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Accessibility is our job. We hear it all the time. But the truth is that it often takes a back seat to competing priorities, deadlines, and decisions from above. How can we solve that? That’s where An Event Apart comes in. Making sites inclusive by design is just one of Read more…
CSS allows you to create dynamic layouts and interfaces on the web, but as a language, it is static: once a value is set, it cannot be changed. The idea of randomness is off the table. Generating random numbers at runtime is the territory of JavaScript, not so much CSS. Read more…
Best I could tell from the last time I compiled the most wished-for features of CSS, styling form controls was a major ask. Top 5, I’d say. And of the native form elements that people want to style, Greg Whitworth has some data that the element is more requested than Read more…
The distance between Internet Explorer (IE) 11 and every other major browser is an increasingly gaping chasm. Adding support for a technologically obsolete browser adds an inordinate amount of time and frustration to development. Testing becomes onerous. Bug-fixing looms large. Developers have wanted to abandon IE for years, but is Read more…
Maurice Mahan created FocusOverlay, a “library for creating overlays on focused elements.” That description is a little confusing at you don’t need a library to create focus styles. What the library actually does is animate the focus rings as focus moves from one element to another. It’s based on the Read more…
Say you have a and the design calls for a thick border along the left side. Well, you might not necessarily mean left side, but actually mean on the side of the start of the text. That’s exactly what CSS logical properties are meant to address, and Hussein Al Hammad Read more…
Different website designs often call for a shape other than a square or rectangle to respond to a click event. Perhaps your site has some kind of tilted or curved banner where the click area would be awkwardly large as a straight rectangle. Or you have a large uniquely shaped Read more…
Here’s a great post by Ahmad Shadeed on making sure that clickable areas in our interfaces are, well, clickable. He writes about making sure that links, buttons and other elements meet accessibility standards for both touch and mouse, too. I particularly like the section where Ahmad writes about making a Read more…
Two stories: Jason Grigsby finds Chipotle’s online ordering form makes use of an input-masking technique that chops up a credit card expiration year making it invalid and thus denying the order. If pattern=”dd” maxlength=”2″ was used instead (native browser feature), the browser is smart enough to do the right thing Read more…
It can be difficult to get your head around how seamlessly repeating patterns work. Any objects that ‘fall off’ one side must reappear on the opposite side of the pattern tile, much like the retro arcade game Asteroids. This allows the pattern to continue over an infinite area, by enlarging Read more…
