Chris Ashton

Chris’s look at ChatGPT I’ve had a few ChatGPT related accessibility articles in my inbox of late – I’ve read them and summarised them so you don’t have to! In “How ChatGPT can help your code be accessible“, Ashley Smith describes how you can use ChatGPT to give you some markup as a base to… [Read More]

Twitter is getting rid of its free API tier. That’s a nightmare for accessibility activists. Twitter has announced that, starting February 9, they will no longer support free access to the Twitter API (both v1.1 and v2). This move has not been popular, including with myself – basic things like the automatic tweeting of my… [Read More]

“I Used The Web For A Day…” series I said earlier that I’d written some articles for Smashing Magazine in the past. As this issue is a Smashing Mag special, I thought I’d share those articles with you now! Mine was a short series on using the web for a day, but with a limitation:… [Read More]

When CSS Isn’t Enough: JavaScript Requirements For Accessible Components Stephanie Eckles shares those scenarios where you need a sprinkling of JavaScript to make components accessible. The TLDR is that these include “tooltips, modals, tabs, carousels, and dropdown menus”. Components marketed as “CSS-only”, that use methods like the “checkbox hack“, often do more harm than good…. [Read More]

Accessible Front-End Patterns For Responsive Tables (Part 1) Adrian Bece writes two in-depth articles about implementing responsive tables. He shares Adrian Roselli’s JavaScript snippet that applies the correct ARIA roles to table elements, which are to ensure that browsers continue to keep good table semantics even when certain CSS styles are applied. The snippet is… [Read More]

This week is a Smashing Magazine special! It’s a great publication – which I’ve written for a few times – and I’ve had some of their a11y articles sitting in my bookmarks for a while. These articles are long and full of useful info, so it’s sure to be a bumper week. Let’s dive in!… [Read More]