Raindrop.io Bookmarks 02/23/2025

2025年2月23日

• Accessible animated GIFs are pointless - tempertemper

  "Animated GIFs (or video files that behave just like animated GIFs) are everywhere you look: from social media and messaging services, to email and even on websites. So how do we use them accessibly?"

• Why do some people think of screen readers when they think of accessibility? - Bogdan on Digital Accessibility (A11y)

  "When we think about levels A and AA, that are mostly used in most cases - from other standards like EN 301 549, to legislation - we may note that screen readers are directly or indirectly impacted by 30 out of 56 success criteria - especially when checking the understanding documents."

• Understanding the trade-offs of using Tailwind CSS | Blog | Measured

  "for larger projects or teams with established CSS practices, it introduces challenges around readability, maintainability, and scalability. The larger and more complex your project, the less sense Tailwind might make."

• Using the step and pattern attributes to make number inputs more useful - Piccalilli

  "The step attribute is more mathematically based, too, instead of text-pattern based. It also works for other numeric input types like range and works really well when paired with the min and max attributes."

• The Interface Is Always There - Christopher Butler

  "After all, the best interfaces aren't invisible -- they're intuitive. They don't disappear; they become extensions of our sensory experience."

• Comments on NASA's 10 rules

  "Those rules were written from the point of view of people writing embedded software for extremely expensive spacecraft, where tolerating a lot of programming pain is a good tradeoff for not losing a mission."