Raindrop.io Bookmarks 02/11/2025

2025年2月11日

• Why State and Local Governments are Failing at Digital Accessibility

  "This blog post reviews some of the challenges causing state and local governments to fail at digital accessibility and what they should consider when looking for digital accessibility services."

• CSS Custom Functions are coming ... and they are going to be a game changer! - Bram.us

  "For example: a limitation of the CSS light-dark() function is that it only works with <color> values. Thanks to Custom Functions you can write your own --light-dark() that works with any value."

• Change font-weight based on the user's screen DPI · Muffin Man

  "A lot of us as developers have hi-DPI screens, and we can easily forget to test the websites we build on low-DPI screens. One common issue I noticed is that thin font weights can be hard to read on low-DPI screens. Since there are fewer pixels to render details, fine lines can appear blurry due to anti-aliasing."

• Social media is a trap.

  "When the machine changes the rules, or the policy favors the platform provider's business goals rather than your own, there is outrage. On the very platform itself, even."

• Make Any File a Template Using This Hidden macOS Tool - MacRumors

  "Stationery Pad is a handy way to nix a step in your workflow if you regularly use document templates on your Mac. The long-standing Finder feature essentially tells a file's parent application to open a copy of it by default, ensuring that the original file remains unedited."

• Mount Everest from Space - NASA

  "Crew aboard space shuttle Columbia captured this image of Mount Everest on Nov. 30, 1996, during the STS-80 mission. STS-80, the final shuttle flight of 1996, was highlighted by the successful deployment, operation, and retrieval of two free-flying research spacecraft."