Another fantastic resource from Adrian Roselli. This is a collection of diagnostic tools that
If this sounds cool, you may also like his Accessibility Bookmarklets and Tools.
Matt offers us a nice round-up of new selectors that will likely be a part of the CSS 4 Selectors Module. Notable additions:
:has - select an element based on children it contains,:matches - a more compact way to select elements via alternate selector paths,:not() in a stack - lets you combine multiple selectors not to match, using commas.lang Attribute
Adrian has put together a great overview of why lang is important and how many sites are using it. Here are a few takeaways:
- VoiceOver on iOS uses the attribute to auto-switch voices.
- VoiceOver can speak a particular language using a different accent when specified.
- Leaving out the `lang` attribute may require the user to manually switch to the correct language for proper pronunciation.
- JAWS uses it to load the correct phonetic engine/phonologic dictionary — Handy for sites with multiple languages.
- NVDA (Windows) uses it in the same way as VoiceOver and JAWS.
- When used in HTML that is used to form an ePub or Apple iBooks document, it affects how VoiceOver will read the book.
- Firefox, IE10, and Safari (as of a year ago) only support CSS `hyphens: auto` when the `lang` attribute is set.
Thanks for putting this together Adrian!
The insightful James Craig is compiling a list of alternatives to the troublesome longdesc attribute. You should follow along.
Great stuff from some folks who know an awful lot about email:
If there’s a medium that lends itself to progressive enhancement, it’s email. Given the contexts in which email content is parsed and displayed (and will be in the future), it pays to consider content first and independently from the presentation.
Traditionally, email designers have taken all sorts of scrappy approaches to ensuring that text in email “looks the same across all clients”. Your Gmail experience should be the same as your Outlook experience and so-forth. I’d argue that “reading the same across all clients” is vastly more important and that when possible, visually lovely flourishes should be added, for the environments that support them.
Jeremy perfectly captures my feelings on most client-side MVC frameworks:
Angular is for making (possibly enterprise) applications that happen to be on the web, but are not of the web.
It is possible to have your cake and eat it too if you go the isomorphic JavaScript route though.
Love this!
You'll never believe this one weird trick that takes the pain out of cross browser testing: Progressive enhancement.
Today is the birthday of an amazing woman, Molly Holzschlag, and she needs our help!
So yeah, this happened:
The @GustafsonAaron Twitter account only follows 5 people, and they are all named “Aaron Gustafson”.
It’s a little creepy, I won’t lie.
Jason Weber, Group Program Manager of Internet Explorer, provides a little more insight into “Project Spartan” and how Microsoft plans to balance consumer and enterprise needs.
Because a picture is worth a thousand words:
