I agree with pretty much every one of the recommendations here, but I’d argue that generating the JS-requiring button with JavaScript is a far better approach.
Dispatches From The Internets
Small Tweaks That Can Make a Huge Impact on Your Website’s Accessibility
Inclusiveness in illustration
This is an excellent case study from Alice Lee on making Wordpress’ branding illustrations more inclusive.
We Can Truly Transform People’s Lives
Kelly, Oscar, and I are getting ready to head out for a long weekend up in Gatlinburg, TN to take a break from house selling insanity and kick off the celebration of our 16-year anniversary. We love the Fall, but not everyone is equipped to take in the awesome beauty of Fall foliage. Thankfully, Tennessee is doing something about that.
Web Form Conundrum: disabled or readonly?
Web forms are complex beasts. There are a lot of field types to remember, each with dozens of attributes. It’s hard to know which is the right way to go, especially when presented with a choice between two seemingly similar options for disallowing a field to be edited: disabled and readonly. TL;DR: If you really need it, which you probably don’t, readonly is what you want.
Coding with Clarity
This is an excellent roll-up of coding best practices from Brandon Gregory.
Documenting the Web together
This is great news! Microsoft, Google, the W3C, and Samsung are all joining Mozilla in the maintenance and curation of MDN. Finally, we’ll have one always up-to-date source of docs on web standards!
A Look Back at the History of CSS
It‘s apparently a week for historical reading. I wrote about the history of CSS Grid, specifically, and Jason Hoffman wrote about the history of CSS writ-large.
Be a Mentor
Your knowledge and experience is valuable, no matter where you are in your career; you should share that knowledge with others. The web is what it is today because we shared our code and learned from each other. Be a part of that legacy. Brandon Gregory will show you the way.
What I Talk About When I Talk About Sorting: Untangling Array#sort
Think you understand how array sorting works in JavaScript? Think again.
Writing CSS with Accessibility in Mind
Excellent new piece from Manuel. So much great stuff to digest!