- Replace achecker flags with a config file
- Bring back webhint
- Amend check-whole-site so that it will deploy to staging if all checks
pass, and then run webhint on every staging page.
IBM Equal Access A11y Checker caught an <aside> without a label. Figured
this was a good opportunity to instead use the site description.
While I was at it, I expanded said site description and used it
properly.
- Add a11y metadata to transcribed images to communicate the presence of
a transcript
- Fix relative urls in navigation: make them absolute urls, so that the
parsed navigation elements have the correct destinations.
This also switches image transcripts from a section with a heading to a
div with an ARIA label. That should reduce duplication between the
<summary> content and the heading while still being semantically sound.
- Switch an abs link to a relative one
- Account for a site move
- Manually correct a couple dead links to point to the Wayback Machine
- Automatically switch some webmention links to the Wayback Machine
- Recommend others be careful with their use of soft hyphens, and test
with NVDA. Poorly-placed hyphens can make words sound unclear.
- Dial back my use of soft hyphens to only what's necessary.
The RSS feeds use escaped HTML instead of XHTML, which improves
compatibility with certain feed readers (e.g. Microsoft Outlook).
Mention that Outlook uses its own weird engine for feed contents in my
web best practices article.
- Re-order rel for my homepage's representative h-crad
- Fix the aria-current for the homepage
- Microdata: remove unnecessary "sameAs"
- Reduce "update without adding date updated" timeout to 15min
- Add u-uid and rel=me to my h-card on every page.
It's useless and invalid in those contexts, and removing it
significantly trims the file sizes.
Edit a post featuring a microdata code snippet to avoid conflicts.
The site now has polygot markup and can handle both XHTML5 and HTML5
parsing rules. My staging site will be XHTML but my main site will be
HTML5, just in case of parse errors.
If other tools (e.g. LightHouse) end up supporting XHTML5, I'll consider
switching the content-type to XHTML.
Move "in defense of link underlines" to subsection of new "visible
interactive semantics" section. Add info on distinguishing between
buttons and links, and making non-interactive space look visually
distinct from interactive space.
- round-trip-tracking is overkill for most use-cases
- clarify that horizontal line test is best used for landmarks and for
multiple different grouping elements, rather than just any grouping
element.
They're not interactive elements and there's no hint that they should be
hovered on. Wrapping them in an <abbr> would just make the markup even
more overcomplicated, so I just dropped the titles.
Allow specifying open graph images for individual pages. Change default
site-wide open graph image alt-text to an empty string since the default
image only has visual value, and is better off hidden from assistive
technologies.
Set an open graph image for two articles.
- Add new subsection of "optimal loading" that connects WCAG SC 2.4.5
with payload size.
- Remove/replace some inline formatting.
- Add some in-page-links to definitions and new section
- Replace "click" with "navigate" since not everyone navigates by click.
Describe current limitations of machine translation for web content, and
encourage authors to hard-wrap <pre> text to limit horizontal scrolling
in widescreen desktop browsers.
Mention KaiOS Readout
- Benefit of identical source/dom/visual order: layout consistency
- Expand the "horizontal-line test" to be a bit more precise.
- Elaborate on line-length issues in SC 1.4.8
- Add footnote mentioning uBlock Origin's support for blocking large
media elements
- Update mention of border-colors: I don't set most border colors
anymore.
- Switch "lighten them up" to "de-saturate them" regarding colors and
overstimulation.
- Update references to my CSS color palette to reflect changes
- Reduce excessive inline formatting in a blockquote
- Re-phrasings and formatting
- Adopt more shortcodes in older posts.
- Contain figures, excluding images. Slightly decreases paint times.
- Fix spacing issues for nested articles.
- Always enable vertical scrollbar, since pretty much all pages are
taller than the viewport. Eliminates a layout shift.
- Moar microdata
- Set fixed updated dates for some posts so they don't get new
date-updated values until I actually change the content significantly
- Change a quote of a code snippet to a code snippet with a citation
- Mention tkhtml
- Mention pandoc and printfriendly as exmples of moving figure elements
like floating blocks.
- Make TPGi a publisher, not an author.
- Use brackets to clarify a reference in a quotation.
- Add personal example of why it's important to test both low- and
high-end displays.
- Mention device-adjust
- translation tools don't always understand nested translate directives
- another pitfall of over-reliance on indentation: nested indented
elements are ambiguous
- Fix some typos
- Update outdatead references to my site's CSS that I've since changed.
