👨🏻🍳 Cooking with gas*
It has been a good, productive month: our new kitchen is finally finished, and I wrote six blog posts and have four or five solid drafts in the works.
* Actually, we got an induction hob, so strictly speaking, we’re cooking without gas 😄
This month’s posts
I’ve thinking a lot about ‘text-level semantics’ like bold, italics and strikethrough, and how they work with screen readers. Over April I’ve also been playing with some newer Git commands:
- Bold and italics aren’t read by screen readers
- Cleaner focus outlines with box-decoration-break
- Using Git switch to change branches
- Git restore to discard changes
- The difference between strikethrough and del
- Be careful with strikethrough
From the archives
The other day, I was looking at some HTML with a colleague and we were tutting in unison at the (mis)use of some <br /> tags. It reminded me I’d written something on that subject last summer: The right way to use break tags in HTML.
Elsewhere on the web
In no particular order, here are some interesting bits and bobs from around the web that I enjoyed during April:
- About Legibility and Readability
- A screen reader-accessible mini crossword from the New York Times
- Inclusive teaching: audio describing your own presentations
- The harmful ableist language you unknowingly use
- Add punctuation to your alt text
- Simple things are complicated: making a show password option
Anyway, enjoy this month’s reading and I’ll see you again this time next month 👋