My name is Eric. I’m a Web Accessibility Specialist and work with Knowbility and the W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative to make the Web a better, more inclusive, place.
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2019-07-13
CSS generated content can have unintended side-consequences. As Andy Clarke discovered recently, data- attributes he used as a way to transfer content into CSS for visual purposes are not translated using built-in browser functionality . 1 His goal was to provide text effects by layering different … read more
2019-01-13
In the past two days, people noticed that VoiceOver (VO) on top of Safari is not reading list semantics when the list is not styled in a list-like fashion. First things first: What does it mean for me as a web developer that Safari is not reading lists when it doesn't look like a list? Nothing. The … read more
2018-12-31
I’ll leave Facebook by the end of the day today[^This blog post was in the making for days, and I wanted to give advanced warnings, but it didn’t work out sooner.]. I thought about this final step for several months. I have many reasons, including, but not limited, to Facebook’s ongoing privacy issue … read more
2018-04-29
Swaziland king renames country Kingdom of eSwatini (The Guardian) Internationalization is hard, now you have to fit in a country with a lower case first letter. Meaning “place of the Swazi”, eSwatini is the Swazi language name for the tiny state landlocked between South Africa and Mozambique. Unl … read more
2018-04-10
Jeremy posted a solution for multi-language sites where you want to switch hyphenation on when the page language is set to (for example) German: [lang="de"] { hyphens: auto; } This works great until you have code on the page. Even if we have word-wrapping for code enabled (and we should on … read more
2018-04-08
I’ve been on vacation for a bit, which was incredibly relaxing. Some pictures are available on Instagram (for now – I need an indie web solution for this). Professionalism: Design’s Lost Generation (Mike Monteiro, Medium) — Everyone who helps to produce a product is a designer, every decision counts. … read more
2018-04-08
Nic @vavroom Steenhout ( Blog ) invited me to his #A11y Rules Podcast. We talked about my work with Knowbility and the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) and how I got into accessibility. Nic’s podcast is short and sweet, so you don’t have to listen to me waffling on for too long. Nic makes tra … read more
2018-03-19
I’m in San Diego where I’ll attend the W3C WAI Education and Outreach WG Face-to-Face meeting, and CSUN, the biggest accessibility conference. It’s always amazing to be able to work with my colleagues in one room and to meet all accessibility experts in one place. Beta: W3C/WAI Website – We managed to laun … read more
2018-03-11
This was a long work week, so here are some games and apps instead of articles as I couldn’t find time to concentrate on pieces. TV: Jessica Jones , Season 2 – While work was plenty, some of it was also repetitive, so I managed to watch the new Season of Jessica Jones. Very intense storytelling. iOS … read more
2018-03-04
In Sunday Seven I publish a list of seven links to things on the internet. The only criteria to make it in this category is that it is interesting to me. Accessibility: Apple Park’s Visitor Center by twitter user @xarph – An interesting twitter thread about the many small details build for acc … read more