Last month I was trying to make my sites more accessible. One problem was my choice of colours. And even though some of them are not as I wanted them to be in the first place, accessibility was more important.
This article is a nice read about how to build an accessible color system from scratch.
⇾ Visit: Building an Accessible Color System
Animation certainly can be annoying when over-used and not used, where it makes sense. Even worse is, when it prevents the users from actually using what they are trying to use. In this Medium article Vernon Joyce has collected useful tips and examples to explain useful and subtle use of animation, that can actually add value to your website and/or interfaces.
⇾ Visit: Animation That Adds Value
Maria Keenan has written a 14-part FAQ with the most common questions about events and organising events for Tito. Obviously not everything fits to every event, but it is a nice, general overview.
⇾ Visit: Event FAQs
You wake up at 6:25 and are in a pretty grumpy mood. All kids leave the house, you take the little one to kindergarten and get out into the forest to walk the dog.
Back from the walk, you get yourself a coffee and sit down in front of your computer to start working on emails. Tweetbot pings you that people mention your event and I start smiling.
What a great morning if your Twitter timeline is full of people “complaining” about having to wear and use @btconf swag. hahaha … love you people 😘
4:30 in the morning is certainly not my time to get up. At the airport visit Berlin for the day. Having appointments at a few venues to check if anything fits to be the new home for beyond tellerrand in Berlin.
Anyone fancy breakfast or a coffee around 8:30 or 9:00 somewhere close to Neukölln? Ping me
I had a nice chat to Jakob of the organising team of this new event and it really sounds interesting, what they are planning. I got caught by the line …
Event about Technology, Design and their impact on Society
… and I am really interested to see what this means and how it turns out. The line-up looks promising and if you are interested in finding out more, I suggest you check their website and/or follow them on Twitter. And as Think About! is taking place after my 2019 Düsseldorf edition, I am definitley going to check it out.
Will we meet?
If you are using Alfred, like I do, this WebPageTest workflow for Alfred comes in super handy.
⇾ Visit: An Alfred Workflow for WebPageTest
The big concern here is we’ve lost another voice from an engine perspective.
What Tim says!
⇾ Visit: Risking a Homogeneous Web
Practical and theoretical lessons in this free book about CSS Animation.
⇾ Visit: CSS Animation 101
Ire Aderinokun hat a look at the state of CSS resets in 2018 and what we use these days. I found this an interesting read.
⇾ Visit: State of CSS Resets in 2018