How a small open-source contribution made search accessible to blind developers in technical documentation sites. — Do you make your open-source projects accessible? Let’s be honest: it’s rarely a priority. We can blame the lack of learning resources, poor tooling, or pretend that our project’s audience doesn’t include people with disabilities. …

This is probably what happens: ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ That’s right: nothing (or at best, a random stream of nonsensical information). Why did this happen (or rather, didn’t)? Because like many others, your website isn’t accessible to people who are blind. Actually, this previous sentence was a…

Confused about the latest Sass Release Candidate blog post? So was I. Sass 3.5.0-RC.1 marks the introduction of a new data-type: “first-class functions”. In the release candidate announcement, there is a four-paragraph long section about first-class functions that mentions a ton of details without showing any code. …

The best products are built by teams with great communication bridges between designers and engineers. Whether you’re one or the other, at the end of the day… we’re all shipping software. When a Design System is invited to the party, communication is even better. But who will bridge the gap…

Origami helps the Financial Times build digital products better and faster. Most teams at the Financial Times use it in one way or another, and many of the FT developers and designers are active contributors to the project. In a gist, Origami is: a user-interface components library, a cohesive set…

tl;dr Web Components v1 is the foundation that will help us build better component libraries, enabling developers to deliver a refined, maintainable and consistent user experience across products. Last Saturday, I attended Edge conference in Facebook’s London office. …

Many individuals and teams fail at documenting their projects properly, effectively drawing other developers away from their code. Fortunately, the most common documentation pitfalls are quite simple to overcome. …