Using Container Queries to Make a News Layout
When I hear media query I think about a bottle filled with liquids that don’t mix (e.g. oil and water). The content(water/oil) will assume…
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9 posts
2023
Automatically generate skip buttons to improve accessibility
Another common accessibility tool is the skip button. It comes in different forms. It would sometimes be smartly included in the design or hidden until needed.
CSS Snippets I Use 90% of The Time - Part 2
This is part 2 of CSS snippets I used 90% of the time post. As promised this is second part of CSS styles I commonly used with my projects. If you are going to think of a rule I’d say this is my 80/20 rule for CSS.
CSS Snippets I Use 90% of The Time - Part 1
I have snippets of code I return to whenever I find patterns in a design. It is one of those efficiency hacks I’ve adopted as a programmer. I have quite a collection. Gathered working on websites in different industries. Although the size and theme of these websites vary, I can still count on some basic UI patterns.
Top three things to do for better keyboard and screenreader navigation
Improving accessibility is an exercise in empathy. We put ourselves in other people’s shoes and imagine how we can do a specific task. Tasks like going up a flight of stairs, knowing when to cross a street, or how to consume a website.
Newbie's Guide to Learning Vue.js
Every time I want to learn something new I try to plan first. A very quick to-do list related to the subject. I know there’s a lot of great guides out there about Vue.js.
Fix accessibility using focus-within
A few issues I found recently for clients were related to accessibility. A few perfectly working user interfaces were not keyboard accessible. Not because they are custom controls nor because the controls were not tabable.
2014
How To Make A Timer/Stopwatch Using AngularJS
I’ve got some leeway pushing Khrunus off the ground. I’ve always been successful using JavaScript’s timing functions but since Khrunus would primarily be built-in in AngularJS. I have to research a way to reuse my timing snippets into proper Angular code. To study, I built a simple angular app:
2009
Google got reCAPTCHA
Google announced recently in its official blog, that it has acquired reCAPTCHA. CAPTCHA is a web technology made out of necessity. It primarily is used to prevent BOTS (or automated apps designed to do malicious tasks) by adding an extra step to site pages that require human interaction.