31 January 2017
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Andrea Fercia
While the original intended use of HTML tables was tabular data, tables are also used as aids for page layout. This was especially true some years ago when browsers hardly supported CSS. Tables were necessary to overcome limitations in visual presentation. Today, there is much more flexibility in controlling page layout using CSS. Does it »
Read: "The a11y Monthly: Get rid of your tables (or fix them)"
29 December 2016
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Andrea Fercia
In the last couple years, we’ve seen an increased adoption of JavaScript libraries and frameworks to build web applications. At Yoast, some important parts of our applications, such as our Yoast SEO plugin, have already moved to JavaScript. In the future, we'll build most of our interfaces using React components. This shift to JavaScript is »
Read: "The a11y Monthly: Accessibility and JavaScript"
30 November 2016
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Anton Timmermans
On Friday, Irene and I visited the Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop to learn more about information retrieval and to meet the Dutch/Belgian Information Retrieval community. Before going to this conference, I didn't know what Information Retrieval was. Now I know what it comprises and how it relates to software development at Yoast. In our recently released »
Read: "Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop 2016"
28 November 2016
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Andrea Fercia
According to the World Health Organization, 246 million people have low vision worldwide. Approximately 1 in 12 men (8%) and 1 in 200 women in the world have some form of altered perception of colors. At Yoast, we’ve decided to review the colors used in all our projects to improve text contrast and readability. Better »
Read: "The a11y Monthly: Keep your colors under control"
28 October 2016
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Andrea Fercia
Universal access to content is an essential aspect of the web. Helping people finding content is one of the first steps. For that reason, it is the responsibility of every developer to make sure content is accessible for everyone. At Yoast, accessibility matters a great deal. We’re all focused in an ongoing effort to improve the »
Read: "The a11y Monthly: Web content accessibility at Yoast"
3 October 2016
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Rens Weerman
One of the goals of the development team whilst building the JavaScript onboarding wizard in Yoast SEO 3.6 was to make it generic. We love the open source community, so we made the wizard freely available for everyone. That means you can use our wizard component for your own needs! I’ll give a short explanation »
Read: "Build your own JavaScript onboarding wizard"
29 September 2016
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Rens Weerman
When you install our Yoast SEO plugin onto your WordPress site, there are some basic things that you have to set up for your site to rank. Normally you have to go to the settings of the plugin and set everything up yourself. There are a lot of settings in our plugin, and they're not »
Read: "Developing the Yoast SEO onboarding wizard"