#65

05 February 2025

This is a really interesting piece and sets you up with a great progressive enhancement baseline for a notoriously complex UI problem.

Accessibility issues can really sneak up on you. Salma writes about her experience of carpal tunnel and how that’s resulted in her learning to code by voice really well here.

I’m really not feeling seemingly every code editor doubling down on “AI” slop so have been thinking about going back to Sublime myself. This article has arrived at a good time!

I love articles like this. The WCAG guidelines can be very daunting, so articles like this are especially useful for people like me who need to see proper real-world stuff with a friendly breakdown of how things work.

Sure, we’re front-end education for the real world at Piccalilli — and this is not front-end — but it is very real world. We very much want to be on the right side of history here too.

P.S. this is a good demo.

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Andy