In honor of GAAD (Global Accessibility Awareness Day), I interviewed a developer who is active in the accessibility community to gain some insights on the importance of web accessibility.

In honor of GAAD (Global Accessibility Awareness Day), I interviewed a developer who is active in the accessibility community to gain some insights on the importance of web accessibility.

You took the plunge and here you are, a newly minted code bootcamper. You’ve endured the brain inundation of information and the inherent stress of not knowing what you’re doing.
Congratulations, you’re here now and you’re still asking yourself, “What do I do next?”, I have no idea what I’m doing. You’re here though, thanks Google.

You took the plunge and here you are, a newly minted code bootcamper. You’ve endured the brain inundation of information and the inherent stress of not knowing what you’re doing.
Congratulations, you’re here now and you’re still asking yourself, “What do I do next?”, I have no idea what I’m doing. You’re here though, thanks Google.

Thursday May 19th marks the fifth
Global Accessibility Awareness Day. The
goal for Global Accessibility Awareness Day (or GAAD for short) is to
get people who work in technology to start talking, thinking, or
learning about accessibility.

If you’re not familiar, accessibility is about building solutions for
those who have disabilities. For the web, it means considering those
who are deaf, blind, colorblind, or have motor skill disabilities in
your design and development.

Thursday May 19th marks the fifth
Global Accessibility Awareness Day. The
goal for Global Accessibility Awareness Day (or GAAD for short) is to
get people who work in technology to start talking, thinking, or
learning about accessibility.

If you’re not familiar, accessibility is about building solutions for
those who have disabilities. For the web, it means considering those
who are deaf, blind, colorblind, or have motor skill disabilities in
your design and development.

A guide to using kindness to elevate your conference experience.

Get your sticker collections, backup batteries and ironic nerd mashup
t-shirts ready, because it’s tech conference season!

A guide to using kindness to elevate your conference experience.

Get your sticker collections, backup batteries and ironic nerd mashup
t-shirts ready, because it’s tech conference season!

TL;DR – Avoid using “magically bound” internal component properties in your templates at all costs. Instead be explicit about only passing values around through actions and block params. This will engender a new level of breeziness to your UI.

Implementing a file upload in your web application is just the worst, am I right?