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Building a Dungeons and Dragons Game
I'm a big fan of Dungeons & Dragons, and have been for years, first playing the book adaptions of the game, before moving on to the group tabletop version and the computer games based on the tabletop rules. The recent success of Baldurs Gate 3 has seen a surge in the popularity of the genre. I wanted to take this passion and turn it into something creative using my skills as a developer. Contents …
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Improvements to the Accessibility Checklist Tool
Since the initial blog post about my accessibility checklist tool, I've made further improvements which make the tool easier to use and more useful. Navigating to Previous Steps The first version was extremely linear, only allowing you to start from the beginning and progress to the next step. Now, you can move back to any previous step by using the link in the main steps outline. This…
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Making Testing Easier: An Accessibility Checklist
Accessibility testing can be hard and time consuming, especially if you are new to it. The mix of browsers, operating systems, and user-space tools is vast and ever-changing. The WCAG guidelines are the de facto standards for accessibility requirements across the world wide web, but they're not exactly light reading, and they can be difficult for newcomers to fully understand and take in. What Do…
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Updating Angular from 2 to 4
I recently needed to upgrade an Angular project from 2.4.1 to the latest (at the time of writing) version of 4.2. All the typical guides detail how to update the core @angular packages in the package.json, but stop there, omitting the other things that also need to be done to ensure the project/application still works as intended. This is what I found as I was performing my update: Updating the…
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Testing Private Member Classes with Jasmine in Angular2 Template Tests
A little while ago I came across an issue when trying to implement template testing with Jasmine on an Angular2 project that was using private member classes. If you try this yourself, you'll get plenty of errors and warnings about various things that either can't be found, used, or can't be spied on. There's not a lot online about this, as it seems that private anything within Angular2 projects is…
