Rethinking Text Resizing on Web
- Steven Bassett tl;dr: Airbnb has made significant strides in improving web accessibility for hosts and guests who require larger text sizes. This post discusses: (1) The problems encountered on mobile web when relying solely on browser zoom. (2) The challenges of introducing changes that would impact the workflow of all frontend engineers. (3) The benefits seen since launching these accessibility improvements.featured in #518
How Web Bloat Impacts Users With Slow Devices
- Dan Luu tl;dr: “Modern pages that burn a ton of CPU when loading could be doing pre-work that means that later interactions on the page are faster and cheaper than on the pages that do less up-front work, but that's not the case for pages tested, which are slower to load initially, slower on subsequent loads, and slower after they've loaded.”featured in #500
Best Practices For Inclusive CLIs
- Rohan Kumar tl;dr: "This began as a reply to another article that lists practices to improve user-experience of command-line interfaces... Unfortunately, a number of its suggestions are problematic, particularly from an accessibility perspective." Rohan elaborates on these and and discusses best practices for inclusive CLIs.featured in #325
What To Consider When Visualizing Data For Colorblind Readers
- Lisa Charlotte Rost tl;dr: "Most of the advice here will make your charts easier to read. Not just for people with a color vision deficiency, or the older ones, or the ones that read your chart in low light – for everyone."featured in #188
Accessibility in Agile Transformational Practices
- Dylan Barrell tl;dr: How to develop accessibility practices into your agile processes (1) create central team to manage the transformation (2) Execute an ongoing empathy program (3) Curate a set of high-quality learning resources and integrate into onboarding (4) Form a team of accessibility coaches to coach teams (5) Create an accessibility dashboard.featured in #144
Building The Most Inaccessible Site Possible With A Perfect Lighthouse Score
- Manuel Matuzovic tl;dr: Author shows how he hacked the system concluding that we shouldn't trust Lighthouse numbers blindly, automatic testing is a first step in understanding what's wrong with our overall system.featured in #144
We Are Actively Destroying The Web
- Chris Ferdinandi tl;dr: Web pages built with popular JS frameworks are more likely to have accessibility issues. Lack of education & rise of inexperienced developers are causes. The article runs through examples of these issues and solutions to the ongoing problem.featured in #133
Accessibility Insights for Web
- Itamar Turner-Trauring tl;dr: Google Chrome extension for "assessing the accessibility of web sites and web applications." You can see errors in place and visualize tab-stops.featured in #132