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- Hello Standard.site Wiring up Standard.site on my blog.
- How It's Going When is enough, enough.
- Names Are Hard But They Don't Have To Be A guide to handling names in web applications with respect to people.
- Building a Production-Ready Nuxt Module From Idea to Published How I built @colabottles/center-div - a complete journey from problem to published package.
- The Architecture of Anxiety and Shame, Part Two How they trap you and pressure you into staying in a toxic relationship.
- The Architecture of Anxiety and Shame, Part One Deceptive Patterns succeed not just because they trick the user, but because they engineer an atmosphere of social and cognitive pressure.
- Lazy Boy, have I been lazy.
- Todd Vs Toddle The relationship of the toddl's begins. Thoughts about a new development tool and accessibility.
- Year in Review 2024 2024 had been a year of ups and downs and looking forward, I'm hopeful for change for the good.
- Networking When I set out to give accessibility talks, I never thought I'd meet some of the best people ever
- You Down With DID? The pain of having a DID issue on Bluesky and the hours it took to research and fix.
- Accessibility Misinformation Misinformation is quite the thing these days. Now it seems to be working its way into the accessibility space.
- Bluesky There are some decisions in life I would like to change, some I would not change for anything. Leaving Bluesky might be one of those I wish I could take back.
- Another Update on Things What is going on now and what is the future.
- An Update on Things What is going on and what is the future.
- Tech and Restaurants There are a ton of similarities between the tech industry and working as an engineer or manager/lead and working in a professional kitchen as an executive head chef/head chef, sous chef, or even a chef de partie. I have been wanting to write this article for a while as it has been swimming around in my head for quite some time now.
- That Was Short-Lived The retirement I thought I could take did not last long.
- Devnexus 2024 A look back at Devnexus 2024.
- Thank You The title says it all.
- The Decision to Leave Tech It is time for me to walk away on my own terms.
- 2024 New year, different me.
- AI and Accessibility, Transforming Digital Access for People with Disabilities Artificial intelligence has emerged as a powerful force in accessibility technology offering unprecedented opportunities to bridge gaps that have long excluded disabled people from full digital participation. Yet this transformation comes with complexities that deserve careful examination.
- <section> is the new <div> The use of the div element in code is still over-abundant, but the section element is replacing that.
- Whataboutism What about accessibility is it that makes devs turn into ableist .
- Dear Molly A letter to Molly Holzschlag.
- The Perpetual Circle of Accessibility Twenty-five years and we can't get off the ever-merry-go-round
- Ionic and Vue, Part Two My deep dive into learning Ionic and Vue.
- Stepping Out I am stepping out of the Accessibility arena and here's why.
- What I Have Learned With Ionic What I have learned with using the Ionic framework in three months.
- Enough with "Dark Patterns" Already! The term "dark patterns" is monolithic, archaic and racial connotations, let's change the terminology.
- Goodbye 2022 The year of 2022 in review.
- An Event Apart An iconic front end conference I have attended many times. Goodbye, old friend.
- Snake Oil and Smoke Screens Marketing firms and web companies that become accessibility overlay resellers that are serving up a ton of bull.
- The Writings of a Privileged Mediocre White Man After a recent interview where my writing was brought up, it brought up a whole new topic.
- Ionic and Vue, Part One My deep dive into learning Ionic and Vue.
- Writing and Feelings When writing, I pour my feelings into the work. I'll explain.
- Two Weeks Two weeks in November 2022 on the speaking circuit.
- Modern Frontends My thoughts on Modern Frontends in London.
- An Open Challenge An open challenge to conference organizers.
- Bias and Overlooking People Bias needs to be destroyed because good people are falling by the wayside when it comes to being overlooked for things beyond their control.
- Conferences and Alcohol Conferences and the culture of alcohol that they foster.
- It Has Been A Minute It's been a while since I've added content here.
- Give Us Some Space! Conferences that jam accessibility talks together at the end of the day need to stop.
- ConnectTech 2021 Thoughts, takeaways from ConnectTech 2021.
- Making A Strong Case For Accessibility Accessibility is often overlooked or bolted on to the end of a project from the experiences in Todd’s career in web development and design.
- Looking at WCAG 2.5.5 for Better Target Sizes Looking at better target sizes for mobile devices to improve the user experience.
- AccessiBe Is Not Your Friend A company that touts a quick fix is a wolf in sheeps clothing.
- Don't Ever Give Up A post of hope and perseverance.
- Staycation 2021 When you just need to take some time off and it has been a long time coming.
- Goodbye 2020 Farewell to a year to forget.
- Label in Name in WCAG 2.1 What is new in WCAG 2.1 Label in Name.
- Fourth Quarter 2021 A busy end to the year.
- Contrasting Accessibility with Color Contrast Bringing color contrast in accessibility to the table and why we need to do more checking of color contrast in our work on the web.
- Tech Interviews and Anxiety My latest process in the job hunt and how my anxiety played a part in my downfall.
- RWD Turns Ten The tenth anniversary of the birth of a revolution in web design.
- Coronavirus, Quarantine, and Chats A retrospective on the Zoom chats I have had with several people from around the world.
- Deceptive Patterns In Programs We Trust Exploring deceptive patterns in UX and why companies have to do better to their customers.
- User Defenders Book Club A discussion on the book Ruined By Design, by Mike Monteiro.
- User Defenders Live Podcast at An Event Apart Denver A panel on accessibility, design inclusion and ethics, hiring and retaining diverse talent, and landing a job in UX.
- An Event Apart 2019 - Denver Wrap-Up Edition, Part Three The wrap-up article after An Event Apart in Denver, Colorado.
- An Event Apart 2019 - Denver Wrap-Up Edition, Part Two The wrap-up article after An Event Apart in Denver, Colorado.
- An Event Apart 2019 - Denver Wrap-Up Edition, Part One The wrap-up article after An Event Apart in Denver, Colorado.
- Open House The open house at David Jonathan Ross's House.
- CORS, CodePen & Me My adventures solving the CORS issue.
- Fear and Accessibility A post on the state of web accessibility.
- Why Your Site Must Be Accessible Accessibility is an afterthought still. It shouldn't be.
- An Introduction to the Cascade A brief introduction to the casecade in CSS.
- Carbon An online tool to share images of code on social media.
- Typetura The fluid typesetting tool.
- An Event Apart 2019 - Wrap-Up Edition The wrap-up article I authored in 2018 after An Event Apart.
- UX Burlington 2019 A recap of the conference in Burlington, Vermont. UX Burlington.
- An Event Apart 2018 - Wrap-Up Edition The wrap-up article I authored in 2018 after An Event Apart.
- Maine Lobster Run 2017 A look back on the adventures up the Maine coast.
- An Event Apart 2017 - Wrap-Up Edition The wrap-up article I authored in 2017 after An Event Apart.
- An Event Apart 2008 - Wrap-up Edition The wrap-up article I authored in 2008 after An Event Apart.