Reading List 224
A (usually) weekly round-up of interesting links I’ve tweeted. Sponsored by Smashing Magazine who slip banknotes into my lacy red manties so I can spend time reading stuff.
- An accessibility analysis of the top 1,000,000 home pages – “97.8% of home pages had detectable WCAG 2 failures”
- Colour contrast bookmarklet – Ada Rose Cannon’s widget to analyse a URL’s colours and highlight areas with inadequate contrast. (85% of the million home pages analysed by WebAim had this error.)
- Fighting Uphill – Eric Bailey’s thoughts on that WebAim report
- The web just got an official password-free login standard (featuring the pullitzer-winning fact “there are many, many web pages” </snark>)
- Using CSS Grid the right way – “Use names. Use frs. Don’t use a grid system. Wait, what? “
- MJML – “a markup language designed to reduce the pain of coding a responsive email .. MJML’s open-source engine generates high quality responsive HTML compliant with best practices.”
- An exercise in progressive enhancement – Chen hui Jing on the “actual implementation of a site that works without Javascript, but is enhanced by Javascript when it is available”. (I’d love to see similar for all frameworks etc.)
- Interesting Custom Element Data Begins – what sorts of custom elements are out there in the wild? asks Brian “Extensible” Kardell
- Semantics to Screen Readers – how do screen readers and other assistive programs actually access your content? What information do they use?
- TypeScript introduction – “an in-depth series covering almost everything from pure basics to some complexities”
- Frontend Workshop from HTML/CSS/JS to TypeScript/React/Redux – “In this two-day workshop you’ll learn the basics of frontend development while building a working web app”, by Microsoft, open license
- Spammers are abusing Twitter cards to lend legitimacy to fraudulent adverts by Uncle Tezza, @edent
- Revolut insiders reveal the human cost of a fintech unicorn’s wild rise – just because it’s all start-uppy and disruptive, it doesn’t mean it’s not vile and exploitative
- Talking of which … Amazon Warehouse Workers Game
- Hipsters all look the same! Scientific FACT. – “Hipster whines at tech mag for using his pic to imply hipsters look the same, discovers pic was of an entirely different hipster”
As the accessibility champion in my workgroup, let me say that I really appreciate all the accessibility articles you post here. It’s always a battle to get people to see this as more than a checkbox that needs to be checked, and I’ve used a lot of the articles in my work.