It has been an eventful start to 2021, but that’s certainly not why you’re reading this 😅 So here are the blog posts I published in January:

1. Accessible animated GIFs are pointless
2. Upgrading from a Home button to a Face ID iPhone
3. Getting started with VoiceOver on macOS
4. Using VoiceOver’s rotor on macOS
5. Scroll-bounce page background colour
6. Scrollbar marker colours on macOS

Elsewhere on the web

In no particular order, here are some great articles from around the web that I read this month, starting with a fun memory test for all you HTML fans out there:

• HTML Tags Memory Test
• Thoughts on screen readers and image recognition
• First Public Working Draft: W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0
• Build a responsive accessible table
• A Twitter thread on the death of Flash
• The Floppy Disk means Save, and 14 other old people Icons that don’t make sense anymore
• A Brief History of Screen Readers
• Is Progressive Enhancement Dead Yet?
• Letters of exclusion
• Designing Furniture With a 7:1 Color Contrast Ratio Makes a Huge Difference for the Visually Impaired
• Do accessible websites still need to support Internet Explorer 11?
• The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML
• Tips for Focus Styles

Anyway, have a good February and I’ll keep writing, reading, and catch you again on the 28th 💙