🤝 Happy new year
It has been an eventful start to 2021, but that’s certainly not why you’re reading this 😅 So here are the blog posts I published in January:
- Accessible animated GIFs are pointless
- Upgrading from a Home button to a Face ID iPhone
- Getting started with VoiceOver on macOS
- Using VoiceOver’s rotor on macOS
- Scroll-bounce page background colour
- Scrollbar marker colours on macOS
Elsewhere on the web
In no particular order, here are some great articles from around the web that I read this month, starting with a fun memory test for all you HTML fans out there:
- HTML Tags Memory Test
- Thoughts on screen readers and image recognition
- First Public Working Draft: W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0
- Build a responsive accessible table
- A Twitter thread on the death of Flash
- The Floppy Disk means Save, and 14 other old people Icons that don’t make sense anymore
- A Brief History of Screen Readers
- Is Progressive Enhancement Dead Yet?
- Letters of exclusion
- Designing Furniture With a 7:1 Color Contrast Ratio Makes a Huge Difference for the Visually Impaired
- Do accessible websites still need to support Internet Explorer 11?
- The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML
- Tips for Focus Styles
Anyway, have a good February and I’ll keep writing, reading, and catch you again on the 28th 💙