Try text scaling support in Chrome Canary - Josh Tumath
There’s a new meta tag on the block. This time it’s for allowing system-level text sizing to apply to your website.
On Designing and Building Toggle Switches
Sara shows a few different approaches to building accessible toggle switches:
Always, always start thinking about the markup and accessibility when building components, regardless of how small or simple they seem.
Related links
Introducing: Webbed Sites (Webbed Briefs)
I heard you like divs…
80 / 20 accessibility · marcus.io
So my observation is that 80% of the subject of accessibility consists of fairly simple basics that can probably be learnt in 20% of the time available. The remaining 20% are the difficult situations, edge cases, assistive technology support gaps and corners of specialised knowledge, but these are extrapolated to 100% of the subject, giving it a bad, anxiety-inducing and difficult reputation overall.
The Web Accessibility Cookbook
Manu’s book is available to pre-order now. I’ve had a sneak peek and I highly recommend it!
You’ll learn how to build common patterns written accessibly in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. You’ll also start to understand how good and bad practices affect people, especially those with disabilities.
Home - Sa11y
Another handy accessibility testing tool that can be used as a bookmarklet.
Related posts
Applying the four principles of accessibility
Here’s how I interpret the top-level guidance in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
The intersectionality of web performance
Business, sustainability, and inclusivity.
Assumption
Separate your concerns.
Alt writing
Aiming for originality and creativity in alt text.
Even more writing on web.dev
Five more articles on modern responsive design to close out the course.