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The Affects of Covid on Web Accessibility
We've been a little over 2 years now with Covid in our lives, but there's still so much we don't know about it. One aspect of that is what the enduring effects of it are for some people, or Long-Covid as it is known. These effects vary in their symptoms and severity, but they can have an impact on our lives and can prevent us from doing all the things we are used to. Contents How Many People…
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Building a Web-Based Character Picker
I've spent the last couple of years learning German, and one of the things I've come to rely on greatly are tools to help select the correct characters that aren't immediately available on my standard QWERTY keyboard. Even beyond foreign languages, there are countless times when I've needed to use something that wasn't easily typed, so these tools have become invaluable. Contents Not All…
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Picking The Right HTML Tag
Picking the right HTML tag can be difficult sometimes, which is probably why most of us tend to fall back to the generic <div> and <span> tags. Over time, this practice leads to Divitis, which makes code harder to read on more complex pages and it makes the web page less semantic, making it more difficult to navigate with assistive technology like screen readers. In-fact, ensuring we're…
