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Check-All / Expand-All Controls

Controls that can operate other controls in bulk are not new.

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Jakob Has Jumped the Shark

The saga of Jakob Nielsen.

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Techniques to Break Words

A few days ago Benjy Stanton asked about breaking long words in tables.

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Don’t Disable Form Controls

Just another usability and accessibility pro telling authors not to do the thing they continue to do.

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Adversarial Conformance

A look at dark patterns that conform to accessibility guidelines while still tricking users.

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Baseline Does Not Really Cover Baseline Support

The relatively new Web Platform Baseline offering does not track browser support for accessibility features built into the web platform.

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The Children Are Driving the Bus

An overview of the recent accessibility drama on X.

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Browser Video Players Review

Browsers each provide built-in video players for the element.

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Brief Note on Popovers with Dialogs

This is me trying to get ahead of a potential issue for users when developers mix and match the patterns.

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Be Careful Using ‘Menu’

Be certain you have chosen the term that accurately describes the control you want.

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CSS-only Widgets Are Inaccessible

Interactive widgets powered with only CSS are relatively common.

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Internet Explorer Still Does Not Go Away Today

Today Microsoft will stop providing tech support and security updates for Internet Explorer 11 in some contexts.

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Keyboard-Only Scrolling Areas

I have spent a few years banging on about ensuring scrolling areas on a page are accessible to keyboard-only users.

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Sentence Forms

Unlike more traditional forms, laid out with simple pairings of labels and fields, these forms are meant to be read in a flow.

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Cistercian SVG

I am one of the many people who stumbled across Cistercian numerals and fell down the rabbit hole.

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Under-Engineered Responsive Tables

I have written a bunch about responsive tables. Maybe too much.

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I Don't Care What Google or Apple or Whoever Did

It is not uncommon that I raise an accessibility or usability issue and am met with "But Google does this".

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Defining 'Toast' Messages

In current user interface terms a toast is a message that appears on the screen; it is often short, often appears only briefly, and often animates up.

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Stop Using 'Drop-down'

Stop using the word drop-down. Instead choose a term that accurately describes the control you want.

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Link Targets and 3.2.5

Regardless of what accessibility conformance level you target, do not arbitrarily open links in a new window or tab.