Category: Web Development

The true path to garbage code: Figma Sites

Yes, I’m aware that it’s still in beta. But as it stands right now, Figma Sites are a clear path to creating an incredible mess of a site. If you look at just a tiny microcosm of the code in the launch demo for Figma Sites, it’s obvious that the code does not even tip a hat in the direction of semantics. Here’s a single link in the “top” navigation of the page (quotes are intentional): What’s in a link? […]

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The Accessibility Show #5: Can A.I. create an accessible site?

Where has the time gone? This episode released over a month ago, and we’ve already recorded episode number six. Well, let’s pretend that I’m re-publishing this information to keep the conversation alive. It’s a marketing strategy, not me forgetting to publishing things. (Yeah, let’s go with that.) For show number five, Nathan and I took a little bit of a different direction. After Jamie Marsland published about his attempt to get an AI tool to build him an accessible website, […]

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The Accessibility Show #3: Newsletter Sign-ups

January 8, 2025

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Topics: Accessibility, Web Development.

The third edition of The Accessibility Show with Nathan Wrigley of WP Builds dropped early this morning, and I have to say that I’m really enjoying this show. First of all, chatting with Nathan is a bright spot in my day every time – he really is the nicest man I know. But I’m also finding it fascinating to go into the WordPress showcase and pick out just one issue to highlight as an accessibility problem. Focusing on one issue […]

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Hover Color Contrast Bookmarklet

January 18, 2024

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Topics: Accessibility, Web Development.

This past weekend, I was looking at a WordPress trac ticket about hover color contrast in the admin. One of the things that was frustrating about this ticket is the amount of labor expected in testing – because accessibility tools mostly test the page as is. It’s certainly possible to implement automated tooling that can look at all of that, but introducing a whole new suite of tests to WordPress core was outside of my area of expertise. But a […]

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The real added costs of accessibility

January 17, 2022

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Topics: Accessibility, Web Development.

For many years, I’ve seen repeated – and have myself repeated – the idea that an accessible website is not more expensive. That idea comes with a notable caveat. That caveat, to sum it up, is that it is not more accessible to build an accessible website from scratch than it is to build an inaccessible site from scratch. Building from scratch. When was the last time you built a website from scratch? What does it mean, in 2022, to […]

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