- Make webring links touch-friendly and accessible by using spaced-out
details elements.
- Make details elements touch-friendly by indicating interactive region
area and making summary padded.
- Sort featured posts by featured order.
- Ensure that at least one non-interactive tappable region exists on the
screen at all times, 48x48 px.
Split "testing" section up into two subsections, with one subsection for
automated testing tools.
Split "The Tor Browser" section into two subsections.
Make link names more descriptive.
It's mobile-friendly as-is. I made sure that tap-targets were even
bigger and more spaced-apart, just to be safe.
Hide unnecessary nav-links in print mode.
When a figure is in the middle of a section, mobile screen reader users
might not switch away from heading-based navigation. Instead, they might
just jump to the next heading.
Re-organize the page to put some skippable content closer to the end of
sections, and add a section describing the need for this.
Also add a transcript to the screenshot of BMFW, and adopt the new
quotecaption shortcode, and fix some structured data by using some
shortcodes properly.
- Goldmark 1.4.12 switches footnotes from a <section> to a <div>; update
regexes and stylesheet to account for this.
- Goldmark 1.4.12 allows multiple footnotes with the same reference; use
that.
- Clean up templates for unminified output. Also delete an unused class.
- Switch to unminified output by default.
- give code blocks their own figure numbers/names/ID
- Split figcaption into quotecaption and codecaption
- create codefigure partial to reduce markup for SoftwareSourceCode
figures
Create a for <figcaption> and a render hook for code snippets inside
figures, replacing some ugly and complex inline HTML in my markdown
sources.
The only visible change is slightly worse HTML alignment and programming
language indicators (with microdata).
This removed the need to use one of the regex replacements in the
processed_content.html shortcode, and increased the minimum required
Hugo version to 0.93.
Some old browser engines don't fully support hyphenation, so they need
some extra help. Now, the entire site should fit in a 150 CSS-pixel wide
viewport.
Clean up some link text too so the text alone is more useful.
All pages except bookmarks can now fit on your smartwatch without any
adjustments, so we can disable the auto-zoom-out-to-match-mobile
wizardry that watch browsers do (comparable to the
zoom-out-to-match-desktop stuff that early mobile browsers did).
Yay.
- Shrink some excessive alt text
- Remove some redundant links
- Screenreaders that split elements up aren't just on touchscreens
- Mention ChromeVox in list of screen readers
- Move TOC higher in page
- Spelling
- Drop more unused classes
Putting the heading in the navigation element makes the structure more
logical and matches the behavior of most other websites.
Move it before the introduction in my web best practices post.
- Replace hashes in code snippets with variables for screen-readability
- Use hyphens where valid instead of combined words for screen reader
pronunciation
- Typo
- Add WIP section on screen reader support tips not already covered.
- New section on in-page search
- Mention most alt search indexes don't support JS
- Background images bad
- More sample tests: word processors that support HTML
- Mention checking privacy policies for 3p content
- Elaborate on more mainstream examples of color overrides
- Link to CSS WG docs instead of MDN for prefers-contrast since they're
more detailed.
- Specify that I'm just removing margins in <figure> elements for
quotations.
- Add quote describing how blind readers struggle to find non-semantic context
- Mention that longdesc is deprecated by simple hyperlinks. Describe an alternative.
- Transcripts are necessary for machine translation
- Improve alt-text used alongside an image transcript
- Re-phrase a line referring to a previous section; after some
re-arrangements, that section is no longer a "previous" section.
- Replace spatial terminology ("bottom") with sequential terminology
("end")
- Add note on font enumeration without the Font Access API
- Acknowledge testing in grayscale but emphasize that it isn't enough.
- Move defense of link underlines to just after the section on custom
colors, since it's more relevant to it.
- Add xkcd image into the page instead of just linking, since the linked
page content is an image that doesn't include a transcript or
descriptive alt-text.
- Trivial rephrasings
- Make sure that headings don't have the same name as any links, to
avoid creating links with similar names but different purposes
- Remove useless <aside> elements that wrap landmarks.
- Move TOC down a bit, after the intro.
- Elaborate on each image optimization tool
- Mention using GNU Parallel or squoosh.app
- Describe libavif with libaom+butteraugli and the YUV400 color space
- Why you should avoid srcsets based on viewport or display properties
- Fix code snippet for <picture> sample
Threw in some formatting and very minor phrasing fixes.
