accessibility – ntdln

Weekly Links 01.15–01.21

How Lego builds a new Lego set (The Verge)
The Verge’s favorite tools to stay organized (The Verge)
You Should Try Running, According to Me, Your Friend Who Won’t Shut Up About Running (McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, via kottke.org)
What If The Bear, But a Commercial for Coke? (kottke.org)
Sixteen Stories for Flickr Commons’ Sixteenth Birthday (Flickr Foundation, via kottke.org)
The Winners of the Nature Photography Contest (kottke.org)
Polygon Picks: accessories to improve your home office and desk (Polygon)
How to read more books as an adult (Polygon)
A Native viewer on Killers of the Flower Moon’s most life-changing scene (Polygon)
Five things. (Airbag Industries)
In My Opinion… (Chris Coyier)
How and Why to Write One Sentence A Day (Day One Blog, Phoebe Kranefuss)
A new look to this site (Jeff Bridgforth)
Remembering Hardboiled Web Design (Jeff Bridgforth)
Basic accessibility mistakes I often see in audits (Go Make Things)
How to keep up (Go Make Things)
The decline of React (Go Make Things)
WobblyBox, a web component for wobbly boxes (Dave Rupert)
‘Like the Sixth Finger in an AI-Rendered Hand’ (Daring Fireball)
Tim Bray: ‘Mourning Google’ (Daring Fireball)

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Weekly Links 12.11–12.17

The Year In Review for 2023 (The Iconfactory)
Default Apps 2023 (Chris Coyier)
Default Apps 2023 (Matt Cool)
Apps I use 2023 (Jeff Bridgforth)
Getting ready for the :has() selector (Jeff Bridgforth)
So CSS4 is going to happen? (Jeff Bridgforth)
Weeknotes 23:42 (Jeff Bridgforth)
HTML web components in the spotlight (Jeff Bridgforth)
My accessibility journey (Jeff Bridgforth)
Accessibility links and resources (Jeff Bridgforth)
Should Your Boyfriend Play Counter-Strike? (Girlfriend Reviews)
Clear Ice Is Better Than Cloudy Ice. Here’s Why. (Wirecutter)
Stuck in the dock (Jeremy Keith)
Piccalilli will return in 2024 (Piccalilli)
App Store Rankings as a Proxy for Social Network Momentum (Daring Fireball)

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Weekly Links 11.27–12.03

A Few Ways CSS Is Easier To Write In 2023 (Smashing Magazine)
The hanging-punctuation property in CSS (Chris Coyier)
christopher.org (Chris Coyier)
A /random Route on a WordPress Site (Chris Coyier)
Element Indexes (Chris Coyier)
Hide and Debug Empty Elements with CSS (CSS { In Real Life })
Wrapping Up National Blog Posting Month 2023 (CSS { In Real Life })
Podcast App Castro Might Be Dying (Daring Fireball)
Movies Watched, October 2023 (Khoi Vinh)
Weeknotes 23:40 (Jeff Bridgforth)
Comparing Apple Notes to the Latest Version of Bear Notes (The Sweet Setup)
HTML web components (Jeremy Keith)
Removing list styles without affecting semantics. (Manuel Matuzovic)
Stop Saying Best Practice

