CSS generated content can have unintended side-consequences. As Andy Clarke discovered recently , data- attributes he used as a way to transfer content into CSS for visual purposes are not translated using built-in browser functionality. His[^ Note that this is …
In the past two days, people noticed that VoiceOver (VO) on top of Safari is not reading list semantics when the list is not styled in a list-like fashion. First things first: What does it mean for me as a web developer that Safari is not reading lists when it doesn't look like …
I’ll leave Facebook by the end of the day today[^This blog post was in the making for days, and I wanted to give advanced warnings, but it didn’t work out sooner.]. I thought about this final step for several months. I have many reasons, including, but not limited, to Facebook’s …
Swaziland king renames country Kingdom of eSwatini (The Guardian) Internationalization is hard, now you have to fit in a country with a lower case first letter. Meaning “place of the Swazi”, eSwatini is the Swazi language name for the tiny state landlocked between South Africa …
Jeremy posted a solution for multi-language sites where you want to switch hyphenation on when the page language is set to (for example) German: [lang="de"] { hyphens: auto; } This works great until you have code on the page. Even if we have word-wrapping for code enabled (and …
Nic [@vavroom](https://twitter.com/vavroom/) Steenhout ([Blog](https://incl.ca)) invited me to his #A11y Rules Podcast. We talked about my work with [Knowbility](https://knowbility.org) and the [W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)](https://w3.org/WAI/) and how I got into …
I’ve been on vacation for a bit, which was incredibly relaxing. Some pictures are available on Instagram (for now – I need an indie web solution for this). Professionalism: Design’s Lost Generation (Mike Monteiro, Medium) — Everyone who helps to produce a product is a designer, …
I’m in San Diego where I’ll attend the W3C WAI Education and Outreach WG Face-to-Face meeting, and CSUN, the biggest accessibility conference. It’s always amazing to be able to work with my colleagues in one room and to meet all accessibility experts in one place. Beta: W3C/WAI …
This was a long work week, so here are some games and apps instead of articles as I couldn’t find time to concentrate on pieces. TV: Jessica Jones , Season 2 – While work was plenty, some of it was also repetitive, so I managed to watch the new Season of Jessica Jones. Very …
Let’s wipe some dust off this old blog, shall we? There’s a lot to do, including accessibility fixes, but sometimes you just have to start somewhere.
In Sunday Seven I publish a list of seven links to things on the internet. The only criteria to make it in this category is that it is interesting to me. Accessibility: Apple Park’s Visitor Center by twitter user @xarph – An interesting twitter thread about the many small …
On Friday, I was invited to talk at [\#ID24](http://www.inclusivedesign24.org) about WAI-ARIA, with a special focus on the ramifications of bad ARIA. You can [view the slides](http://slides.com/yatil/2017-id24/) or [watch the video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bH57rWPnYo).
