Posts About Web Development

Practical tips I wish I'd had for navigating the intersection between web accessibility and internationalization/localization.

A step-by-step guide to adding a blogroll, complete with each blog's latest posts, to your Eleventy site.

Markup hacks to override screenreader pronunciations can get a little iffy. Here's some techniques to try instead.

For years, developers have passed around a set of styles like a magic incantation. It's time we made it a web standard.

Congress just introduced a new bill to ensure digital accessibility for websites and applications. I took a look.

See how building with accessible semantics from the get-go can give you expressive, meaningful style hooks for free.

I spent some time seeing if I could get my Lighthouse performance score up. Here's how I fared.

Solve 30% of the web's accessibility defects with just the help of a calculator!

Learn how to help users fill out forms more efficiently and accurately with autocomplete and virtual keyboard options.

The semantics you didn't know you needed.

I found a pleasant surprise in my RSS reader, and it reminded me why I write semantic markup.

Add a link to the beginning of your page to help keyboard navigators skip over repeated links.

Diving deep into three attributes that bring clarity to elements in assistive technologies.

How CSS bleeds into content and influences screenreader announcements.

A beginner's guide to ARIA: what it is, what it does, why you should use it... and when you shouldn't.

A brief foray into the American case law surrounding web accessibility, presented to the ReactJS Dallas meetup at Call-Em-All.

Understanding the flow of page contents from browser to screenreader caused me to radically rethink accessible markup.

When you reinvent the wheel, you might miss a few spokes.

The popular pizza chain has a big part to play in the unseen war over the web.