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Not so short note on aria-label usage
An audience with Dr David Swallow wherein he outlines the existential threat to native labeling mechanisms posed by the use of aria-label…
Decline of web craftsmanship
Decline of web craftsmanship 27th June 2024 I was thinking back to the old days of a time where I spent a great deal of time creating a design and…
Investigating INP issues
I've been doing some client performance work lately. It's a Next.js project, and it looks like Google's INP update has punished it. Organic search rankings are…
Cool URIs Don’t Change — But Humans Do
Here are two ideas at odds with each other: You should have human-friendly URIs Cool URIs don’t change If a slug is going to be human-friendly…
Filters
My phone rang today. I didn’t recognise the number so although I pressed the big button to answer the call, I didn’t say anything. I didn’t say anything because…
The Times You Need A Custom @property Instead Of A CSS Variable
he Times You Need A Custom @property Instead Of A CSS Variable About The Author Preethi is a web developer and writer. She jots down mostly on…
Every dependency is a potential vulnerability
Every piece of code is a potential vulnerability, really. Not just dependencies. But code that you don’t own, that’s outside your control, is particularly…
Securing Buy-In for Your Design System: A Lifecycle Approach
Securing Buy-In for Your Design System: A Lifecycle Approach Discover how to secure stakeholder buy-in for a design system at every stage, from pre-building to…
Adding a Copy Button to Code Blocks
Copying code from code blocks, without having to manually select it all first, is very handy convenience feature. But despite having published a ton of code…
Don’t Wrap Figure in a Link
In my post Brief Note on Figure and Figcaption Support I demonstrate how, when encountering a figure with a screen reader, you won’t hear…