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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · May 15

🧵 (Re)introducing the Practical Accessibility course:

✨ It is a comprehensive, self-paced, online video course designed to demystify web accessibility and to equip you with the knowledge you need to create more accessible websites & apps today 💪🏻

practical-accessibility.today ⤵️
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Introducing the Practical Accessibility course

This is "Introducing the Practical Accessibility course" by Sara Soueidan on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 9h

This from @codingchaos.bsky.social might help get you close to a usable implementation while we wait for a native one: sarahmhigley.com/writing/sele...

<select> your poison | Sarah Higley

The omnibus guide to understanding and making select components and comboboxes

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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 1d

Agreed

Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 2d

Haha I don't know if we're making it easier for them to decide or not 😂

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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 2d

The SC talks about _text labels_ matching accessible names. Icons are not text labels so the SC doesn't apply as far as I know. But see advisory techniques here www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/U... with regards to an icon's "hover text"

Understanding Success Criterion 2.5.3: Label in Name | WAI | W3C

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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 3d

I loved this, except for the part where Jeremy suggests using the CSS carousel pseudo-elements knowing how problematic they still are for users. :/

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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 3d

This is such a great idea. I just chose and ranked my favorite 15 features in the list—primarily CSS and HTML features of course. interop-rank.jakearchibald.com

What are yours?

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Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 3d

😍 Great idea, made by the awesome @jakearchibald.com.
Spend a few minutes to select and rank what matters to you and improve the web platform for everyone!

firefoxdevtools.bsky.social @firefoxdevtools.bsky.social · 3d

As an experiment, we (the Firefox team) wanted to try a new way to get feedback on which Interop proposals matter most.

So, here's a web app where you can rank the proposals you care about, giving us data we can use when reviewing which ones to champion.

interop-rank.jakearchibald.com

Interop Feature Ranking

Rank the web platform features you care most about

interop-rank.jakearchibald.com

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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 4d

I also found this whimsical one and couldn't resist purchasing it. 😅

Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 4d

Oh I finally found the perfect* handwritten font for my blog redesign!

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* perfect in this case is the handwriting that looks closest to my own ☺️

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Luke @lukewarlow.dev · 4d

Emphasis on the "prototype" here, this is still a long ways off. Got to start somewhere though!

IntentToShip @intenttoship.dev · 4d

Blink: Intent to Prototype: Base Appearance Form Controls

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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 4d

I never thought I'd say this but creating the course, doing email support every day, and talking to people one-on-one (as opposed to social media) has completely changed how I feel about email.

Two years in and I still love getting emails. I almost don't want to get to Inbox Zero anymore. I love it

Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 4d

Today started a little rough, and now I have an annoying headache.

But then I got an email that just made my day.

I still have the headache 😅 but it's not as bad anymore.

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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 4d

Excellent! Thank you for sharing

Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 5d

Thanks so much for writing it. I needed it. :D

Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 5d

And this is only Part One 😊

Very much looking forward to the rest of the series.

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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 5d

OK @kevinpowell.co has written what has to be one of the best (if not THE best) practical article to #CSS colors I have read in a while. piccalil.li/blog/a-pragm...

Easy to read, practical examples, and *perfect* for someone like me who's fallen behind and hasn't kept up with all the new stuff.

A pragmatic guide to modern CSS colours - part one

Whether you've got a firm grasp on modern CSS colour capabilities, or you're thinking 'I struggle to understand why I should use modern CSS colours at all', then the first part of this article series,...

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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 5d

Exactly! I enjoyed going through yours. You've re-ignited my excitement for masonry. =)

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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 5d

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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 5d

Thank you for including the speaker notes with the slides. Too many speakers share slides that are otherwise not understandable without a video recording or speaker notes.

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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 5d

Ouf...

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Carlos Espada @carlosespada.bsky.social · 5d

Thirty-two years ago, we were given the web as a gift.
Today, we must live up to such a gift and defend it.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Why I gave the world wide web away for free | Tim Berners-Lee

My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fighting for

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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 5d

For my friends and followers in Germany

Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 6d

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Signal @signal.org · 9d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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Patrick Brosset @patrickbrosset.com · 5d

I gave a lightning talk at yesterday’s @smashingconf.com Jam session on CSS masonry. Here are my slides.

In short: Masonry isn’t only for Pinterest-style layouts, doing Masonry on the web today is hard, but built-in Masonry support is coming to browsers very soon!

Patrick - Talks

Talks

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Nicholas C. Zakas @humanwhocodes.com · 6d

ESLint depends on sponsorships to pay maintainers. We're operating at a deficit with roughly a junior engineer's salary supporting a dozen maintainers plus awarding outside contributions. Please talk to your company about sponsoring ESLint:
https://eslint.org/donate

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