Tagged “Development”

1. Newsletters that regularly hit my inbox these days Published July 14, 2025 for ericwbailey.website.
2. You MUST listen to RFC 2119 Published June 30, 2025 for ericwbailey.website.
3. Making content-aware components using CSS’ :has(), grid, and quantity queries Published September 28, 2024 for Piccalilli.
4. Heading elements have been added to Project board views to improve screen reader page navigation Published September 23, 2024 for GitHub.
5. a11y-syntax-highlighting has been updated Published September 9, 2024 for ericwbailey.website.
6. Basic keyboard shortcut support for focused links Published August 21, 2024 for ericwbailey.website.
7. Getting To The Bottom Of Minimum WCAG-Conformant Interactive Element Size Published July 19, 2024 for Smashing Magazine.
8. Dungeons & Dragons taught me how to write alt text Published July 16, 2024 for ericwbailey.website.
9. Free idea: design token ugly mode Published July 1, 2024 for ericwbailey.website.
10. contrast-color() is a good thing, but also solving the problem at the wrong layer Published May 21, 2024 for ericwbailey.website.
11. I restyled my Mastodon instance Published November 27, 2023 for ericwbailey.website.
12. Accessibility annotation kits only annotate Published November 13, 2023 for ericwbailey.website.
13. GitHub now has a setting to underline links Published October 2, 2023 for ericwbailey.website.
14. Equivalent experience can cut both ways Published September 5, 2023 for ericwbailey.website.
15. The five types of people who produce inaccessible code Published June 16, 2023 for ericwbailey.website.
16. display: contents considered harmful Published May 25, 2023 for ericwbailey.website.
17. Don’t use custom CSS scrollbars Published May 3, 2023 for ericwbailey.website.
18. Modern Health, frameworks, performance, and harm Published February 1, 2023 for ericwbailey.website.
19. aria-label is a code smell Published October 31, 2022 for ericwbailey.website.
20. Yes, accessibility is also a backend concern Published September 29, 2022 for ericwbailey.website.
21. Voice Control Usability Considerations For Partially Visually Hidden Link Names Published June 24, 2022 for Smashing Magazine.
22. Where do you start measuring distance from when the origin is the bottom of a block of text? Published May 26, 2022 for ericwbailey.website.
23. The optics of pair programming Published May 17, 2022 for ericwbailey.website.
24. All the user-facing states Published April 29, 2022 for ericwbailey.website.
25. It needs to map back to a role Published March 14, 2022 for ericwbailey.website.
26. The case for adding validation state to your design tokens Published February 22, 2022 for ericwbailey.website.
27. Windows High Contrast Mode, Forced Colors Mode And CSS Custom Properties Published February 21, 2022 for Smashing Magazine.
28. “Evergreen” Does Not Mean Immediately Available Published February 1, 2022 for CSS-Tricks.
29. I’ve had enough! When access friction becomes an access barrier Published January 19, 2022 for Fable.
30. Chinese rooms, wasps, slime molds, and the problem of other minds Published December 23, 2021 for ericwbailey.website.
31. Where do you put spacing on design system components? Published December 7, 2021 for ericwbailey.website.
32. Test Your Product on a Crappy Laptop Published December 7, 2021 for CSS-Tricks.
33. Your CSS is an interface Published November 15, 2021 for ericwbailey.website.
34. Improving The Accessibility Of Your Markdown Published September 28, 2021 for Smashing Magazine.
35. thoughtbot.com, dark mode, and other user preferences Published September 7, 2021 for ericwbailey.website.
36. Organize your CSS declarations alphabetically Published June 21, 2021 for ericwbailey.website.
37. Listing posts in Eleventy when you publish offsite Published April 28, 2021 for ericwbailey.website.
38. CSS is a Strongly Typed Language Published April 13, 2021 for CSS-Tricks.
39. Mobile Accessibility: How to Build Apps that Work for All Users Published April 6, 2021 for Shopify Partners.
40. Myth: Alternate text and automation Published March 24, 2021 for The A11Y Project.
41. Should I use an accessibility overlay Published March 8, 2021 for The A11Y Project.
42. An Introduction to macOS Voice Control Published March 2, 2021 for thoughtbot.
43. Open UI and implicit parent/child relationships in HTML Published January 12, 2021 for ericwbailey.website.
44. So you wanna create an eco-friendly website Published November 26, 2020 for thoughtbot.
45. Using a folder other than posts/ with Eleventy Published November 22, 2020 for ericwbailey.website.
46. Tailwind versus BEM Published October 29, 2020 for thoughtbot.
47. Focus Management and Inert Published October 19, 2020 for CSS-Tricks.
48. Saying no to Diez (for now) Published September 18, 2020 for thoughtbot.
49. The Radium Craze Published August 25, 2020 for ericwbailey.website.
50. Equivalent Experiences: Thinking Equivalently Published June 5, 2020 for Smashing Magazine.
51. Equivalent Experiences: What Are They? Published May 27, 2020 for Smashing Magazine.
52. A Complete Guide to CSS Functions Published May 27, 2020 for CSS-Tricks.
53. Myth: ARIA Has Perfect Support Published May 13, 2020 for The A11Y Project.
54. SVG, Favicons, and All the Fun Things We Can Do With Them Published April 24, 2020 for CSS-Tricks.
55. How to not make a résumé in React Published April 7, 2020 for ericwbailey.website.
56. Operating System and Browser Accessibility Display Modes Published January 23, 2020 for The A11Y Project.
57. Tech metaphors Published November 11, 2019 for ericwbailey.website.
58. Truths about digital accessibility Published July 29, 2019 for ericwbailey.website.
59. Attempting to corral colors with a Sass function Published June 7, 2019 for thoughtbot.
60. ARIA is Spackle, Not Rebar Published May 20, 2019 for CSS-Tricks.
61. Lighthouse Published May 14, 2019 for ericwbailey.website.
62. Revisiting prefers-reduced-motion, the reduced motion media query Published April 30, 2019 for CSS-Tricks.
63. An Introduction to the Reduced Motion Media Query Published April 24, 2019 for CSS-Tricks.
64. slashbot Published March 15, 2019 for thoughtbot.
65. Paint the Picture, Not the Frame: How Browsers Provide Everything Users Need Published February 7, 2019 for A List Apart.
66. Little Library Published January 14, 2019 for thoughtbot.
67. Reader Mode: The Button to Beat Published January 7, 2019 for CSS - Tricks.
68. Web components still need to be accessible Published December 20, 2018 for 24 Accessibility.
69. A designer developing for Android Published November 8, 2018 for thoughtbot.
70. The Importance of Heading Levels for Assistive Technology Published October 22, 2018 for Envato Tuts+.
71. The possibilities of the color-adjust property Published August 14, 2018 for CSS-Tricks.
72. Don't Use The Placeholder Attribute Published June 20, 2018 for Smashing Magazine.
73. Focusing on Focus Styles Published March 29, 2018 for CSS-Tricks.
74. Building a Good Download… Button? Published February 3, 2018 for CSS-Tricks.
75. Building a better button in CSS Published October 19, 2016 for Cantina.
76. Organizational buy-in on Responsive Design Published June 2, 2016 for Cantina.
77. Battery Status API: We need to talk Published January 13, 2016 for Cantina.
78. I’ll Make an Exception Just for You: Using the Exception Comment to Help Maintain Mature, Large-scale Sass Projects Published October 30, 2015 for Cantina.

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