I’ve talked about this before: As web designers, we can’t trust the network. Sure, we have to contend with mobile data “dead zones” and dropped connections as our users move about throughout the day, but there’s a lot more to the network that’s beyond our control.
Dispatches From The Internets
More Proof We Don’t Control Our Web Pages
Where to Put Your Search Role
Not on the form. Noted.
Making radio buttons and checkboxes easier to use
Experiments in radio and checkbox resizing. It’s a sad state of affairs. The small hit targets are why I recommend adding negative margins above and below the label, coupled with equal padding top and bottom. It’s a recommendation from my forms talk that I will write up soon.
A fictional conversation about progressive enhancement
A cheeky fictional conversation about progressive enhancement, though I might take it a bit further: If you want to edit the rich document and JavaScript enhancements aren’t available, there’s always Markdown or Textile or any other plain text pseudo-formatting language. Where there’s a will…
Accessibility - Beyond the Screen Reader
This is a fantastic overview of the accessibility considerations you should be making. Most are far more important than screen reader support.
V8 Release 4.6
New ES6 (ECMAScript 2015) features rolling out in V8: spread and new.target. Also: Reduced jank.
Progressive Enhancement with Aaron Gustafson
Jen Simmons and I discuss working on the web and all things progressive enhancement.
Creating an accessible breakout game using Web Audio & SVG
I had the great pleasure of seeing Dave present his accessible breakout game at the MS Edge Web Summit and have been eagerly awaiting this post ever since. So much good stuff in here!
Infinite Scrolling and Accessibility (It’s Usually Bad)
An excellent round-up of research findings and articles with regard to accessibility and the infinite scrolling design pattern.
Results from Assistive Technology
This is a fantastic resource for information on how different markup patterns are handled in terms of accessibility.