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Explaining the Accessible Benefits of Using Semantic HTML Elements
<button> instead of a generic <div>? Accessibility, right? By how exactly does it help accessibility? Tooltip Best Practices
Quick Hit #17
“Wrapping the <labelaround the <inputis fine, and is sufficient for conformance on its own, however adding explicit association with for and id is still necessary in practice.” —James Edwards…
Quick Hit #16
“Never, ever hire for JavaScript framework skills. Instead, interview and hire only for fundamentals like web standards, accessibility, modern CSS, semantic HTML, and Web Components.” — Alex Russell…
Paragraphs
I sure do love little reminders about HTML semantics, particularly semantics that are tougher to commit to memory. Scott has a great one, beginning with this markup:
<pI am a paragraph.</p<spanI am also a paragraph.</span<div… Basic keyboard shortcut support for focused links
Eric gifting us with his research on all the various things that anchors (not links) do when they are in :focus.
Turns out, there’s a lot!
That’s an understatement! This is an incredible amount of work, even …
Quick Hit #9
Heydon with a reminder that <address isn’t for, you know, mailing addresses.…
Accessible Forms with Pseudo Classes
In this post, I am going to take you through creating a simple contact form using semantic HTML and an awesome CSS pseudo-class known as :focus-within. The :focus-within pseudo-class allows for great control over focus and lets your users …