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If you’re interested in accessibility, user experience design, and/or frontend development, you’re in the right place. You can also browse by category or year.

1. Accessible animated GIFs are pointless

   Article posted 8th January 2021 in Accessibility

   Animated GIFs are everywhere, but are they accessible to everyone? I’m afraid to say, they’re not, and we probably shouldn’t be using them.

2. An unexpected accessibility benefit of video calls

   Article posted 30th December 2020 in Accessibility

   COVID-19 changed the way we work. Now that we all work from home, remote team members report feeling more included, and I’ve noticed another benefit.

3. Voice Control for macOS commands cheatsheet

   Article posted 29th December 2020 in Accessibility and Apple

   I have a list of all the commands for Voice Control for macOS, and it comes in handy pretty much every time I do any speech recognition testing.

4. Why I prefer not to use CSS shorthand

   Article posted 23rd December 2020 in CSS

   Instead of using the padding declaration, I use the longhand padding-top, padding-right, and so on. Why? A few of good reasons: let me explain.

5. Progressively enhanced animated content

   Article posted 2nd December 2020 in Accessibility and Development

   Respecting your users’ preferences with prefers-reduced-motion is great, but what about users with older operating systems and browsers?

6. Google are spoiling my Blue Beanie Day

   Article posted 30th November 2020 in Development

   Web standards should be a done deal by now, but 8 years on from my last post on the subject, we need to be as vigilant as ever.

7. Form styling limitations are an accessibility issue

   Article posted 27th November 2020 in Accessibility, CSS and Development

   A summary of the things missing in CSS got me thinking about how lack of some form styling may have seriously damaged accessibility on the web.

8. Moving to Apple One with existing Apple subscriptions

   Article posted 19th November 2020 in Apple

   I had some questions before upgrading to Apple One, as I had existing Apple subscriptions. If you’re in the same position I was, this should help.

9. The tempertemper newsletter

   Article posted 5th November 2020

   A while ago, I realised I didn’t have a great way to get all my articles out to people who want to read them. That’s where my newsletter comes in.

10. Respecting people’s privacy

    Article posted 30th October 2020

    Collecting data, whether needed or not, is high on a lot of companies’ agendas. Me, I don’t track users and I collect the bare minimum data.