CSS Writing Modes Level 3 defines #CSS support for various international writing modes, incl. horizontal left-to right text (such as in #English or #Hindi), horizontal right to-left text (such as #Hebrew or #Arabic), and vertically set text (such as for #Japanese or #Mongolian)
Missing form labels, missing alt text, and other missing text that would identifies things on a page are some of the most common accessibility problems. @_yourijwims_ shows us how to find & fix such errors in the new Firefox Accessibility Inspector.
📺 youtube.com/YhlAVlfH0rQ
David Baron @davidbaron, a long time contributor to the @csswg and current @w3ctag member, is keen on moving the Web where it makes it better for both end users and developers by balancing the user agent need and lower level features developments.
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The group's main focus now is to bring #accessibility to #publishing, specifically for #audiobooks to make them usable by users regardless of their ability. This specification is a profile of the Publication Manifest. Find out more in the #github repo: github.com/w3c/audiobooks/
It's official! @W3C's Publication Manifest and Audiobooks are official in CR, we welcome implementations and feedback 🥳. Thank you to our working group members for all of their hard work in making this happen! #eprdtn#audiobooksw3.org/blog/news/archives/81…
We’ve finished the day clearing a load of design reviews and making dramatic improvements to our work mode... new documents to follow.
Thanks to everyone on the @w3ctag for a productive 3 days, to @hober for hosting, and for all of you for providing the comic relief!
This is hardly the end of the work on #WebAssembly, which is set to continue to transform how client-side AND server-side code gets developed and deployed. Hear from @luke_wagner last year on the roadmap ahead: