The Best of Adrian Roselli (no blue check) 🗯
8 most popular Adrian Roselli (no blue check) 🗯 articles, as voted by our community.
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Adrian Roselli (no blue check) 🗯 on Accessibility
CSS-only Widgets Are Inaccessible
Usually. I originally titled this InacCSS-onlyible. I even made this typographically, er, distinct image. Then I realized it was silly and will instead use the neologism in a talk so I can hear the…
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…
Adrian Roselli (no blue check) 🗯 on UX
Brief Note on Popovers with Dialogs
This is not a comparison between popovers and dialogs, nor is it a discussion of support. This is me trying to get ahead of a potential issue for users when developers mix and match the patterns. I…
Adrian Roselli (no blue check) 🗯 on Visual Design
Be Careful Using ‘Menu’
TL;DR: Be careful when using the word menu. Be certain you have chosen the term that accurately describes the control you want. If this post looks familiar to you, that is because it is essentially a…
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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…
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…
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…
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