we make about our users and how those assumptions exclude people who have different lived experiences than we do. Her focus is on digital healthcare, but is applicable to everything.
I love her calls to action as well!
Related talk: Delivering Critical Information & Services
Use the dialog element (reasonably)
The dialog element is ready for prime time:
IMO, the dialog element has reached the tipping point of being the better option for web developers who need to implement dialogs in their web pages. The number of accessibility requirements a developer needs to be aware of, and the level of effort to implement custom ARIA dialogs is now largely taken care of by browsers.
Use it, don’t abuse it.
Screen Readers support for text level HTML semantics
Steve Faulkner updated his assessment of support for text-level semantics in screen readers and accessibility APIs. He discusses what’s changed in the last 15 years (since his last assessment) and what it means in terms of conformance with respect to accessibility guidelines.
A new accessibility strategy for the GOV.UK Design System
I love it when organizations share their strategy. In this case, it’s the UK government’s GDS sharing how they plan to approach accessibility, going forward.
Accessible web color combinations
Love this tool for creating accessible color combinations.
Inclusion is Innovation
Having worked in the D&I space within Microsoft for a few years now, it’s great to see the things we’ve been discussing internally making it out into the world.
It all goes hand-in-hand:
- Screen in for diverse perspectives during the interview process.
- Foster inclusive teams that value and promote people for not only their productive capacity, but also their unique experiences & perspectives.
- Empower everyone to influence product/service design.
- Release products that serve everyone because those products were created by people who share lived experiences with everyone.
OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour
We talk a lot about needing to improve the ethics of our supply chains when it comes to mineral extraction and factory conditions, but we need protections for knowledge workers too!