View Transitions vs. CSS Transitions
I’ve made CSS transitions for years. This article shows you what changes when the browser does the coordinating instead. Also where we are…
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14 posts
2026
Four Things Every CMS Image Field Needs
Most CMS image fields do exactly one job. They take a file, then hand you a single box to type an alt attribute into. That’s fine for one…
10 TypeScript Patterns That Make Code Explain Itself
Comments rot. Types don’t - the compiler checks them on every build. The best comment you’ll ever write is the one you skip, because the…
Stop Writing Novels in Your Gallery's Alt Text
How to write alt text for image galleries, and when to reach for captions or long descriptions instead. A photography portfolio has forty…
The ts-jest to Vitest Switch Is Lower-Risk Than You Think
Every frontend team has the ticket. “Evaluate moving off ts-jest.” It rots in the backlog for a year. Nobody picks it up, because everyone…
Your Alt Text Is Not the Problem — Your Images Are
A confession: early in my career, my images shipped with no text at all. If an image mattered, I gave it a visible caption and moved on (I…
Unplug Your Mouse - One Year On, Accessibility Widgets Still Don't Work
The European Accessibility Act turns one tomorrow. It took force on 28 June 2025. For many teams it was the first hard deadline they had…
2025
Automating Accessibility Audits With AI
“Standards evolve, user needs are wildly diverse, and manual audits can feel like searching for a semicolon in a haystack.” Let’s be honest…
2023
Five common Javascript mistakes I am guilty of
Errors in code are normal. That is why we have a whole branch of the IT industry dedicated to quality assurance and testing. Javascript is the easiest programming language to learn, but it is also the easiest to get wrong. Javascript is a very forgiving programming language. As a result, Javascript code can be prone to errors.
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.
2022
React Custom button: a study on accessibility
React and accessibility I love ReactJs. I learned late in my career as there were not a lot of opportunities to do so. Most of the shops I worked at back then were jQuery-and-a-prayer operations, and there’s a whole separate post in how long it took to unwind that habit. But I digress, that’s a story for another day. When I finally found a suitable situation to explore ReactJs for a previous employer, I jumped on it and picked it up quickly. It was weird in the beginning but it became quite natural in the end. Now I mainly work with ReactJS in most of my projects.
Five simple steps to improve website accessibility
Accessibility is very important. It ensures that anything we make is available to a greater number of people. It is not just about people…
Working with Date and Time Input
I remember using JqueryUI’s datepicker. It was my go-to calendar widget in the past. It was great. I just drop an input box give it an “id” and then run a function. You get a great-looking calendar picker for your forms. It was a great bit of software engineering. I’ve used it in a lot of my old projects and clients were impressed.
Build an Accessible Tab Container
As part of the work I do for my employer, I analyze UI elements on our product to check if we need to re-engineer the component to improve…