Listen to the lived experiences of others, not only out of curiosity. Understand the lengths they went through to be here today.
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A11y 101 – 4.1.3 Status Messages
a11y · a11y 101 · accessibility · ARIA · blind · development · Testing · W3C · WCAG · Web Content Accessibility GuidelinesIn the Sherlock Holmes story “Silver Blaze,” the key clue is that a dog did nothing. The dog didn’t bark when an intruder entered. That silence was the evidence. Your website has the same problem. A user submits a form. The page doesn’t reload. A loading spinner appears. It vanishes. Something happened—maybe success, maybe failure,…
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A11y 101 – 4.1.2 Name, Role, Value
a11y · a11y 101 · accessibility · ARIA · blind · cognition · development · EAA · EN 301 549 · physical impairment · Testing · W3C · WCAG · Web Content Accessibility GuidelinesHere’s the thing about screen readers that most developers never learn until it’s too late: they don’t see what you see. They don’t render pixels. They don’t read CSS. They read the accessibility tree. And if your HTML is a <div> with a click handler and no label, the accessibility tree has nothing to say. To a…
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Ever since A New Hope dropped in 1977, and I saw how R2-D2 helped Luke & Han rescue Leia, I’ve wanted my own Droid. Not a marketing gimmick, not a surveillance drone—just a little friend to help organize my life. A pocket R2-D2. For decades, I chased every piece of tech that came out, hoping to find…
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