October 31, 2020

Halloween’s here 🎃🍂 – October’s roundup

Boo! 👻

It was a productive start to October, with five posts in the first fortnight. Then one of my kids caught a cold and wasn’t sleeping well, so my early starts (and therefore my writing) took a bit of a knock.

1. Using the keyboard to navigate on macOS
2. How to use the keyboard to navigate on Safari
3. Styling list markers the right way
4. Custom unordered list markers, done right
5. Accessibility issues when removing list markers
6. Respecting people’s privacy

Updated articles

I updated a few older posts during October:

• I set up a new Mac and realised my Using nvm on macOS article needed a wee bit of extra detail
• Following some feedback on Twitter, I’ve updated my article on opening links in a new tab/window to include details on some browsers that offer special Back button behaviour for links that open in a new tab/window

Elsewhere on the web

• End the awkward – an enlightening article from Scope on language to use and avoid when talking about disability
• Accessible Web Animation where Val Head explains how animation can be accessible
• Writing even more CSS with Accessibility in Mind, Part 2: Respecting user preferences
• People Problems by Robin Rendle on CSS-Tricks, talking about cultural change being more important than nitty-gritty code or user experience improvements
• Heading off confusion: When do headings fail WCAG?, which describes some heading anti-patterns that might not fail WCAG, but are very bad for users

Anyway, I hope you manage to have a fun Halloween and I’ll see you again this time next month! 🦇