Reading List 223

A (usually) weekly round-up of interesting links I’ve tweeted. Sponsored by Smashing Magazine who slip banknotes into my lacy red manties so I can spend time reading stuff.

• How A Screen Reader User Accesses The Web: A Smashing Video – I commissioned and hosted a webinar with Léonie Watson (a blind screen reader user), showing how she uses big-name sites (and this one!) and how the HTML helps or hinders her.
• Firefox CSS survey – Your chums at Firefox seek your input on the most time-consuming CSS bugs you’ve faced in the last 3 months (to help them make devtools better, not just to make fun of you)
• The Dark Side of the Grid (Part 1) – part 1 of 3 in a series of articles about CSS Grid layout and accessibility
• CSS Scroll Snap — How It Really Works
• Building a modern carousel with CSS scroll snap, smooth scrolling, and pinch-zoom – by my nephew who doesn’t have a local area network
• Midi City 2000 – an interactive art experiment where midi songs become cities. Each row of buildings is an instrument in the song; each building is a note
• Machine Ethics podcast – That nice Cennydd Bowles talking about collective action in the tech industry, the role of design fiction & ’provocatypes‘ in stimulating moral imagination
• Google partially backtracks on Chrome changes that would break ad blockers
• Google admits error over hidden microphone – Google forgot to disclose that that Nest Guard (a home alarm product available since 2017) contained a microphone.
• Smart feature phones to generate $28 bn revenues in 3 years: Report – “The global smart feature phone demand grew 252 per cent year-on-year in 2018 – albeit from a low base, contributing roughly 16 per cent of the total feature phone volumes”
• A New Tool Protects Videos From Deepfakes and Tampering – finally, a use-case for blockchain! (That’s not for libertarians, conspiracy theorists or drug dealers)
• WinRAR versions released in the last 19 years impacted by severe security flaw that can be abused to hijack users’ systems just by tricking a WinRAR user into opening a malicious archive. “Over 500 million WinRAR users at risk”

from Bruce Lawson's personal site /2019/reading-list-223/