Accessibility Sara Joy

Can accessibility be whimsical?

It started out with me just trying to find a cute word to put with a11y, the numeronym for accessibility. Because you have to buy a cute domain name for every side project idea, of course. And as much as I try to say “a-eleven-y” of course my brain always
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Blogging Greg Sarjeant

Building a slow web

The internet can feel like it's built for speed. You join a new service and you're presented with a feed. The name tells you all you need to know. The feed is the actor. You are the thing that is acted upon. You don't
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Webweaving Leilukin

Webweaving and blogging can change your life

I had used a computer since I was a kindergartner in the late 1990s, and I am also old enough to remember dial-up internet. However, before I was a teenager, I never considered the possibility of me creating anything on the web, let alone crafting my own space on the
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Fandom Sacha Judd

Welcome to the web we lost

In December 1993, the New York Times published an article about the “limitless opportunity” of the early internet. It painted a picture of a digital utopia: clicking a mouse to access NASA weather footage, Clinton’s speeches, MTV’s digital music samplers, or the status of a coffee pot at
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Webweaving Zachary Kai

Falling in love with the internet (again)

I started accessing the internet (at least a version) when my primary school had the bright idea (and funding) of buying a set of 20 iPads for the school to use when they attended Information Communication Technology classes. Being ten-year-olds, when we weren’t being taught how to browse the
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Federation Liz Roboto

Finding a good community on Mastodon

I remember when all of my friends in high school were on AOL in the '90s, and I wanted to be on it too, so that I could chat to them and discover what the internet was. I was very lucky and eventually convinced my parents that we really
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The internet is supposed to be fun!

Homecoming: the small web and release from the unitary public self

In 1776, a Quaker living in Philadelphia recovered from a severe illness with a peculiar conviction: they had died and been reborn as the Public Universal Friend. The Public Universal Friend was sans gender but avec mission: to spread the message, received during the illness, that there is “Room, Room,
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My website is ugly because I made it

If my mom wanted good art on her fridge, she could’ve purchased reprints of works by Vermeer, Lichtenstein, Wyeth, etc. But she didn’t want good art – she wanted my art. Somebody with good taste could’ve made my website, but then it wouldn’t be mine. To bake
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Site creation as content transformation

Making a website would be so much easier if the web came with a good conceptual model for thinking about site construction. If you’re making a spreadsheet, the spreadsheet grid provides a vital conceptual and spatial scaffold for your work, helping you break down your data entry and analysis
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Intermediate CSS Tutorial: Introduction to Flexbox

Throughout this tutorial, I encourage you to look at the page source and resize your browser window to see how the different examples react to different screen and text sizes. If you're on a phone, try switching between portrait and landscape mode to get different page widths. For
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Close to the metal: web design and the browser

The craft of building websites evolves when it follows web browsers, instead of fighting against them Websites have evolved over the years, but in the name of evolution, there seems to be mistaken thinking that the process of building a website needs to get more complex, using Javascript frameworks and
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Flash Back: An “oral” history of Flash

I don’t know what the first video game I ever played was. I would have been too young to remember. It very likely could have been a Flash game running in a web browser, patiently downloaded over a dialup connection. I got interested in computers at an early age,
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