Accessibility

Ensuring the work we do can be experienced by everyone.

We’ve written 4 blog posts about Accessibility. View all topics »

1. 

   Accessibility is Everyone’s Job

   

   11/30/21

   by Dana Pavlichko

   It’s been 18 years since Happy Cog founder and web standards advocate Jeffrey Zeldman originally published Designing With Web Standards. The web itself may seem in many places unrecognizable now compared to what it was. We’ve added new devices, seen frameworks fall in and out of fashion, matured whole disciplines, seen the real and lasting global impacts of the digital and connected world – for better or for worse. Life without all these things seems nearly unimaginable at this point.

2. 

   Did Rdio Throw the Web Under the Bus?

   

   2/13/14

   by Brandon Rosage

   Rdio announced last month that its music service would be available “free in the U.S. on the web.” The service is still accessible on desktop web browsers with Flash installed, but the site instructs users on smartphone and tablet browsers to access its service via native applications. So, is Rdio’s use of the term “the web” faithful to its technical implementation? Our own developer Brandon Rosage debates the issue with his brother Tyson, a software designer at Treehouse.

3. 

   Making Front-end Development a Team Sport

   

   3/7/13

   by Jenn Lukas

   “All code in any code-base should look like a single person typed it, no matter how many people contributed,” is one of the many ideas behind documents such as Rick Waldon’s Idiomatic JS and Nicolas Gallagher’s Idiomatic CSS.

4. 

   Blue Beanie Day – Celebrate You!

   

   11/30/12

   by Jeffrey Zeldman

   A funny thing happened on the way to the multi-device world we design and live in. The web standards movement happened.