Reading List 229

• Link O’ The Week: Art Direction For The Web Using CSS Shapes by Andy Clarke
• Enriching Search Results Through Structured Data – SURPRISE! Structured data and semantic markup help SEO. Now with BIZ NUMBERS from Google. With unjustified recommendation to use JSON-LD, which I’ll blog about when I get more info about why they prefer that to HTML5 microdata
• Inclusively Hidden – methods of hiding content and the accessibility impacts of each, newly-updated by Scott O’Hara
• CSS Spatial Navigation Level 1 – “a general model for navigating the focus using the arrow keys, as well as related CSS, JavaScript features and Events”. N.B. Draft spec only.
• Why I’ve stopped exporting defaults from my JavaScript modules by Nicholas Zakas
• Accessibility Events – on the problems Apple’s choice to detect Assistive Technology use can cause, by Mat Marquis
• What JavaScript can learn from CSS – a nice 26 min talk by Jed Watson
• A history of the HTML slot element – “illustrates the complexity of producing standards, the importance of talking with people face-to-face, and the value of compromise.”
• Accenture sued over website redesign so bad it Hertz: Car hire biz demands $32m+ for ‘defective’ cyber-revamp – botched website redesign. Not responsive, no design system, poor code, and more.
• Front-end Developer Handbook 2019 – a really cool resource if you know someone who’s starting out, or if you need to explain to friends/ family what you do!
• WELCOME TO THE CAGE CAGE – “This is a VR simulation of what it’s like to be trapped in a cage and forced to watch Nic Cage movies.”

from Bruce Lawson's personal site /2019/reading-list-229/