Mar 2022

Reposting a Tweet by Eileen Wang

twitter.com

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2022

Chinese Number Websites: The Secret Meaning of URLs

newrepublic.com

At first sight, this article may not have much to do with accessibility or inclusive design. Yet, after reading it, I suddenly realized how even my own thinking, deliberately tuned to think in an inclusive, prejudice-free way wherever possible, has been biased by a preconception of something I do not fully understand.
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2022

Championing Inclusive Research Through User Stories

answerlab.com

When people ask me what I do as a UX researcher my answer is usually along the lines of “I watch people struggle with technology without judging them.” And I’ve watched hundreds of people struggle with technology.
In an […]
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2022

Situated Software

shirky.com

Sometimes, an article from 18 years ago can still be of great relevance and inspiration. That’s what happened when I encountered Clay Shirky’s essay on “Situated software” (by way of an equally interesting personal project by Robin Sloan) today.
2022

Progressive Enhancement, the New Hotness™

gomakethings.com

It’s 2022, and 36.8% of respondents (not a representative survey, but assuming the demographic of Sara Soueidan’s Twitter followers to be dominantly web developers: even more shocking) don’t know what Progressive Enhancement is. This short […]
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2022

How many people are missing out on JavaScript enhancement?

gds.blog.gov.uk

This is a 9 years old article. Yet, while the quantitative numbers may have shifted in one direction or the other, the qualitative statements stand unchanged: it cannot – and must not – be assumed that all JavaScript code is executed for every visitor of a website.
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2022

Write plain text files

sive.rs

Derek Sivers lays out the arguments for creating digital files in plain text format whenever feasible. This is at the core of building a strategy for resilient digital assets – while fancy formats come and go, a plain text file written on MS-DOS in the […]
2022

Everyone has JavaScript, right?

kryogenix.org

Stuart Langridge presents this simple, yet convincing flow chart to illustrates all the various things that may go wrong as users request a web site requiring JavaScript code.
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2022