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visual site builders and accessibility

Recently, I asked on the Fediverse about visual/drag-and-drop website builders and got a wealth of answers. I want to evaluate based on some accessibility factors: Semantic HTML: how well does the builder adhere to properly formed semantic HTML? Keyboard navigation: is keyboard focus visible? Can it be customized? (I was going to review skip links, but I'm a half dozen sites in and none have…

loud table runner

Yarn: Circulo Natural Cotton Maxcolor 4/6 Yarn with occasional stripes of Fez Alpa . About 11" wide and 5' long including tassels.

log cabin dishtowels

Yarn: Circulo Anne Weaving Yarn . 3 towels. Woven area roughly 12"x24". Hemstitched.

core CSS

What CSS would you implement if you had no or very low vision? Recently, a Blind friend wanted to know more about CSS. This is my attempt at a very minimal CSS file that cleans up a few browser defaults for a more pleasant browsing experience without needing much if any visual testing. Want to just see the final stylesheet? Skip to the end of the page . CSS resets Before we start: this isn't a CSS…

fediLearns

My new project FediLearns is a learning-focused classifieds page for the fediverse. Check it out!

accessible image modals

Recently I've been working on a single-page digital rendition of a zine complete with many hand-drawn images. The author wanted to be able to bring images up to a full-screen view, to either zoom in or to put the whole enlarged image on one screen with no scrolling. It was a real struggle to find resources on how to do this in an accessible manner, so I'm writing up what I did. Fair warning: This…

eleventy lessons

recently I wrote several sites using Eleventy (4? 5?). Including, over the past few days, rewriting this one! That's right, if you're reading this, we're now running on 11ty and hosted by heckin.technology . See ya, GitHub. Won't miss ya. Originally, I compiled some of the things I've learned in a standalone site. however, since I don't know how much I'll focus on that specific site - it is mostly…

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screen reader optimizations

context recently, I've been working on a website for a project called spoonfairies . On the providers page, we list a series of names along with their pronouns, location, and services offered. Visually, it looks like this: pronouns at first, all three pieces of information in the top row had no extra styling - it was just a line of text with the same color and size throughout. The location bit…

charlie the alpaca handspun

Fiber from Circle R Ranch. 100% alpaca, from Charlie the alpaca.