An image with 2 panels. In the first it compares a tiny planet Mercury to the enormous sun. The second looks like the first, but in this case it's a tiny button to close a popup, and an enormous fingertip.
I will ha.. strongly dislike your popup when:
- Escape doesn't close it
- Clicking the background doesn't close it
- The close button is sized like this
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It’s a post now:
adrianroselli.com/2026/02/hono...
712 words, but the images are huge (dimensions, not file size). I also captured fresh images (last night’s were an old version of my demo).
#HTML #CSS #accessibility #a11y
Code only becomes hard to generate when it's built on existing tech debt that was haphazardly designed. For the longevity of code, it needs to be readable, maintainable, and documented, otherwise you will neither be able to verify it or generate it without a full rewrite
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My dumb ass spent a decade telling people that software is a field where getting things right is key only to find out nobody else in software agrees
Hello everyone. Are there any resources both free and paid that one can properly learn UX from ground up.Also are there volunteer opportunities organizations for the same? I appreciate any pointers. Thank you
#UX #A11y #Accessibility
Imagine following AI advice without a second opinion for the sake of “compliance” to avoid legal fines.
I heard about a company having an enthusiastic blind customer reaching out about a11y issues. A coworker proposed hiring them. Sadly, the firm rather contracted an infamous a11y company instead.
As a sponsor of this year's State of the Browser conference, I have one online ticket to give away. I'd love to give it to a student or some who otherwise can't afford it.
If your interested, send me DM. :)
2026.stateofthebrowser.com
Thrilled to see more tests for real-world `aria-label` exposure:
www.maxdesign.com.au/articles/ari...
But ARIA outlines what roles disallow `aria-label` (§5.2.8.3):
w3c.github.io/aria/#nameca...
So that second paragraph appears to be wrong.
Sadly, no comment form.
#ARIA #accessibility #a11y
I'm thinking of a thing in 2026 which is to start a weekly office hour to talk with the web community about anything CSS or design-related.
Who is up for that? 😃
Want a leg up building web components? Try this template I made: www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/a-w...
I bet this will come out delicious
I have an update that I really did not want to make. With everything going on, I am focused on this and only this. It is not the update I wanted to bring to you but here it is. gofund.me/e40b06322
Eventually writing code with more bugs in more places that are harder to fix will start to cause major problems that can't be ignored. People will learn the hard way the lesson that should've been obvious from the start: bugs are bad.
Watching fireworks on New Year's Eve is something I find joy in and always look forward to. May 2026 be kind to you.
Omg!🤣
While there's valid criticism to make about Tailwind, and I'm even starting to move away from it, some of the tired anti-Tailwind dunks need to die in 2025. Nothing annoys me more than when someone criticizes something worth criticizing but for the wrong reasons. Takes we should all abandon in 2026:
Anyone can make something that looks designed, but that doesn’t mean that design has happened.
An interesting essay by Christopher Butler, on, how even if anyone can build a page with a CMS, or ask AI for a design, most people don’t have the fundamentals for good design...
spot on!
"Stop beating yourself up and be wary of those who maybe aren’t." This is something I am still learning to do.. Thank you for this!
as a person who reads a lot and has been yelling for months about writers who don’t read, I wholeheartedly endorse Casey’s excellent advice—this bit especially. go to bookstores! go to the LIBRARY!
I'm more convinced with each passing day that web infrastructure and history needs means of existing outside of corporate ownership.
Sharing a meme on social media? Don't forget to include alt text! This resource from @veron4ica.com will help you.
veroniiiica.com/2018/11/29/h...
@donmackinnon.dev explains why extra abstractions often make software harder to understand and harder to change.
He shares what happens when teams add layers that do not provide real value and why simplicity lasts longer.
Listen with @robbyonrails.com: maintainable.fm/episodes/don...
I just want the outline property to take two or more outlines instead of just one so we don't have to hack our way around creating better outlines using box-shadow anymore.
I'll take this over a few of the fancy new features added to #CSS and that I use less frequently any day. 🥹
In losing UX and Human Centred Design, you lose any centre for why a thing is designed or manufactured.
It exists to be made, it is made to exist. 2/2
🤖 "As GenAI becomes the primary way to find information, local and traditional wisdom is being lost. And we are only beginning to realise what we’re missing"
#ai #knowledge #collapse
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
Yes, but it isn’t recommended to do so because it can be a very poor user experience.
They can make navigation confusing, require more keystrokes to explore layers, lack headers that are meaningful for each section, they can break row/column associations, and increase cognitive load dramatically.
Enhancing Web Components Safely with Self-Destructing CSS
scottjehl.com/posts/web-co...
