Accessibility works best when relying on solid web standard features. These ones have been widely available for a while now. Let's start using them.
The native HTML <dialog> element has come a long way. While it used to be very inconsistent, not to mention somewhat unfinished, it is now in a pretty healthy place and can generally be used — provided one is aware of the remaining caveats.
Accessibility works best when relying on solid web standard features. These ones have been widely available for a while now. Let's start using them.
Dialogs are everywhere in modern interface design (for good or for bad), and yet many of them are not accessible to assistive technologies. In this post, Kitty Giraudel is going to write a small JavaScript library for authoring accessible dialogs from the very beginning. The goal is to understand what goes into it. She’s not going to deal with styling too much, just the JavaScript part.
The State of HTML 2023 results have been available for a few weeks, here's my short analysis of some of the results.