Raindrop.io Bookmarks 03/11/2025

2025年3月11日

• Thoughts on close requests for dialogs | Stefan Judis Web Development

  "I don't have the answers or a solution, but it feels risky to me to adopt the "back" action to close a dialog. Will you start closing dialogs with the "back" button?"

• Emphasizing Text for Accessibility: Bold, Italics, and Strong

  "Why do most screen readers ignore <strong> and <em> tags by default? Mostly because websites misuse those tags. JAWS and NVDA, the two most popular screen readers, can be configured to change pronunciation rules based on the presence of <em> and <strong>, or even to announce <b> and <i> tags -- but many users don't change those settings."

• CSS Relative Colors

  "Over the years, we have been used to using CSS pre-processors like Sass for a use case like applying opacity to a pre-defined color. Today, we have a new way to do that and more with CSS relative colors."

• Color contrast accessibility requirements explained - Pope Tech Blog

  "The Use of Color requirement also affects the contrast of links that are NOT underlined."

• WCAG Colour Contrast: What does the 4.5:1 ratio actually mean?

  "Who decided that a 4.5:1 or 3:1 ratio was needed? This goes back to the early 1990s, when accessibility research - led by groups like the Trace R&D Center - laid the foundation for modern contrast standards."

• Mozilla's response to proposed remedies in U.S. v. Google

  "If we lose our ability to maintain Gecko, it's game over for an open, independent web. Look, Microsoft--a $3 trillion company--already gave up its browser engine in 2019 and Opera gave up theirs in 2013. If Mozilla is forced out, Google's Chromium becomes the only cross-platform browser engine left."