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Eric Bailey Jan 8, 2023

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Eric (@eric@social.ericwbailey.website)

1.32K Posts, 2.01K Following, 2.28K Followers · #accessibility / #a11y advocate and design systems wonk.

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Eric Bailey Sep 6, 2018

I don't know why the design team at the New York Times has such a thing for no warning, full-page Vestibular issue triggers, but it's definitely not cool. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/09/06/world/europe/genoa-italy-bridge.html

Eric Bailey Sep 6, 2018

Slime molds have a lot to answer for.

Eric Bailey Sep 5, 2018

Android: a good platform made by smart people. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2134591/add-margin-between-a-radiobutton-and-its-label-in-android

Add margin between a RadioButton and its label in Android?

Is it possible to add a little bit of space between a RadioButton and the label while still using Android's built-in components? By default the text looks a little scrunched. <RadioButton andro...

Eric Bailey Sep 5, 2018

Scott O'Hara Sep 5, 2018

Describing aria-describedby - https://developer.paciellogroup.com/blog/2018/09/describing-aria-describedby/

Describing aria-describedby

A well-designed user interface (UI) should clearly identify important content and controls. Often people correlate this to using prominent visual cues to help guide individuals through a task or point

TPG

Eric Bailey Sep 5, 2018

URL design is a lost art. https://www.wired.com/story/google-wants-to-kill-the-url/

Google Wants to Kill the URL

"Whatever we propose is going to be controversial. But it’s important we do something, because everyone is unsatisfied by URLs. They kind of suck."

Eric Bailey Sep 4, 2018

Zach Leatherman Sep 4, 2018

I’ve been thinking about how to distill all this advice about web font loading into a single ✅ checklist of important items that you can apply to today’s loading strategies and the next thing too.

The Web Font Loading Checklist https://www.zachleat.com/web/font-checklist/

The Font Loading Checklist—zachleat.com

A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)

Eric Bailey Sep 4, 2018

Use highlight.js for syntax highlighting on your website? a11y-dark and a11y-light are now available as themes! WCAG AA compliant for color contrast, including Windows High Contrast Mode support. https://github.com/highlightjs/highlight.js

GitHub - highlightjs/highlight.js: JavaScript syntax highlighter with language auto-detection and zero dependencies.

JavaScript syntax highlighter with language auto-detection and zero dependencies. - GitHub - highlightjs/highlight.js: JavaScript syntax highlighter with language auto-detection and zero dependencies.

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Eric Bailey Sep 3, 2018

Andy Bell Sep 3, 2018

Happy Monday, everyone.

Just a periodic reminder that the people that use your website or app are the priority, not your asset pipeline, build tools or framework choices.

https://hankchizljaw.io/notes/21/

Prioritise people, not pipelines, tools and frameworks - HankChizlJaw

Eric Bailey Aug 31, 2018

🆕🔥🗑📥 This week's newsletter features sweetness! Redness! Temperature! Butts! And vampires! https://tinyletter.com/hot-garbage/letters/sweetness-redness-tempurature-butts-vampires

Sweetness! Redness! Tempurature! Butts! Vampires!

Hello again! We're launching into the long weekend with a load of links, covering all the important topics: sweetness! redness! tempurature! Butts! vampires! AOTA LLC! Thanks for reading, and we'll se...