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Help Me Launch The Accessibility Pond

Disability Is Not a Single-Selection Field

Should accordions auto-close sections?

Where should 'Skip to main content' links go?

How to Dehumanize Accessibility with AI

Colleges Must Fix Millions of Web Pages. It's About Damn Time.

An Undefeated Pull Request Template

Trying to Press "Publish" More Often

TIL #4: VS Code Key Bindings, tab-size CSS Property, and Void Elements

A Quick-ish Accessibility Review: shadcn/ui Charts

An Accessibility Bookmarklet for Testing 200% Text Size

Why You Should Use px Units for margin, padding, & Other Spacing Techniques

Don't Use Fixed CSS height or width on Buttons, Links, or Any Other Text Containers

How TypeScript Can Improve Developer Accessibility

Yes, Deaf People Can Listen to Music

TIL #3: Fleegle heel, Right-Lifted Increase, Left-Lifted Increase, and Slip Slip Purl

TIL #2: grid-auto-rows CSS property and Judy's Magic Cast-On

TIL #1: Figma Boolean Operations, Knitting Duplicate Stitch, & Next.js Absolute Imports

Being Vulnerable Is Traumatic: What the Push for Storytelling in DEI Misses

My Neurodivergent Narratives #1

Don't Overwrite Visual Labels With `aria-label`

Should I Use a Button or a Link?

What a Jar of Buttons Is Teaching Me About Trust

2021 in Review

Speaking My Truth -- I Did Not Leave for Personal Reasons

What the heck is "web a11y"?

My Writing and Planning Process

Set up a React App for Testing with Jest and Enzyme

Accessible, Smooth Scroll-to-top Buttons with Little Code

Challenge Accepted! Just F*ing Ship It.

10 Questions I'm Asking All Companies Before Scheduling Any Interviews

Three Starting Points for Making Accessible Digital Content

Build an Accessible Breadcrumb Component -- Part 1 in the Accessible React Component Series

Build an Accessible React Component -- The Live Series

My Favorite Resource for Making Accessible Custom Components

2019 Blog in Review

How to Dynamically Create Many Similar CSS Classes with Sass

Dear Women & Girls

How to Come out of Burnout

Udemy Needs to Review Courses and Vet Instructors

How I Keep Coding When I'm Low on Spoons

Build a React & Firebase Blog Site Part 3

Build a React & Firebase Blog Site Part 2

Build a React & Firebase Blog Site Part 1 -- Setup and Read Data

Re-Create an Image with Colorful Text

My Journey Into Software Engineering

Why isn't our world more accessible?

Working in Circle City, Day 4 -- Community

Working in Circle City, Day 3 -- "Do Better Work"

Working in Circle City, Day 2 -- Be Nice to People in Traffic

Working in Circle City, Day 1 -- Many Firsts

Get Started with HTML Video Captions

How I Get Things Done When I'm Feeling Overwhelmed

It's OK to Change Your Mind

Why and How You Should Use Twitter for Networking

Get to Know the People You Pay

I Tried the Top 5 Coding Challenge Websites

How to Handle touchstart Events with Stacked Elements

I Know You're Tired

After 30 Days of Writing on DEV.to

Introducing textua11y - A Color Contrast Tool

Just Make That App

Minimalism and Habits

Yes, You Should Have Hobbies Outside of Code

A Haiku About Pausing

Sometimes You Have no Choice but to Pause

What You Can Learn from Your Dog about Mindfulness

How to Study for a Test by Making a Website

Aim to Never Stop Learning

Don't be Afraid to Ask Questions

Throw All of your Email Subscriptions in the Garbage

Don't be Afraid to Admit Your Weaknesses

Just do The Thing

GPA Isn't Everything

Build a Multi-Page Gatsby Site from JSON

How to Accept Rejection in Your Professional Life

Let People Have Emotions

What it Means to Learn Out Loud

The Top Five Books on my TBR

The Perfect First Project for Exploring Any JS Framework

Things You Shouldn't Say to a Disabled Person About Why Your App Isn't Accessible

I Wrote Zero Lines of Code Today

Don't Forget to Take Breaks

Why I'm Converting my Blog and Portfolio to Gatsby

Neither You nor Your Work Has to be Perfect

It's OK to Be Scared

How to Identify Your Knowledge Gaps in Under an Hour