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How To Build An Expandable Accessible Gallery — Smashing Magazine
11 min read Tools, CSS, CSS Grid, Accessibility Share on Twitter, LinkedIn Quick summary ↬ In this article, we’ll be looking at how to set up a gallery that is expandable as well as accessible. One of the use cases for using CSS Grid is to display a gallery of images, but a gallery on its own may not be that exciting. We could, for example, add a click effect to enlarge the image without affecting the grid to make it a little bit more fun.
Making A Strong Case For Accessibility — Smashing Magazine
13 min read Tools, Usability, Techniques, Accessibility Share on Twitter, LinkedIn Quick summary ↬ Accessibility is often overlooked or bolted on to the end of a project from the experiences in Todd’s career in web development and design. The case for accessibility is something we as people who create and build things for the web should be implementing and advocating for from the inception of a project to the release or handoff and beyond. Imagine yourself as someone with a visual disability.
Looking at WCAG 2.5.5 for Better Target Sizes
Have you ever experienced the frustration of trying to tap a button on a mobile device only to have it do nothing because the target size is just not large enough **and it’s not picking up on your press? Maybe you have larger fingers, like I do, or maybe it’s due to limited dexterity. This is because the sadly ever-decreasing target area of elements we, the users, have to interact with. Let’s talk about target size and how to make it large enough for users to easily interact with an element.
What’s New in WCAG 2.1: Label in Name
WCAG 2.1 Recommendations rolled out in 2018. It’s been a couple years now and there are some new Success Criterion. In this article, I will discuss Label in Name, which is how we visually label components. We’ll take a look at what some failure states look like, how to fix them, and examples of how to do them correctly. You lost me at Success Criterion… Success Criterion are testable statements that aren’t technology-specific.
Front End Nerdery Podcast
This is the inaugural episode of the Front End Nerdery Podcast, this episode is a brief introduction into what I have planned for this podcast and what my hopes are with the Front End Nerdery Podcast. Working with what I have to work with, I hope that this will take off into something big. Until then, please subscribe and stay tuned for Season One to start in January 2021. Transcript for this introduction episode can be found here: https://toddl.dev/podcast/ 02:44 October 25, 2020
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