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Resources from Quick Accessibility Tips for Devs Tech Talk
This is a list of resources to accompany my tech talk "Quick Accessibility Tips for Devs". It includes extensive "Disability 101" resources, as well as developer specific coding resources.
An Introduction to Text to Speech and Screen Readers for Developers
Web Accessibility Wednesday: This week I was asked by other developers about how they could go about experiencing what it's like to use a screen reader and text to speech (TTS). Here's a shorter article with links and resources to get you started. We'll go over the built-in text to speech in MacOS and Windows 10 and 11, the read aloud and focus reader in the Edge browser, and give you some…
Web Accessibility Certification For Developers
Web Accessibility Wednesday: Have you ever wondered how to get certified as a web accessibility specialist? Here's a quick article giving the 101 of web accessibility certification and several ways to prepare for it.
Site Updates - Building in Public
In March, 2023 started French for Devs Fridays to celebrate getting to 400 days on Duolingo. Here you'll find weekly useful and/or amusing French phrases for developers. « Le débogage, c'est comme être un détective dans un film policier où vous êtes aussi le meurtrier » ~ Anonyme. Read the full post for the translation.
Location Data and Geographical Information Systems GIS for Devs
Here's some information and links for developers to learn more about spatial (location) data, spatial data analysis, and geographical information systems (GIS). I have a background in GIS and geomatics (the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data relating to the earth's surface). There's a lot of similarities between how large geographic data sets are analyzed and large Artificial…
French Fridays for Developers - 021
In March, 2023 started French for Devs Fridays to celebrate getting to 400 days on Duolingo. Here you'll find weekly useful and/or amusing French phrases for developers. « Le débogage, c'est comme être un détective dans un film policier où vous êtes aussi le meurtrier » ~ Anonyme. Read the full post for the translation.
Throwback Thursdays in Tech History: O'Reilly Animals
The animals on O'Reilly programming books have become well known. But how did a technical book publisher end up with drawings of animals as their most recognized and beloved brand symbols?
Five Resources to Help You Code Accessible Forms, Form Validation, and Error Messages
Web Accessibility Wednesday: I'm working on the first of several accessible forms tutorial articles today. It's taking longer than I'd planned to code and write another Cats and Coffee themed tutorial. So for this week's Web Accessibility Wednesdays, here's some of the resources I'm using.
A Quick List of Accessibility Resources
Web Accessibility Wednesday - Bonus Friday Edition!Just now in James Q Quick Learn Build Teach Discord, Arkar Myat said he'd like some Web Accessibility resources both general and image specific, so I thought I'd do a post to help others as well.It's not an exhaustive list! I also haven't given summaries like I usually do. It's more like my dumping my current A11y brain cache.
French Fridays for Developers - 020
In March, 2023 started French for Devs Fridays to celebrate getting to 400 days on Duolingo. Here you'll find weekly useful and/or amusing French phrases for developers. « Le débogage, c'est comme être un détective dans un film policier où vous êtes aussi le meurtrier » ~ Anonyme. Read the full post for the translation.
Throwback Thursdays in Tech History: Three Topics in Video Games History
Web Accessibility Wednesday: I'm working on the first of several accessible forms tutorial articles today. It's taking longer than I'd planned to code and write another Cats and Coffee themed tutorial. So for this week's Web Accessibility Wednesdays, here's some of the resources I'm using.
Building in Public: The Social Saturday Group Debugging Episode
Earlier this month I started the long overdue process of combining my .dev and .blog sites into one full-stack site with improved accessibility, collections, and reader features. During a 4 hour "Group Debugging Party" on the Creatures.dev discord today, the issues caused by updates to drizzle were solved.
Quick Accessibility Tips for Developers - With Cats and Coffee Themed Code Examples - Part 2: Links Within Pages
Coding with accessibility in mind can be intimidating if you're not familiar with the needs of disabled, neurodiverse, Deaf/deaf, and hard of hearing users. Here is a quick tip on in-page links to help with longer pages like blog posts.
French Fridays for Developers - 018
In March, 2023 started French for Devs Fridays to celebrate getting to 400 days on Duolingo. Here you'll find weekly useful and/or amusing French phrases for developers. « Le débogage, c'est comme être un détective dans un film policier où vous êtes aussi le meurtrier » ~ Anonyme. Read the full post for the translation.
A Handful of Quick Accessibility Tips for Developers - With Cats and Coffee Themed Code Examples
Coding with accessibility in mind can be intimidating if you're not familiar with the needs of disabled, neurodiverse, Deaf/deaf, and hard of hearing users. Here are five tips to get you started in making your sites accessible for users and learning how to implement the basics of WCAG.
French Fridays for Developers - 017
In March, 2023 started French for Devs Fridays to celebrate getting to 400 days on Duolingo. Here you'll find weekly useful and/or amusing French phrases for developers. « Traitez votre mot de passe comme votre brosse à dents. Ne laissez personne d’autre l’utiliser et achetez-en un nouveau tous les six mois. » ~ Clifford Stoll. Read the full post for the translation.
French Fridays for Developers - 016
In March, 2023 started French for Devs Fridays to celebrate getting to 400 days on Duolingo. Here you'll find weekly useful and/or amusing French phrases for developers. « La période d’adaptation de la programmation solo à la programmation collaborative a été comme manger un piment. La première fois que vous l’essayerez, vous ne l’aimerez peut-être pas parce que vous n’y êtes pas habitué. Mais…
Data Structures and Algorithms: Javascript Arrays #01
It's time to go down the data structures and algorithms (dsa) rabbit hole. But let's make things more fun - no "foo" and "bar" here! This is a series of pet and Alice in Wonderland themed DSA articles. We're starting with the basics of arrays in Javascript.
French Fridays for Developers - 015
In March, 2023 started French for Devs Fridays to celebrate getting to 400 days on Duolingo. Here you'll find weekly useful and/or amusing French phrases for developers. « La confusion fait partie de la programmation »> ~ Felienne Hermans. Read the full post for the translation.
Data Structures and Algorithms: Javascript Arrays #02
It's time to go down the data structures and algorithms (dsa) rabbit hole. But let's make things more fun - no "foo" and "bar" here! This is a series of pet and Alice in Wonderland themed DSA articles. We're starting with the basics of arrays in Javascript.
Design Tools and Tips for Backend Developers - Part 01: Finding Design Files and Figma to Code 101
This is the first in a series of articles on tips and tricks for web and app design - both for backend dev, and new developers. Every time I get in a discussion with backend or sometimes full-stack devs that prefer the backend, they say that one reason they prefer backend is that they're "not good at design". However, with a few simple tools and tips even those scared of design can become more…
French Fridays for Developers - 014
In March, 2023 I started French for Devs Fridays to celebrate getting to 400 days on Duolingo. Here you'll find weekly useful and/or amusing French phrases for developers. « Programmeur - un organisme qui transforme le café en logiciel. » Read the full post for the translation.
Creating a Simple Desktop Layout in CSS with Just an H1 and One Paragraph
This is one of many articles written before I had prism.js code block highlighting added. ... For the past couple of weeks I've been focusing on improving my css and design skills by doing Gary Simon's UI Design course on Scrimba.com. Today, I finished building a simple layout that started with just one level 1 heading and a single sentance paragraph. It's amazing how much can be done with so…