Articles from An Event Apart
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Paint the Picture, Not the Frame: How Browsers Provide Everything Users Need
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Designers want to create fully branded experiences, which often results in customized highlighting colors or pixel-perfect typography. While these design touches can enhance the experience for some, they can render the experience inaccessible for others. Designer Eric Bailey makes a case for leaving key accessibility features to the browser to ensure the most accessible experience possible.
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Designing for Cognitive Differences
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Brandon Gregory considers how to design accessibly for cognitive differences like anxiety disorders, inattention, and depression.
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Conversational Semantics
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Semantic markup has always mattered, but with voice interfaces rapidly becoming the norm, it now matters more than ever. Aaron Gustafson shows us how simple HTML tags can have a huge impact with voice interfaces.
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A DIY Web Accessibility Blueprint
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Good accessibility is good UX. Beth Raduenzel provides a step-by-step guide to making and maintaining an accessible website.
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My Accessibility Journey: What I've Learned So Far
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“It's not about writing the most sophisticated code or finding the most clever solution to a problem; it's about users and whether they're able to use our products.” Manuel Matuzovic shares 11 lessons as a developer learning about and incorporating accessibility into his work.
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Faux Grid Tracks
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Hack the Grid with Eric Meyer as he explores different methods for replicating a tic-tac-toe board using CSS Grid.
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The Story of CSS Grid, from Its Creators
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Designers have used grids for centuries. And after more than 20 years of waiting, they are finally here for the browser. This is the story of CSS Grid. It took a lot of people in the right place and at the right time to make it happen.
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Yes, That Web Project Should Be a PWA
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A Progressive Web App (PWA) is a website with special powers. Despite what you might have heard, most websites—and, more importantly, their readers—can benefit from becoming PWAs. And it's so easy! Essential content from A List Apart's Aaron Gustafson.
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A Redesign With CSS Shapes
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Here at An Event Apart we recently refreshed the design of our “Why Should You Attend?” page with some cutting-edge design techniques: non-rectangular float shapes and feature queries. Learn how we made it all happen.