Development Advent Calendars for 2024 đź”—
I got myself a coffee advent calendar and I have to admit it was more aspirational than anything. I don’t drink enough coffee. But the packaging is ni [...]
Adrian Roselli
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Avoid Read-only Controls đź”—
It’s weird to me that after I urged everyone not to disable form controls, a bunch of them decided that making them read-only was somehow better. But [...]
A11y Camp: Keynote Slides đź”—
Download a 3.6MB tagged PDF of my slides or try the embedded view if your browser displays PDF inline. The text in the slides is set in Atkinson Hyper [...]
Brief Note on Disclosures in Fieldsets đź”—
TL;DR: Probably don’t use disclosure widgets in fieldsets. If you do it anyway, don’t put the trigger in the <legend>. Context With <details> / <summa [...]
Under-Engineered Estimated Reading Time Feature đź”—
There are plenty of plug-ins, libraries, and tutorials that will add an “estimated reading time” visual cue to your site. There are also browser exten [...]
Semi-Annual Reminder to Learn and Hire for Web Standards đź”—
Alex Russell wrote a four-part series a couple weeks ago arguing that modern JavaScript-first framework-focused front-end development is costing the i [...]
Mountain Chicken! đź”—
I am mis-using closed captions for a gag. The following video has an audio track and four sets of captions (for now?). Each set of captions is in Engl [...]
Talkin’ Tables — WebAIM Conference 2024 🔗
I spoke at the 2024 Web Accessibility in Mind Conference (in partnership with PopeTech). As soon as the video is available I will embed it. This post [...]
Before Filing that Keyboard Bug… 🔗
Are you using a Mac or another Apple iDevice and think you found a keyboard bug? Try: Enable Full Keyboard Access (FKA) on macOS from Apple Support. E [...]
Things to Do Before Asking “Is This Accessible?” 🔗
It is not uncommon for someone to message, call, email, or carrier pigeon me to ask if something is accessible. They almost invariably want a “yes” or [...]