Links
A Tale of Two Rooms: Understanding screen reader navigation
As you move the light around the darkened room you will need to build a mental map or image of what is in the room and how it is laid out. Building this mental map will take significantly longer than visually scanning the room when all the lights were on. As you move the flashlight around, you will need to remember each thing you have seen and how they all relate together. If you forget where something is located, it will take more time to locate it.
Using Media Queries For Responsive Design In 2018
This article will take a look at the use of media queries for responsive design today, how they work alongside Flexbox and Grid Layout, and also have a look at what is coming in the future.
Let’s make multi-colored icons with SVG symbols and CSS variables
There’s one thing that remains absolutely impossible with icon fonts: multicolor support. Only SVG can do this. …We’ll use the fill attribute on each path of the SVG definition, and set them to different CSS variables. Then, we’ll assign them different colors.
Automatic visual diffing with Puppeteer
I did a little song-and-dance that sets up Puppeteer , takes screenshots of your app (like, all the routes you care about), and then compares them to the “golden” ones. If they match, your test passes!
aria-label is a xenophobe
Unfortunately, unlike longstanding attributes marked for assistive technology consumption (
alt
andtitle
to name a couple),aria-label
is ignored by Google’s translator. MS Translate has the same issue, I’m told.
Videos
Solving layout problems with CSS Grid and friends by Rachel Andrew
CSS Grid Layout launched into the majority of our browsers in 2017. As designers and developers have started to use Grid I’ve been answering a lot of questions about the specification. In this talk I’ll answer some of the common questions about Grid Layout in production - from dealing with old browsers to what might come next in CSS for layout. There will be plenty of practical tips for you to use in your projects today.
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