28 September 2017
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Andrea Fercia
The aria-current attribute is a new, tiny bit of HTML in the upcoming ARIA 1.1 specification. It's a simple, effective way to communicate to assistive technologies which the current item within a set of related items is. Here, I'll try to explain how such a small attribute can improve your website accessibility. I'll also show how »
Read: "The a11y Monthly: Spruce up your website accessibility with aria-current"
25 September 2017
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Omar Reiss
In the upcoming weeks, WordPress will choose a UI rendering framework. I’ve heard many claims plugin / theme developers will still be able to use whatever they like, regardless of what WordPress chooses. I think we shouldn’t count on that, nor should we focus on providing interoperability at this point. Instead we should focus first »
Read: "On the WordPress UI library choice: extensibility over interoperability"
31 August 2017
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Andrea Fercia
I've been focusing on web accessibility for a few years now. One of the complaints I've often heard from business owners and managers is that implementing accessibility is hard and slows down the development process. For this reason, sometimes accessibility gets postponed or set aside in the erroneous belief that's something that can be "added" »
Read: "The a11y Monthly: Does Accessibility slow down the development process?"
28 July 2017
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Andrea Fercia
One of the most common misconceptions I often hear about Web accessibility is that accessibility is for people with disabilities or with some kind of impairment. Some people think it relates to a small percentage of users. Business owners and managers, even the ones who understand the value of accessibility, sometimes tend to think it can »
Read: "The a11y Monthly: Accessibility for the future you"
9 June 2017
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Andrea Fercia
The title attribute is a small bit of HTML that developers can use on most of the HTML elements. In desktop browsers, the title attribute content is typically displayed as a visual “tooltip”. The attribute has been around for about 15 years. It is still widely used on the internet in the belief it’s a »
Read: "The a11y Monthly: Why you shouldn’t rely on the title attribute"
1 May 2017
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Andrea Fercia
One of the concerns I often hear about accessibility is that it’s hard to implement and expensive. It’s true that retrofitting accessibility requirements on an existing website can be expensive. But that’s because it’s too late. Plan accessibility from the start and ensure that it's embedded in the culture of your organization. This will make »
Read: "The a11y Monthly: 5 easy things you can do now to improve accessibility"
14 April 2017
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Anton Timmermans
So, you hear about this neat little library called Redux. A lot of people in the React community use it, so you decide to check it out. As you start reading the README, you discover that it probably wouldn’t be much use to you. But you realize something else: it’s only 2kB. What is this »
Read: "12 months, 12 technologies: Understanding Redux"
30 March 2017
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Andrea Fercia
This is the story of a little switch toggle, a custom HTML control we’ve recently implemented here at Yoast for our projects. Native HTML controls are always preferable, but we try to experiment and have a good balance between accessibility and good design. Wondering what custom controls are? Curious to see how modern design and »
Read: "The a11y Monthly: Story of a toggle"