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Writing even more CSS with Accessibility in Mind, Part 1: Progressive Enhancement

About 4 years ago, I began to focus on web accessibility professionally. I read many articles and books, watched talks, followed experts, and I also shared my knowledge at meet-ups and online. The first 3 articles I wrote were Writing HTML with Accessibility in Mind, Writing JavaScript with Accessibility in Mind, and Writing CSS with Accessibility in Mind. I've shared the most exciting new things I've learned about creating inclusive experiences in each language.

Accessible to some

According to WebAims annual accessibility analysis, 98.1% of home pages of the top 1,000,000 websites have detectable WCAG 2.0 failures. Some of these sites may only have minor contrast issues or maybe just a single missing id, while others are highly inaccessible. However, this number is pretty damn high, considering the fact that automatic testing tools only report obvious accessibility issues.

Reverse ordered lists

I’m working on a project where I have a list of items in reverse order. The list starts with the latest item and ends with the oldest. I wanted to express that both semantically and visually. I did some research and found interesting solutions, some of them good, others not so much.

Here’s what I didn’t know about “content”

This is part 3 of my series Here’s what I didn’t know about… in which I try to learn new things about CSS. This time I'm trying to find out what I didn’t know about the content property.

The beauty of progressive enhancement

Nokia released an updated version of its iconic Nokia 3310 about 3 years ago. It was affordable for me (€60/$65), so I had to get one. It came with a 2 MP camera, a battery that lasts 30 days (up to 22 hours talk time), 2G, 16 MB storage, the original Snake game, and a browser.

Here’s what I didn’t know about “color”

This is part 2 of my series Here’s what I didn’t know about… in which I try to learn new things about CSS. This time I'm trying to find out what I didn’t know about the color property.