The Best of Adrian Roselli (no blue check) 🗯
5 most popular Adrian Roselli (no blue check) 🗯 articles, as voted by our community.
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Adrian Roselli (no blue check) 🗯 on Accessibility
ARIA vs HTML
Using ARIA instead of HTML is generally fine for content, layout, structure, and other static bits of a page. A is the same as as far users and accessibility APIs are concerned. It is unlikely a user…
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Internet Explorer Still Does Not Go Away Today
At the start of 2016 I wrote Internet Explorer Does Not Go Away Today because back then IE up to version 11 was being retired. But not Internet Explorer 11. I asked an AI (Neural Blender) to give me a…
a11y = Accessibility
TL;DR: a11y is shorthand for accessibility. Those middle characters are the number one, not lower-case Ls. Say it as A-one-one-Y or A-eleven-Y. Numeronym The a11y you may see on Twitter was not…
I Don’t Care What Google or Apple or Whomever Did
It is not uncommon that I raise an accessibility or usability issue with a client’s design or implementation and am met with either “But Google does this,” or “But Apple does this.” Mostly it is the…
It’s Mid-2022 and Browsers (Mostly Safari) Still Break Accessibility via Display Properties
It was late 2020 when I last tested how browsers use CSS display properties to break the semantics of elements. I had been waiting for Safari to fix how it handles display: contents for four years…
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