In this week’s web design and development news roundup, you’ll learn about remote moderated usability testing, find out how WebFlow is focusing on accessibility, discover how to play a dinosaur game in the WordPress Block Editor, and more. Continue reading April 17, 2020: My Weekly Roundup of Web Design and Development News
Accessibility
Takeaways from “If It’s Interactive, It Needs a Focus Style”
At the March 2020 Chicago Digital Accessibility and Inclusive Design virtual meetup, Eric Bailey explained the importance of inclusive design in creating focus styles for interactive web elements.
Thanks to the livestream recording, I watched the online presentation with dozens of other attendees. Here are my notes from the presentation. Continue reading Takeaways from “If It’s Interactive, It Needs a Focus Style”
Remembering Christopher Schmitt
Our web community is mourning one of of our own, web designer, author, speaker, and teacher Christopher Schmitt, who died April 10, 2020.
Dear Friends, I have sad news. @teleject died suddenly in our home yesterday. Natural causes, not COVID, still waiting on an official cause of death. One thing I do know is how much he loved so many of you, and how happy he was to help others or to make them laugh. More later. pic.twitter.com/SY8EcaHZSw
— Ari “Social Distancing Pioneer” Stiles (@ari4nne) April 10, 2020
His books, podcasts, conferences, articles, and online events were known to designers, developers, accessibility professionals, user experience specialists, content strategists throughout the web community. Continue reading Remembering Christopher Schmitt