A feed of the latest blog posts from Joe Lamyman's blog.
Chances are that with the upcoming release of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 , 4.1.1 Parsing (A) will be removed. However, that’s not to say that parsing and validation are no longer relevant. In this post, we’ll cover why they remain important as a fundamental step for good development practices. 4.1.1 Parsing actually covers very little The parsing guideline, requires that:…
In defence of designing slowly It's great that social media has given rise to short videos of people designing things so quickly. It helps to demonstrate that complex designs can be broken down into more simple, individual steps. There's videos that are less than 30 seconds that can help you: Animate text Create a loading spinner Make a carousel The videos go through the visual designs of the…
It's the time of year when university students start the arduous process of applying for graduate jobs. I thought I would reveal an interesting insight into the number of jobs I applied for. A quick search of my mail inbox returns the result, '1 of many' which feels about right. An aspect of applying for work that is ever-present is the request for a portfolio or work that you would like the…
This article appeared originally on the York Disability Rights Forum's website on November 16th 2020. The World Wide Web has allowed for communication and interaction of different users and cultures like never before and it’s easy to imagine the benefits that this can bring, such as everyone being able to use their own device to have the same access to online resources. No longer are there…
As part of my master's degree, I have designed and coded an interactive survey to help me gather information around people's preferences when it comes to personalising website user interfaces. Making any survey and then recruiting participants is a difficult process, but making enjoyable and interactive surveys can act as a method of recruitment and can produce richer information! How can we do…
A year since building my site with Eleventy , I decided that it was time for more late night stress and unpaid work! It's been just under a year since I wrote a post about trying to use Eleventy to build my blog. As my first project with any kind of static site generator (a tool for taking data and templates and building websites, see Phil Hawksworth's post on static site generators ), I realised…
As it comes to the end of the year, I see lots of people sharing their Spotify Wrapped and Instagram users posting their 9 most liked posts, I thought I'd use my site to share my year! I've tried to summarise my year in 36 pictures (3 for each month) comprised of photos I have taken, or have stolen from Naomi. January wintery walks to work at stone roses brighter evenings February snowy clifford's…
Summary To be able to create blog posts without having to set everything up in my source code, I wanted to find a way to use a CMS to update my site and write blog posts. I decided that I would make use of my existing skillset and try to learn templating languages such as Nunjucks and Handlebars to create my new site. I used a static-site generator called eleventy to build my site, pairing…