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Much of my career as a web designer has been spent, quite happily, working alongside programmers, engineers, people with computer science degrees.

Originally published on Medium.

Tooltips are implemented all over the place.

Internationalization is a major component of inclusive design.

If you simultaneously Have perfect eyesight Have excellent motor control and coordination Speak English as a first language Find reading and processing complex information easy Never get tired Have as much free time as you wish Live somewhere with access…

I've just been listening to the new Linkin Park album.

Yes, HTML is broken (see title ↑).

Before Hitler set about exterminating Jewish people, he practiced on the disabled.

2016 has not been an exemplary year in some ways.

You spend more time contemplating and discussing code than you do writing it.

Design is a wonderful thing.

We need to talk about aria-controls.

I'm not the most talented coder in the world.

Star Trek: The Next Generation was on TV in the UK when I was a little younger than Wesley Crusher, but I never watched it properly.

In September of last year, I decided I wanted to hear stories about how screen reader users access The Web.

There's been a lot of talk lately in favour of progressive enhancement and 'universal' (isomorphic) applications.

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From time to time, web and software developers will use bad arguments to justify their choice of technologies, workflows or org structures, or to disparage others' differing choices.

(This post was originally published on Medium, put has a permanent home here.)

They say accessibility is about people.

This post is the first in a two part series examining the senescence and ultimate mortality of this blog's proprietor, Heydon Pickering.

TL;DR I'm putting together an album to raise money for an organization that supports web accessibility.

I have a long-held suspicion of anything directed at me — especially anything commercial — that sells itself on its "experiential" qualities.

Frame Based Animation with Sass I wanted an easy way to create traditional animations, wherein each frame is a different drawing.

I had this one friend at school.

Editor's note: This article has been submitted anonymously to me as the editor of geekmentalhelp.com — the website of the #geekmentalhelp campaign.

Note: This article is a deconstruction of a post by Paul Boag called I don’t care if homosexuality is a sin.

Practical ARIA Examples I have written a book about web application accessibility using WAI-ARIA for Smashing Magazine — the first of its kind.

REVENGE.CSS Revenge.css is a CSS bookmarklet that reports bad html using pseudo content.

Paragrabbr I use Paragrabbr a lot.

Auticons Icon Font Auticons is an icon font and CSS set that harnesses the awesome power of attribute selectors.

Squib Font The name Squib comes from "Square" and "Slab".

Hi everybody!

In case you weren't already aware, I wrote a book.

"I guess it all started pretty innocently enough.

When I’m done staring with fear-induced catalepsy at the vast array of complex and overlapping app building, testing, integration and deployment tools that are quickly amassing around me, I like to take a little break and try to solve a simple problem.

I've always been a bit concerned about :focus styles for buttons.

To be really good at CSS, you have to learn CSS.

For this article, I took a sample of corporate and small business design clients, erased their memories (with a "mind rubber"), then asked them to critique a small selection of highly prolific and famous commercial logotypes.

Please note: The following should be considered an experiment.

What if I told you there was a way to radically alter your web pages without using images, javascript, proprietary CSS3 or any extra markup?

I love the Perch CMS.

In CSS, there are four ways to visually position HTML elements within your web page.

My 'Heydings Icons' font has been doing the rounds for some time now, and I am proud to have been one of the early innovators to release a completely free, embeddable icon font for web UI designers.

To say one is a Web Developer is similar to saying one is an engineer.

One of the best things about the Perch CMS is its lack of boilerplate.

Rock and roll has always been a contrary form of music.

In a previous article, I addressed the many advantages of using a web font (in place of images) to render icons into your UI design.

Benny (@rattegg) and I have been rehearsing and recording for our Wet Face project for some time now and — provided that the venue staff don't get cold feet — our first performance is imminent.