Raindrop.io Bookmarks 03/31/2025

2025年3月31日

• CSS: Classes Seriously Sprawling | Andrea Davanzo

  "Rather than using stylesheets for structure and reusability, these odd CSS development philosophies adopted by many modern frameworks, encourage developers to pile class names onto elements as they are competing in a new Olympic game: "Longest Class Attribute Ever"."

• The systemic failure of implementing CSS principles | Andrea Davanzo

  "I believe I am not the only one frustrated with some "modern" approaches to CSS architecture. The examples I provided in this document use Bootstrap's utility classes. The core idea behind utility classes is to provide a large set of pre-defined CSS rules that can be quickly applied to HTML elements"

• Accessibility is a Civil Right: Lainey Feingold's 2025 CSUN Digital Accessibility Legal Update - Law Office of Lainey Feingold

  "Throughout I shared tips for navigating this anti-democratic time. This included my favorite advice from historian Timothy Snyder's book titled"On Tyranny." His first of twenty warnings from his deep knowledge of authoritarian movements is "Don't Obey in Advance.""

• SpeedCurve | Downtime vs slowtime: Which costs you more?

  "In one of the only studies (if not the only study) of the impact of outages versus slowdowns on abandonment rates, Akamai found that sites that went down experienced, on average, a permanent abandonment rate of 9 percent. Sites that suffered from slow performance experienced a 28% abandonment rate."

• Polite is Often Better Than Being Alerted - OZeWAI

  "Many web authors, either through blissful ignorance or indifference, create sites that fall well short of access for a broad range of visitors. When striving to create fully accessible sites, there is the risk of being "too nice"."

• mind the WCAG automation gap - HTML Accessibility

  "Disclaimer: this content was partially produced via automation FTW!  Don't fear the AI future or the reaper."

• 4 accessibility tools to try in Firefox

  "We're always finding new ways to make Firefox more accessible. Right now, we're working with Fable, a company that connects us with disabled expert users of assistive technology to test and improve features."

• EPUB Accessibility 1.1.1

  "Substantive changes since EPUB Accessibility 1.1 No substantive changes have been made."