Advent Calendars for Web Professionals: 2017 Edition

UXMas Advent Calendar 2017

It’s December 1st and you know what that means. Today marks the first day of Advent calendars!

For the past five years, I’ve published a roundup of Advent calendars for web designers, developers, programmers, content strategists, user experience professionals, digital marketers, any person who works on and creates content for the web.

I’ve done my research in the past few weeks to uncover what I think are some fun and interesting Advent calendars for web professionals.

You’ll find some of my long-time favorites in the list: 24 ways, Performance Calendar, SysAdvent, UXMas, and several new ones. Continue reading Advent Calendars for Web Professionals: 2017 Edition

Join Me! Celebrate Web Standards on Blue Beanie Day

women hiker in the mountains wearing a blue beanie

Wondering why your friends’ avatars have changed today, with everyone wearing a blue beanie cap?

It’s Blue Beanie Day! The day where web professionals around the world celebrate web standards by adding a blue beanie to their avatar. Continue reading Join Me! Celebrate Web Standards on Blue Beanie Day

Part 3. Alternative Text for Images: Buffer Announces Support for Extension

Alternative text for images: what about Buffer and Hootsuite?

This is my third post about alternative text for Buffer and Hootsuite.

And this time, I have great news to share!

Yesterday, Emily Plummer, engineer at Buffer, tweeted that the Buffer extension now supports alternative text for images.

Hurrah!

She followed up with a tweet that alternative text for images will soon be available in the Buffer Dashboard. Continue reading Part 3. Alternative Text for Images: Buffer Announces Support for Extension