Reading List

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

One million broken web sites – and a way to prevent that

Webaim.org releases an annual report called the WebAIM Million. This is a deep analysis of the one million most visited web sites how accessible they are. And every year the result is pretty grim. Across the one million home pages, 50,829,406 distinct accessibility errors were detected—an average of 50.8 errors per page. This is 1.1% […]

CSS Mirror Editing with Sourcemapped files (Sass, React…) – we need you to make it better

Using the Edge Developer Tools for VS Code extension, you can live edit files in the browser developer tools and all the changes are also happen in your source files. That way you never lose a change you did to your web projects in the developer tools. It makes tweaking a layout much more convenient […]

Quick MacOS tip: Preview as a built-in zoom lens

Today, after a decade or so of using MacOS, I realised that preview has a zoom lens built in. You can toggle it using the backtick ` key.

The devil is in the details…

It is not that hard to create a script that shows and hides parts of the document, but often we forget about how our visitors use the products we build. Especially when it comes to navigating huge documents, people tend to use the “find in page” functionality of browsers. And when they do and we […]

Quick survey: help improve the simulation options of browser developer tools

Please help us to improve the emulation features of browser developer tools by filling out a two questions survey. Background We’re currently working on improving the findability of emulation features in the Microsoft Edge developer tools. Did you know that you can emulate different vision deficiences, dark and light schemes, forced colours and print layout […]