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For most of us, the web is a magical world of media rich content like images, gifs and most importantly, cat videos.

Earlier this week, we briefly examined the concept of an accessibility tree, which represents the information model—much like the DOM—that assistive devices use to parse and make sense of a webpage.

With the rise in popularity of client side, JavaScript frameworks like React, Vue and Angular, it is undeniable that JavaScript is eating the web.

When building for the web and making considerations for accessibility, it is easy to fall into the trap of assuming that accessible features only benefit disabled users.

As a user without disabilities, I often take for granted the experience of using the web.

Being a better A11Y It’s almost impossible to think of the world without the web.

This week, I focused on the many aspects of PWAs and their role in making the web experience more streamlined across browsers and devices.

In the latest stable build of Chrome, came support for desktop progressive web apps (PWAs).

Push notifications are a simple way in which web applications can interact with users to provide them with timely updates and customized content.

Service workers are an important player in the PWA game.

Offline storage is the linchpin of progressive enhancement.

Network connectivity is a single point of failure when it comes to user experience on the web.

Last week, we identified the trend that a large and growing number of users are accessing the web via mobile devices.

A dive into compression algorithms available when building for the web

Though we as developers can influence how the browser downloads resources, the browser ultimately gets the last say when it comes to the order in which to load content.

In previous posts, we talked about optimizing our websites to reduce page weight and inadvertently decrease overall page load time.

High performance web fonts.

Video is one of the most sought out mediums on the web and is used widely in web page designs today.

Images make up a large portion of a webpage’s payload.

Early on in my career, when web performance metrics were brought up in conversation, I would take how others reacted to the number as a cue to understanding what those numbers meant (read: I had no idea what those numbers meant).

Techniques for writing custom matchers with various popular testing libraries.

A couple of days ago, React 16.3 was released.

A couple of months ago, I made the switch from React to Vue.

First post of the year