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Direct link to the article Overlay Fact Sheet
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Overlay Fact Sheet

I would hope all our web designer/developer spidey senses trigger when the solution to an accessibility problem isn’t “fix the issue” but rather “add extra stuff to the page.” This Overlay Fact Sheet website explains that. An “Overlay” is one …

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Chris Coyier on Mar 31, 2021
Direct link to the article HTML Inputs and Labels: A Love Story
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HTML Inputs and Labels: A Love Story

Most inputs have something in common — they are happiest with a companion label! And the happiness doesn’t stop there. Forms with proper inputs and labels are much easier for people to use and that makes people happy too.…

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Amber Wilson on Mar 30, 2021 (Updated on Apr 2, 2021)
Direct link to the article Imagining native skip links
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Imagining native skip links

I love it when standards evolve from something that a bunch of developers are already doing, and making it easier and foolproof. Kitty Giraudel is onto that here with skip links, something that every website should probably have, and that …

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Chris Coyier on Mar 23, 2021
Direct link to the article #204: Using the axe DevTools Web Accessibility Testing Browser Plugin
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#204: Using the axe DevTools Web Accessibility Testing Browser Plugin

In this video, I’m joined by Preety Kumar of Deque to take a look at their DevTools plugin for axe. Short story: this is an amazing plugin that helps you quickly find accessibility problems on any website, then helps …

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Chris Coyier on Mar 4, 2021
Direct link to the article How We Improved the Accessibility of Our Single Page App Menu
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How We Improved the Accessibility of Our Single Page App Menu

I recently started working on a Progressive Web App (PWA) for a client with my team. We’re using React with client-side routing via React Router, and one of the first elements that we made was the main menu. Menus …

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Luke Denton on Feb 25, 2021
Direct link to the article Beautiful accessibility with Floating Focus
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Beautiful accessibility with Floating Focus

Imagine if your :focus styles animated from element to element as you tab through a site. Like the focus ring up and flew across the page to the next element. The spirit of it is similar to smooth scrolling: it’s …

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Chris Coyier on Feb 15, 2021
Direct link to the article Responsible Web Applications
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Responsible Web Applications

Joy Heron bought a cool domain name and published an article there:

Luckily, with modern HTML and CSS, we can create responsive and accessible web apps with relative ease. In my years of doing software development, I have learned some

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Chris Coyier on Feb 12, 2021
Direct link to the article What’s New in WCAG 2.1: Label in Name
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What’s New in WCAG 2.1: Label in Name

WCAG 2.1 Recommendations rolled out in 2018. It’s been a couple years now and there are some new Success Criterion. In this article, I will discuss Label in Name, which is how we visually label components. We’ll take a …

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Todd Libby on Dec 15, 2020 (Updated on Jun 1, 2021)
Direct link to the article More on content-visibility
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More on content-visibility

Back in August 2020, when the content-visiblity property in CSS trickled its way into Chrome browsers, Una Kravets and Vladimir Levin wrote about it and we covered it. The weirdest part is that to get the performance value out …

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Chris Coyier on Oct 28, 2020
Direct link to the article Comparing Various Ways to Hide Things in CSS
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Comparing Various Ways to Hide Things in CSS

You would think that hiding content with CSS is a straightforward and solved problem, but there are multiple solutions, each one being unique.

Developers most commonly use display: none to hide the content on the page. Unfortunately, this way of …

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Marko Ilic on Oct 27, 2020 (Updated on Nov 3, 2020)
Direct link to the article Focus management and inert
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Focus management and inert

Many forms of assistive technology use keyboard navigation to understand and take action on screen content. One way of navigating is via the Tab key. You may already be familiar with this way of navigating if you use it to …

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Eric Bailey on Oct 19, 2020 (Updated on Feb 2, 2022)
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