I wrote much of this back in 2023 and 2024 while popover was still being implemented / was newly released. Since I began digitally scribbling my thoughts down, others ended up writing about the attribute - which was one of the reasons I didn’t feel any urgency in publishing my own post. Though, I did co-author one of Hidde de Vries’s articles about popover.| Scott O’Hara - Accessibility engineer, UX developer and designer
I wrote this article on the default accessibilty properties (some might say ‘semantics’) of the popover attribute with Hidde de Vries.| Scott O’Hara - Accessibility engineer, UX developer and designer
Consider the following:| Scott O’Hara - Accessibility engineer, UX developer and designer
The topic of how to make an accessible spoiler component, or ‘should there be a spoiler element?’ has recently (re)-caught my attention. (I wrote most of this back in February and then forgot about it… as I seem to do these days. But then people necro’d a GitHub issue on the topic, so here we go again)| Scott O’Hara - Accessibility engineer, UX developer and designer
Today, March 24th 2023, the HTML specification added a new grouping content element. The search element.| Scott O’Hara - Accessibility engineer, UX developer and designer
This will retread and extend on my previous Inclusively Hidden post. Specifically the parts about “visually hidden” content.| Scott O’Hara - Accessibility engineer, UX developer and designer
I’ve already talked about Setting expectations for asking ChatGPT web accessibility questions. So you should probably go read that first.| Scott O’Hara - Accessibility engineer, UX developer and designer
You may be familiar with ChatGPT. But if you’re not, it’s a very cool chat interface using artificial intelligence to provide human-like responses to the questions you ask it. It is, however, still rather new and depending on what you ask it… well… As the FAQ for ChatGPT explains:| Scott O’Hara - Accessibility engineer, UX developer and designer
Today, the HTML specification landed a very important change to the dialog element. One that resolves a multi-year discussion on how the dialog element should handle initial focus.| Scott O’Hara - Accessibility engineer, UX developer and designer
Like it or not, even though content can be made to adapt to different viewport sizes and zoom levels by use of CSS media queries, sometimes the end result can be a bit awkward without further adjustments that go beyond visual presentation.| Scott O’Hara - Accessibility engineer, UX developer and designer