Reading List

The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

Global Accessbility Awareness Day – Does your web product support the needs of the many?

You never create one product on the web – you create a product that people can change to their needs. At least you should. I’ve been working on the web since 1997 and one thing I realised early on is a big basic idea of the web: You do not control how your web product […]

Fixing the accessibility of Inspection overlays

The Inspect tool is a great way to get information about different page elements before selecting then. Once it is enabled, it shows an information overlay as you move from element to element. The main problem with the tool is that sometimes it is tough to get the information about the right element, as they […]

A “Quick Edit” bookmarklet to make changes to any web site

Using the Quick edit bookmarklet you can make any web site editable. Drag it to your favourites toolbar, click it and you get into edit mode. You can edit, copy and paste, delete and anything else. Hitting `ESC` will end edit mode. You can use this to quickly edit web sites before taking a screenshot, […]

Someone should build X for the web” – why not you? All you need is a GitHub account

Last week, Šime Vidas complained on Twitter that it is hard to paste a block of text on a mobile device. I proposed to use pastebin.com but that needs a lot of taps before you paste. Šime then proceeded to joke that we should create pastebinzero.com and all it needs is a full-screen textarea with […]

Edge DevTools for Visual Studio Code V2 – new browser preview with emulation and sourcemap support

The V2 version of the Microsoft Edge DevTools for Visual Studio Code extension is now live. We’ve worked hard to make the current feature set more stable and introduced new ones. Console integration Console Integration – makes it easier to use `console.log()` or interact with the document right from the developer tools. We found the […]