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Gift guides

Weekly Links 11.06–11.12

Cloudy with a Chance of Insanity: Unsticking iCloud Drive (TidBITS, Glenn Fleishman)
Skip links on ikea.com (Manuel Matuzovic)
Naming Variables In CSS (Jonathan Dallas)
Gummy vitamins as a candy replacement (Dave Rupert)
Califia Farms Café Oat for Baristas Blend (Dave Rupert)
Fun water (Dave Rupert)
Stories: Building a home for my shitty sci-fi (Dave Rupert)
Vibe Check №29 (Dave Rupert)
So you’ve been publicly accessibility-shamed (Dave Rupert)
Ableist interactions (Hidde de Vries)
The Nature Conservancy’s Photo Contest Winners for 2023 (kottke.org)
Time Lapse Video of a Massive Lego Build of The Great Wave off Kanagawa (kottke.org)
The World’s Most Popular Painter Sent His Followers After Me Because He Didn’t Like a Review of His Work. Here’s What I Learned (via kottke.org)
Improv of Lord of the Rings’ Sauron as Trump (kottke.org)
The History of the Electric Guitar Solo (kottke.org)
You can drink the tap water in these 50 countries — maybe (via kottke.org)
The 10 Rules of Being Human (kottke.org)
The Whimsical Web (via kottke.org)
Why I Get Sick Selling A Curriculum To Homeschool Parents (via kottke.org)
Creating a Gentle World on a Little Leaf (kottke.org)
Searching for Humanity in Fortnite’s Battle Royale (kottke.org)
The Finalists in the 2023 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards (kottke.org)
Deaf People Show Us How to Swear in Sign Language (kottke.org)
Attribute Superpowers Taken All The Way (Chris Coyier)
Exit Animations (Chris Coyier)
Answers to Common (Web) Design Questions (Chris Coyier)
0 KB Social Media Embeds (Chris Coyier)
When not to use a subdomain (Chris Coyier)
Thoughtful (Chris Coyier)
An Intermittent Platform Bug (Chris Coyier)
Everything about SEO is obnoxious (Chris Coyier)
Movies Watched, September 2023 (Khoi Vinh)
The 16 best PC games (November 2023) (Polygon)
The 7 Best Pens of 2023 (Wirecutter)
Weeknotes 23:36 (Jeff Bridgforth)
Weeknotes 23:37 (Jeff Bridgforth)
Never ask “Can you see everything?” again. (Marc Reichel) — I’m in the market for a new monitor, and I just recently realized that screen sharing could be a problem with ultrawide monitors.
iOS Tip: ‘Smart Activation’ for Do Not Disturb Turns Off Notification During Screen Recordings (Daring Fireball)
“I don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.” (Airbag Industries)
8 Questions You Need to Ask When Choosing Your University’s CMS (Lullabot)
Try Galaxy on your non-Android phone — Very impressive!
Wilco Loft Sans (SimpleBits)
Code Gardening (CSS { In Real Life })
Handling Null, Undefined and Zero Values in JavaScript (CSS { In Real Life })
NaN or Not a Number? (CSS { In Real Life })
CSS Nesting is Here (CSS { In Real Life })

News

Weekly Links 10.02–10.08

Why Rappers Stopped Writing (kottke.org)
Nine things automated accessibility tests can’t test (Dave Rupert)
Websites in the dock (Jeremy Keith)
Google Changes Search Queries Without Telling You (to Sell You More Stuff) (kottke.org)
America Is Quickly Becoming More Nonreligious (kottke.org)

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Weeknotes 09.12–09.18

Notes from my week.

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Weeknotes 07.11–07.17

Notes from my week.

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Weeknotes 03.15–03.20

Notes from my week.

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An Event Apart: “Why Design Systems Fail”

Una Kravets speaking at An Event Apart Orlando 2018 on October 9, 2018

Design systems are hot right now, and for good reason. They promote a modular approach to building a product, promote organizational unity, and ensure stability via reusable code snippets and utility styles. They make prototyping a breeze, and provide a common language for both designers and developers. But sometimes design systems are underutilized within organizations. Why is that, when they’re so darn useful? In an engaging hour, Una will draw on years of experience to explore what makes design systems successful, analyze real examples of success and failure, and show how to make sure your design system has the building blocks it needs to grow into a successful product.

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An Event Apart: “Inclusive UX: Techniques for Everyone”

Derek Featherstone speaking at An Event Apart Seattle 2018 on April 4, 2018.

You and your teams are doing the things that need to be done to create inclusive designs. You’ve been using meaningful, semantic markup from the get-go. You stopped using light grey on slightly darker grey text years ago. Designing and building your apps and sites in an accessible way is just how you work now—you have to try really hard to make things that don’t work with a keyboard. So, what’s next for you? How can you make sure that you’re delivering on the promise of the web by delivering an inclusive design that can be easily used by people with disabilities? In this talk, Derek will tackle the tougher problems through design approaches and practical development techniques that you need to create accessible, modern web sites.

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