HTML5 Landmarks exposed: https://www.scottohara.me/blog/2019/04/05/landmarks-exposed.html
A break down of browser and screen reader support (and gap filling) for exposing HTML5 landmarks.
BTW, all the ARIA table roles effectively quadruple the weight of the HTML, double the weight of the CSS.
Just published:
"Fixing" Lists
https://www.scottohara.me/blog/2019/01/12/lists-and-safari.html
My response to this thread about Safari + VoiceOver's treatment of unstyled lists:
https://twitter.com/SaraSoueidan/status/1083734801952182272
A reminder to all to check out the fantastic articles being posted on 24 Accessibility this month. So many wonderful and inspiring reads about digital inclusion and accessibility!
Use highlight.js for syntax highlighting on your website? a11y-dark and a11y-light are now available as themes! WCAG AA compliant for color contrast, including Windows High Contrast Mode support. https://github.com/highlightjs/highlight.js
Surprise, proper semantic & structural HTML (with lessons from AT) can better position you for future conversational UIs. https://alistapart.com/article/conversational-semantics
WCAG IS DEAD. LONG LIVE WCAG! 😜
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2018JulSep/0166.html
WCAG 1.0 will be marked superseded by the end of the year. WCAG 2.1 is a nice and important modern update to WCAG 2.0.
If you always wanted to get into accessibility, this is a great time.
Following #AEACHI #a11y talk, seeing good overlap with Inclusive Design Principles from @LeonieWatson@twitter.com @iheni@twitter.com @IanPouncey@twitter.com @heydonworks@twitter.com:
https://inclusivedesignprinciples.org/
Oh. This was the primal scream I heard from him earlier today. Legit.
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This is why we can’t have nice things. https://twitter.com/giuseppegurgone/status/1033600647470489601
https://twitter.com/karlgroves/status/1034125933828075521
See replies on this tweet, note how few people seemed to read it and get the Data Saver mode bit with option to load.
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"Google may start disabling Javascript on 2G connections in Chrome when Data Saver is switched on". https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/08/23/chrome-android-may-start-disabling-javascript-2g-connections/
https://twitter.com/poshaughnessy/status/1033118467162099713
Takeaways:
• PE still matters;
• not everyone surfs like you;
• people barely read headlines;
• assume tweets will be deleted, so link to source.
I put out a weekly newsletter with some friends that highlights weird and cool internet things. I'd love it if you gave it a read, here's this week's issue: https://tinyletter.com/hot-garbage/letters/tanned-rested-and-ready-to-share
Interesting that catering for Voice Assistants means using structured markup (e.g. http://schema.org) in your website:
https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2018/08/23/hey-gov-uk-what-are-you-doing-about-voice/
I do accessibility stuff. I like it.