🏡 New house

May has been quite the month! We moved house on the 12th so life has been all about packing, chasing solicitors, moving, unpacking and settling in. I did get some thoughts down about tables versus lists though: Are you sure that table isn’t a list?.

From the archives

A couple of weeks back I was working with a developer who was looking to use the <details>/<summary> HTML elements for an accordion-style component, rather than using <div>s, <button>s, and ARIA. Turns out it wasn’t possible without losing the open/close animation, but if the new ::details-content pseudo element was better supported across web browser (currently at 71.17% support) it would have been a go-er.

Cross-browser compatibility isn’t as big an issue as it used to be, but cross-user compatibility can still be a struggle… Reminded me that I wrote a short post on that: Ensure your project works in every browser and for every user.

Elsewhere on the web

Here are some of the more interesting bits and bobs that I came across from around the web during May:

• Awareness, a typically thoughtful piece by Jeremy Keith on Global Accessibility Awareness Day
• Apple unveils powerful accessibility features coming later this year (I’m particularly pleased with Accessibility Nutrition Labels)
• Defect Prevention: Reducing Costs and Enhancing Quality; IBM talk about the cost of accessibility defects found after the design phase
• Defining RACI Roles for Improving Digital Accessibility
• The curb-cut effect; an oldie, but a goodie

Anyway, I’m off to get back up that ladder with the paintbrush. See you again in at the end of June 🪜