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  1. Accessibility challenges in web apps

    A web application is a computer program that runs in your browser. It is hard to expand the general definition further. Wikipedia says: The general distinction between a dynamic web page of any kind and a "web application" is unclear. Web sites most likely to be … Read more

  2. Building accessible-app.com: The shopping cart and aria-live regions

    While the last two blog posts revolved around accessibility challenges I found along the way, this post is about the topic I wanted to cover initially - the shopping cart. I consider this feature actually as one of the core ones of my example app, and it's the feature … Read more

  3. Building accessible-app.com: Accessible animations

    To make the user experience pleasant and - above all - more app-like web-app authors use not only the strategy of asynchronous loading data but also animation. While the user experience of your app could benefit from it (see: "How Functional Animation Helps Improve … Read more

  4. Building accessible-app.com: New menu button for Accessibook's shopping cart

    My original intention for the next article of the #accessibleapp project was to look at "notifying users of changes", especially regarding content reloads that do not trigger a full page reload (that lack of a full page reload in Single Page Apps leads to the necessity … Read more

  5. Baking in #a11y from the start - Interview with Michael Scharnagl of Feediary

    In what is now the third part of an interview series (that never was intended to become one) I had the opportunity to ask Michael Scharnagl about his product, Feediary, and how he built it with progressive enhancement, robustness, accessibility and privacy in mind. You … Read more