Cross-platform Dynamic Wallpapers

This week snuck up on me, so I’ll be taking a break this from the Accessibility Jumpstart series to make sure I provide a quality resource for week 4. Dynamic wallpapers Dynamic wallpapers were first introduced in MacOS Mojave, and the time-lapse library Apple provides has been growing. Some clever people have reverse engineered the […]

Accessibility Jumpstart 3: The Law

Welcome to part 3 of the Accessibility Jumpstart series. In part 1, we discussed what accessibility is. In part 2, we covered WCAG, the standards used for evaluating compliance. Today, we’ll be discussing which countries mandate what and some of the other issues seen in the US. The laws by country While the W3C generally […]

Accessibility Jumpstart 2: Standards

Greetings, and welcome to part 2 of a series to help jumpstart your understanding of web accessibility. If you haven’t read part 1 yet, we covered what web accessibility is and addressed some of the misconceptions around it. This time we will be providing a brief overview of the standards governing web accessibility globally. What’s […]

Color Input Compared Cross-Browser

As you may know, many of the HTML5 input types have been defined, but do not have a recommended or consistent experience across operating systems, nor browsers. Recently, the team at work and I discussed whether we should use the default HTML5 input type of ‘color’ or roll our own. As of December 2020, here’s […]

Comparing CSS Width Units

Ever wanted to know what every CSS unit looked like when compared to one another? Yeah, me too. See the Pen Various sizing units compared by Chris LaChance (@chrislachance) on CodePen. Looks like ‘Inches’ is naturally the widest fixed unit. Beyond the ‘Pixel’ value for fixed widths, none of the others seem that practical as […]