C3 — Now with Tests for Colorblindness
Today I checked in (mostly tested) code to insert a dropdown menu in development, that allows me to toggle eight unique types of colorblindness. View the source code on Github.
I realize this is hyperbole. With that said, the person in italics is dropping buzzword a mile a minute. Ergo, they are blowing smoke, or being a poseur as we called it years ago. No one knows or uses 90% of the newest stuff, and that’s okay. We complain about the state of JS tooling because we allow ourselves to be overrun by the litany of choices…
This is a pattern I’ve struggled with, too. I tend to favor the visibly hidden accessible label as it’s the least pieces to fail. ARIA markup is pretty well supported, but CSS removes it ad a dependency, and degrades gracefully.
If CSS isn’t honored, the worst you have is a layout with an extra label showing. If ARIA fails…