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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 …
The Double Emphasis Thing
I used to have this boss who loved, loved, loved, loved to emphasize words. This was way back before we used a WYSIWYG editors and I’d have to handcode that crap.
<pI used to have this
… Roundup of Recent Document Outline Chatter
It’s not everyday that HTML headings are the topic de jour, but my folder of saved links is accumulating articles about the recently merged removal of the document outline algorithm in the WHATWG Living Standard.
First off, you should know …