If it pops, it belongs in HTML and CSS! Lately, I had a lot of fun playing around with this upcoming feature. The first version is being developed and it’s starting to look pretty good. It’s time to handle our basic popovers without the explicit need of JavaScript.
Read more about Open UI and the Popover API
Design should never be a trade-off when it comes to creating an accessible web. There are many features coming to the web that will make creating contrast a lot easier. But even though CSS functions such as color-contrast() are only available in Safari behind a flag, we can already do a lot to create contrast in an easy way by using custom properties.
Read more (Smashing Magazine) about Creating A High-Contrast Design System With CSS Custom Properties
The CSS :has() pseudo class is rolling out in many browsers with Chrome and Safari already fully supporting it. It’s often referred to it as “the parent selector” — as in, we can select style a parent element from a child selector — but there is so much more that :has() can help us solve. One of those things is re-inventing the clickable card pattern many of us love to use from time to time.
Read more (CSS-Tricks) about Creating Animated, Clickable Cards With the :has() Relational Pseudo Class
Scroll snapping is hip and while we all have styled numerous sorts of tab panes and scroll boxes, I had an idea of combining them. What started out as a simple “scroll snapping experiment” turned out to be an accessibility study.
Read more about Using best practices to create CSS scroll snapping tabs
As we’re entering the last stages of 2021, I think it’s time to add a little wishlist for the future of the web. Since accessibility is getting more (deserved) notice. I thought that this year might be a good time for an HTML wishlist.
Read more about 5 future HTML tags on my wishlist that could benefit accessibility